Sportingbet punter wins BIG

Doublejimmy wrote: Sadly, By logging onto their Site and placing a bet you agree to their Terms and Conditions. If their Terms and Conditions state that If you Win a million you must offer your First born to the Great and Honorable Flying Spagetti Monster.. then well bye bye first born.. Same goes for the Bet in question because their Win limit is 1 mil u only gonna get paid out one mil because TnCs.[/quo


all well and good regarding T&C's......for the sake of goodwill...it wont cost them anything to not allow the bet to go thru...just a tweak on their software..so by allowing those magnanimous amounts =to being hoodwinked.....if 1 of the legs happens to be taken at sp and no price is quoted,then its a totally different story

Harris wrote: This is fraud. If your limit on a fixed odds bet is 1 million you make sure your software does not lay bets exceeding 1 million.

Had he left Se Agabor out of his bet he would have stood to still win over 1 million.

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!

Show me the Ticket !

 

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