The True Story About "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo"

This is the true story of Charles Deville Wells who, in 1891, broke the bank at the Monte Carlo Casino, winning over £4m ($5m) in today's money.

To this day, no one knows how he did it.

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His amazing success in the casino was made famous by the Victorian music hall artist Charles Coben with the song: "The Man Who Broke The Bank at Monte Carlo" (originally it was title "The Man That broke the bank at Monte Carlo")

It was the song that Peter O’Toole in the legendary wartime movie "Lawrence of Arabia" sings as he is travelling through the desert.
Do you remember the scene?

Whether T.E. Lawrence really sang it is open to conjecture!
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in July 1891 he stepped through the doors of the casino at Monte Carlo.

What happened next became the stuff of gambling legend and popular folklore.

He broke the bank at Monte Carlo.

Playing for 11 hours each day, without stopping for food or comfort breaks he kept on winning.

On one of those winning streaks he won 23 of 30 spins on the wheel.

Most famously, he successfully bet on the number 5 on 5 consecutive turns of the wheel.

Eventually, Wells left Monte Carlo with over 1 million Francs (worth something like £4m or $6m in today’s money).

To this day, no one knows how he did it.
Was he a fraud? Was it a publicity stunt by the casino owner? Or was Charles Deville Wells just lucky?

He was later jailed for fraud in both Britain and France (nothing to do with gambling but as a con artist) and died destitute in 1922.
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Chapters
0:00 Into
0:31 Charles Deville Wells
3:35 Monte Carlo Casino
4:57 Wells Wins Big
5:43 How Did He Do It?
7:38 Lavish Lifestyle
8:13 Trial
8:52 Fred Gibert
9:04 Charles Coborn
9:46 Lawrence of Arabia
10:11 Later Life
11:34 Conclusion
12:05 The History Chap

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