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Gambling is one activity which can allow people to learn to grow, which also includes their wallets. There are many people who started out as simple gamblers, gambling for fun. Later, they made these skills and strategy to earn more and become the richest gamblers in the World.

Bill Benter

Bill Benter is a mathematician who was born in Pittsburgh in 1957, Pennsylvania. He finished his degree in Physics and used his skill to help count cards at blackjack which allowed him to beat the dealer. After, seven years he brought the house down and was banned from more casinos. He later worked with Alan Woods and moved to Hing Kong which allowed them to build a formula allowing them easy access to predict horse races. They created one of the World’s first software-assisted gambling operations which is one of the most successful operations to this day.

Edward E Thorp

The World Richest Man

Edward E Thorp was born in Chicago in 1932 who has a degree in Mathematics from UCLA. Thorp was one of the first to use the computer, which allowed one to understand the blackjack strategy, which made the device a card counting scheme to help improve the players odds. He later puts the calculations to the rest, which allowed them to verify his theory. He also wrote ‘Beat the dealer’ which is an ultimate guide to beat the dealer at card counting game made for both amateurs and professional players.

Zeljko Ranogajec

Zeljko Ranogajec was born in Australia, and after he dropped out of his university, he started pursuing a career which allowed them to have the right advantage in gambling. He started to play blackjack, which allowed one to win the right seven-figure jackpot. While playing blackjack, which allowed him to develop a sophisticated math formula and help with a photographic memory which led him to be banned from any Australian casinos. He later started to expand his case while he tried to explore his predictions. He also started to account for 6-8% of the turnover, which allowed him to win $1 billion annually.

Billy Walters

Richest Football Gambler In The World

The chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp and the world’s wealthiest casino operator has died at aged 87. Sheldon Adelson was known to have been suffering from non-Hodkinson’s lymphoma. For many of us mere mortals living down here on earth, the richest 1% of the world’s population, who together hold $9.1 trillion combined, or 50.1% of the total wealth in the world as we know it, truly live on another planet. Zeljko Ranogajec is rumoured to be one of the biggest gamblers in the world. It is estimated that his global annual turnover is more then $1 billion. Born in Australia in a family of Croatian immigrants. Zeljko first success in gambling came from the game of blackjack.

Billy Walter is a legend, especially in sports betting. He came from humble beginnings and moved to Munfordville, Kentucky. His father was a professional poker player and Billy at the age of nine was able to get all the knowledge about gambling to help him be the best. He started off at $1000, and as he grew with his strategies, he started operating on his own hands. He later became a successful gambler without having to work with the many analysts. He later started to make his own decisions on the table, which led him to be one of the richest gamblers.