Punter wins £19,575.79 from £5 accumulator bet on 25 matches

  • 04 Feb - 10 Feb, 2023
  • Mag The Weekly
  • Mag Files

A lucky punter has won more than £19,000 after betting just £5 on a ridiculously long odds accumulator. The unnamed customer remarkably predicted the result of 25 football matches with bookmaker William Hill. To put that into perspective, they had a 0.026% chance of it coming through. They picked games from leagues in England, Scotland, Spain, Greece, Portugal, India, Italy, Turkey and Belgium. William Hill spokesperson Lee Phelps said: ‘It’s pretty rare that five or six-team accumulators come off, so when we saw a 25-leg one cop, we had to take our hat off to the lucky punter. ‘They managed to correctly predict the results of 25 matches across several leagues around the world and they must have felt pretty chuffed having turned £5 into over £19k.’ There have been some sensational punts in recent years, including a canny pensioner who won more than £2,600 after betting 3p on a 10-fold accumulator. George Wagonback’s stake was so small most betting shops wouldn’t have accepted it, and with odds just shy of 90,000 to 1, it was a long shot.

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