7 celebrities who lost their fortunes at cards and roulette

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Many people are wary of gamblers, but at all times there were those who could not imagine their life without cards or roulette. Pushkin and Dostoevsky, Nekrasov and Mayakovsky were avid gamblers. Modern stars, it seems, are ready to leave the celebrities of the past far behind in terms of the intensity of passions and, most importantly, in terms of the amounts that are losing. By the way, many actors started by trying to get used to the image of the hero-player whom they had to play.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The famous artist, whose filming fees sometimes amount to millions of dollars, loves to relax in his free time playing poker. At the same time, he plays exclusively in closed tournaments. According to the memoirs of Molly Bloom, the princess of poker, as this woman is called in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio behaves very strange during the game. Instead of focusing on the game, he continues to listen to music in huge headphones, otherwise he can sit with folded hands, as if everything that happens at the table does not bother him at all. However, the players consider DiCaprio to be very careful. Maybe that's why his maximum loss was 50 thousand dollars.

Matt Damon

He was so actively getting used to the role of a sharpie for filming in the movie "Sharpie" that he actually began to play in earnest. Matt became a member of an underground poker club that included many celebrities. Passionately learning the basics of poker, Matt Damon managed to lose 25 thousand dollars only while working on "Sharpie". He is desperately unlucky in the game, and he rarely wins.

Evgeny Mironov

Like his Hollywood colleague, Yevgeny Mironov first got into a gambling house while working on the film Dostoevsky. The actor had to play the role of Fyodor Mikhailovich, and in order to accurately convey the image of the writer, who, as you know, was a player, he began to play regularly. Only one visit to the gambling establishment was planned, and on the very first evening Yevgeny Mironov won by doubling the amount he had on hand. But the actor could no longer stop, became an avid gamer and for two months played almost every evening, losing a pretty decent amount.

Adris Erglis

The Latvian performer has been addicted to slot machines for quite some time. He continues to pay off huge debts today. This despite the fact that he sold his house and is now forced to live in a rented apartment with his wife and children. The singer's wife fought tirelessly for him, and his friends did not leave with their participation. They also found a good specialist who helped Adris cope with the problem. Most of all, the singer was afraid of losing children, so he took his addiction seriously and took up treatment.

Garik Kharlamov

The fact that the comedian is a gambling addict, said the ex-wife of Garik Kharlamov after the divorce. Yulia Leshchenko claims that her husband cannot refuse to play in online clubs, despite the fact that the total amount of the loss has long exceeded 5 million rubles. During her life together, the girl did not particularly go into the details of what exactly her beloved husband was doing at the computer. And only during the divorce proceedings, she was able to see the statements from Kharlamov's bank account and was immensely surprised to see how much money her husband spent in the virtual game space.

Gladys Knight

The famous soul singer, whose popularity peaked in the 1960s and 1970s, had to see a doctor. Her addiction to gambling led to very disastrous consequences: after a big win, she could not stop and, as a result, lost an amount that was almost twice the amount won. And she herself called for a rescue service directly to the gambling establishment. However, this was far from the only loss to Gladys: she really was already on the verge of bankruptcy in the 1980s, and it was then that she underwent a course of treatment. True, she never managed to get rid of the addiction forever, because she called the rescue service already in 2006.

Charles Barkley

The legendary basketball player does not consider his addiction to gambling to be anything out of the ordinary, just as he is not going to get rid of his addiction. Very often Barkley can be found in Las Vegas, where you can play absolutely legally. The athlete won a lot, however, he left a really huge amount in the gambling houses. Charles Barkley himself admitted in an interview that for the entire time he plays, he won several times a million dollars. But at the same time he lost at least three times more. In addition to gambling, the basketball player is also fond of betting on winning sports.

It is known that in our country the fashion for gambling, as well as for many other entertainments, was introduced by the reformer Tsar Peter I. The 18th and 19th centuries were the era of the heyday of card games. They were fond of both commoners and nobility. Many creative people have been exposed to this weakness. Some played the game for themselves, while others turned out to be real slaves of "red-black passion".