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https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/31732427/london-based-bettor-wins-136-million-six-leg-parlay-harris-english-putt

This is the most insane winning parlay I've ever seen.  And with the last leg resting on a golf match that went deep into a playoff.  Would have had a heart attack watching myself

Best parlay ypu ever won or seen a story on?

what the heck is that  :o :o :o Is he a prophet? Oh my god! Parlay bets are not too strange, but parlay bets with 6 win conditions, and 4 of them are championships? It really is a crazy thing  :o :o :o Unbelievable! Great! There are no words to describe this sublimation  :o He is really cool! Really! He's cool for making such a terrible bet. Although the amount he bet was not large, meaning without any hesitation, if he lost, it was okay. But the crazy thing is he hit them all, there were four championships there. He's a prophet, lol  8) I guess we can call him one of the luckiest

I've seen betslips on Nitrogen that have come close to rivalling this, with insane odds of 10,000x or more. I think there was a decent few that I've seen hit, but a ton that were off by just 1 leg or 2.

What is surprising imo is that there was only 6 legs and he managed to get those odds for it. This just shows how unlikely some of the legs were to being hit (+3500 AND +1400). Most people who want a big parlay payout generally go for 10+ legs with relatively tame odds.

At the end of the day though, the more odds you accumulate through parlaying, the more likely you are to lose as the negative EV's of the bets just keep piling on top of one another. Don't chase these odds for anything other than entertainment.

Completely agree.  Parlays is a moneymaker for books, just insane how his last leg was riding on a +3500 long shot that needed a 20 foot put to go to playoffs and then one of the longest playoffs in recent time. ..the agony of that win lol.

People that truly make it in gambling are the ones like this, the amount of money won is life changing and life transforming, I believe anyone that uses small amount of money to win such big amount is not even seeing the winning coming at all, while the people that uses high amount on low odds staked can still lose. Sport outcomes can be unpredictable at times which can give some people that chances of wining.

This is dope! But having combined those six legs on a parlay, with four of which highly underdogs, was like betting on a lottery. This was almost impossible to win. With four legs on odds as high as +500, +1,400, +650, +3,500, you've got to be crossing your fingers and pray that all the upsets in the world be happening in your parlay bet. Oh well, sometimes the unbelievable happens, too!

As for me, I normally parlay those sure wins, which more often than not make me lose.

You've got to be the luckiest guy on earn or a prophet to have picked the winners and won millions with $15. I have no idea what this PGA Tour is about but winning it all definitely is in a million bet, very rare and it's worthy to have it on the headline for sportsbooking news.  I doubt this will ever happen in crypto. Congrats to him.

That is a quote from the winner of parlay and I think everyone would have a heart attack if they won that kind of amount with just their small amount of money. I read the article and the winner was really a golf enthusiast, he was confident with his 3 bets and only doubt the last. He deserves it and I hope he spends his winnings properly. Sportsbetting is really fun especially if you are really a fan of the game you're betting. Winning from it is an achievement that you won't forget.

This rarely happens because the possibility is very small or even almost impossible to win at high odds in parlay, because usually if bet on parlay bettor usually will choose low odds because the possibility of winning is quite large.

In my opinion, this is quite big and happened at sportbet which is quite active in promoting in this forum
https://www.playbetr.com/betslip/X21KUKG85

There seems to be a surge of this kind of story this year because one of my friends show me someone bet about 250 USD and got around 2k USD in return in a basketball game and the one he betted on has a +11 but it wasn't needed after all because the team mopped the floor of the other team. But this thread is more impressive because the person betted such a small amount and got a really big win.

Holy f, that's quite the insane win right there. it's pretty amazing that the condition actually managed to go through, especially since it had that insane odds due to how difficult the feat was. This was literally a lottery imo, a one out of how many odds chances of winning. Not really something I'd suggest for gamblers to actually do since it's a really hard feat to pull it off, not to mention that you aren't necessarily the one pulling it off but rather the player. Still, very big well played from me!

Yes, it is actually hard to win, even only few people can win such a game, like out of millions of people, not up to 10 can win, but in contrast to your other opinion, I can advice people to play such game, betting is not about looking for high stake and low odds, it is about using lillte amount of money to stake big and maybe you will hit the jackpot one day, I mean win the huge amount in a bet. This is just life changing, the winner would have risked in the past, but he later gained a life changing profit. If I were the man, I will leave gambling for now and establish businesses.

If I'm the person who bet on it? I'll probably don't want to watch the last leg, too much excitement for me. I might as well check the scores later and hope that I will win my bet.

I haven't done parlay betting though, just singles in sports like basketball and football or sometimes tennis. The thing with parlays is sometimes you already had a good run, but it will be ruined by someone that you don't expect to lose in the end.

I do parlays and just "bet and forget" as I don't really want to stress myself out on watching too many games and hoping for all of them to win. It's really difficult to bet parlay and do an actual win, even on bets that on paper, looks obvious that it will hit and then afterwards it wouldn't. I wonder how will the dude be able to comprehend that he won such an amount though, as even the most hardcore gamblers and bettors would surely be shocked that they won the jackpot of their lifetime.

Well that's probably one of the craziest bets that somebody ever won. Congratulations to that guy. I would imagine he did this bet just for fun probably while he was drunk  :) because he only bet 15$ so even if he had lost the bet he would not have a significant loss. So i would put this monumental win not under the category "a bet that was won because of great knowledge of the sports and thorough research" but more in the category "once in a lifetime lucky bet comparable to hitting the jackpot in a big national lottery draw", so i don't think that we can learn anything here from that bet, but it still shows what is possible if everything aligns in your way.

I wouldn't say impossible, the only underdog he took was the +3500 while the other three were more or less favorites to win the tournament but still it's impressive.

If I had the same bet i'd probably cashed out that ticket so props to him for letting the ticket ride until the end.  

I don't speak for everyone but I think that he won't be thinking right for the first few hours or days on what to do with that amount of money because I have seen people and read stories of people that got a lot of money in such a short time and quickly wasted it on luxury and ludicrous stuff which quickly depleted the money.

I am not familiar with the names and even with the leagues they're playing in, but I don't understand. How could they be favorites when the odds are very high on them? Even the lowest among the four, Steve Stricker's +500 odds is still very high. If we convert that to decimals, that would be 6.00, or your $100 would win $500. I guess that means Steve winning the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship is less expected.

