Big Winners in the world of Betting
Most of us are satisfied when we win a few quid with an online sports bet, but every once in a while a life changing sum is won. Whether betting on football, horse racing betting or even greyhound betting, there is always an opportunity to win big. From the Casinos of Las Vegas to the Horse Racing course at Aintree, we've scoured the world of gambling to find some of the biggest winners.
Biggest ever individual gambling win
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. Still you are 73 times more likely to die falling out of bed than win the Powerball lottery. Be careful as you get up in the morning!!
Biggest win on a slot machine
Most people enjoy hitting the jackpot on the gambling machines down the pub just as much as a win on an online sports betting site but over in the casinos of the states the stakes are a lot higher. In 1997, Suzanne Henley recorded the biggest win on a slot machine netting a cool $12,510,559.90. Her record however lasted only a year when a man from California hit the Nevada Super Megabucks Jackpot for $14 million in 1998!
Fixed Odds
Regular UK sports betting punters will know that accumulators are a great way to win big from small stakes. That is exactly what happened in 1995, when 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. Bluesq.com has a wide variety of accumulator bets available, why not try your hand today?
Poker - Jamie Gold Wins 2006 WSOP
Alongside online sports betting, online poker is sweeping the nation with more people catching the bug everyday. It is understandable when you consider the big money available to the worlds top poker players. In August 2006, Jamie Gold won the World Series Of Poker, netting $12 million and a WSOP bracelet in the process! Gold dominated the whole tournament knocking out an incredible 7 out of his 8 final table opponents. The hand which clinched the title was a Q-9 off suit where his top pair beat Paul Wasicka's pocket 10's on a Q-8-5 flop. Nothing came on the turn and the river and Gold was crowned World Champion having defeated over 8,000 other contenders!
Scoop 6
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 Betfred 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 totesport 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 Betfred Gold Cup but failed to win the additional jackpot.
50p Canadian - 5 winners 83k in 2003
One of the most popular bets for online sports betting fans who like small stakes bets is the multiple bet - the chance to layout a small stake and win a fortune if all the selections win. In this category come such odd sounding combinations as the Yankee, the Goalith, the Round Robin, the Union Jack, the Heinz and the Canadian. The latter, a bet involving five selections in all permutations of doubles, trebles, fourfolds and an accumulator was one such bet that left a Blue Square punter with a mega payout in 2003. The online sports betting customer placed his 50p Canadian - total cost £13 and then watched as winner after winner came home. After the fifth and final selection had passed the post first, the calculators came out and the final payout was £83,245,80!
Ante-post Betting on Russian Rhythm in 2003
Ante-post betting has the potential to be one of the most exciting and rewarding forms of online sports betting. The UK sports betting market offers a huge range of betting opportunities for future events and one of the most consistently popular of these is betting on the following season's Classic horse race betting events. In the summer of 2002, Sir Michael Stoute unleashed a hugely promising young filly named Russian Rhythm. This striking chestnut daughter of Kingmambo won impressively on her racecourse debut at Newmarket before landing a Group 2 race at Ascot. After her second win a Blue Square customer decided to place a sport bet of £5,000 on Russian Rhythm to win the 1000 Guineas at 12/1. Not only did this punter have to wait 8 months for his online bet to come to fruition, he had to endure all sorts of negative rumours before the horse race about the filly. In the end, she got to the start and under an excellent ride from Kieren Fallon, Russian Rhythm won the Guineas, netting the Blue Square punter a cool £60,000 horse race betting profit.
Grand National - Red Marauder 2001
The 2001 Grand National has become one of the most remembered races in the long history of the world's greatest steeplechase. People talk about Red Rum's three triumphs, about Aldaniti and Bob Champion overcoming adversity to win in 1981, about Devon Loch not winning for the Queen Mother, about the 100/1 horse betting chance Foinavon avoiding the melee in 1967 and in recent years, Red Marauder's win in atrocious conditions has joined the list of most remarkable horse race betting events. Most who were at Aintree on 7th April 2001 could not believe that horse racing was even taking place. Torrential rain had flooded the course and made the turf desperately heavy, and on any other day horse racing would have been abandoned. Such testing ground suits very few horses, but one who was thought certain to enjoy the rain sodden grass was Red Marauder. The 11 year old was an inconsistent horse racing performer, whose jumping was rarely perfect, but who did enjoy very soft ground. Online sports betting punters who picked up on this latter trait were quick to avail themselves of the 66/1 offered by Blue Square on the morning of the race. By race-time the horse race betting price had halved to 33/1 and Blue Square was looking at a liability of £500,000. The race was pure drama with conditions taking their toll on the 40 runner field and coming to the last few fences only two runners were left standing - Red Marauder and Smarty. And much to the horror of the online sports betting traders, Red Marauder kept on dourly to win the Grand National by a distance.
You have now read a number of inspiring online sports betting stories from the past. Take advantage of BlueSQ.com's competitive online sports betting odds today, and maybe you will have a story written about your big win in the future.
