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The biggest win you ever had?

  • 22-11-2014 5:14pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 22


    Be it a horse race, lotto, Vegas, scratch-card etc?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭evosteo


    Breadwoman wrote: »
    Be it a horse race, lotto, Vegas, scratch-card etc?

    About 3.5 k on an accum


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,161 ✭✭✭Amazingfun


    39 euros in the Lotto lol ;)

    I did win a diamond necklace worth 1000 euros last Christmas though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    €1600 off a treble


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,145 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    985 on an accy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    1192 off a placepot in chelt this year


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    £250 winner in UK Grand National £10 at 25 to 1


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭TrueDub


    Keep the posts on-topic please. Nobody gets to decide who posts in this forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    £1000 in a draw I didn't buy a ticket for :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    €1700 on a €5 football acca!


  • Registered Users Posts: 43 tommullane


    450 odd euro on a 20 euro horse double. Came close to 1500 euro on a footie accum until wigan came back to beat arsenal 3-2


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,104 ✭✭✭jacool


    2p bet returning £1,600 straight forecast treble on the dogs
    Actually bought a share in a dog afterwards!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Most I ever won was €375 but last week i paid out €3894 on an accumulator from €3.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭fuzzydunlop85


    1100 off 10 game accum over 2.5 goals, 3euro stake. 4500€ from a poker tournament, satellited in for 20€, Seen in the paper the other day a lad had 10 game btts and win accum 250k from a euro !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    €12,800 on Solemia at 75s in the 2012 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    12,500 punts on irish lotto- 5 and the bonus that was just a tease -- looked at the ticket and was fuccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk - 5 and bonus is a ****ing tease . Divided better in other Lottos the ****s lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭Luap


    €1200 on a horse.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭BringBackMick


    25,000 on a 4 horse accum.

    Lost 10k of it the next day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    I emptied the bank account in June 2002 to back Lennox Lewis against Mike Tyson. Got a bit of 4/6 (from the long-gone and much-lamented Pat O'Brien on Victoria Road) but the rest went on at 8/13 and 4/7. I even put the last few quid in my pocket on @ 8/15 on the day of the fight!

    Even though I had about €3K invested, I wasn't that nervous watching the fight that night - it never really occurred to me that Tyson could win. Have never put more than €350 on any bet before or since. Won about €1900 on the bet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭applehunter


    €4k on Zach Johnson in Tiger's tourney last year.

    Dramatic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    About €2200 in a single pot of holdem in a game that went out of control due to drink and ego.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    75 e/w double on Body and Soul 8/1 and Kingsgate Choice 6/1 last summer.
    Threw 1k e/w on Big Phil @ 5/1 to win the US Open the following day, damn you Justin Rose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Last week on some slots machine at Unibet:
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    Might as well just add this one

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,251 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    €14,740 playing Deal Or No Deal on skybet which starting earlier in the day
    from playing their free €5 credit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭easygoing1982


    €800 from the different games in PP. Blackjack, 3 card hold em I think its called and a few more


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Shanee.


    1200 off placepot in Galway and 1100 on a 4 horse accum within 10 mins last Stephens Day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Sent a bookie home from Leopardstown after the first race a few years ago. I had a mountain of cash on the winner who was 10/1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Peintre Celebre


    Money is always nicest when in unspecified lumps. Mountains, piles, tonnes, heaps all nice words.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    Sent a bookie home from Leopardstown after the first race a few years ago

    that is funny, very satisfying reading that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Sent a bookie home from Leopardstown after the first race a few years ago. I had a mountain of cash on the winner who was 10/1

    Not doubting you or anything but VERY unusual for a bookie to take a bet on the first race (or any race, for that matter) that would require him to leave the track if it clicked. Be hard to get €100 (not to mind "a mountain") on a 10/1 shot with all but a couple of the bookies doing the rounds these days!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 162 ✭✭costadeldole


    In 2014 alone:

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora 2,463

    Carl Fogarty to win I'm A Celebrity 1,758

    Ben Haenow to win X-Factor 1,930

    I currently have 2,500 on Mrs Brown's Boys to win Top Christmas Day TV at odds of 1/1 (2.0)

    So that will be my single biggest win of this year, 2,500 net profit.

    My biggest all time win was 3,000 when bet on Hurt Locker winning Best Picture at the Oscars. Avatar was the favourite, but I backed Hurt Locker 3,000 at odds of 1/1 (2.0)

    I figured the aged profile of the Oscars judging panel would favour an American war film over computer animation. And so they did.

    Sometimes one has to trust ones gut instinct, despite it going against the odds on favourites. The market doesn't always know, and favourites don't always win. Often my biggest wins were backing the second favourite.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22 Breadwoman


    them odds don't add up, if u have 2,500 on brendan at 2/1, that will be 5k profit and u would have won 6 grand on hurt locker, if u put 3 grand on at 2/1, not the 3 grand u claim to have won, this sounds all a bit too fishy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    I got lucky with Lucas Glover winning the US open a few years back.

