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 out of Wisconsin, is the man 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 just months earlier and funded the bet, in part, by selling some Amazon stock.
Adducci said it was his first ever sports bet and that he did not hedge.
It came in March to James Adducci out of nowhere.
Tiger Woods was going to win the Masters.
What follows is a story as bizarre as Tiger Woods comeback. No, it’s even crazier. It doesn’t even seem plausible.
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 wager.
And it is paying it out to the 39-year-old Adducci, who says that this was his first ever sports wager. He explained the only other wager he had placed 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.
Hree different big Las Vegas sportsbooks confirmed independently they don’t have any record of Adducci ever placing a sports bet previously at their properties.
Adducci said he did not understand how to put a bet and he surely didn’t have $85,000 on hand. Nevertheless last Tuesday morning, following the Wisconsin native shot a trip to Vegas, he walked up to the desk at the sportsbook in the SLS Casino in Vegas and asked whether he would get an $85,000 wager on Woods to win the Masters. (William Hill runs the sportsbook in the SLS, among more than a hundred such places for the business in Nevada.)
It was the next sportsbook Adducci stated that day he had visited. 1 sportsbook stated the maximum they would let him bet was $4,000. Still another, the Westgate, set the max. He passed on both offers, hoping to put the lump sum down at the same book.

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