The Largest Sports Betting Wins Ever Done in the UK
Football has always attracted its share of interest, both among sports fans and bettors. But it is when the two combine that fascinating and even heartwarming stories are created – like the case of the punter who won £200,000 when Leicester City took the Premier League title.
However, by fascinating stories we mean all sorts of punters who went on to break all records for sports betting winnings – especially football.
But why football? Because football has been responsible for the vast majority of the biggest sports betting wins at real money casinos with UK license. Let’s see what they are!
£650,000 Win with a Modest £100 Bet
Predicting an outcome in any sport is not easy – anyone who has ever bet on it can tell you that. So, imagine predicting 8 games with just £100 in your pocket.
But it doesn’t stop there, as the punter who managed to win £650,000 did so on teams that were losing at the time.
The hero of this story is a Londoner who dared to place his bet with 20 minutes left in each game. What he did was to bet on individual Premier League and Championship games.
Thank goodness he got them all right, because he will be able to tell this story to future generations without anyone getting tired of hearing it.
An 80p Bet Wins £683,738
Imagine facing odds of 738/1. Well, with less than £1, a very clever punter got the best result of his life and one that has gone down in the history books of best bets in sports.
The punter’s rule was simple: never bet more than £1 – ever. As it turned out, his strategy worked brilliantly.
The punter was living in Malta at the time and placed a bet on a 19-match accumulator.
The bet was on a match between Chelsea and Liverpool, when everything pointed to Chelsea winning the match. It turned out that during the tie, with three minutes to go, Glen Johnson scored for Liverpool, which earned this lucky punter a spectacular £683,738.
30p Makes a Profit of £650,000
In the 2000/01 season, a ManU fan managed to strike the luck of his life.
Although the nostalgic Manchester United team were chasing their third consecutive Premier League title, they lost to Bayern Munich in Europe.
The punter is completely unknown, but with his 30p he also entered history. His bet was a 15-event accumulator.
Obviously his big win came from the Bayern v ManU match, but he also placed bets on other European leagues, along with sports such as cricket and rugby.
Winning £272,000 at Odds of 108,800/1
Actually, winning at odds of 108,800/1 is absurdly unlikely. But Ladbrokes had to commit to the biggest payout in its history when in 2011 one lucky punter managed to break all the odds.
Instead of betting only on big clubs and matches, what this unknown punter focused on were teams like Wolverhampton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, and others.
But what really got the lucky punter the big win was a match in the Copa del Rey. Athletic Bilbao got a draw against the mighty Barcelona team that at the time had Iniesta, Xavi, and Messi in their lineup.
Winning £200,000 with the Most Extreme Odds Ever Seen in the UK: 2000/1
The ultimate Premier League surprise was when Leicester City managed to lift the cup after gloriously winning the 2015/2016 season.
Obviously, it was a heroic story in football, but bookmakers spent a terrible few months because of the legendary upset. One example was a punter who made £200,000, with a bet that had initial odds of 2000/1.
Admittedly, not everyone had bet on Leicester City winning the league, but this upset cost various bookmakers a total of £20 million.
Since then, such a situation has not happened again, but clearly, many of these bookmakers now pay more attention to heroic stories like these.