The world’s maddest gamblers!

Have you ever thought about betting on your team, but don’t even know where to start? Maybe you can’t admit to your mates that you are clueless, but you need a helping hand? It can be proper embarrassing when you aren’t in the know; what you need is a website that can compare odds and find you the best bet offers. You can compare odds with Chips.co.uk, find the bookie with the best free bet offers and see how much your bet is really worth with a free bet calculator; whether you are a novice or a seasoned sports pro, you can confidently join in with the betting talk in work for once.

Our advice is just to keep it sensible - don’t go as betting-crazy as these lunatics...

Zeljko Ranogajec –The enemy of bookies everywhere and supposedly the planet’s biggest gambler is Zeljko Ranogajec. Based in Australia, Ranogajec got work in a casino, learnt all there is to know about casino betting. Once he had turned hundreds into millions of dollars he had got enough of a reputation to get banned from casino’s worldwide, so he decided to master sports betting instead. Employing sports betting analysts, he puts around $1 billion on horse races each year. Somewhere in the region of 5-10% of Australian Tote Bets are reportedly made by this one man!
Kerry Packer –Back Down Under, Kerry Packer was the best kind of media-mogul; a mad one. Allegedly he lost $28 million in only three weeks of casino betting, another time he spent $15 million on roulette, although the casino staff said he remained chipper throughout. Legend has it that Kerry Packer once bet $100 million dollars on the toss of a coin, such is the size of his cojones.
Steve Whitely – So far we’ve had billionaires who won or lost small slices of their fortunes; what about a genuine, working class punter who strikes it lucky? Steve Whitely went to Exeter racecourse last year with two quid in his pocket, but left with £1.5 million! Steve skipped the part where most folk would compare odds or investigate the best bet; instead he bet on random horses for the day’s six races. What are the best odds on that happening? We are talking well over one in 300,000 here, but Steve says that he “don’t know nothing about racing” and he will carry on working despite his sports betting success.

Akio Kashiwagi – ‘The Warrior’ was a mysterious businessman based in Tokyo who once won a staggering $6 million in one night alone. Despite his casino betting successes he ended up dying in a horrific samurai sword attack that left him with 150 wounds. At the time of his death in 1992 he owed casinos millions, although the cops never found any evidence that it was a gambling-related crime.

The bookies’ best bet – Betvictor and Betfred are two of the biggest names in sports betting, but what happens when their owners decide to place a wager on their teams? Victor Chandler and Fred Done put £1 million on Chelsea and Man Utd respectively, betting that the team they loved would win the league. The blues took the 2005 honours and Mr Betfred had to pay up...