Punter gets lucky with big Wolverhampton win

"I chose the horses based on their names.


same quote as agnes haddock

My mate did the same two summers ago to the tune of £99.8k. Names and colours.

A bit premature texting the wife after 3 ffs.

Lets hope this was a true story but I am very cynical nowadays as we live in an age of spin.

It is right at the start of the year and money, plus enthusiasm, for betting is at its most tight. Suddenly, along comes someone who has pulled off a £10 acca...

How convenient for publicity purposes....

"night owl"?

By far and away the most puke-inducing bit of this story is the attempt by our trade daily to grab a piece of the pie.

"He also had the Racing Post mobile results service to thank for revealing his big win...."

Oh please!

Have they no shame???

prob forked out £1260 stake

Do you really need to ask that question?

This dumbed-down language/style report - by the Racing Post - gets more like The Sun or Daily Star everyday ...

'He also had the Racing Post mobile results service to thank for revealing his big win as he was stuck at work as the winners started flowing.

It saved him a nervous wait before the last winner Ohsosecret was revealed the head winner in a photo finish.

The winning ticket
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What on earth has he got - "the Racing Post... to thank for," - in relation to making his winning bet?

- and - "The winning ticket" - makes it sound like buying a LOTTERY ticket

£150,000 for the £10 acca.
£75,000 for a £5ew acca.

Have they added £20,000 for the sake of a story? Do you get 10% bonus on all acca's? Or did he perm his bets to varying stakes and the newspaper just simplified it for their readers?

Having checked the results too there would've been a few chunkyish rule 4's.

Just the kind of story the bookies love and the RP only too happy to accomodate. At one stage the RP's headline was something like shrewd punter nets big win,,,

think it was BIGMART

no bonuses. on accum

@s.kenbo - the story quoted by the OP and in the RP says £10 win acca and £10 ew acca, not £5 ew, so 300k before the R4s?  Feels not impossible.

The £10 acca pays £153140 before what would have been a couple of hefty rule 4 deductions and the £10 ew acca £153866.78 before deductions

Read the story, they have got the maths right. £250k pay out, original return just over 300k R4's to the tune of 50k plus ouch

Again, wonder if hes been allowed to keep his account

s.kenbo
I am always very dubious like yourself with these stories
Have checked the results on Hills website
12.50 whitecliff 4 runners each way all to win
2.20 Oakley girl rule 4 10p
2.50 perfect cracker rule 4 20p
3.50 ohsosecret rule 4 10p
by my calculations
£10 ew acca pays £ 123k
£10 win acca pays £ 122k
whoever done the story has certainly done their calculations this time !!!

Of course he's allowed to keep his account - mug accas of short-priced horses with names he likes from a man with 250k burninga hole in his pocket?  What's not to like for the bookie?

stake £30

£10 win accum £172k
£10 e/w accum (1/5 odds) £172,587

Houston we have a problem £374,587

when i go racing there is always loads of women screaming they just backed the 33/1 winner - punters who use names win big ones like this.

There is no god.

nice one shadder

full facts

My missus had a tenner each way on Hunting Lion at Newmarket on the tote one year which won and paid 100/1 on the nanny, ridden by Craig Williams. When I asked her why did she pick that one out she said that when we were watching them in the parade ring Hunting Lion had "the happiest face" !

Of course he's allowed to keep his account? Yeah your probably right, mainly cos he's a proven 'recreational' punter! Even if he learned how to be savvy as you lot and me, he'd keep it now! I'm proof of this! Opening two accounts week apart played the correct races and bingo accounts Ltd yet I've taken thousands off b365 korals etc and all very much open, how, cos I play the odd normal bet for fun!

well done to the bloke

let's hope this is true,GL to
the fella.Only a few weeks since
the big football cashout with
another firm,who'll be next with
a story?

BornToWin

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A bit premature texting the wife after 3 ffs.

After 7 he was calling a divorce lawyer.

pure spin for certain. quiet time of the year sh1t racing.   perfect for a "you can win too" story.

I missed read that, Longbridge.

I hadn't realised that every post on here was proving me wrong!!!

''It's the biggest high I have ever had."

Better check with Mick Fitzgerald for confirmation of that.

^^''Better than sex with the old cow to be sure.''

CJ    07 Jan 16 18:27 

BornToWin

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A bit premature texting the wife after 3 ffs.

After 7 he was calling a divorce lawyer.

Hunting Lion had "the happiest face" !

The Headmaster 07 Jan 16 16:42 Joined: 14 Nov 01 | Topic/replies: 2,144 | Blogger: The Headmaster's blog
By far and away the most puke-inducing bit of this story is the attempt by our trade daily to grab a piece of the pie.

"He also had the Racing Post mobile results service to thank for revealing his big win...."

Oh please!Cry

Have they no shame???


