20 Jul British Grandparent Takes A Bucket List Trip To Las Vegas, Ends Up Winning $1 Million

Playing a game of poker in Las Vegas features on the bucket list of a lot of people. The sheer glitz and glamour of the game in a Vegas casino would make you feel like you’re famous, even if it was just for a few hours. I’d love to give it a go, but firstly, I don’t know how to play poker, so I would lose straight away, and secondly, I don’t have the money to even go to Vegas, let alone buy my way onto a poker table out there.

However, one man who did have the money to do this was John Hesp.

John, who is a 64-year-old, semi-retired grandad from Hull in the United Kingdom, travelled out to Las Vegas this summer to tick off one of his biggest dreams: playing in the World Series of Poker.

The caravan salesman, who is a “recreational poker player”, stumped up the $10,000 entrance fee and sat down for the first of seven days of poker, alongside 7,221 other competitors. The aim this week at the Rio Casino is to get to the final table, where the winner takes home eight million dollars and Hesp, quite unbelievably, has made it.

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