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Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 3:25 am**

Football bet nets small fortune
A gambler who placed a £10 bet on the weekend's Premiership football results has won £180,000.

The lucky punter, who wants to remain anonymous, placed the 18,000 to one bet at the Coral bookmakers in Sawston, Cambridgeshire.

He had predicted the outcome of eight of the 10 Premiership games being played around the country on Sunday.

It was an equalising Liverpool goal at Anfield, against Charlton, that secured the big prize.

Striker Harry Kewell equalised in the 90th minute giving his team a two-all draw and the punter eight correct predictions out of eight.

A Coral spokesman said: "The Liverpool game was the key one because they were losing and if Kewell hadn't scored he'd have won nothing."

so the guy won the equvilent of two weeks wages for kewell

fair play to him

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 3:28 am**

yeah i read that in a paper over here. thats pretty brilliant for 10 squid bet. How come dawson never gives us tips like that?

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 8:01 am**

babu wrote:yeah i read that in a paper over here. thats pretty brilliant for 10 squid bet. How come dawson never gives us tips like that?

he keeps the winning tips to himself :angry:

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 5:40 pm**

Thats not a bad pay out for 8 teams ! I do a pound accumulator online at Ladbrokes every weekend depending on the odds 15 teams can get you 250,000 ive been one result away from winning it twice

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 6:15 pm**

So he got odds of 18000-1 on predicting the outcome of 8 premiership games?!

How so?

Stupid bookies?

That seems crazy, I wouldn't even offer those odds for Accrington Stanley to win the Champions League!

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 6:44 pm**

no he wouldnt get 18000 to one mate, its an accumulator i think and thats how the money mounts up

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 6:53 pm**

I know that but even when I've done an accumulator with loads of teams the odds are nowhere near 18000-1, do you mean predicting the EXACT scorelines of each match, that may come close to 18000-1.

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 7:05 pm**

Its easily possible, ive just done a 8 team accumulator and the payout from a one pound stake is 173279.32

Home/Away OR Draw format

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 7:05 pm**

it doesnt say mate but i did assume he got the scores correct

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2007 7:38 am**

LFC2007 wrote:So he got odds of 18000-1 on predicting the outcome of 8 premiership games?!

How so?

Stupid bookies?

That seems crazy, I wouldn't even offer those odds for Accrington Stanley to win the Champions League!

if you win at 7-1 with a quid, you'd get £7, then that put onto an 8-1 would give £56 and so on till you had 3000 on say 6-1.

its simple math

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2007 11:32 am**

It was the correct scores of each game, how lucky was that huh? You wouldnt see that in a million years -or so I thought.
Its hard enough picking 8 results win lose or draw, but that is truly magnificent -fair play to him. :buttrock

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