Belated Christmas presents were the order of the day as Sky Bet punters landed a 24,467/1 accumulator and a 9,385/1 treble on Boxing Day.
A cross-sport 20-fold acca proved the biggest-odds winner of the day. It was made up of football games both in the UK and abroad, plus one rugby union match.
Only one of the selections was offered at odds-against – Leeds to win at Burton which they duly did, 2-1 – with two of the picks at a low of 2/5. Both were double-chance football bets.
The punter in question placed £1.50 on the huge multiple and was rewarded with a payout of £36,702.67.
The bet only came good thanks to a controversial stoppage-time decision in the Bournemouth v West Ham game – the officials awarding the hosts a late equaliser which kept the acca on track.
The bet in full:
- Anderlecht v Gent
- Lazio v Fiorentina
- Macclesfield v Halifax
- Aldershot v Woking
- Lincoln v Stevenage
- Exeter v Forest Green (abandoned)
- Portsmouth v Wimbledon
- Doncaster v Northampton
- Blackburn v Rochdale
- Sheffield United v Sunderland
- Middlesbrough v Bolton
- Burton v Leeds
- Bristol City v Reading
- Galatasaray v Bucaspor (to win to nil)
- Zulte Waregem v Charleroi (double chance)
- Bournemouth v West Ham (double chance)
- Huddersfield v Stoke (double chance)
- Chelsea v Brighton (to win to nil)
- Club Brugge v Mouscron Peruwelz (double chance, in-play)
- Newport-Gwent Dragons v Cardiff Blues
Earlier in the day, two customers backed the same both-teams-to-score-in-both-halves treble to small stakes – and were glad they did.
Todd Newton took away £23,465 from his £2.50 bet, while another unnamed punter backed the same selections to the tune of £3. He received £28,158 back.
The treble in question involved the following games:
Bournemouth 3-3 West Ham (HT 1-1) - 18/1
Millwall 2-2 Wolves (HT 1-1) - 25/1
Blackpool 2-3 Scunthorpe (HT 1-2) - 18/1
There were nervous moments in both halves as the bet almost went down.
Diogo Jota scored for Wolves in the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time at the New Den while in the second halves, Sean Longstaff’s 88th-minute goal for Blackpool turned the dream into reality.
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