Sportingbet punter wins BIG

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Sportingbet punter wins BIG

10 years 7 months ago

A Sportingbet customer from Durban had a particularly thrilling Halloween on Friday evening as he collected an eye popping R1 Million from a R50 each-way accumulator bet.

Picking eight horses in eight different races, he could have been accused of letting his heart rule his head. Fortunately, he proved the sceptics wrong, and has won the largest online pay-out in South African betting history!

The confident punter placed his wager early Friday morning on the Sportingbet website and got off with the proverbial “Blast” as the namesake horse won the 12.40 race at Fairview. By the time the last winner had romped home in the third race at Greyville that evening the lucky punter had won an amazing bet with odds of 95,215 / 1.

Sportingbet South Africa MD, Tyrone Dobbin added: This is one of the luckiest bets I’ve ever seen! Accumulators are very popular bets to place, as small stakes can quickly become big payouts, and a couple of times a year we are hit by a very large winner. But to see one with odds this high is certainly unique… I would go as far as to say, this is probably the biggest scoop in South African online betting history!

Sportingbet has made a number of millionaires since launching South Africa’s first online sportsbook in 2009. Standing out as other notable winners, in 2013 Sportingbet paid out close to R2.6 million to a Northern Cape resident who during a 2 week winning streak comfortably beat the bookie with four well calculated bets, and another Durbanite won R900k in a large sports accumulator in January.

The Customers Winning Bet:

Race 1 – Fairview:      BLAST (3/1)

Race 2 - Fairview:       SILVAN SPIRIT (7/2)

Race 3 - Fairview:       SPIAGGIA (9/4)

Race 4 - Fairview:       EXCITEMENT SEEKER(9/4)

Race 5 - Fairview:       GYPSY LANE (6/1)

Race 6 - Fairview:       TRAPPED IN ICE (9/2)

Race 2 - Greyville:      MILITARY LEADER (11/4)

Race 3 - Greyville:      SE AGABOR (11/4)

If he had placed the bet at SP with us instead of taking an early price the odds would have been 13,714-1

If it were possible to place a bet like this taking the local tote win prices the odds would have been 43,931-1

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This guy must be the luckiest punter alive. He got a R50 bet on with Sportingbet...

Stiff for them, its probably the biggest stake they have accepted in a long time.

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They'll probably close his account :dry:

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10 years 7 months ago

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Beyond The Pale wrote: They'll probably close his account :dry:

If he is sensible, he will probably close the account himself...

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well done ...enjoy the winnings...

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Lucky guy.

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Nice

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So very happy for this punter.I was always led to believe that the bookies will "get" to your last selection in the event of such a crippling payout forthcoming.

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Sportingbet are one of the biggest bookies on the planet , they won't take back

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Heard about this at golf Saturday. We have mutual friends. The ticket was 4.8m to 100 and they only paid him out 1mil.

I didn't choose the #puntlife, the #puntlife chose me!

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1m limit ?

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Dave Scott wrote: A Sportingbet customer from Durban had a particularly thrilling Halloween on Friday evening as he collected an eye popping R1 Million from a R50 each-way accumulator bet.

Picking eight horses in eight different races, he could have been accused of letting his heart rule his head. Fortunately, he proved the sceptics wrong, and has won the largest online pay-out in South African betting history!

The confident punter placed his wager early Friday morning on the Sportingbet website and got off with the proverbial “Blast” as the namesake horse won the 12.40 race at Fairview. By the time the last winner had romped home in the third race at Greyville that evening the lucky punter had won an amazing bet with odds of 95,215 / 1.

Sportingbet South Africa MD, Tyrone Dobbin added: This is one of the luckiest bets I’ve ever seen! Accumulators are very popular bets to place, as small stakes can quickly become big payouts, and a couple of times a year we are hit by a very large winner. But to see one with odds this high is certainly unique… I would go as far as to say, this is probably the biggest scoop in South African online betting history!

Sportingbet has made a number of millionaires since launching South Africa’s first online sportsbook in 2009. Standing out as other notable winners, in 2013 Sportingbet paid out close to R2.6 million to a Northern Cape resident who during a 2 week winning streak comfortably beat the bookie with four well calculated bets, and another Durbanite won R900k in a large sports accumulator in January.

The Customers Winning Bet:

Race 1 – Fairview:      BLAST (3/1)

Race 2 - Fairview:       SILVAN SPIRIT (7/2)

Race 3 - Fairview:       SPIAGGIA (9/4)

Race 4 - Fairview:       EXCITEMENT SEEKER(9/4)

Race 5 - Fairview:       GYPSY LANE (6/1)

Race 6 - Fairview:       TRAPPED IN ICE (9/2)

Race 2 - Greyville:      MILITARY LEADER (11/4)

Race 3 - Greyville:      SE AGABOR (11/4)

If he had placed the bet at SP with us instead of taking an early price the odds would have been 13,714-1

If it were possible to place a bet like this taking the local tote win prices the odds would have been 43,931-1

What a joke those last two paragraphs are,if he would have placed the bet and got the proper combined odds,he would have won R5.15 million.
Sportingbet have saved themselves R4.15 million by having a limit.
Then they try and make a PR stunt like this.
Sportingbet,you haven't payed out 95,215/1,so stop lying.You have paid out 20,000/1
Which is less than the Tote win odds your manipulating.

Well done to the guy,but he has been robbed.If he went to 5 different bookies and split he's stakes to R10 ew in each shop he would have won R5.15 million.

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