The last time I bet on a parlay if I remember it right my odds were like 1.06 to 1.30.

I don't follow golf as well but the reason why the odds are that high even for favorites is because they are outright bets meaning they have to win all the way plus there's always the risk of favorites getting eliminated early.

Also it was mentioned that he took them before the tournament started so favorites that are priced at 5.00 is normal in terms of outright betting then the odds eventually go down even more once they progress in the tournament.

That's unbelievable! There are really people who are born lucky in gambling wherein they could make a small amount of money huge. I guess that person is still in shock since that isn't a small amount of money. As for me, he's really destined to get that prize. I believe that winning such an amount is still a person's destiny. Let's just hope that more people would be as lucky as him in the future.

This is both luck and skill! You can't just be lucky and randomly choose soccer matches and winners in the weekend's golf tournaments... I guess this guy follows soccer and golf, he had some hunch and he tried it with $15! As you can see in the article:
He knew what he is doing! And yes he had the luck to win this... I just wish to say it's not pure luck! The bet was placed June 22 and paid out at 90,396-1 odds! It's like crazy odds to hit! Congrats to the winner, I hope he will hit something similar again one day!

This is what magical spells gambling can make into your life and these unpredictable wins can definitely make you live some luxury life within days.But it is rare chance and we can't expect everytime such huge wins on that low level bets.Most people actually don't anticipate that much winnings from bets they have placed but sometimes you can't see that coming and you hit the jackpot.So we must give a try with amount we can afford to loose and enjoy our journey along and if lucky we can hit that one day also.

Yeah, I agree, this is insane winning, and on a parlay that is really hard to do.


I hit a couple of parlays in NBA, like x12 is the most I hit, with 4-5 winnings. I just got lucky I guess, and I still wanted to hit like x100 but it is very difficult because you can't really be so sure. Even the favourite can lost. I have a team which lead by 18 only to falter in the fourth quarter and obviously my parlays got destroyed.

they should not spend the money if they are shocked and dont know what to do but if they spend in imediately and lost it faster ,
that means they have been planning before if where will they spend the money .
having a plan is okay but they should have a plan too of saving the money for good so that it will last a lifetime .

When it comes to money winnings from gambling then its none of our business on how a gambler would be spending it because those money won is just easy as breeze and as expected

it would be spent out as breeze too and as a gambler then most likely you would really be ending on that path.Its just great to see on how this man make that 15 bucks to millions.

Almost an impossible thing to happen considering on the odds and who had thought that it would hit out? Parlays are great but these things are moneymakers of most bookies.

Wow, possibly one of the longest successful parlays I've ever seen. I bet the bookmaker was trying too buy him out of the bet all the way until the end and it's to their credit that they have paid it out. Parlays tend to be where bookmakers will make most of their profits, because people who are placing the bets usually don't realize the odds get exponentially worse against you the more bets that you string together. Wouldn't feel too sorry for the bookmaker though, because for every mega long shot single bet like this you know they are making ten million bets that pay off in their favor.

A long time ago I used to bet insane parlays everyday with a buddy from work. We would only put a dollar in every day, but we hit a few for a couple thousand dollars. I think it’s important to remember while looking at the wins is great, this gambler probably had many losses to go along with it. Still though, this is obviously a huge life changing win. This is the sort of story that brings people to bet.

+3,500
+1,400
+650
+500

This was almost the same as betting on a lottery wherein the chances of winning are low. And according to the bettor, he was sure betting to +1400, +650, and +500 pick. He is against at those analysts on that case. :)

The bettor is maybe a regular fan of betting parlays on a small amounts. After maybe several years of trying, he finally hits the jackpot.

One time, i bet 7 dollars with the winning chance (i don't remember correctly) like 1.5 % and WON! In return i got 170 dollars and was too happy about that. But few bets later, my bankroll decreased to 105 dollars and I decided that my luck is over. So i just took my reward and invest it to shitcoin on Yobit (This was also enough successful investment, but this is another story)

Was still really amazed with this parlay win and it is indeed like a lottery yet those odds wont be given if those players would have tendency nor have a chance to win or those lines been offered.

This do only happens once a in a lifetime hit and we dont know on how long he had been betting with parlays with minimal bet.

Here are some other big parlay hits in history. https://www.bestcasinosites.net/blog/biggest-parlay-ever-won.php

I'm that guy. I don't actually make sensible bets, I put small amounts of money on 5/6+ long accumulators hoping they come in. A few times I've been absolutely sweating it when there's one or two bets left on the card, and I'm watching it live. I can't imagine how this guy felt.

If he is betting small amounts like this usually, I think he's more than made up for many of the losses he suffered though.

Probably a long ass time. Although, I bet the pros of winning this time, outweighs the amount of times he likely put a unlikely bet on. Unreal.

I'm also a parlay bettor and hoping to win a big amount someday out from doing that bet. That winnings now inspire me to continue.

That was truly a big achievement and it's actually a rare moment and I think only a few did that small parlay bet into a million-dollar win.

Even a good and professional sports analyst can't do that. It's really luck + skill + knowledge + trust with the team.

It's just a $15 parlay but maybe he was doing it for many years but his effort now paid off.

Looking at those bets, I never will consider betting some of those but everything is really possible in sports betting even the chances of winning is low. Hands-off to that guy. He totally achieved his target for a long time.

Now enjoying the time spending his million-dollar win.

in my opinion is very difficult for make a small win , for this bet that you are shared  , everyone talk about huge winning that happened rarely but there is lot of gamblers that lost huge money too . some time i dont beleive these news because they  make a hope i dont think so . every time lot of bettors lost huge money because gambling the gamblors should know that gambling have lot of risk , for this reason
the gambling is not easy like most of people thinking lot , generally gambling is not easy and the profit is not easy too

It is interesting how the media neglects to mention gambling addiction potentially being linked to gamblers hitting the occasional multi million dollar bet.    ;)

It used to be an easy and consistent way to make money for some of us, back in the day. Before the industry became more regulated.




I've hit a few 100x payout parlays on sports.

Hit many 20x to 40x.

I have screenshots. Maybe I'll make a thread and post them sometime.

