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Retired Accountant Wins Big After Tiny Bet
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SEP
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Imagine placing a tiny bet of £1 then picking five winning horses in a row on the same day, to net yourself a nice little pay cheque of nearly £60,000. That’s what happened to Peter Titman when he managed to back all the right horses to race over the line first at York last weekend. Playing a “Lucky 31” accumulator bet, his initial winnings were £38,901 after the horses El Astronaute, Roaring Lion, Afaak, Main Desire and Waiting for Richie all won their races on Thursday. To make a Lucky 31 more appealing to punters, customers playing will all receive a fifty percent bonus if they can correctly pick five winners. Whilst each Lucky 31 bet will essentially cost a punter £31, Peter’s remarkable win took his eventual total to a staggering £58,352. His long term betting pal didn’t make the races On the day, Titman also believes his gaming luck was possibly increased by the fact his long term pal and betting fr
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MAR
07
50p Stake - £1,000,000 WINNER!!!!!!!!!
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MAR
07
It started with a horse called Isn't That Lucky and ended with one called A Dream Come True - a run of eight winners that turned a 50p stake into Britain's first million pound betting-shop pay-out. An unnamed small-time gambler, believed to be in his sixties, backed eight horses to win races in a multiple bet called an accumulator, at combined odds of nearly 2.8 million to one. If just one had lost, he would not have received a penny. The man is a regular punter at one of William Hill's betting shops in Thirsk, North Yorkshire. He struck his bet on Friday but did not find out about his giant win until he went to place more small bets yesterday. The punter will collect exactly £1 million in winnings, William Hill's maximum pay-out on horse racing, which it says has never been reached in a betting shop before. David Hood, a spokesman for William Hill, said: "It is a staggering bet, and earns him a place in history as the world's first betting shop millionair
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