James Adducci, a 39-year-old from Wisconsin, is the guy who shot William Hill’s sportsbook for $1.19 million after Tiger Woods won the 2019 Masters.
Adducci told The Action Network’s Darren Rovell he was $25,000 in debt only months earlier and financed the wager, in part, by selling a Amazon stock.
Adducci said that he didn’t hedge and it had been his first ever sports wager.
It came in March to James Adducci from nowhere.
Tiger Woods was going to win the Masters.
What follows is a story as outrageous as Tiger Woods comeback. No, it’s even crazier. It does not even seem possible.
You see, William Hill has been paying $1.19 million on Monday, the most the bookmaker’s U.S. branch has ever paid out on a single golf bet.
And it is paying it out into the 39-year-old Adducci, who states that this was his first sports wager. He said the only other wager he had put in his life had been with the now defunct site Tradesports that Arnold Schwarzenegger would win the 2003 recall election for California governor. Yes, Adducci said he won that bet also.
Hree different large Las Vegas sportsbooks confirmed independently they don’t have any listing of Adducci ever placing a sports bet previously at their possessions.
Adducci said he didn’t understand how to place a bet and he surely didn’t have $85,000 on hand. Yet last Tuesday afternoon, after the Wisconsin native took a flight to Vegas, he walked into the desk in the sportsbook in the SLS Casino at Vegas and asked whether he could find an $85,000 bet on Woods to win the Masters. (William Hill runs the sportsbook at the SLS, one of more than 100 such locations for the company in Nevada.)
It had been the third sportsbook Adducci said he had visited. One sportsbook stated the max they’d let him wager was $4,000. Another, the Westgate, set the max. He passed on both provides, hoping to put the lump sum down at one book.
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