The Crazy Story Behind the $1.19M Tiger Wager: Winning Bettor Says It Was His First Sports Bet | The Action Network

James Adducci, a 39-year-old from Wisconsin, is the guy who took William Hill’s sportsbook for $1.19 million after Tiger Woods won the 2019 Masters.
Adducci told The Action Network’s Darren Rovell he had been $25,000 in debt only months before and funded the wager, in part, by selling a Amazon stock.
Adducci said that he didn’t hedge and it was his first sports wager.
It arrived 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 is even crazier. It does not even seem plausible.
You see, William Hill has been paying $1.19 million on Monday, the most the bookmaker’s U.S. branch has paid out on a single golf bet.
And it is paying it out to the 39-year-old Adducci, who says that this was his first ever sports bet. He said the only other wager he had put in his own life was with the now defunct site Tradesports which Arnold Schwarzenegger would win the 2003 recall election for California governor. Yes, Adducci stated he won that bet too.
Hree different large Las Vegas sportsbooks confirmed independently they have no record of Adducci ever placing a sports bet previously at their properties.
Adducci said he didn’t understand how to put a bet and he surely didn’t have $85,000 on hand. Yet last Tuesday afternoon, following the Wisconsin native took a trip to Vegas, he walked into the desk at the sportsbook in the SLS Casino at Vegas and asked whether he could find an $85,000 wager on Woods to win the Masters. (William Hill conducts the sportsbook at the SLS, one of more than 100 such places for the business in Nevada.)
It had been the sportsbook Adducci stated that day he’d visited. 1 sportsbook said the maximum they’d let him bet was $4,000. The Westgate, Still another, place the max. He passed on both provides, hoping to put the lump sum down at one book.

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