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By the way, what country do you live in? In most developed countries, this amount is not enough to live a lifetime without working, which is probably only possible in poor countries.

He probably lives in a developing country, but to calculate how much you need to live without working we have to take into account age and other factors. Someone who lives in a developing country, has a paid house, emancipated children and is 60 years old is not the same as someone who is 30 years old in a developed country, has not yet bought a house and has young children.

In Europe, that amount is not that much, whatever age you are, but it gives you joy.
in my country (Indonesia) with that kind of money can make a person retire young and live comfortably without having to work until old. in developing countries I guarantee that almost everyone hopes to win the big lottery so that they retire quickly and don't have to work hard outside. but it's true that in developed countries, the winnings are still small.
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By the way, what country do you live in? In most developed countries, this amount is not enough to live a lifetime without working, which is probably only possible in poor countries.

He probably lives in a developing country, but to calculate how much you need to live without working we have to take into account age and other factors. Someone who lives in a developing country, has a paid house, emancipated children and is 60 years old is not the same as someone who is 30 years old in a developed country, has not yet bought a house and has young children.

In Europe, that amount is not that much, whatever age you are, but it gives you joy.
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I really doubt someone is going to give some random geezer ongoing winning tips about which sports are rigged and who is going to win. If the rich do rigging, then they are obviously going to keep it a secret, for people in their close circle or just themselves. From my perspective on the gambling world, rigging matches may be more common in sports like boxxing but if they were doing it so often and so widespread, somebody would have ratted them out already.

Rigging definitely exists but I very much doubt it happens a lot.
You are not suppose to be having a negative taught of rigging because you suppose be confidently believe that such thing happened and before it happens other people has being practicing it before now, because no place that manipulation is not working or co-existing, you don't need to doubt anything currently because everywhere is full of corruption

Thats not really the point that I was trying to make in my previous post, though. The point is that there are a lot of people involved in the gambling sports world and it would not be easy to hide the rigging from each and all of them. Its not a small boxing match where you can bribe a few people and earn yourself a bit of money. When hundreds of millions of dollars are involved you can be sure that there are also thousands of people involved.

You can't bribe them all. At least one of them would have ratted the others out. Its simple mathematical statistics.
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Unfortunately, even though many know that luck is the main factor in gambling, we still hope to get lucky in the next spin and costs us some more money. If we could remember that gambling is entertainment and not expect too many wins, we would not put too much effort and just play for fun.

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That's what we have to pay attention to when playing gambling. No one could profit from playing gambling continuously and if someone like that man could guess 100%, then it was lucky for him. But it seems that other people will still follow his lead in betting and will keep trying until they can get a win.
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This is some good game play, indeed Fortune favors the brave and seeing how the punter picked his teams,it's very much possible to come up with a similar betslip but honestly too many teams here will certainly reduce your chances of winning.  But all in all, it's good to see such paying which only happen once in a while.
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It never says it's impossible, the greatest example is literally said in OP, a guy who did it, so it is clearly not impossible to do so. However when you consider the odds, it is clear that it is very difficult to do. If it was such a simple thing, everyone would wager 1 dollar for each bet and would end up winning something in return as well and would all get rich and we would never have any money problems.

157k pounds is enough to get me to live comfortably forever without ever having to work for money and just enjoy life. So if it was so possible, I would have done it and would buy anything I want. So, it is not impossible, but not easy neither.

Probably such cases would be more frequent if betters made such bets more often. But I think everyone agrees that a bet with such a fantastic odds is simply considered as money down the drain because the probability of winning here is about the same as in the lottery.
By the way, what country do you live in? In most developed countries, this amount is not enough to live a lifetime without working, which is probably only possible in poor countries.
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I really doubt someone is going to give some random geezer ongoing winning tips about which sports are rigged and who is going to win. If the rich do rigging, then they are obviously going to keep it a secret, for people in their close circle or just themselves. From my perspective on the gambling world, rigging matches may be more common in sports like boxxing but if they were doing it so often and so widespread, somebody would have ratted them out already.

