Byline: VICTORIA COREN

AT 9PM TONIGHT, live on Sky One, a British man called Ashley Revell is going to walk into the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas and gamble everything he owns on one spin of the roulette wheel. Red or black; he hasn't decided yet.

Clever it isn't. Not only is roulette the dumbest game in the casino, with the worst odds, but an American wheel has two zeros on it. It's like saying: 'I'm going to bet everything I own that I can run 100 metres in 10 seconds, and I'm going to do it somewhere very slippery.'

Sure, Vegas is a more glamorous place to gamble than Luton - and the weather is nearly as good - but he has flown 6,000 miles to make his odds of winning even smaller.

This is not to mention the fact that Revell sold all his possessions (suits, Rolex, BMW) to raise the stake. Assuming that he was able to sell these items for half what he originally paid for them, his great hope is now to double his money and end up exactly where he started. Appropriately enough for Easter Sunday, he is what...