I did some research on the web and thought this may interest some of you. These are some of the biggest examples of winning bets I could find.
George Rhodes of Aldershot collected £86,056,42 winnings (after tax) from William Hill for a 5p stake on the ITV Seven- accumulator in 1984.
The world's biggest gambler is Japanese property developer Akio Kashiwagi, who bets $20 million an hour at baccarat. In 1990 he won $19 million in a casino in Darwin, Australia, and a further $6 million at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, USA.
In 1995, an anonymous woman from Nottingham secured odds of well over 3,000,000/1 for her 5p accumulator bet. She predicted 5 results correctly to take home £153,644.40.
A Scoop6 gambler won a massive £878,939 but missed out on the chance to secure a further £983,495 available if he could successfully predict the winner of the bonus race, the Bet Fred Gold Cup. Ron Nicholson failed to become Britain's first betting shop millionaire after his horse race betting luck finally ran out at Sandown. The 51-year-old hotel worker became the biggest ever betting shop winner when he bagged a staggering £878,939 on the tote sport Scoop6 for a 4 pound stake. He arrived at the Esher course in search of the further £983,495 available if he could successfully predict the winner of the bonus race, the Bet Fred Gold Cup but failed to win the additional jackpot.
The US Powerball lottery has its roots in Lotto America back in 1988. Today its jackpot regularly tops the $100million mark. Nevertheless, if you thought 100-1 were long odds for a sports bet you should check out the Powerball jackpot odds of 1 in 146,107,962.00. A number of syndicates have overcome these odds to win prizes up to a whopping $340million but the largest ever individual win came in for Leslie Robbins and Colleen DeVries of Wisconsin, USA. They won $111,240,463.10 the largest ever gambling win for an individual.
Some people were just born lucky!
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