Rigging definitely exists but I very much doubt it happens a lot.
You are not suppose to be having a negative taught of rigging because you suppose be confidently believe that such thing happened and before it happens other people has being practicing it before now, because no place that manipulation is not working or co-existing, you don't need to doubt anything currently because everywhere is full of corruption
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As far as I see it, this is either fake news and / or a PR stunt for a certain casino or the Gambler did indeed make over 150k from 60 pence. If he did, then he was obviously EXTREMELY lucky, or maybe a time traveler from the future. I doubt anyone can predict so many winning situations so accurately. There are just too many variables in the way to make such predictions. I really hope it is real news because that man would be leading a nice, or rather decent retirement with that much cash. Really hope he does not decide to gamble it all again. I doubt he will keep his lucky streak up for long.

TLDR: Probably a PR stunt. I don't really believe it.

This can be done once you've managed to have someone give you information on who's gonna win. Some (or most) sports are rigged. I've just recently learned this from Ludwig (a streamer) from his youtube video about his experience in gambling in a casino at Los Angeles[1]. Rich people really get more richer because of such information. Therefore, I don't think it really isn't impossible, you just need great connections.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hyw6CfElpw

I really doubt someone is going to give some random geezer ongoing winning tips about which sports are rigged and who is going to win. If the rich do rigging, then they are obviously going to keep it a secret, for people in their close circle or just themselves. From my perspective on the gambling world, rigging matches may be more common in sports like boxxing but if they were doing it so often and so widespread, somebody would have ratted them out already.

Rigging definitely exists but I very much doubt it happens a lot.
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The real problem with fixing was spot bets where its just a case of how many special events occur in a certain half of the game.   That tempts the players to go out of their way to make the bet win and a cartel can hand them five or six rewards for doing that.   To have the overall game decided by betting is usually not the case imo
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As far as I see it, this is either fake news and / or a PR stunt for a certain casino or the Gambler did indeed make over 150k from 60 pence. If he did, then he was obviously EXTREMELY lucky, or maybe a time traveler from the future. I doubt anyone can predict so many winning situations so accurately. There are just too many variables in the way to make such predictions. I really hope it is real news because that man would be leading a nice, or rather decent retirement with that much cash. Really hope he does not decide to gamble it all again. I doubt he will keep his lucky streak up for long.

TLDR: Probably a PR stunt. I don't really believe it.

This can be done once you've managed to have someone give you information on who's gonna win. Some (or most) sports are rigged. I've just recently learned this from Ludwig (a streamer) from his youtube video about his experience in gambling in a casino at Los Angeles[1]. Rich people really get more richer because of such information. Therefore, I don't think it really isn't impossible, you just need great connections.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hyw6CfElpw
While it is true that some matches can be fixed and this is a problem in any sport, at the same time there are two factors that basically deny that possibility in this particular case, to begin with this person predicted a lot of matches from the premier league, which would require a whole fortune just to fix one match, and the other is that the person made a very small bet, if I knew the results beforehand then I would have made a huge bet knowing that I was going to win anyway, but since that is not the case then this win was legitimate.
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Only a small number of people can get such a big win while others suffer losses. Even if he is very familiar with certain sports or he is familiar with many sports, it is not necessarily that he can win all of them because it also requires luck that will not come together. However, the win definitely changed his life into someone who has a lot of money and hopefully he can put his winnings to good use.
We don't always get lucky, so it's best to use the money from gambling winnings, it must be done well.  but the thing that bothers me is if that man can guess 100% then it's not a coincidence, he often does that but this is the first time he's been exposed.  the chance of getting 100% right on every guess is 0.9%
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I mean I try to do this weekly, and have done for a long time now. I've been close several times, including two bets which I was one or two bet builder bets off £500k+ so it can definitely be done. Honestly, these long shot bets are really the only ones I do these days. I usually put on a 4/5 fold accumulator for football, and then like a 5/6+ on the UFC. Sometimes combining the two to have a larger bet, but since most sites cap the amount you can win with UFC, that's usually for shorter odds.

