How to turn £20 to £225,000

Bu yazı 19 Mart 2023 tarihinde yayınlanmıştır

This is an interesting story going back to Argentina winning the World Cup. And is about someone who bet on France to win, but still won £225,000, for a bet of just £20. Here is how.

A slim-chance all-in bet made by a young American nine months before the World Cup almost succeeded, but a decision he made in the 90th minute saved him

An American gambler who invested $26 in an all-in odds bet on the results of seven major sporting events around the world t
In the past year was set to win more than half a million dollars if France beat Argentina in the World Cup final, after successfully guessing the results of all The previous six events. However, despite the Argentinian victory, in the end the gambler managed not to leave empty-handed – thanks to a decision he made in the 90th minute.
In March, Daniel Forte opened a seven-step bet, based on a repeated bet on any previous winning amount, on the FanDuel online betting site. The bet on the entire jackpot required him to successfully guess the teams that would win seven different championships or tournaments in the world, and he was supposed to win a monetary reward only if he was correct in all seven bets.

The first was the college basketball championship tournament held in the USA in April – and as stated in the bet, the winner was the Gayhawks team from the University of Kansas.

Forte’s other bets were also accurate with the basketball team Golden State Warriors winning the NBA championship, the ice hockey team Colorado Avalanche winning the Stanley Cup of the NHL League Finals, and the football teams AC Milan, FC Los Angeles and Manchester City winning the championships in Italy, USA in and England respectively.

Finally, after six of his seven bets had scored, the final and decisive stage of the bet came, in which the French team was expected to win the soccer World Cup – a bet that, if it had indeed come true, would have earned Forte a cash prize of $557,770.

The unusually high reward in relation to the investment of $26, was due to the fact that the condition for winning the entire jackpot was an exact bet on all seven sporting events. This, in contrast to a situation where Forte would bet individually on each of the seven. When the bet was made, nine months before, the probability that all seven of Forte’s bets would come true was close to zero.

However, although France eventually lost the World Cup final to Argentina, contrary to his gamble, Forte did not leave empty-handed. This, thanks to his decision – less than 24 hours before the final match – to accept the offer of the betting company Pandoel to give him the sum of 283,540 dollars – almost half of the potential prize amount – in exchange for canceling the validity of the bet

Fortunately, Forte decided to accept the offer. “Thank God I decided to accept the cash. Otherwise I would be out of here right now on a stretcher with a heart attack,” Forte said after Argentina won The final.

Bets on the entire jackpot of the type made by Forte are gaining popularity thanks to the possibility of winning large sums of money even from a bet of a small amount, and betting companies usually take advantage of the rare winning cases in bets of this type for advertising and sales promotion purposes.