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[Misc] Biggest Bet Win?
- Thread starter pasty
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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!
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
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
The manager wasn’t best pleased
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
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About £500 on a fruitie in Vegas
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
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?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,301
£1500 on the Albion in the Double Championes season, bets at 25/1 and 20/1 for us to come top
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
£160 ish on a 5 team accumulator. I think my win rate is about 1 in 100 though 
British Bulldog
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
- 10,974
I think it was £58 or something like that, only bet £1 so I was quite happy.
newhaven seagull 85
SELDOM IN NEWHAVEN
- Dec 3, 2006
- 965
£10 on Sussex to win the Championship first time, they were 33/1
Not really a 'bet', but I did win £7K on Richard and Judy - 'You Say, We Pay', about 20 years ago.....which was nice.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
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+.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
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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HangletonGull
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- Apr 10, 2023
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That year was mad we all got 14s and seemed the whole of Sussex was on , it paid for me to go to cricket and football the following season
£132. It was a £2 bet. I think it was for there to be at least 5 goals in a Wycombe Brighton game during the Forster Murray partnership.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Not particularly lucky, play the dealer not the table add some physics and if the conditions are right you can win.
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
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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!
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!
Weststander
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We used to call and never got through. The easiest quiz ever.