In the event of winning big what he had lost might be big. With sports betting anything and everything is possible. Another thing that I've experienced personally is the winning on sports betting is high than being on the Casinos. I've made profit out of gambling when my focus was only on sports betting. From the day I moved to casino I started loss everything.

Yeah I'm sure it was still a nice cash by not waiting til the end.  I think he couldn't cash though because they went off around the same time but the +3500 bet ended last.  Wonder what the pay would have been without that last leg.  Still amazed after seeing how each of those legs went down.  Basically a lottery hit

He's surely lucky. Thats also a rare case winning million dollars in a parlay bet sports. I won once in some parlay bet but not that huge payout like him and just a small bet. And as I've read his statement on the link given by OP, seems like he knows the teams and players behind the bet he have chosen.
Lucky fellow bettor, for sure he is enjoying that more than 1.3 million he won on that parlay.

What a luck!

I wonder what is the maximum profit a user can get from betting on that bookie. It must be huge tho. $1.36 million could ruin the bookie's bankroll. AFAIK, at crypto casinos, the max win on a bet would around $50k.  ;)

The guy's definitely lucky, isn't parlay a hard thing to get wins over? That amount of money could change someone's life in an instant. I think that the bookie will probably do a pay out of installments to this person if possible because that's a lot of money and in gambling like lottery, you don't get the whole winnings in a lump sum because it needs to be taxed but nonetheless this is a life changing thing.

Wow that is one hell of a luck,
It surely changed the persons life in just a short time and congratulations on the huge win.
It is like hitting a jackpot on a lottery and not everyone could do it.
I wonder if the person would continue to gamble or quit with that amount of profit that he got.

It's truly crazy to win so much money like this. I'm really happy for the winner and hope that the money will be well-spent, bringing this person happiness. I've seen stories on 1300 odds, but this case is way more than that. That being said, I'm always interested in betting history when such cases are popularized. To understand how much one managed to beat the odds, it's important to know how many bets like this they made and lost before, and how much profit they have overall if we subtract the losses first.

Right, of course the win is unexpected luck for the player, just imagine with only $15.50 he was able to make $1.36 million in a betting, I think he is the luckiest person this week,  the gambler victory has make gambling sites experience substantial losses and are forced to drain their pockets to these lucky gamblers.
 Congratulations to the lucky gambler and enjoy the your money.😁

Generally yeah. It usually differs on the sport too. So, big players like bet365, and SkyBet have a higher payout on premier league games. I'm not sure why this is, unless they be think its harder to predict games in the higher leagues, and therefore don't mind increasing the max payout. Newly established cryptocurrency betting sites will more than likely cap it below 50k. Always worth checking their terms of services before betting on any site, as you might have been adding too many bets on your accumulator without actually gaining anything if you did win.

Yup, parlays are difficult to hit and they're not recommended since it can drain your bankroll continuously depending on how much units you risk on each parlay.

Knowing that Betfair is quite popular I think they're capable of paying the guy in one go.

Depends on your outlook while betting. I mean, I don't really gamble, and expect a profit. I do it for fun, and I usually do it on things that I'll be watching to make it that little bit more fun for me. It probably isn't recommended to do accumulators if your expecting a payout, but then again I'd argue that you shouldn't be gambling as a way of making profit in the first place, since its probably unlikely. Hence why gambling websites make so much revenue.

Plus, when you have a massive accumulator coming in, albeit not as big as this guys the stakes of that fight or football match is so much higher, and it really does heighten the feeling, regardless of whether it comes through or not. Disclaimer, I've never won big.

No way I'd take any sort of annuity they can fold at any time.  You win that money you take the money immediately, worry about taxes later.  Good chance unless it's a very reputable and well financed book that you never see a dime of that anyway.  Never bet those kinds of payout parlays unless you know you will get paid for sure.  Only worse thing then losing the last leg of a bet like this is to win and get stiffed.

This is me when I only try my luck at the very least, I used to do it rolling in dice for the very minimum amount and keep it rolling and so happy when it got hit a win though not much but still lucky.

That goes for any sport, betting against the odds when almost no one does is a good way to win a lot of money, and you don't even have to bet a lot of money on it if you're betting on something that has a lot of stakes.

As for the case highlighted here by the OP... simply sensational, any praise I add has probably already been said in another previous post.

When i do really bet on parlays then i do usually have those kind of hopes where i could really hit up those nasty wins even though i do know that odds or chance is always against me.
Well, i dont really care that much since i do really enjoy when i do get thrilled whenever i do hit up 2-3 wins and then the last was a lost.
It cant really be denied that this one is really like a lottery chance considering those odds, whom had thought it would really be ending up a nasty hit?

The guy was very lucky indeed what a massive win and a rare feat,  $15 is such an amount one can afford to lose and luckily that meager amount of money resulted to a fortune and life changing earning, of course Betfair is a popular and renown gambling institution I don't think wining such a huge will have any impact on the bookie negatively having been online sportsbook and betting exchange for long time.
The London based bettor must have skills and much understanding in soccer betting as well as golf for him to have a four straight wins while eventually wining with the parlay.

No f**king ways!

$15.5 to 1.36 million dollars  :o I thought this was a 20 leg bet slip at the least but this happened from a  six-leg parlay and I must say...the first two games from the parlay are predictable, the other winners all on the same bet slip not in a hundred years.

How the hell do these guys come up with such a winning combination...you really need to know your sport, congrats to the lad.

What an amazing win, the odds were so low, and they wi is just crazy, poor bettor, how did he even survive through watching this game :D

Also, I guess that makes this win the second biggest parlay ever won, after Steve Whiteley parlay win in Horse Racing (https://www.bestcasinosites.net/blog/biggest-parlay-ever-won.php). Also an amazing story, that one, maybe not everyone heard of it, the bettor turned £2 into £1.5m.

^ Yeah, I also noticed that where is the truth, is that $1.36 million or $136 million.
But still impressive, how lucky he is who won that huge amount, it is a huge, a very huge amount that I have ever seen. Playing golf is not just easy, perfect timing is a must so that you can able to shoot the ball on the hole. It is really hard also to predict which player has the potential to win if you are a bettor, it seems this big winner was his big day. I can't imagine from the low amount to the huge amount that you had and probably those who read this article have an encourage to use parlay strategy in betting.

