All on Zero
Consider this:
A forty-year-old man places his entire savings on zero. We’re talking all his money from twenty years at the factory, with no kids, and just two short marriages. All on zero.
Yes, on zero.
Now, mathematicians tend to agree that you have a 2.63% chance of winning this bet. This would perhaps be the reason the casino allowed such an outlandishly large bet. Some fat man in a suit was watching this unfold with dollar signs in his eyes.
The payout for this bet was 35 to 1.