Weird Things People Actually Bet On

Most live sports were suspended during the pandemic; then, online gamblers started turning to different competitions such as Russian table tennis and Korean baseball while gambling on everything from video games and reality tv shows to political information and even the weather. Many people purchase a lottery ticket now and then input the pools in the workplace. But some folks bet on anything, despite the worst odds, and take action in the strangest ways. Here are some crazy bets people have made along with the stories behind them.

Kim Jong-Un

Another popular gambling subject for the gaming crowd is gambling on anything concerning Kim Jong-Un, including when he'll cease power, and 2031 or later has the greatest odds! How he will quit power and death leads the bunch whether he'll challenge Trump into a round of golf, and other nonsense!

End of the World
Are you part of a doomsday cult with insider knowledge about the end of the planet? Then you are in luck as you're able to place bets with odds that the world will end before the end of 2025! Should you put a CA$100 wager on the planet ceasing to exist before 2025, you can win bog, even though it is not clear how you'll claim your winnings if the world ends.

Aliens

The age-old question of whether we are entirely alone in the universe has bothered people for centuries. Now bookmakers are earning a profit out of that! Some bookies are offering odds on if humanity will discover an alien life form. While the possibility of extra-terrestrials existing could be ridiculous to some, it's big business for bookmakers.

Things stay the Exactly the Same
A publicity-shy Welshman put a CA$50 bet in 1989 that five things would not change by 2000. EastEnders would still all be on the atmosphere, and singer Cliff Richard could be given a knighthood. Finally, the Irish rock band U2 would always be together performing live. The odds of that happening, as reported by a bookmaker, is a whopping 6,479-1. After an 11 year wait to observe the improbable bet's outcome, he was proven right, walking away with CA$320,000 in winnings from an unfortunate bookmaker.

8 to Win
Another bet saw an undercover person in the united kingdom put a £100 bet on the combined results (accumulator bet) of eight football games. After he set his eagerness in 20 minutes prior to the conclusion of the matches, the groups were all losing. However, each team overcame the deficit and won. The unidentified man walked away with CA$820,000 after successfully beating the odds of 6,500-1!

Betting Everything
Ashley Revell went down in history as the man who bet everything he possessed on the spin of a roulette wheel. Revell is an Englishman who sold everything he owned in 2004, for example all of his garments. He was being filmed for the reality TV series Double or Nothing. He put the entire amount with one bet on the roulette wheel. He won, doubling his luck into CA$270,600. He later used the money to prepare an internet poker advisory business.

Swimming
He accomplished that feat in 21 hours and 40 minutes. Webb became a professional swimmer and also wrote a powerful book called The Art of Swimming. He took a bet of $2,000 in 1883 to swim through the infamously dangerous Whirlpool Rapids near Niagara Falls, on the border of the USA and Canada. Nobody had managed to float through the swirling water before. However, Webb sadly lost his wager and his life by drowning in his courageous effort. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, New York, and in 1909, his family built a memorial to him in England, with the inscription:"Nothing great is easy."

Lucky Beginner
Patricia Demauro was at the Atlantic City Borgata Hotel Casino in 2009 along with her boyfriend, John Capra. She started playing penny slots but soon got tired. She travelled in search of Capra, who she discovered playing at the poker area. He was, sadly, dropping quite a bit and decided to get a break to reveal Demauro how to play the game of craps. She had never played it before but determined it was time to try her fortune. She proceeded to bet 154 times in a row against rolling seven successfully. Seven is the most frequent amount that comes up when throwing a pair of dice. Each of the 154 non-seven rolls of the dice supposed she had been winning big time. Based on Stanford University, the chances of Demauro's lucky streak are about one in 56 trillion! She finally rolled a seven after nearly four and a half hourswhich finished her winning series. However, she walked away from the desk using a sum which may have been as large as seven figures. The casino treated her into a champagne toast, a meal and a free room.