In 2004 he sold all his possessions, including his clothes, and on 11 April he gambled US$135,300 (about £76,840 at the time), equivalent to £149,000 as of 2025, on a single spin of a roulette wheel in the Plaza Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.
documentary special along with Stu Ungar called THS Investigates: Vegas Winners & Losers.
An episode of the television series Las Vegas entitled "One Nation, Under Surveillance", first broadcast on 14 March 2005, had a character and event loosely based on Revell.
Simon Cowell said that Revell's bet was the inspiration behind his 2011–2012 game show called Red or Black?.
[5] Revell also owned iGaming Recruitment,[6] a website that matched online gambling companies with job applicants.