I've even had bet builders breach the million mark, obviously never landed them. However, I've been close to the 500k like I said, and what I mean by that is I was like one goal off, and didn't get the corners correct (over market). So, painfully close.

So, while I can understand the scepticism, and definitely it could be a publicity stunt, I assume people bet like I do, and actually land them from time to time.
It never says it's impossible, the greatest example is literally said in OP, a guy who did it, so it is clearly not impossible to do so. However when you consider the odds, it is clear that it is very difficult to do. If it was such a simple thing, everyone would wager 1 dollar for each bet and would end up winning something in return as well and would all get rich and we would never have any money problems.

157k pounds is enough to get me to live comfortably forever without ever having to work for money and just enjoy life. So if it was so possible, I would have done it and would buy anything I want. So, it is not impossible, but not easy neither.
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If you are interested in betting with large odds, that is, multibets, then you will be interested in reading my topic: Why a single bet is better than a multi bet. The strategy of betting on many events is very unprofitable and his winning is pure luck. Another question is that if you want to get such a huge odds, then you should multibet. But in fact, it is much more profitable to make such a bet in dice.

It is not about profitable or not, but it is more about preferences because betting in single bet may not something profitable for some users.
I'm not betting sports regularly but once I want to bet, I'll choose to play multi bets because I have the chance to win bigger with smaller bets.
Comparing multi bets in sports betting to dice (high multiplier) is not apple to apple because dice is pure luck based game.
Sports need some researches, knowledge, and analysis first before placing a bet.
Even if you are forcing to compare multi bets to dice, profitable or not is based on the final result not about what game to play.

I think this is a relevant comparison, because in a situation where the bookmaker makes an analysis and you do the analysis, and the real result is random, the redistribution of money goes at the expense of the bookmaker's margin. In this sense, betting is completely identical to other gambling games.
As I understand it, you have not read that topic, but just in case, I will tell you that, for example, in dice, the house edge is always the same for any multiplier - 1%. In bets, if you make a multibet of 10 events, the bookmaker's advantage will be 40%. The difference is huge, right?
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How can you explain such fortunate winning happening for real? It looks unlikely and unrealistic even for a Hollywood movie script!
Imagine the sequence of events needed in order to deliver the results that would perfectly fit the predictions of this impressive lucky gambler.

Actually, I guess luck purely can't explain this event, there must be something else! Or are these fake news?

When luck is on the works then having these situations or events or happenings could really be possible but its really on a very rare situation on which something that you could really see everyday.
Somehow you could really raise up really some questions in regarding on this one on how it did really happen because basing on the order of each bets then you could really tell
that its impossible on how to get win in a very long row of selection considering that not all would be surely in money line.
When a gambler's luck and skill is present, the outcome will always be exceptionally amazing. The gambler must be very good in analysis that resulted into correct predictions, but even so, i guess he must be very lucky that day that a big fortune comes to him as easy as that.  And as expected, while this gambler has definitely an extreme luck that day, the other gambler too must be also losing too much that he rarely finds luck to be on his side.
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Only a small number of people can get such a big win while others suffer losses. Even if he is very familiar with certain sports or he is familiar with many sports, it is not necessarily that he can win all of them because it also requires luck that will not come together. However, the win definitely changed his life into someone who has a lot of money and hopefully he can put his winnings to good use.
Luck is major factor that plays a vital role in deciding how much you win or even don't win anything at all so for sure there are some cases where players are having that luck charm which made these big wins possible with such small amounts.How he use depends on him and we can only hope for our luck to shine also but play in limits.
I think luck is the only factor which makes a person rich in gambling. Otherwise some unlucky person like me when tries to gamble would get a hard slap on the face and will come out from casino crying and losing.
Now after a lots of attempt - I would not dare to gamble. Because in the end I know I will lose. My luck is so hard on me.

