Risk Taker
Wow, this took guts...or something.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) -- A British man who sold all his possessions, including his clothes, stood in a rented tuxedo on Sunday surrounded by family and friends and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

He won't go home empty handed.

Ashley Revell, a 32-year-old Londoner, sold all his possessions in March, took $135,300 to the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, did some low stakes gambling and then placed everything he had left on "Red."

The wheel was spun, a crowd of supporters including his Mum and Dad from London went wild, the ball bobbled over the slots and landed on Red '7' -- and Revell walked away with $270,600.

I'm pretty much not a risk taker, so the only scenario under which I would have done something like this would have involved some kind of head trauma.

Funny how he is being hailed as a "winner" because a roulette ball just happened to end up on red. One tiny fractional move of that ball, and this guy would be a complete "what were you thinking" loser. But, that's how things work, I guess.