Last week, a customer using Betfair achieved the unbelievable. After risking a stake equal to just over 4 Canadian dollars, he picked his predictions for the results of all eight games taking place on a certain Champions League night. When all eight picks around Europe became a reality at the final whistle, the customer was proved right.
The odds of hitting the combination stood at a massive 37,420-1. At these incredible odds, his parlay bet won him a total of $173,346 Canadian dollars.
It seems a safe soccer bet that the customer probably wasn't too bothered about following the outcomes of the games and thinking about his bet until the final five minutes of the night, when an amazing sequence of events turned the tide of fortune greatly in his favor. Up until the 87th minute of play, he was wrong in two of the matches. Only Tomica Mirosavljević's goal for the final score of 2-2 between Chelsea and APOEL Nicosia and the winning goal late into added time by midfielder Evgeni Aldonin in the match between Beşiktaş Istanbul and CSKA Moscow secured the win for the lucky bettor.
However, it wasn't only the late goals by the teams from Cyprus and Russia that contributed to the successful parlay bet; the unexpected results played out by the German teams involved that night also helped the customer on his way to a nice profit. Bayern Munich won 4-1 at Juventus despite being given only a 28% winning chance by the Betfair users prior to the game. Juventus had been regarded as slight favorites with a 43% probability of winning. Wolfsburg lost to EPL champions Manchester United 1-3, despite being bet as favorites at odds of 2.20 (+120).
The bettor at the centre of this bet will be ecstatic that he chose to strike his 8-way parlay bet with Betfair, rather than one of its competitors. Had he placed his bet with a leading bookmaker in the UK, for example, he would have got odds of 23,983/1. Betfair's odds were a whopping 56% bigger.
The odds of hitting the combination stood at a massive 37,420-1. At these incredible odds, his parlay bet won him a total of $173,346 Canadian dollars.
It seems a safe soccer bet that the customer probably wasn't too bothered about following the outcomes of the games and thinking about his bet until the final five minutes of the night, when an amazing sequence of events turned the tide of fortune greatly in his favor. Up until the 87th minute of play, he was wrong in two of the matches. Only Tomica Mirosavljević's goal for the final score of 2-2 between Chelsea and APOEL Nicosia and the winning goal late into added time by midfielder Evgeni Aldonin in the match between Beşiktaş Istanbul and CSKA Moscow secured the win for the lucky bettor.
However, it wasn't only the late goals by the teams from Cyprus and Russia that contributed to the successful parlay bet; the unexpected results played out by the German teams involved that night also helped the customer on his way to a nice profit. Bayern Munich won 4-1 at Juventus despite being given only a 28% winning chance by the Betfair users prior to the game. Juventus had been regarded as slight favorites with a 43% probability of winning. Wolfsburg lost to EPL champions Manchester United 1-3, despite being bet as favorites at odds of 2.20 (+120).
The bettor at the centre of this bet will be ecstatic that he chose to strike his 8-way parlay bet with Betfair, rather than one of its competitors. Had he placed his bet with a leading bookmaker in the UK, for example, he would have got odds of 23,983/1. Betfair's odds were a whopping 56% bigger.