That was a hell of a luck! The chance is even higher to be struck by the lightning. Reading the link and checking what are those included in the 6 leg parlay, that was like, "does it even have a chance to win all"?

With that, I will admit that I want to continue now my usual parlay betting. Not expecting the same winnings but just want to test my luck around that total odds. I will take that story as a reference that it really happened and hopefully, to me soon lol.

Yeah, such a huge win doesn't happen too often. It's like winning a lottery jackpot.
I wonder how much he has spent so far on betting? Such details are never mentioned in the media.

I have seen users posting huge parlay wins in gambling sites where they are winning huge amounts by placing small bets but that was when the price of Bitcoin was well below $5k and i have seen users posting wins of 49BTC with small amounts but this is a crazy win and i will not predict Harris English to win the Travelers Championship at +3,500 and the bets he placed are insane.

Pretty insane for sure.

Perhaps parlaying for very large odds would work out better if the amount of legs were minimised (i.e., the odds on each leg are larger rather having than having a bunch of 1.05x odd legs). This makes sense as low odd bets generally carry a more negative EV compared to the rest.

And that's exactly what the bettor did here as well. A few double digit odds bet and 6 legs only - fair play to him.

He is indeed a one lucky guy in this world.
Imagine he only risk $15 yet the return is unbelievable.
Seems like a lottery for being a millionaire instantly.

Not really, the ones that become professionals are the ones that can earn money consistently out of their gambling activities and it is obvious a parlay especially one like this in which the odds to win are so low is the exact opposite of what I am stating.

However if someone is able to hit a parlay like this then it will be life changing as the money the gambler is going to win is going to be many times higher than what you can earn with traditional bets, which is what makes it so attractive on the first place to those that want to generate huge profits with their gambling hobby.

There weren't many people who could match that man's luck in this world. Big wins are the dream of all gamblers, whether the stakes are small or big. Being lucky enough to win such a jackpot is rare, but at least you shouldn't have a heart attack if you ever get one in the future.
I've heard that a couple won a million dollar jackpot in the lottery after decades of betting on the same numbers every day. I probably wouldn't, but it's true that such luck is extremely rare.

I can't beat that $15 turned multi-millionaire guy. The biggest I remember was a few hundred bucks from a three or four game parlay. There was a time I tried to bet on the highest odds from ten games but the casino didn't allow it hehe.

I understood you but gambling can be otherwise at times, some people called themselves professional but they keep on losing, some are good but they win and lose while their net profit is not that positively obvious, some are addicted and they continued to lose the more. Professionals are those that make it from gambling, not people that are good but keep on losing. Although, it is luck and opportunity that only few people win this kind of game but wining it still makes them professional. If you even check the winner very well, I am very sure this is not his first game, his decision is not just based on luck, but after several experience but get games comes with luck because surest games can be lost but do not comment otherwise about this guy.

Exactly that luck is very rare or it will never happen to you.
How could I imagine if I'm the one who could win successively 5 wins streak in a row using parlay. That guy on the article is very lucky, from $15 and now it is millions of dollars.

You will never know when your luck was there and I think that this dude who won that big amount would probably be enjoying his life right now. I guess because these people are willing to lose more and must know what is the perfect timing upon using this game strategy.

That just crazy that was really a lucky win the odd of 90,396-1 odds was just too high to win, maybe for some people doing this could be worth it? what do you think?

In my country, there are so many people betting on the lottery hoping for a chance that they might win the lottery and get millions or even billions to be rich at some point.

I just tried to bet at this lottery one time for fun but I think it's not worth it since the percentage of winning was just too low and you could bet until you die and still not win even once, but you could also be lucky but for me, it's not worth it. I just save my money and invest in something like a cryptocurrency that is worth it.

Don't know Golf too well but he couldn't he have at least secured some of the money before the last leg by placing a counter bet on a betting platform? Even if the odds were low, I don't know, but when you know it is about a million and you could place a $50,000 counter bet on another platform, is that a possibility in this scenario? Losing a million is definitely not healthy for the heart (and for the liver because I know what I would do afterwards... :P).

This is a big success, better than the lottery IMO.

I tried to have this kind of huge payout parlay but I was never lucky enough to win.
Any gambler could through 1$ in any bet and sometimes it's nice if we are getting more ambitious as it could change our life.
Putting a parlay like this regularly might add some excitement in our life as a gambler.

Win in sports betting parlay bet, not in the lottery, that should be our goal.

I'm sure this bettor is gambling consistently with this parlay bet, you would not win if you are not too lucky and it so happened his time has already come.

Well, he gambled in a reputable website, so he gets his money, the question that came into my mind now, what if we win this big using our favorite crypto sportsbook here, will we not face a problem claiming that big winning?

I just ask this because although I have not experienced a problem yet, I read some scam accusation threads that a gambling site requires their document when they win big money.

Yes luck is a big part but i am really amazed by the way in which he predicted some of the sporting events as if he knew very well that would win, what i would like to know is how many parlay bets he made that day as i am sure this wont be the only bet he made that day, may be made a lot of combinations of parlay bets with $15 and one bet was successful.

I don't think these guys who bet like this,small amounts with huge odds really expect that bet to be a win.They just bet for fun and they say if it happens I am a millionaire,they just play bingo and I have seen very few wins like this in all gambling history.This is what is called pure luck and has nothing to do with sport betting skills,or maybe just a bit of some skill.

That's obvious because I mean the amount of bet isn't even that big and it's probably a forgettable bet. I don't believe in luck because to me, it's just numbers that we have no way to explain how it got there that's why we call it luck.

Yes, but it takes deep analysis and pure hard luck.  ;D I think my highest was just x10 of a full basketball parlay and it took me a lot of time before I pressed the "confirm" button. It's scary to lose $5-10, what more with a $15 for an impossible feat.
Online gambling sites do take a lot of profit from those kind of risks and they can continue business because of the profit coming from there.
I'd never go with such lengths of even x50 of a parlay but after seeing this, I might end up doing the same up to x20 and try it for just $1.

The chance to win a million-dollar out of $15 is one in a million, it's a lottery jackpot you don't give up on betting because you never if you will be the next jackpot winner like this, this is the reason why people never stop doing a bet in a lottery-like sports betting and lottery it deserves to be in headlines to inspire more people, but of course, only play what you can afford to lose.

