Billionaire Mike Ashley won 1.3 million pounds at Mayfair

September 15th, 2008

The owner of Newcastle United, Billionaire Mike Ashley, is the person who won 1.3 million pounds, on a single spin of the roulette by betting on his luckiest number, seventeenth. According to the rumors, circulating London’s casinos believed, Mr. Ashley winning run is finally over now. He is said to have a lost a total of five million pounds playing roulette and blackjack in one all-night session. Mike Ashley had been on a winning streak when it all unraveled on one go.

Mike Ashley is a 45 years old businessperson who earned 929 million pounds in February 2007, is said to have earned big losses with friends, at the Casino Fifty in St. James Street, Mayfair. In addition, this year he won his roulette winnings in May in the same casino. His friends tried to convenience him to cut back on his losses as the number 17 bet failed him in succession. He ignored and normally took his losses very well and bet for the same number, regardless of his friends but by the end, he had a face like thunder.

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