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May 26, 2019, 12:19:50 PM
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A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.
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May 26, 2019, 01:45:26 PM
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One of the biggest sport stories lately surely is from Fifa WorldCup 2018 in Russia. All fans of football enjoyed in many good games in that competition, but almost no one believed that Croatia will play in final. I think odds for Croatia to win WC were around +3000:1, and probably not much less that they will play in final.

Considering that this is very small country with less then 4 million inhabitants, and considering that in three games in a row they played extra time+penalties and managed to win every time surely puts them in history pages of greatest underdog stories.

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May 26, 2019, 02:07:52 PM
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One of the biggest sport stories lately surely is from Fifa WorldCup 2018 in Russia. All fans of football enjoyed in many good games in that competition, but almost no one believed that Croatia will play in final. I think odds for Croatia to win WC were around +3000:1, and probably not much less that they will play in final.

Considering that this is very small country with less then 4 million inhabitants, and considering that in three games in a row they played extra time+penalties and managed to win every time surely puts them in history pages of greatest underdog stories.
There are really rare stories of underdog become champion. Though I have only known some team in locals that has the same stories like this. Probably a game will not determine on how the strong the opponent is because sometimes luck will going to work on a losing team.

Now, probably a championship game in the NBA between toronto and golden state has clearly seen the difference. GSW has the great advantage against the toronto teams. And if happens that toronto will going to win in the championship game then this will be another rare underdog that became a champion story.
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May 26, 2019, 03:01:22 PM
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Denmark winning the UEFA euro championship in 1992 without even qualify for the event!

12 days before the tournament  Yugoslavia was disqualified as a result of warfare in the country.  The Danish players were already on vacations but ended up winning the tournament, beating both the defending European champions in the semifinals and then the world champions in the final.

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May 26, 2019, 03:15:30 PM
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Since we are talking in general, I approve much of all the stories presented above. Anything that is considered as having the opportunity to beat an opponent that everyone seems to believe that you can't. I think that's the best underdog story that you could have. Think about it, if you manage to beat an opponent that has a big difference in skill and the audience are siding with only one team, it's going to be an epic game.

The unexpected things that happen in games are the most enjoyable ones.

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May 26, 2019, 03:20:39 PM
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One of the biggest sport stories lately surely is from Fifa WorldCup 2018 in Russia. All fans of football enjoyed in many good games in that competition, but almost no one believed that Croatia will play in final. I think odds for Croatia to win WC were around +3000:1, and probably not much less that they will play in final.

Considering that this is very small country with less then 4 million inhabitants, and considering that in three games in a row they played extra time+penalties and managed to win every time surely puts them in history pages of greatest underdog stories.

Croatia definitely had a historic run but France still ended up wining the final. Angry
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May 26, 2019, 03:46:53 PM
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Greece vs Portugal in the Eurocup finals in 2004.
That was one of the greatest surprise for European football. I still seem to remember all of it.
The game was held on Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal and Portugal were surely the favorite team with their golden boy Ronaldo playing.
Have no idea about tournament odds for Greece. But the final match was too well over 1:100.

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May 26, 2019, 03:48:26 PM
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A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.
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My question is: Did you have any penny for this market. I wish you had and in that case that was a hell lot of return.

I remember once I won a 30/1 odd. My Stake was £10 so assume I was a bit confident for my bet 🤪

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May 26, 2019, 04:18:28 PM
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A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.
Damn it!
My question is: Did you have any penny for this market. I wish you had and in that case that was a hell lot of return.

I remember once I won a 30/1 odd. My Stake was £10 so assume I was a bit confident for my bet 🤪

Lol I wish I had money on them to win the title, I'm not necessarily talking about your biggest personal win but the greatest sport undedog stories and what the odds were.
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May 26, 2019, 04:27:58 PM
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A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.

Well, I wish I had money to bet on that game. But, I doubt people would be betting on underdog teams. It's really exciting to watch games especially when an underdog team is winning. Just like when Mavericks took the championship in their match with Miami way back 2011. It wowed a lot of NBA fans since Dirk Nowitzki was the only star player of Mavericks against the all star team of Miami during that time, won a bet with my friends during that time.

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May 26, 2019, 04:34:56 PM
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I like boxing so I'll remind you all about the famous Tyson vs Holyfield match that dethroned the famous champion and basically ended his career. The odds were 25-1 against Holyfield. This wasn't the greatest underdog story, especially since Holyfield held a title before, so he wasn't a newbie, but still very impressive.