Absolutely without doubt none. No talent either (with one or two exceptions - step forward David Ashforth)

Its almost like our trade daily is taking some of kind credit for "his big win"

getting a bet on with over a half million liabilty overnight  on a poor aweather card seems the  unbelievable bit.

when you look at average low grade all weather. analysing the form book is actually a negative. colours and names would be a more accurate evaluation of the horses chances

"It's the biggest high I have ever had."

Hasn't tried the FOBTs yet then.

Many years ago I owned a demolition company during the boom building years in London City.

One of the favourite tricks with the casual labourers who would be ripping out the interiors of old buildings to ready them for new offices would be to stuff a wad of notes in a wall somewhere. One of the labourers would find said bundle and we would 'check' with the building owners (who, of course were in on the trick). They would say the labourer could keep the wedge and the rest would work doubly hard in the vain hope they may be as fortunate.

RP cheekily added the mobile reference to the original Hills PR release.

Many years ago I owned a demolition company during the boom building years in London City.

One of the favourite tricks with the casual labourers who would be ripping out the interiors of old buildings to ready them for new offices would be to stuff a wad of notes in a wall somewhere. One of the labourers would find said bundle and we would 'check' with the building owners (who, of course were in on the trick). They would say the labourer could keep the wedge and the rest would work doubly hard in the vain hope they may be as fortunate.

would have the opposite affect on me. i'd get me archaeological trowel out in case i ripped any of the notes.

If a worker found a bundle of cash, he wouldn't tell a fking soul about it, just stick it in his pocket quick, so it does appear that this story is a crock

Anyone asked to out the wad into the wall could simply stick it for themselves and the company would never know whether a worked had found it and kept quiet..

Hence, unless the owner of the company himself puts the wad in this seems a daft idea - but then it seems a daft idea regardless of whoever puts the wad in...

And, as per my earlier post, I still do not believe this supposed winning bet ever took place...

And, as per my earlier post, I still do not believe this supposed winning bet ever took place...

You don't believe there are mugs out there who string paper favourites together in accas? That bit is easy to swallow.

Then he got lucky when he forgot to tick the e/w box so he had to repeat the bet as an e/w acca -- effectively having the first £10 straight 7-fold as an unwanted extra bet. Convenient but plausible.

What the story left out was that he'd probably been making the same bet unsuccessfully for the past several years, along with thousands of other punters up and down the country.

Yes, all plausible but out of all the 'mugs' stringing together paper favs he was the only one active on the evening in question.

Also, he got lucky through nabbing all the winners and then lucky again over the extra £10 bet??

And all of this at the very quietest time of the year for betting!!

Do me a favour...

lol at cj

he must be a member of isiris or maybe he used the colin Davey method or vdw method or perhaps he ran into thommo..

so, hills management team sat down and formulated a plan to put up a bogus punter who won a chunk backing jollies in a multiple. and just to make it an even muggier bet, they decide to chuck in a last-minute ew acca as well. they also decided that the phantom punter would be a motor mechanic from portsmouth. why not?

must be careful to keep this top secret though, otherwise they are all goners. and that wally john ivan-duke must be told to spin it to the meeja, whether he wants to put his job on the line or not. the hills online boss must be in on it as well, or he might blow the whistle.and this conspiracy must be watertight for all concerned. for ever.

yes, thats what happened.

what a ship of fools this place is. a refuge for gormless, charmless, witless, inadequate nobodies and fantasists. truly dismal.

howisyourluck,

A forum is a place where people are meant to be able to exchange views about things.

Those who post in the fashion you have, calling other users 'gormless, charmless, witless, inadequate fantasists, and truly dismal' are probably all of those things themselves.

Just because you do not agree with something does not give you the right to be so highly insulting but seeing as you started it...

You must be desperately naive if you lap up the kind of tosh that bookmakers push out almost daily in terms of PR.

Does it not strike you as coincidence how few of these 'big winners for smallish stakes' remain nameless?

You are equally naive if you think that big companies involve all their big guns when indulging in a bit of dishonesty. Indeed, the fact that someone somewhere exceeds their level of responsibility through doing something like this without checking first is often the root cause of problems.

If only you knew my background, you would feel so very foolish for being so insulting over my opinion of this 'win'.

Lastly, of course I may be all, or even just some, of the things you labelled other posters with but I tell you one thing for sure...

I would, never, ever make myself look like such a knob in public through incorrectly spelling media as meeja. And, I also know how to use capital letters properly....

A Glaswegian pensioner has placed the biggest election majority bet to date, backing the Conservatives to the tune of £30,000 at 7/1



Bet still hasn't been collected

The experience many of us have regarding "stake too large" render the possibility of such a liability being accommodated on line (overnight what's more) somewhat difficult to swallow .........

i am naive for not believing something that is clearly idiotic? subversion of logic, imeo. i do not care about your background, nor would it matter. you are a berk, whatever it is

'never ever' is tautological. and meeja is a derogatory colloquialism. predictably, you did not know that. and i do not bother with upper-case when dealing with the erbets on here.

If you look at the selections made, They all had reasonable chances of winning. Wd

If you try that with 'create your own racecard' with Paddy Power up pops a message saying the limit is five selections.