I need this sort of blind luck!

[Gregory]

Hmmm, just caught this article where olympic skier Jeret "Speedy" Peterson saved up some cash from his job at Home Depot and took it to Las Vegas. Pure luck he says, something along the lines of it being an instinct on when to hit and when to hold:

Peterson has taken a recent liking to skydiving and is one of 12 U.S. Olympians who are candidates to join Donald Trump on The Apprentice in the fall. But his biggest off-the-mountain adrenaline rush probably came last year when he won about a half-million dollars playing blackjack in Las Vegas and bought himself a house.
http://www.sportsline.com/olympics/winter/story/9265090

I looked around a little more and the actual win figure varies from two hundred thousand to half a million depending on the article. A whole bunch of zeroes either way.