Maybe he has a sixth sense that makes him can predict with the right. But we know that it is because of luck that comes to him to win a lot of money. If he bet more than $15 so he wins that much money, maybe he needs to calculate how much he already losses and how much total he wins. But if he only uses $15 and wins a lot of money, yes, that is very lucky that not many gamblers can get that big win.

Question that comes into my mind about this huge winning "is this the only one bet he placed on that day or he placed so many bets with so many different combination for the parlay?". I guess he did place many parlay bets and he did it really often since his first day of his gambling journey. It is obvious that the winning bet is an awesome win no matter how many bets he placed and how much money he spent.

I think he only had one parlay during that time since he's confident on most of the selections and it's more risky to have more similar parlays because there's no guarantee the first few legs would've hit. Imagine placing several parlays then you'd lose on the first leg right away. It's always best to stick with one parlay then hedge or cashout once you're satisfied with the given payout instead of having similar parlays.

It's nice to have a winning parlay from time to time but I don't think it's a good goal knowing you could make more money from doing singles compared to parlays.

easy won ?
 no way thats no easy but he is only lucky that all of his parlays hit .
not all gamblers are the same that will spend all what they won but some have a promised that if they won big they wont stop gambling and change their life for the better and not all gamblers will be like him because some are afraid to bet in risky payouts and some gamblers only play for fun and not for the profit .

Haha I like that idea. Do we know whether he did not spent $1.2 million in order to win $1 million and made a total loss pf $200,000? :D Like lottery, you play so many tickets you have to win the jackpot but you are ultimately left with empty hands. :P

I think the guys knew how lucky he was when move forward with such complicated options. Winning normally would have been other thing, but he just did something so complicated!! Winning so much in a row ! Dang! The anxiety of such complicated parlay is honestly nerve wreaking. You have to sit and wait for each of them to hit but viola!

The odds too are not something made in Gold. It indeed was a difficult job to pursue. I do hope that the most of the winning are not taken by state in name of the tax. I think he was not only lucky but knowledgeable too.

I do hope that he does not spend all this money on making more bets and invest in real estate or something and settle down.

Quite funny but who knows right? we see his winnings but what else might  behind that,
maybe he spend lots of money before having that lucky parlay.

That's for him to reveal, we don't know and it's none of  our business anymore, let him enjoy this huge
amount of winning and wish that same luck will on its way to prosper our bets.

That's how gambling works, when lucks comes up it will bring decently!

If he is smart he will invest wisely, most of the time what these big winners will do is gamble again hoping they could win again and then end up loosing everything and hopefully he will not make the same mistake where hundred others made in the past.

There is no way i am going to place a bet with huge odds like that and expect to win, i have made several bets for huge odds and the closest i came was i lost 2 matches in a 21 bet parlay and if i would have won i would have made over 32BTC.

Very impressive and honestly it was the last long shot bet that really made it into a million dollar bet. Nobody usually rates England very well in these tournaments, so I am surprised the percentages against them was so bad but it would have helped boost the parlay by involving that extra layer nonetheless. I hope whoever the winner is will stay away from betting in future and consider himself to have won the equivalent of a lottery - such phenomenal odds that you would be better off by giving your money away to any stranger in the street. I do wonder if he watched the final game, I think I'd avoid it myself!

I can make a bet that he will keep on betting, if he is able to win a million dollars with a $15 parlay then he will keep on doing that for the rest of his life, personally it is a small amount and if he is not burning everything he won, then it is well and good. 

I am curious whether anyone else in the world placed an individual bet for Harris English to win the Travelers Championship for +3,500 and Nelly Korda to win the KPMG Women's PGA Championship at +1,400, i will not certainly think about making one  :D.

I doubt the guy was already in millions of losses since he does gambling. However, who knows if before, he's a high roller or a whale but still losing millions overall will take a long period of time for average gamblers.

That million winnings should be enough to cover all of his losses.


Take note, he was sure about placing a bet for Nelly Korda despite the odds. But not sure about Harris English so that he considered it the risk on his parlay leg. That's how great he is taking the risk and I think he always do that since then.

He keeps on betting during losing so now that he won millions of it, he will continue to bet more. He already got the experience of feeling lucky and that idea will always now be on his head and wants to feel it again and again as much as possible.

But I think he is a responsible gambler the way he analyze some of his prediction, and part of the money he won is sure now on safety or now being used on important matters.

Hopefully, after he won that big money, he can manage his life and not return to gambling for a while.
We do not know how much he already loses until he can win big money, but maybe that will not worth doing as we risk more money to win.
He should not think about getting the other lucky in the next playing gambling because that will not be the same as before.
Maybe that is the time for him to stop gambling and enjoy his winning money with his family or his closest friends and use some money for saving for his future while he can invest some money in other things.

I think it has inspired me now, lol.. maybe I'll start putting huge parlay so one day I'll be able to make a fortune in gambling. They say no one wins in big parlay but that's the proof, when you are really lucky, nothing is impossible and I just can't imagine how the owner o the bet feels while watching the game., especially the last leg to settle.

Easy to say but the people who suffer from the Sudden Wealth Syndrome doesn't know these so they don't really have any control over the money that they spend. Also, remember that this most of the people who experience this came from nothing so they will definitely be trying to fulfill their desires that has been suppressed for a long time because they don't have any money.

Be careful though because parlay is a difficult one to win from, this person was just at the right place and right time and that he won this big. Remember that this isn't a thing that will happen to anyone, this might not even happen again for a really long time.

I even think it is pretty common that people only report their winnings and hide their losses. I had a friend who told me literally every weekend that he won a parlay but lost none. As I have a clue about betting and parlay betting, I know that's impossible for several weeks in a row. I asked him what his losses were and he always denied there were any... Come on, you don't just only win with parlay bets, there is just no way.

We shouldn't say that. Let the guy enjoy his winnings. Whatever he does on that money, it's none of our business anymore.

More importantly, we shouldn't say for him to stop gambling. We aren't in the place to say that and that was interfering with his freedom of gambling.

Maybe let's just hope for the best for him.

Hopefully, he enjoys his winning and has a better life than before.
If we can give him the advice to stop gambling, that will be good, especially if that is happening to our friends because gambling will not always help us win.
Yes, that is what we can do.
I wish we can be like him winning that game.

