Connery had a few successes at the table in the real world too. His most famous visit to the table was in 1963 at the Casino de la Vallee in Saint-Vincent, Italy, where he bet and won on the number 17 for 3 spins in a row with roulette odds of 37-to-1 and a payout of 35:1, leaving the table $27,000 up. Not bad for 3 spins.
… Three times in a row on the number seventeen. Now that is lucky. (The odds? 1:50653). Connery scooped up hi winnings which came to around seventeen million lire which was more than £10,000 at the time (over £160,000 in today’s money).
So 17 was his favourite number (interestingly, Mike Ashley also has has some luck playig this number). Sean Connery hit it again in 1971, but this time he was playing James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever.
https://www.roulette17.com/stories/sean-connery/