James Adducci, a 39-year-old out of Wisconsin, is the man 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 that he had been 25,000 in debt only months before and funded the wager, in part, by selling a Amazon stock.
Adducci stated it was his first sports wager and that he didn’t hedge.
It came to James Adducci out of 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 is paying $1.19 million on Monday, the most the bookmaker’s U.S. division has ever paid out on a single golf bet.
And it’s paying it out to the 39-year-old Adducci, who says this was his first sports wager. He explained the only other wager he had put in his life was with the now defunct site Tradesports which Arnold Schwarzenegger would win the 2003 recall election for California governor. Yes, Adducci said he won that bet.
Hree different big Las Vegas sportsbooks confirmed independently they don’t have any listing of Adducci ever putting a sports wager previously at their possessions.
Adducci said he didn’t understand how to put a wager and he certainly did not have $85,000 on hand. Yet last Tuesday morning, following the Wisconsin native shot a flight to Vegas, he walked into the desk at the sportsbook in the SLS Casino at Vegas and asked whether he would find an $85,000 bet on Woods to win the Masters. (William Hill runs the sportsbook in the SLS, one of more than a hundred such places for the company in Nevada.)
It was the third sportsbook Adducci stated that day he had visited. One sportsbook stated was $4,000. Still another, the Westgate, place the maximum. He passed on both provides, hoping to put the lump sum down at the same book.

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