I mean it is kind of stupid to actually consider losses if you were thinking of gambling as simply for entertainment purposes. It's just like other games, would you really consider sharing your losses instead of your wins? Not really right? It's pretty normal that people actually only report winnings, not to mention the media. Losses literally make up almost the entirety of an ocean for example, nobody would actually enjoy listening to how someone lost ngl. Even as a method to convince someone to stop, it isn't really that effective.

Up this. Parlay is probably one of the hardest (if not the hardest) things to win from. It's like asking to find exactly $5 in the middle of nowhere when you're in need of exactly $5.

Yeah, winning a $1.36 million payout from a bet which wagered only $15.50 is not going to happen for everyone. I mean it's similar to winning a casino bet with 100k odds and anyone who was played any kind of casino games like dice or slots knows it is near impossible to get that kind of win. Yes the guy was extremely lucky and good that he won the final leg which was as mentioned in the link, a 35-1 long shot.

I think if I had such a bet on any sportsbook and the last leg was remaining, I might have placed a bet to counter the last bet or just take the cash out if that option was available that moment. I mean how can you watch the game when you see millions of dollars on the line, technically it's only 15 dollars but you know all other legs have won and it's the last one so you must hedge it somehow.

I don't know who says you cannot win parlays because I usually make a lot of parlays and win some so although unlikely, you can always win. That said, don't get too inspired and lose all your bankroll to parlays because overall parlays will keep you in net loss, that's my experience with parlays at least. You may hit one big one but follow by 15-20 losses which eat up all the winnings you got.

Even the game where England was required to beat Czech Republic was pretty scary actually and I felt the game might end up in a draw eventually because there was just 1 goal and it could have easily been neutralized by the Czech Republic at any moment.

^ That is good advice, but you can try at least a small amount not just the huge one, if this lucky winner can able to win from $15 to a million-dollar, that is possible too. This man did not expect that he will become a millionaire, with a small amount probably also he tries to have a low bet. There is no guarantee that you will win in a parlay but once luck is in your side, at least you know you are trying a small amount that you can afford to lose.

It is the typical bet that you wonder why? It is actually the fun of betting I think many are making this type of bets to see what it turns out, but I think the main thing is to do them in a bookmaker that has funds :)

The most curious of these bets are those of golf, there is a lot of variance there currently, it is very difficult with the quality of good players that currently exist and there is no dominating player today that guarantees with his presence to win a tournament, in fact the The only one who I was seen with various possibilities was the rookie Viktor Hovland this guy is going to be the new star of Golf, remember that name.

On the other hand I had the opportunity to see that playoff game ( 8 ) Harris English, incredible ... as "·$%&%/ put this name on his parley, of all it is the most incredible.

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No I mean even among friends it's stupid if you play five rounds, you lose four of them and let's say a total of 80 bucks goes to waste. You win one with 20 bucks and tell everyone you won 20 bucks again this week. Just doesn't make sense to me, but who cares.

If the gambling website in which you are playing is a reputable one then most likely you are not going to have problems with it, however we must remember the next, casinos do not like to lose and they like even less to lose big, so if you are cashing out those kind of wins then you need to make sure that you are always following their TOS.

If you do not then they could use the TOS to not pay you and get away with it, also I think that KYC after a big win is acceptable and most likely it will be on the TOS already so it is basically inevitable if you happen to have a win as big as the one mentioned here.

Crazy story! To be honest, I know that many bookmakers have the maximum winnings that a player can get by making a multi bet, and I was very surprised when I read the news that the bettor hit the jackpot with 96,000 + odds placing a $ 15 bet and won 1.3 million.
As I understood from the article, this bettor wished to remain anonymous, sad, I would have looked with interest at his further behavior after receiving a win - whether he continued to play with crazy odds or would choose simpler games.

You are right there. The bet was placed on Betfair and we know that they are one of the top gambling markets in Europe so maybe they can accommodate that kind of limit and its winnings. And no one really expected that winnings as I will give a 1% chance (that kind of percentage is even higher) to hit all that legs.

Luckily, that bettor hits it and now enjoying his unexpected winnings. It's not about a $15 bet but it's a rare case to hit such odds in the history of sports betting.

Damn! That's the fucking beauty of parley. I had never seen such a big win for this tiny amount of bet. However, odd for the golf seem too high. How come everyone lost to underdog? Were they manipulated? I have no idea on golf match odd though as I never check out them. It seems unusual.

Manipulated or just pure win then no one can know and what is impressive here on how that gambler or guy able to know that those underdogs could beat up the favorites.?

No one would anticipated that and this is indeed a lucky hit even with experience with parlays having 3 lines is already hard to win up even betting with the favorites.

It is just amazing on how far could you able to earn but of course it would be needing that extreme luck.

Yep think this just a pure luck thing, no way multiple championships wereanipulated so a $15 parlay ticket could hit.  Sometimes people just hit the lottery and that's what this guy's slip was.

Hard to do that manipulation, if ever, for multiple games or sports at the same time. No such thing also that it will be intentionally manipulated for the sake of 1 bettor.

Just have to accept that is pure luck and hitting all those parlay bets with high odds is really damn good luck that will only happen for an average once or twice a year or even more just based on my observation.

I will admit I won't do that kind of betting so kudos to that guy. It's like throwing $15 every time I bet and in total, I've might be on a big loss right now.

I never have the guts to stack bets like that and walk away though in some ways its smart in an all or nothing kind of way, makes more sense then lottery betting does.   I have heard of some super long shot multi bet playing off like this and it involved Golf predictions all turning out, I cant quite remember the exact details but I will look.  This one is unique for involving so many sports, that knowledge must be quite rare in diversity.

Many people ask what is luck in gambling ? Well, this is called luck where he won $1.36 million dollar in a parlay. Parlay bets are most difficult to win and this london based bettor is indeed lucky to become millionare.


How could anyone be so lucky to predict all of them correctly.

This is really unbelievable lol , 96,000 odds? WTF this is the highest Odds i ever saw in my entire gambling career.
But i will never have that guts to make this hold lol.

Totally insane! it's the best that I've seen and that parlay wins that I usually saw were from my friends and those weren't really that much. This guy became an instant millionaire with the little bet that he did on a parlay. I'm not a fan of parlays but it's interesting to see people win such amounts especially if the bet isn't that lot. I guess I'll have myself look for other interesting wins such as this did have won through a parlay and with a very small amount.

