J.B. Pritzker Says He Won $1.4 Million Playing BlackJack on Just One Trip to Las Vegas Last Year

reporter: “[inaudible] Were you gambling?”

PRITZKER: “I obviously am — I’ve explained this, or at least we did in a statement, you know, that I went on vacation with my wife, with some friends. I was incredibly lucky. You have to be to end up ahead, frankly, going to a casino anywhere. It was in Las Vegas, and I like to play cards, and so, you know that I founded a charitable poker match here in Chicago called the Chicago Poker Challenge that raises millions, has raised millions of dollars for the Holocaust Museum here, and particularly to stand up for civil rights. That’s much of what the Holocaust Museum does. And so, anyway, that’s — that’s all I can say.”