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May 26, 2019, 04:47:19 PM
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A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.

Well, I wish I had money to bet on that game. But, I doubt people would be betting on underdog teams. It's really exciting to watch games especially when an underdog team is winning. Just like when Mavericks took the championship in their match with Miami way back 2011. It wowed a lot of NBA fans since Dirk Nowitzki was the only star player of Mavericks against the all star team of Miami during that time, won a bet with my friends during that time.
I guess not because some people will love to bet for the underdog teams because they are sure that their team will win the games.
I've seen this on the local football match when people are placing their bets to support their team.
But not all team can win, especially if they don't have a good strategy to prevent the opponent.
I am not too often placing the bets for the underdog team because I don't know what team that I should choose hahaha Grin
I give a choice to my friend and let him decide for me.

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May 26, 2019, 04:53:26 PM
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Leicester story was a dream for all football passionate.
Premier League is full of rich team... Look their challenge was really inspiring to me!

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May 26, 2019, 05:30:36 PM
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-Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson
-USA hockey beating Russia in the 80's Olympics
-Japan beating South Africa in the 2015 rugby world cup

These ones are the first that come to mind.
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May 26, 2019, 06:34:21 PM
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for me it was the 2004 world series championship redsox won their first championship since 1918 I'm not
a huge fan of RedSox but when they won that world series I felt proud for them no body expected them to win
when the series started.

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May 27, 2019, 06:41:54 AM
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The odds are really high, AFAIR, it was when Andre Iguodala winning the Finals MVP last NBA finals 2015.
The odds was 125:1 and I really regret that time I did not took that odds, I was with Lebron James winning the finals MVP that time, but they loss.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/06/andre-iguodala-nba-finals-mvp-odds-steph-curry-lebron-james

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May 27, 2019, 10:35:46 AM
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It is common sense to think first and foremost to Leicester city , I remember people who had bet 20 Gbp for Leicester to win the Premier League with an odd of 500 or 5000 don't remember exactly but I think it was 5000 and a few weeks before the Premier League that year was about to finish these persons were cashing out like 30.000 Gbp because of being afraid that they could have lost it.That is the greatest underdog story for me.

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May 27, 2019, 12:39:38 PM
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It is common sense to think first and foremost to Leicester city , I remember people who had bet 20 Gbp for Leicester to win the Premier League with an odd of 500 or 5000 don't remember exactly but I think it was 5000 and a few weeks before the Premier League that year was about to finish these persons were cashing out like 30.000 Gbp because of being afraid that they could have lost it.That is the greatest underdog story for me.

That is also my number # 1 choice, I still can't believe the were able to win the premiership against all those ultra wealthy teams.  It only took a $200 bet to win $one million which is ridiculous.  I doubt we will see anything like that happen for a very long time.
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May 27, 2019, 12:55:11 PM
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One of the biggest sport stories lately surely is from Fifa WorldCup 2018 in Russia. All fans of football enjoyed in many good games in that competition, but almost no one believed that Croatia will play in final. I think odds for Croatia to win WC were around +3000:1, and probably not much less that they will play in final.

Considering that this is very small country with less then 4 million inhabitants, and considering that in three games in a row they played extra time+penalties and managed to win every time surely puts them in history pages of greatest underdog stories.

Croatia definitely had a historic run but France still ended up wining the final. Angry
It doesn’t matter if France take the Number 1 position what Lucius saying is Croatia being in Final is already a greatest goal achieved.and I totally agreed on that since what you have asking is greatest underdog story

for me it was the 2004 world series championship redsox won their first championship since 1918 I'm not
a huge fan of RedSox but when they won that world series I felt proud for them no body expected them to win
when the series started.
But Redsox that time wasn’t in the underdog and besides they had dominated the whole series of 2004 ,but indeed they did a great job taking the series for the first time
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May 27, 2019, 01:21:13 PM
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I think Bookmakers wise, Leicester to win the league was probably the greatest underdog story that actually happened. Even Kim Kardashian to become the president of United States has lower odds(2000-1) than Leicester to win the league. It was an incredible run but sadly, I think the bookmakers will be more cautious since that happened and I dont think we will ever see any bookmakers give 5000:1 odds on any event since Leicester win.

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