Longest chain
TV Show Fans Prove, that the legendary ether exists
Rumored, in the entire history of the "Weak Link" participants only once broke through the full chain of answers. This happened 11 August 2004 of the year, but a mythical special (there gathered erudites from past games) затерялся на дне интернета.
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In January 2005, the great achievement was almost repeated by the unknown Victor and Pavel. The geniuses of thought came together in the finale and answered seven questions in a row before, how to put money in the bank. And after that they gave four more correct answers. В итоге забрали все бабки финального раунда и умножили их на два.
6 place - Jonathan Duhamel (Canada) — WSOP Main Event 2010 — $ 8 944 310
6 place - Jonathan Duhamel
Jonathan Duhamel is another young poker triumph. He won the WSOP Main Event 2010 and carried away $ 8 944 310. At the time of participation in the final, he was 23 of the year.
The fate of Duhamel's tournament payouts is incredibly interesting. Jonathan is known as an ardent hockey fan. He often refused to participate in major poker tournaments, since I was leaving for another hockey game. Montreal Canadiens - Jonathan's favorite team since childhood. After winning the Main Event in 2010 year he donated to the Children’s Foundation Montreal Canadiens - a fund to help poor children - $ 100 000. And now Duhamel supports the organization, being its largest sponsor!
And in 2011 year Jonathan, coming home, discovered, that the money left over from the winnings, WSOP bracelet and a personalized engraved watch donated by the tournament organizers stolen. Fortunately, the police quickly got on the trail of criminals and returned the valuable property to the owner. Then the young poker player found out, that his girlfriend was the gunner, dissatisfied with gifts that are too cheap in her opinion, which Duhamel did to her!
3 place - Jamie Gold (USA) — WSOP Main Event 2006 — $12 000 000
3 place - Jamie Gold
WSOP Main Event 2006 collected the largest prize pool - $82 512 162 and the largest number of participants - 8.773. Tournament Winner - Jamie Gold Takes The Third Biggest Poker Winner In History - $12 million!
Jamie received the most criticism of all WSOP Main Event winners. Opponents were angered by his defiant behavior at the final table. But most of all they were touched by the incredible, just fantastic luck Gold, which time after time received the card, the only thing he needed at that time! Jamie began participating in the tournament as part of a team of movie stars and, let's face it, I didn't feel any respect from other poker players. But Gold was so unstoppable, what seemed, it is he, and not his rivals are the true professional here.
After the victory, Jamie was repeatedly sued by his pals in an attempt to chop off a hefty chunk of his prize money $12 000 000 - they say, Gold promised to give half of his winnings for the services they rendered.
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Biggest lottery win
As known, all the greatest achievements are recorded by the Guinness Book of Records, and the biggest lottery win was no exception. As mentioned earlier, the absolute record is 390 million dollars or 286 million euros. It would seem, you have to be incredibly lucky, to get such wealth in an instant. In fact, such a lucky guy was not alone, but two at once, what is a unique event, because both winners guessed seven two-digit numbers. One winner lived in Georgia, another in New Jersey, they divided the winnings between themselves equally in 2007 year. After this news became official, the popularity of this lottery in the USA has grown several times, thanks to which one of the records was set - more 1 million lottery tickets sold per day.
The biggest roulette winnings
Everything, who has ever been to a casino, know perfectly well, that winning at roulette is not easy and you really need to be happy, extremely lucky person. Considering roulette as a way to make money is stupid, since any device is aimed only at making money in the casino, otherwise it doesn't make sense. One big win accounts for a million defeats and broken lives, so don't play with your life, because it may not be worth it. Despite this, many play, and that means, there are those, who nevertheless achieves his goal and wins substantial sums of money. There are not so many known cases in history and they can all be described, by highlighting just a couple of lines. Joseph Jaggers is lucky, which at the end of the 19th century won 325 one thousand dollars, playing at the Monte Carlo Casino.
Charles Wells also made good money, who hit the jackpot in 1 million francs. After a couple of months, he repeated his achievement, because of what he was suspected of fraud, but they could not prove it. The last of the "lucky" roulette - Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo, which at the end of the last century was only 2 earned almost 2 million dollars.
The biggest poker wins
Winning a poker tournament is a real opportunity to make money not only on luck, but also knowledge. The biggest win was received by Jimmy Gold - 12 million dollars. AT 2006 poker world championship was held in Las Vegas, which was attended by 9 thousands of people, Jimmy became that lucky, that he was able to "sit out" all his rivals.
Eric Seidel is another record holder, who made playing poker tournaments a job for himself. The man devoted his whole life to the card game, resulting in a total of almost 15 million dollars. Also among the winners are Pius Heinz and Jonathan Duhamel, who won almost 9 million dollars in 2011 and 2010 years respectively.
The biggest winnings in Russia
Albert Begrakyan - the lucky one from St. Petersburg, who is playing in Gosloto, at 2009 won 100 million rubles. There was another big winner that same year, it was Evgeny Sidorov from Moscow, who got in the lottery 35 million dollars. Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova - a resident of Ufa, which in 2001 year before New Year bought 6 lottery tickets and won 30 million rubles.
Another big win in 2001 year was 11,5 million rubles, but in 2004 year managed to hit the jackpot in 20 million rubles. In general, such winnings are quite enough even in our country., but they are all already smaller, therefore there is not much news about them.
The largest win in the Russian Lotto
For sure, everyone has heard of a television game called "Russian Lotto" - lottery, where it all depends on luck. As known, this company offers the largest prize pool and huge winnings. TV show jackpot is 100 million rubles, however, no one could win it. At the same time, there are a couple of major victories, which cannot be ignored. The biggest win in this game was 29,5 million rubles, the name of the winner is hidden by the company, all that is known is, that this is a resident of Yaroslavl.
The biggest bets in the world
Most of the big sports bets will be made by bettors during major tournaments. Speech, primarily, it's about the World Cup. One of the biggest bets in a well-known English office happened during the World Championship 2012.
One of the clients of the firm bet on the victory of Germany against Spain 500 thousand. euros. Это самая высокая ставка в истории данной БК. В результате ставка оказалась проигранной так как Испания одолела немцев со счетом 1-0.
The biggest bet in Las Vegas was on Floyd Mayweather's victory in 2017 year in a boxing match against Conor McGregor. The total bet amount was 880 thousand. dollars. Remarkably, that the odds for this event were only 1,17. As a result, Mayweather won an early victory in the 10th round., and the bettor's bet entered.
