Woman wins almost £600,000 with £1 bet after landing 12-fold accumulator
Steve Cook's 92nd
minute winner away at Newcastle United earned Bournemouth a much needed three
points on Saturday (4 November). What the Cherries defender did not know is
that it also won a woman almost £600,000 off a £1 bet.
The unnamed woman,
who apparently has little interest in football and bets only because her son
and husband watch football every weekend, landed a 12-fold accumulator which
returned £574,278.41.
According to the Daily Mail, the 58-year-old's son read the fixtures list
out and she picked the teams because on the basis of whether she liked the
sound of their names or not.
"It is incredible that the lady got them
all up," Carli Faulkner, the employee who paid out the bet was quoted as
saying.
"Usually customers laugh when they see a
payout figure on the bottom of their slip like £574,000, but this just goes to
show it can happen.
"They will be having a cracking
Christmas and I am delighted for them as it's real girl power landing a bet
like that. My biggest ever payout before this was around £25,000."
By picking her teams purely because of their
names, the winner backed a number of outsiders. She backed Bolton Wanderers,
who started the weekend bottom of the table in the Championship, to beat
mid-table Norwich City at home and Bournemouth, Brighton and Burnley all to win
away from home in the Premier League.
The winning bet, which was placed in a William
Hill shop in Leysdown-on-Sea in Kent, was made even more remarkable by the fact
the winner's husband has allegedly bet on football for around 40 years.
"She certainly had lady luck on her side
as her hubby has never had a win anything like that," added William Hill
spokesman Rupert Adams.
"It just goes to show if you can't beat
them join them and the payout in this case is absolutely fantastic. We wish
them well.
"In my 15 years in the business working
for William Hill I have never encountered a bigger football win by a female
punter for just a quid."
During Leicester City 's incredible title run
two seasons ago, Leigh Herbert, a life-long Leicester fan, became popular after
revealing he had cashed out part of his £5 bet on the Foxes to win the league.
Herbert stuck £5 on Leicester at 5,000/1
early in August 2015 and cashed out for a tidy £5,680 return, before landing a
further £15,000 from the remaining £3 stake that was left running on his
original bet.
The winning accumulator in full
Huddersfield to beat West Brom: 6/4 - 1-0 win
Bournemouth to win away at Newcastle: 5/2 -
1-0 win
Burnley to win away at Southampton: 4/1 - 1-0
win
Brighton to win away at Swansea: 15/8 - 1-0
win
Sheff Wed to win away at Aston Villa: 5/2 -
2-1win
Barnsley to beat Birmingham: 11/8 - 2-0 win
Bolton to beat Norwich: 11/5 - 2-1 win
Reading to win away at Derby: 16/5 - 4-2 win
Ipswich to beat Preston: 8/5 - 3-0 win
Burton to win away at Millwall: 10/3 1-0 win
Nottingham Forest to beat QPR: 11/10 - 4-0
win
Sheff Utd to beat Hull: 8/11 - 4-1 win
Source: IBTimes
