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Ashley had initially suggested using a friend as the gambler with his role being that of producer but when that friend pulled out at the last minute, Ashley felt he had to do it himself or see the idea cancelled. Pictured: With his dog Betty
The long-time manager of footy legend Johnathan Thurston has revealed how CCTV and hiring a private investigator saved the champion halfback's career at the North Queensland Cowboys when he was almost sacked over a scandalous night out.
Even for the reckless noughties, it was an act that almost defied belief: a young man from Kent sold everything he owned to fund a trip to Las Vegas where he gambled the lot on red rather than black coming up in roulette.
Ashley had initially suggested using a friend as the gambler with his role being that of producer but when that friend pulled out at the last minute, Ashley felt he had to do it himself or see the idea cancelled.
When he returned to England, still with no possessions to his name, it was at the airport that he now insists he really got lucky, thanks to an encounter with the woman who would become his wife.
In fact he was so junior that one of his jobs had been to play the part of the ‘news bunny', a gimmick on short-lived L!VE TV in which role he would stand behind news readers during bulletins dressed as a giant rabbit.
I went all in with around $40K with a pair of aces and got called by a player with a pair of queens. Ashley didn't win the tournament but believes he did well enough and only narrowly missed out on a high finish: 'I made it though to the third day and just missed out on the money. A queen came on the flop and I was busted out.
Pictured: Ashley as a News Bunny He was so junior before he did the show that one of his jobs had been to play the part of the ‘news bunny', a gimmick on short-lived L!VE TV in which role he would stand behind news readers during bulletins dressed as a giant rabbit.
Digging up a hunk of metal, he initially threw it into a bin of ‘scraps' where he and fellow detectorists were putting valueless rubbish they had dug up across the permission, before heading off for a cup of tea.
He had met Tamara months earlier, just before heading to Vegas, at a bar in Fulham - what he calls the ‘meat market' of the Pitcher and Piano - and then bumped into her by chance at arrivals at Heathrow and this time got her number.
Now, 21 years on from that crazy but ultimately triumphant moment - which saw him double his £76,840 assets in one turn of the wheel - Ashley Revell has spoken about what it was like to risk everything and how it changed his life to win.
I'd only do it if I felt really confident that I was that I was going to win. I wouldn't rule it out! ‘But I guess, eventually, luck has got to catch up with you, right? But yeah, it has crossed my mind quite a few times.
Ashley, now a married 53 year old businessman and father, had flogged all his earthly possessions, making a symbolic point of selling even almost worthless items like his old school cricket jumper to raise funds to make the all-or-nothing Bet Blast RTP en volatiliteit.
Selling off what was left of the company's assets, he still made enough to be able to take the next five years off as a ‘housewife', relishing the opportunity to be a stay at home father to his toddler children.
He then used his winnings to buy a motorbike, a Triumph Tiger and an outfit to ride it in, before setting off biking across Europe. And it was then that he visited Tamara in Holland and they fell in love.