Once luck permits you to win an insane amount like this, what we can say is just a WoW!

A lucky gambler who take away a huge amount out from the house's wallet. Imagine if you'll take this kind of bets out from the knowledge that you
have, sorting all available games and pick it one by one placing everything into your legs parlay.

would like to see that happened to  myself too.. ::)

If I understood the calculation correctly, then judging by the odds, his chance of guessing all the results was less than 0.001 percent.


Yes, this is a problem, if I made such a bet, I would sell it long before the final implementation of all events. Thus, I would regret the huge lost winnings.

It just becomes difficult if your parlay is composed of too many bets and high odds. There are parlays wherein you can stay low at @1.2-1.3 odds for about 4 bets and a total odds for up to @1.8-@2. Not bad.

The case on the winner on this topic was an insane set of parlay that I doubt most of us here will do. :D


Our time will come too. Just bet and bet. :)

We are all hoping for the same hit and as a parlay bettor too but not really that much since im really easily get frustrated when i do commit lost game on 2nd and 3rd.

Knowledge is just second on the line because picking up way too low in ranks or underdog is something that wont be picked out by those who do really make out analysis
which is mostly sticking with the favorites.

Hits like these are impressive but it do always matter with luck nothingless.

I've seen other wins that are greater than this but definitely not on sports, He must have had placed a bet while laughing and thinking "Let's see if we win against the odds" and then realizing it later on that he won, lol. This is would it much more interesting if he won this bet and lost 10,000 USD bet on other odds.

Absolutely a wow. There's really a stroke of true luck that others don't believe in and with this guy's win. I guess that there will be more parlay bettors that would also do the same thing as he did and will try it on their own as soon as they saw this news about this guy's win.
Well, this amount from the house isn't that much although this would really be a big amount to most of us but they're always prepared if something like this happens.

There are a lot of lottery bettors but only a few winners, same thing here, many will try their luck but surely only few will win. However, as a sports bettor, I would prefer this parlay betting that putting a bet in a lottery, this guy spent $15 for this parlay ticket, in crypto we can gamble as low as $1 and could still win a decent return with our parlay, that if we are lucky enough.

That's what makes it more amazing that the amount for this parlay is just a few bucks and then the return and result made it unbelievable and that makes us all agree that this guy deserves it. I understand that this luck is very rare on this guy and I'm aware that this won't happen to me even if I try it as hard as I can, I just realized that I've done that before and that's why it's good to see some people hitting these huge parlay wins and as well as those lotteries that have huge jackpots.

I do some quick reading on the news that was shared by OP and it seems like the name was not mentioned, the only information we have is this winner is a "London-based bettor ", but since London is a big country, it's hard to figure out who the winner is if someone tries to steal money or rob him.

For sure, the winner would not like his name and identity to be mentioned and highlighted. Its not that he fear anyone will steal his money but also knowing his identity, many will approach him for different type of investment ideas and not to forget government will keep any eye on him if he pay taxes on this earnings. There are a lot of things due to which the winner will not like to reveal his identity.

yeah right, he doesn't like being bothered by every possible thing that might offer to him. Knowing how opportunist thinks about people who have good enough of money,

they'll going to try to engage with him to offer something and promise a good returned, or also, the winning won't like to identify himself so ge can continue playing without any noticed from both the house and other players who also betting.

just as plain bet and go then enjoy once you win type of a gambler.

In addition, such news contributes to the fact that it is possible that old acquaintances will appear in his life whom he has forgotten and would prefer not to remember anymore - girls, friends, some kind of relatives. There is a saying - money loves silence, I think it fits very well here.

Even if it's me, I wouldn't allow any article or the casino to name me if I've won such amount. Congratulations to the person this is a very rare type of parlay and winning.
For his/her security and that's really needed because you know robbers and bad people can do anything for money as soon as they know who's the person who got that much money.

For the security of the winner, his identity should be kept confidential and he only got robbed if someone inside tells people who wins and organized to rob him. This is huge that no one expect to win by just betting small, I don’t also expect myself winning on any sportsbet or kind of gambling for just a $15, this is so called lucky.

Well, as I noticed most of those lucky big winners did not reveal themselves as showing a true identity in public and the publisher writer and newscasters are already know regarding that matter. Even in lotto jackpot winners, some of them hiding their real identity for security purposes, because perhaps there could be a chance that the theft will be lurking around trying to get a chance to take advantage and get the money. However, that is a really insane winner amount that wins in Parlay, through that news will surely gamblers also use Parlay strategy hoping that they will also win as OPP said.

i hate this, every time i see someone who won a lot i just feel that i can make it and win a parlay one day, maybe that's why they share this online, to make you feel that you can win, but with odds @90,000 it's absolutely insane, no way i can make that and i wouldn't even bother try with odds that high.

Imagine the risk of being on a public news and the headlines tells that you’ve won millions of money with your small bet, for sure a lot of people will come to you especially your friends and that might put you in danger.

We have to respect and protect the identity of the winners because if a gambling site expose that then how the gamblers can be sure about their privacy and the doubt about the safety of their information will rise if this leaking incidents happen. This is not a small money and if there’s a big money greedy people will always find its way to get money from you.

Hiding the identity of the winner is a must if you win such a huge amount like this. Its hard to expose his/her identity because we'll never know what can happen. Aside from robbery, people might invade the place where he/she live and will ask for a portion of his winnings as give away. Nevertheless that parlay win is really amazing with $15 as your total risk price, its hard to win but he made it possible, one lucky person indeed.

Better hiding identity when got jack pot how ever is very bigger amount, we don't know what happen later with us when your identity have publish and know by around the world, have to learn with many other winner in gambling or lottery, they always hiding identity want keep safety their money and their life, maybe many criminal cases happen when they got chance and know with how much your money in your pocket.

Moreover, this is relevant mainly for those who were poor and then won a huge amount of money. In this case, it makes a lot of sense to hide the change in your status from others. If a person was rich before a big win, then, in fact, little changes in his life, except perhaps a slight change in prominence.

We feel that too but the fact is we do not have that big luck like that person. But we can hope that someday we can hit the jackpot with using small money ;D

Who knows, if we play gambling for fun, we can get our luck because sometimes luck will come without we can predict so we still have that chance in the future. But that person really has big luck the person life change.

