"He shouldn't have done it. He's a naughty boy. I tell my kids they shouldn't
gamble. I've got four others and they're all going to want to go the same way."
"It's
just brilliant," said a friend from London in Las Vegas for the occasion.
"He's put his neck on the line and got away with it. It's absolutely great."
"It
bobbled for a second and I just thought, 'Oh no, it's not going to do it,'"
said another friend,. "But it did and I'm made up for him. It couldn't happen
to a nicer guy."
Asked if he wanted
to try his luck again, Revell said: "No that's it for me. I think he'd like
me to do it again, but no that's it," gesturing to a casino host. "I
don't want to ride my luck," he said as the champagne began to flow.
This
week, the gambling spirits had seemed against him. He put in a week gambling about
$3,000 in a bid to raise his pot.
Revell, recently a professional gambler,
said he decided to take a big plunge while he was still young and had raised the
stakes as high as possible, including selling his clothes.
"I
like to do things properly," he said.
Revell
said he had planned to have a friend videotape his bet-it-all spin, but Britain's
Sky One television decided it was worth a short reality series, called "Double
or Nothing."
Sky will not pay him,
he says, but a crew from Dai4 Films has followed
his preparations and covered the spin at the Plaza
Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It also plans to
follow him for a month afterward.
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