Luck might be the reason why this player has won such an amount. I hope everyone could be that lucky but there are times that we're unlucky and destined to lose. If gambling luck would be for everyone then the powerhouse will lose everything. I guess it would be better if lucky gamblers would share their strategy.

This kind of odds is just like betting on a lottery, you'll experience a lot of losses in this kind of game, so if you are not willing to take that loses, then you cannot expect that you will be lucky right away. Though this is sports betting, it still look like a lottery (at least for me) due to the odds combined or we call it parlay, and you need extreme luck to win.
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Only a small number of people can get such a big win while others suffer losses. Even if he is very familiar with certain sports or he is familiar with many sports, it is not necessarily that he can win all of them because it also requires luck that will not come together. However, the win definitely changed his life into someone who has a lot of money and hopefully he can put his winnings to good use.
Luck is major factor that plays a vital role in deciding how much you win or even don't win anything at all so for sure there are some cases where players are having that luck charm which made these big wins possible with such small amounts.How he use depends on him and we can only hope for our luck to shine also but play in limits.
I think luck is the only factor which makes a person rich in gambling. Otherwise some unlucky person like me when tries to gamble would get a hard slap on the face and will come out from casino crying and losing.
Now after a lots of attempt - I would not dare to gamble. Because in the end I know I will lose. My luck is so hard on me.

Luck might be the reason why this player has won such an amount. I hope everyone could be that lucky but there are times that we're unlucky and destined to lose. If gambling luck would be for everyone then the powerhouse will lose everything. I guess it would be better if lucky gamblers would share their strategy.
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I mean I try to do this weekly, and have done for a long time now. I've been close several times, including two bets which I was one or two bet builder bets off £500k+ so it can definitely be done. Honestly, these long shot bets are really the only ones I do these days. I usually put on a 4/5 fold accumulator for football, and then like a 5/6+ on the UFC. Sometimes combining the two to have a larger bet, but since most sites cap the amount you can win with UFC, that's usually for shorter odds.

I've even had bet builders breach the million mark, obviously never landed them. However, I've been close to the 500k like I said, and what I mean by that is I was like one goal off, and didn't get the corners correct (over market). So, painfully close.

So, while I can understand the scepticism, and definitely it could be a publicity stunt, I assume people bet like I do, and actually land them from time to time.
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Only a small number of people can get such a big win while others suffer losses. Even if he is very familiar with certain sports or he is familiar with many sports, it is not necessarily that he can win all of them because it also requires luck that will not come together. However, the win definitely changed his life into someone who has a lot of money and hopefully he can put his winnings to good use.
Luck is major factor that plays a vital role in deciding how much you win or even don't win anything at all so for sure there are some cases where players are having that luck charm which made these big wins possible with such small amounts.How he use depends on him and we can only hope for our luck to shine also but play in limits.
I think luck is the only factor which makes a person rich in gambling. Otherwise some unlucky person like me when tries to gamble would get a hard slap on the face and will come out from casino crying and losing.
Now after a lots of attempt - I would not dare to gamble. Because at the end I know I will loose. My luck is so hard on me.
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Only a small number of people can get such a big win while others suffer losses. Even if he is very familiar with certain sports or he is familiar with many sports, it is not necessarily that he can win all of them because it also requires luck that will not come together. However, the win definitely changed his life into someone who has a lot of money and hopefully he can put his winnings to good use.
Luck is major factor that plays a vital role in deciding how much you win or even don't win anything at all so for sure there are some cases where players are having that luck charm which made these big wins possible with such small amounts.How he use depends on him and we can only hope for our luck to shine also but play in limits.
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Only a small number of people can get such a big win while others suffer losses. Even if he is very familiar with certain sports or he is familiar with many sports, it is not necessarily that he can win all of them because it also requires luck that will not come together. However, the win definitely changed his life into someone who has a lot of money and hopefully he can put his winnings to good use.
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