A hurtling golf ball bounced at Erik Tenczar’s feet as he was unbuckling his newborn from her car seat. Which is why investigators took note when a retired couple from Michigan, Jerry and Marge Selbee, made 26 million winning various state lottery games dozens of times. It would take about a month before the first golf ball encounter, a near miss in the driveway. “They couldn’t do anything outside during the golf season.” “They bought what they thought was their dream house and it became a nightmare for them,” Galvin said. It was our first house.”īut their castle became their prison, said Bob Galvin, the Tenczars’ lawyer. Place to be was Hotel Conrad in the Punta del Este at the coast of. With a very high roulette bet of 35.000 dollars, about 32000 euros, he won the astonishing amount of 3.5 million dollars. 2017 is already an amazing year for the Brazilian businessman Mister Pedro Bartelle. “Honestly, if you have all these houses on a course, I assumed it was safe,” Athina Tenczar said.Įrik Tenczar asked: “Should we have looked into chances our house would be hit? Probably. Brazilian businessman wins 3.5 million dollars with risky roulette bet. But they were not prepared for the extent, frequency, and intensity of all of it. The couple say they anticipated putting up with some amount of sound and distraction from living along a golf course.

The family of five moved into a home neighboring the Indian Pond Country Club they figured they would deal with errant golf balls.