Mark Wahlberg, 43, once bet $10 000 (about R114 250) he could win a tennis match, despite having never played the sport before.
The actor admits he thought he had a great chance of triumphing because he predicted his opponent wasn’t going to be very good and fortunately for the star his risk paid off and he won the five-figure sum.
He said: “We played a tennis match for $10 000 in Detroit while we were shooting Transformers. I’d never played tennis but was playing against a guy who wasn’t any good at tennis either so I was actually able to win.”
Mark stars as college lecturer and gambling addict Jim Bennett in the upcoming movie The Gambler and he prepared for the role by risking a lot of money in casinos but even when he won big he still managed to lose it all. - BANG Showbiz