Jake Cody’s £42,000 Roulette Bet!

What do you do when you win over £40k at poker? Take all your friends out for a celebratory meal? Buy that car you’ve had your eyes on for a while? Or…stick it all on black at the roulette and hope you double your winnings? If you’re English poker pro Jake Cody, it’s the roulette all the way – and you get the casino owner to spin the wheel!

Cody, a renowned vlogger and a pro with over $4.4 million to his name in earnings, including a $1.2million scoop of the Main Event at EPT Deauville in 2010, had barely finished wining the £2,200 High Roller at the partypoker UK Poker Championships in Nottingham yesterday for £42,670 ($59,992) before he decided to chance it all on the spin of the wheel.

Choosing to wager it all on black, and with a huge crowd cheering him on with chants of “Black! Black! Black!” Cody persuaded Dusk Till Dawn Casino owner Rob Yong to set the ball rolling, and less than a minute later it was sitting on 22, a black number, doubling Cody’s earnings in one fell swoop!

Footage of the huge gamble was soon doing the rounds, Twitter and YouTube alight with news of the quite ridiculous wager – and with little by way of explanation as to why…

…although certain posts were deleted on both Twitter and FB along the way…

…for reasons as yet unknown.

The Pokerstars Team Pro himself has yet to explain the why of the roulette black or red gamble…

…but he has an extra 42,670 reasons to be ecstatic about his High Roller win…

…and fellow English pro Luke ‘_Fullflush_ Schwartz described it as …

There were a few tweets about the degeneracy of the instant double or nothing gamble, but given that it’s Cody’s money to do with as he pleases – and who knows, it may even have had a charitable bent to it – there’s little else to say other than well done that man!

And if you’re wondering where the man has been for the last several months, his new vlog reveals all.