The Luckiest Players Ever?

 

Sometimes the laws of nature, and probability seem to stand aside for a moment, letting some lucky punter slip through a loophole in the universe. Insanely good fortune can seem quite surreal when it occurs, and for the beneficiary, keeping a hold on reality might become a challenge.

In 2009, a Grandmother from New Jersey, USA, left the Borgata Hotel Casino in Atlantic City as the most fortunate player in a casino ever. The odds of rolling a pair of dice 154 times at a craps table, without throwing a seven are an astonishing 1 in 1.56 trillion. That’s a figure almost impossible to comprehend.

The lucky lady was rolling the dice for four hours and 18 minutes, breaking the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without hitting a seven.

The amount she actually won from the casino was never revealed, but even if you wagered a paper clip, it’d probably be enough to buy a small country or perhaps 1.56 trillion paper clips.

On a slightly different tangent, the multinational delivery company, FedEx, would likely not exist today if it weren’t for blackjack. The owner, Fred Smith, realised the company was in trouble when it was down to its last $5k and it couldn’t afford to fuel the delivery planes.

He decided to head to Las Vegas and gamble with the last of the company money. The next week, he returned after turning the $5k into $26k – enough to keep the company in operation.

The money wasn’t the solution to all his problems, but it was the catalyst to propel the company towards the huge success it has now become. Fred Smith is now worth an estimated $4.3 billion dollars.