"bet a million"

[Paul M. Johnson]

Can I bet with this book?  just off the top of my head should have won under
$400,000.00
----- Original Message -----
From: "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>
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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:19 AM
Subject: "bet a million"


> John Warne "Bet A Million" Gates, born May 18, 1855, died August 9, 1911.
>
> "He gambled at poker, the stock market, and horse races. In 1900 at a
horse
> race in England he bet $70,000 on Royal Flush with 5½-to-1 odds and won
> $600,000. Rumors had him winning over $2 million and said he had bet a
cool
> million, a fabrication that gave him his nickname. "
> (from
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fga41.html,
> "The Handbook of Texas Online", by The Texas State Historical Association)
>
>      - Jim Landau
>