I sold everything I own and put it all on red with one single roulette spin at a Las Vegas casino
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A GREEDY Brit sold everything he owned to place it all on a single roulette spin at a Las Vegas casino.
Ashley Revell traded in his car, home and clothes to gamble his entire life savings - £76,840 (US$135,300) - on red at the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
If it fell on red, the risk-taking Brit - who was 32 at the time - would doubled his winnings to more than £150,000 but if it fell on black, he would have been left bankrupt.
Recalling the nerve-wracking moment for CNN, Revell, who's from London, said he pleaded with the gods that "it would come in red".
"Before I actually walked up to the wheel, I was thinking about putting it on black, and then suddenly the guy was spinning the ball around and all the Sky viewers said… they [had] voted that I should put it on red," he said.
"So suddenly I just put it all on red. I was just pleading that it would come in and I'd get lucky this time.
"What I was really worried about was that I'd lose and my parents would be upset and my family would, you know, all my friends would be upset."
But when the wheel began to spin, reality came crashing home for Ashley.
He said in 2011: "All I could see was the wheel. It was like nothing else mattered as the ball jumped from one colour to the next.
"I was seconds away from losing all I had. I sold everything of value that I owned to fund this crazy bet – and could have left Las Vegas with nothing more than the hired tuxedo I was wearing."
Ashley's bet ended up paying out and he used the life-changing amount to start up a poker company called Poker UTD.
Though the company went under, Ashley still had a little of cash left over which he used on a cross-Europe road trip where he ended up meeting his future wife.
And it turns out Ahsley's hair-raising experience may have inspired a new game show called Red or Black? where contestants have a chance to walk away with £1million.
According to the Daily Star, music mogul Simon Cowell was one of millions of viewers watching Ashley's gamble unfold live on Sky One and was so gripped he decided to recreate the concept in 2011.
On Red or Black?, presented by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, 1,000 hopefuls will be whittled down through a series of 50/50 games.
The last man or woman standing has to pick red or black for the chance to win £1m.
