March 5th, 2017 | 
Author: The Great St. Wilfrid Stakes, run over 6 furlongs at Ripon, has, as usual, attracted…
You’re In Luck : Mind Boggling Wins for Tiny Stakes!
If you’re like me, the prospect of a big win from a small stake is pretty much the holy grail of betting. I’ve of course had a few doubles or trebles come up in my time, or even the odd especially big priced Outsider single bet, but nothing mind boggling, no ‘lottery win’ style wins.
Of course though, some ‘have’ experienced more luck, in fact to the level that their wins even make the headlines with their unlikely windfalls. It’s hard to argue with the attention paid to these punters considering that it’s not easy at the best of time to get one over on the bookies, especially fora tiny stake and to the tune of tens or sometimes hundreds of thousands of pounds. Here are a few memorable occasions when the finger of fortune pointed straight at lucky punters:
-In May 2001 one punter struck it ‘very’ big with a 30p stake placed on a 15-event multi-sports accumulator. Most of the events in question were football bets, though two related to cricket and one a rugby game. William Hill put the odds of the bet coming up at 1,666,666 to one and the punter, who elected not to have his name released, walked away with a cool £500,000.
-In 2008 another William Hill punter bagged with even more than the individual above. The lucky unnamed punter placed just 50 pence on an eight event acca at a William Hill branch in Thirsk, North Yorkshire. The odds of this staggering win came in at 2.8 million to one, with the punter in question starting with a win on a horse called Isn’t That Lucky and ending with one called A Dream Come True. Ain’t that the truth!! The collected win was a life changing £1 million, the limit that William Hill pays out on horse racing wins.
– Pensioner Tony Savill bagged a tidy sum from a small 60 pence bet stake placed on the horses at a BetFred bookmakers in ravesend. The toteplacepot £51,326 dividend to a £1 stake meant that he won £30,000. Savill had been going to the same bookmakers for 5 years and this was his second big win, after winning £4000 on a lucky 15 bet way back in the 70s. Well done Tony!
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It’s quite amazing to think of how much it’s possible to win with a tiny stake of under £1. What’s your biggest win?