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Netflix. Release. October 7, 2021. (2021-10-07) The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 German television miniseries starring Björn Freiberg, Seumas F. Sargent and Leonard Scheicher. [1][2] Based on true events, the series was developed for Netflix, where it was first aired in October 2021 along with an additional feature story episode.
William Lee Bergstrom (1951 – February 4, 1985), commonly known as The Suitcase Man or Phantom Gambler, was a gambler and high roller known for placing the largest bet in casino gambling history at the time, amounting to $777,000 ($2.87 million present-day amount) at the Horseshoe Casino, which he won. [1] Bergstrom returned to the Horseshoe ...
Numbers game. The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the ...
Spouse. Vivian Fung. . (m. 2012) . Children. 1. William Benter (born 1957) is an American professional gambler and philanthropist who focuses on horse betting. Benter earned nearly $1 billion through the development of one of the most successful analysis computer software programs in the horse racing market and is considered to be the most ...
Robert Louis Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. [1][2][3][4][5][6] He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001. [2][3] He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in various business sectors. [3][7] Johnson is the former ...
[39] [41] On the other nine floors, bet slips, adding machines, counting machines, guns, ammunition, and at least 30 safes were found. [39] The next day, the safes were cracked to find a grand total of $49,200 in the safes alone. [41] The raid amounted to 160,000 bet slips, $60,000 in cash, and 33 adding machines. [39] [40]
Children. Mika b.2000 (age 23–24) Brian Zembic, nicknamed the Wiz, [1] born 1961 (age 62–63), is a magician and high-stakes gambler specializing in blackjack and backgammon. In the late 1990s, he became famed as 'a man who would do anything to win a bet'. His most famous wager was in 1996 when he agreed to receive breast implants and keep ...
The investor, a central protagonist in the book and film The Big Short, has bought put options worth $739 million against the Invesco QQQ Trust ETF—a fund made up of popular Nasdaq 100 companies.