Asking money from the winner is something quite belligerent at crypto casinos. There are whales who most of the time won't even come in the chat because people behave weird watching big players and will tag the user every minute in the hope of rain/tips. Even players in the wager races prefer remaining anonymous because they will get lots of attention.

So, you are right, if someone wins a huge amount of money their identity must be kept confidential and safe. At times I even believe that if someone wins a big amount at a crypto casino and the people working in the casino get to know about it, they might start blackmailing him via different means since the staff has the player's KYC details. This is one reason I hate KYCs at crypto casinos.

Crypto casino still needed KYC for getting our betting reward? I think is very bad because is not bounty or airdrop why betting casino still need to KYC. I think many people want to hidden their identity how ever many countries not legal playing casino games, so they try how to hidden identity without know by any one else and become bad reputation later when some one else know.

i know what your talking because i witness this in the crypto casino that i play .
 big gamblers cant foccus also because of personal messages that they get but the casino now disable the messaging feature and if anyone caught tagging the racer in the chat will get punished.
everyone is happy and the chat is crowded when they saw that a big player is winning . this made the rain feature stricter and doesnt drop the bystanders that dont deposit and play.

Sounds funny, but in reality that's true, if you have lots of money there are so many surprises that can happened to your life and that's include those things that you wanted to forget.

News like that will caer media exposures and instead of enjoying your quite life with your money, there's always someone who will try to chase you and try to communicate in anyhow just to know if you are going to give them some time to make some proposals both business related and personal stuff.

Bookies would love this kind of news also because people will think that it's possible to win big money in sports betting. Most of the articles I read about sports betting is that lots of people are losing money, which is true because if they don't know how to manage their bankroll, it's easy to lose since bookies has the advantage in every bet, I'm talking about the juice to be specific.

In a way this is completely natural, after all if I was the person that won such a huge bet I would like to remain anonymous since that is a huge amount of money.

However I am not going to deny that I am curious as well about what it could be the behavior of this person moving forward, if I was him I will probably retire from gambling as that is more than enough money to change my life for the better and probably never have to work ever again, especially if that money is invested in bitcoin as we know bitcoin will raise in price even further during the next decades.

I would not retire if I will, I'll continue to bet but with limitation of course, also, investing it in bitcoin although it's the most profitable investment in the crypto space, I still find it risky, instead, I would just invest in a business where I can manage and I can guarantee a stable ROI.

Dont retire but reduce hours would be nice for anyone, worst thing would be to better off but somehow feel worse.  The rich mans curse, personally I would not rate 1 mil as retire money its more likely buy a decent house and not be in debt.   The smart use of money is always reduce bills not spending as costs can increase if you buy alot of things which require maintenance and insurance and so on.   I'd like to think whoever won this parlay had spent alot of time thinking about it, calculating and so was smarter then the average better and the average lottery winner who does nothing but be the target not determiner of good luck.

Diversify and dont focus on a single source of income neither its a leverage one or not and this is should how people do really think off and not just depending on a single source
which you do at least have the chance to recover or patch up losses came from other business that you do had. Investment  is an another thing and will vary on someones choices.
Going back into the topic about winning big on parlays, i cant really just believed on what those odds are and i cant really just believe that there's  someone
do bet out underdog in the lowest and the highest odds.Whom had thought that it would hit?

I am sure that this win is pure luck and not a result of calculations. If we assume that he figured it out, then his decision to bet on the express instead of single bets is super stupid. Because no matter what calculations he makes, there is always an accident and his magnificent plan could be destroyed by just one event. For the sake of reliability, he had to bet on single events. In this case, he would have won less, but more reliably.

How come when some people got winning you said lucky? they have give great predicting about some football match and there are not any word of lucky when some one got hack pot. How ever every match they have checking how possibility result, they have check previous result from every match and this become his recommended to take what score result in some match.

Do you think you can calculate a good bet with 96,000 odds?  ;D And it won't be based on luck?
Either you are too naive or we do not understand each other at all and talk about different things. If such things could be calculated, then the bookmakers would have already been ruined by talented bettors making such bets and winning millions with a bet of a couple of tens of dollars.

I don't think many people have any workaround regarding this, I've seen old people still working in a town a lot of them and I'm sure they're 60+ which should be the age of being retired but they aren't most likely because of financial situation.

Winning $1mil on a $15 bet is nothing but lucky.  I mean yeah you try to throw some knowledge on it but if it was t luck it would be repeated all the time right?  Anyone who tells you something like that is calculated either hasn't ever made a bet like this or has no idea what they are talking about in terms of odds of something like this happening.  You can calculate a 1 in 100k chance bet.

If it was pure luck, which it may be, then it's no different from those huge and crazy wins coming from lotteries or such. We don't factor it in, but there's always a mega tiny small opportunity to win big, we just don't know if, when we play, we'll be the lucky ones. I once placed a bet that allowed me to win 9999X on a casino but my wagered amount was a single satoshi  ;D
I can say I had my luck already

We know that different people have different standards when it comes to the amount of money that they need to live their lives, after all the place where you live affects significantly how much money you need, and if to this we add the size of your family, your age and your spending habits then it is probably that such a win will not be enough for some people to retire.

But if you are willing to relocate to a country that still gives you a very good quality of life but that it is way cheaper and you invest the majority of that money in bitcoin then I think that over the long term that should be more than enough to retire.

Such an insane multi and lucky ticket  :o
My max multi was 1000000x on limbo and I got that multi less than cent bet, that was a juicy hit but not enough to cover the overall gambling loss. This type of hit is better than winning the lottery, at least you will not get the same win twice ever, he just used his lifetime luck on this bet.

This is a sweet victory as at least the bettor could explain how he came up with his combination of winners, unlike in lottery where you just pick the combination numbers without a reasonable basis, or just simply for luck only. If I'll be lucky, I also would want to win in sports betting big parlay than in lottery.

Everyone would really be having that question in mind on how the hell this guy would able to hit a parlay with having those odds? Looking on the line given
where he do make bets into those underdogs which everyone is likely to think off that it is almost impossible for it to win compared into those favorites.
No one would really be expecting or anticipate that it could really happen but we know that gambling is a game of chance and it did really make out some
good hit but this one is something you cant really see commonly.