    He was tipped on Newstalk.... 10Eur e/w @ 175/1.. And he won. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,014 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    20c lucky 15 €690
    50c ew 4 horse accumulator €1350


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    Breadwoman wrote: »
    them odds don't add up, if u have 2,500 on brendan at 2/1, that will be 5k profit and u would have won 6 grand on hurt locker, if u put 3 grand on at 2/1, not the 3 grand u claim to have won, this sounds all a bit too fishy

    that's saves me having to post same :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 162 ✭✭costadeldole


    Breadwoman wrote: »
    them odds don't add up, if u have 2,500 on brendan at 2/1, that will be 5k profit and u would have won 6 grand on hurt locker, if u put 3 grand on at 2/1, not the 3 grand u claim to have won, this sounds all a bit too fishy

    Apologies for the error.
    I am used to using decimal odds not fractions you see, so I mean 2.0 (1/1) not 2/1.
    I have corrected it now, thanks for pointing out my mistake.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 162 ✭✭costadeldole


    mailburner wrote: »
    that's saves me having to post same :pac:

    Apologies for the error.
    I am used to using decimal odds not fractions you see, so I mean 2.0 (1/1) not 2/1.
    I have corrected it now, thanks for pointing out my mistake.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    €1835 on a €1 yankee.

    Four first goalscorers, Shearer, Owen, Van Nistleroy and Davies of Bolton. Picked the first three because they were regular scorers and penalty takers. Don't know why I picked Davies.

    A week later I had three up and my fourth scored the second goal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    €46 from the Irish lotto for four numbers after doing it for almost 20 years, I just don't have much luck :( I'll bide my time ;) if you're not in you can't win.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 162 ✭✭costadeldole


    Just for today alone:


    This on Betfair exchange:
    2014-12-26
    09:59 44514824792 2014-12-16
    10:10 Christmas Specials 2014 Top Christmas Day TV 2014 / Winner
    Comm Charged 5% On Net winnings of EUR2403.22 - - - (120.16) 4,629.73

    Plus this on Betfair sportsbook:

    Avg. Odds Stake Status DR
    (€) CR
    (€) Balance
    (€)
    2014-12-26
    10:01 12933950244 2014-12-26
    10:01
    Transfer From Fixed Odds, Bet Receipt O/3442777/0000003 - - - 404.25 404.25


    So that's 2403.22 plus 404.25

    A grand total of: 2807.47 Euro profit (after commission)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    In 2014 alone:

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora 2,463

    Carl Fogarty to win I'm A Celebrity 1,758

    Ben Haenow to win X-Factor 1,930

    I currently have 2,500 on Mrs Brown's Boys to win Top Christmas Day TV at odds of 1/1 (2.0)

    So that will be my single biggest win of this year, 2,500 net profit.


    My biggest all time win was 3,000 when bet on Hurt Locker winning Best Picture at the Oscars. Avatar was the favourite, but I backed Hurt Locker 3,000 at odds of 1/1 (2.0)

    I figured the aged profile of the Oscars judging panel would favour an American war film over computer animation. And so they did.

    Sometimes one has to trust ones gut instinct, despite it going against the odds on favourites. The market doesn't always know, and favourites don't always win. Often my biggest wins were backing the second favourite.
    Don't count your chickens before they are hatched ;)


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 162 ✭✭costadeldole


    Don't count your chickens before they are hatched ;)

    See my post above <snip>

    Bet already settled.

    Just for today alone:


    This on Betfair exchange:
    2014-12-26
    09:59 44514824792 2014-12-16
    10:10 Christmas Specials 2014 Top Christmas Day TV 2014 / Winner
    Comm Charged 5% On Net winnings of EUR2403.22 - - - (120.16) 4,629.73

    Plus this on Betfair sportsbook:

    Avg. Odds Stake Status DR
    (€) CR
    (€) Balance
    (€)
    2014-12-26
    10:01 12933950244 2014-12-26
    10:01
    Transfer From Fixed Odds, Bet Receipt O/3442777/0000003 - - - 404.25 404.25


    So that's 2403.22 plus 404.25

    A grand total of: 2807.47 Euro profit (after commission)

    MOD
    EDIT: Please leave the personal abuse out of here from now on, ok


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    Won 1300 on Denmark winning the eurovision in 2013.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭poeticmakaveli


    lost a few pound a few seasons back, backed on the tuesday night Valencia to beat Porto and the went up 1-0 and end up drawing 1-1!
    so with the annoyance of that the next day ladbrokes were giving a special on arsenal to beat Barcelona at home at 3/1, i remember it was 11/4 in PPs! ran down and put a 1,000 euro on it (mostly on rage from night before) arsenal was down 1-0 and came back and won 2-1 with 2 goals in the 2nd half! think arshavin scored the winner! so 4,000 was mine!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Won 3,500 on Trap becoming the next Ireland manager after I'd layed loads of short priced favourites and then gotten lucky as someone game me the word when Trap was still a 3 figure price on betfair.

    Most I ever won on a horse was Ruby riding a little-known horse called American Trilogy at Cheltenham a good few years back, won a grand on him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 812 ✭✭✭clickerquicklic


    Probably better to ask " Biggest priced winner" as someone could have thousands on an odds on shot , more skill/luck/amazement in them huge odds winners. Biggest win I remember off the top of my head is 1500 ew on a horse at 14/1 i think it was noble somthing, that was this year and it won , biggest price winner i remember backing is only about 120/1 which considering the amount of bets i place is probably not amazing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    About €360 in a pub poker game came first out of about 75.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Hesh's Umpire


    2002 Champion Hurdle Hors La Loi. Had him ante post at 25/1, won €1300.
    That was Istabraq's last race if I remember rightly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭breffni bogballer


    e50 win on harrington@33s in 2nd major, to make it sweeter it was a free bet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 976 ✭✭✭supremenovice


    The race - 2009 Grand National
    The horse - Mon Mome
    The odds- 180 win , 24 place (Betdaq)
    Winnings - €2820


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31 insidertips


    When Keith Chegwin wins Celebrity Big Brother on Friday 6th February; it will be my biggest ever win. 4500 Euro profit on a single bet.


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