As you know, the casino always wins. Even if you are the luckiest person in the world and you are always lucky, in the long run you will surely lose all your money.
This is how probability theory and mathematical statistics work, and nothing else can influence it. However, the history of gambling knows a lot of people who have made a lot of money thanks to their luck.
One of these was the Briton Charles Wells, born in 1841. Since childhood, the young man dreamed of wealth, but did not want to work at all. Therefore, I decided to save up enough money and multiply it in the Monte Carlo casino. In order to receive start-up capital, Charles engaged in petty fraud, for example, he introduced himself as an engineer-inventor, described his future project, then received money from investors and immediately went somewhere far away. One of his such "inventions" was the musical skipping rope, and the loan was not given to him by some stupid rich man, but by an ordinary commercial bank.
For several years of wandering around the cities of Europe, Charles managed to accumulate 4 thousand pounds, with which he arrived in Monaco. It is worth saying that Wells was not at all stupid and knew mathematics well, which allowed him to break the bank as many as 12 times in a day. After that, the casino was closed, as there was simply no money left in the cashier to exchange the chips they won. According to some estimates, that day Charles won about a million francs, that is, he multiplied his wealth 250 times.
His next visit to Monaco was no less successful. In order to avoid fraud, the casino owners even hired private detectives to keep an eye on the player. However, everything was within the law and Wells again won several million francs after spending three whole days in the gambling house.
After that, Charles Wells became a real celebrity. Newspapers posted interviews with him on the front page, and Fred Herbert even dedicated a song to him with the striking title "The Man Who Broke the Bank in Monte Carlo."
For the third time, Charles not only came to Monaco, but sailed there on his own yacht. However, as we said at the beginning of the article, in the end, everyone plays. Wells was no exception and spent every penny of his savings.
Glory left the man as quickly as it came to him. In England he was accused of fraud and sent to prison. Upon his release, the former player went to France, where he could not start a new life. Charles Wells died in poverty and loneliness in 1926, the huge sums he once disposed of did not make him happy at all.
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