[Misc] Biggest Bet Win?

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Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
NSC Patron
Apr 5, 2014
25,900
I think mine was about £180 on Italy to win the Euros in 2021. They were strangely out in the betting that year.
 




WhingForPresident

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NSC Patron
Feb 23, 2009
17,263
Marlborough
I don't remember the specifics, but went to Newbury Races 4/5 years back with my old man and some of his horsey people who generally know their stuff (I don't, generally 5er e/w down the drain on every race). We all stuck a couple of quid (about 10 of us) on a tricast for the last race and let the ones that actually know horses choose. I didn't even know what they'd picked, it became apparent when they started going squatzo.

The bookie wasn't best pleased as we totally cleaned them out, they had to go and source more cash to pay us. Ended up being around £4k, so I guess it came in at around 200/1. I can't take any credit for it, but it made for a decent evening!
 


Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
20,661
Born In Shoreham
Not so much now as I can’t find the time and can’t do the late nights. I used to play roulette regularly at one casino the following year they means test all the punters and apparently I had cashed in £45k in profit after losses.
The manager wasn’t best pleased🤣
 








herecomesaregular

We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Oct 27, 2008
4,649
Still in Brighton
Not so much now as I can’t find the time and can’t do the late nights. I used to play roulette regularly at one casino the following year they means test all the punters and apparently I had cashed in £45k in profit after losses.
The manager wasn’t best pleased🤣

Blimey you must be are a v v lucky man. Good on you. Casinos usually love roulette players?
 




The Grockle

Formally Croydon Seagull
Sep 26, 2008
5,759
Dorset
£160 ish on a 5 team accumulator. I think my win rate is about 1 in 100 though 😀
 












Seagull58

In the Algarve
Jan 31, 2012
8,498
Vilamoura, Portugal
Won 8k on the postcode lottery a couple of years ago.
Whilst Matched Betting I ran out of money on the exchange one day with a £50 free bet left hanging, so I stuck it on a horse at 9/1 and it won! Thanks Bet365! I was banned by them not long after that :(
Always the way with the betting companies. I did serious matched betting for 4 years, mainly casinos after the first year because all my sports betting accounts were restricted, and had several casino wins of £5000+.
Despite at one time having over 100 accounts I had to pack it in because nearly all of them had been closed or banned from promotions. Bet365 kindly allowed me to keep my account open with a maximum stake of 50p, Similarly with Skybet, Ladbrokes and Corals. They are all amoral parasites fleecing the gambling addicted losers and rapidly banning winners. The gambling Commission is utterly useless as far as giving punters a fair chance.
 
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CHAPPERS

DISCO SPENG
Jul 5, 2003
45,090
800 quid off a bet365 free bet. 50 quid on first goal being a free kick when Bale scored against England. Someone else on here was also on.

Edit: just remembered a 15 quid Yankee I had on Silvestre De Sousa runners at Pontefract that paid 1200 quid.
 




BevBHA

Well-known member
Jan 23, 2017
2,427
Won just under 10k on roulette at the casino on the seafront if that counts. Was about 2k up after a few hours and decided it was time to go, before I left I put £100 on my lucky number 10 and it landed. Said to the spinner I’ll give him £250 if he lands it again, and I honestly couldn’t believe it but it came in again twice in a row. I’ve never been back to a casino since as it won’t ever get better !!
 




Half Time Pies

Well-known member
Sep 7, 2003
1,575
Brighton
I had £5 each way on a 50-1 shot which won at Goodwood years ago, the horse was named after a star wars character which is the only reason I backed it!

I also won £350 out of a fruit machine at the casino down the marina, I had decided to sit out while my friends were on the tables but stuck £5 worth of change in one of the fruit machines out of shear boredom and won the jackpot!
 




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