Biggest Sports Betting Wins

Adrian Hayward

Adrian Hayward was able to claim one of the biggest sports betting wins of £25,000 thanks to the professional play of Xabi Alonso. In 2006, Adrian Hayward placed a £200 bet on Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso scoring a goal from his own half of the pitch during a match between Liverpool and Luton Town. Clearly, Adrian was not worried about the odds being 125/1 against him. Eventually, in the final minutes of the match, Xabi Alonso did manage to score from his own half of the pitch and bring Hayward a win of £25,000.

Tayla Polia

Having gambled just twice in her life, Tayla Polia managed to make history in the world of online betting. In 2015, the 26-year-old girl made an incredibly successful NFL express bet of 15 outcomes with a deposit of $5 and earned her winnings by correctly choosing the odds in 14 games. According to estimates, Tyla’s winnings totalled around $100,005. The surprising fact is that Taila herself admitted that she understood absolutely nothing about sports betting and decided to just listen to her female intuition.

Jerry McIlroy

A parent’s faith in their child is incredibly strong, and Gerry McIlroy was able to prove it once again. Gerry McIlroy considered placing the bet of £200 on the fact that his son would win the British Open within a decade. His son was only 15 years old at the time, but Gerry had complete faith in him and demonstrated his immense powers of foresight. A few years later, his son, none other than golfer Rory McIlroy, beat Spain’s Sergio Garcia and American Rickie Fowler by two strokes to win the British Open, thus bringing his father a win of £100,000.

Nicholas Newlife

In 2003, Nicholas Newlife decided to place a bet on his favorite tennis player Roger Federer. Ten years later, when Federer won his seventh game at Wimbledon, Newlife’s successful bet of £1,520 was paid out as an incredible £101,840. However, Newlife never got to enjoy one of the biggest sports bet win ever as he had passed away a few years earlier. The prize, as well as all of Newlife’s possessions, were donated to Oxfam International, a charity organization fighting global poverty.

Peter Edwardson

Peter Edwardson, as a loving grandfather, did not doubt for a second that his grandson would become a professional footballer and placed a bet of 50£ on it when the boy was only a year old. Edwardson was not wrong, as his grandson Harry Wilson became a successful football player at the age of 16. Thanks to this, his grandfather won £125,000 and retired on a well-deserved pension after getting one of the biggest sports bet win ever.

Dave Oancea

As super lucky gambler, Dave Oancea, also called Vegas Dave is famous for getting not one, but two of the biggest wins. The first of the two wins was at UFC 193. Oancea decided to go against the odds (11/1) and bet on Holly Holm to beat Ronda Rousey, and that’s exactly what happened. With that Dave Oancea won 200 thousands of dollars. 
Dave had his second success in the 2015 MLB season, when Oancea bet on the Kansas City Royals to win the World Series at 30/1 odds. His $140,000 bet required quite the effort, after having to be split across 15 different casinos as a single casino wouldn’t take on his liability. In total, he placed 26 bets, so, which is a feat on its own. Ultimately, he won around $ 2.5 millions.

Anonymous player

2016 was a very successful year for one anonymous Las Vegas bettor. Over the course of one weekend, he correctly picked 12 winners of basketball games on the parlay card and picked two NBA winners – the Detroit Pistons and Golden State Warriors. His incredible win rate earned him $305,375 (about £233,000).

Mick Gibbs

Before the turn of the century, Gibbs placed a £2 bet on soccer, predicting the results of no less than nine football games across Europe. Winning the accumulator bet Mick Gibbs earned an incredible sum of £157,000.

Richard Hopkins

Richard Hopkins was so impressed with the skills of Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton that he spent several hundred pounds betting on him. In his initial £200 bet, Richard put his money on Hamilton winning a Grand Prix by the time he turned 23. Shortly thereafter, he made another £100 bet on Hamilton becoming world champion. He was so confident in Lewis’ ability that he put £50 on both of his previous bets, giving him odds of 1500/1.Nearly a decade passed and Richard managed to make £165,000 when Lewis Hamilton won the Formula 1 World Championship.

Erick Lindgren

Erick Lindgren is a professional poker player, however, he managed to become one of the luckiest betting winners by betting on golf at top betting site. One Las Vegas resident and some other players bet that Eric would never be able to play four straight lines of golf in a single day while carrying his own clubs, shooting below 100, and taking on the extreme Las Vegas summer heat. Lindgren proved them wrong and had his $340,000 by the end of the day.

Anonymous bettor

Betting on the winner of a big soccer event is very popular. However, in 2015, Leicester City winning the Premier League was very unlikely.

The situation unfolded in a shocking way when the team emerged victorious. The 5000/1 odds on such an outcome earned the anonymous bettor £200,000. This win was one of the highest in the history of soccer betting.

Phil Mickelson

A professional golfer, Phil Mickelson, was a fan of the Baltimore Ravens even before world fame came to them. Admiring the strength and talent of the team after a good season, Phil made a betting syndicate and placed a $20,000 bet against the odds. It did not take him long to recoup his money and more as he made a $560,000 net profit.

Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley, a true NBA legend, not only brought success to his fans but also to many bettors who profited from his victories. Interestingly, Barkley himself once made a high-stakes bet that paid off handsomely. In 2002, he wagered $300,000 on the New England Patriots, the underdogs in the Super Bowl. The game marked Tom Brady’s first career championship, and Barkley’s bold gamble earned him an impressive $800,000.

Farren Yates

In 1996, Farren Yates placed a £62 bet on Frankie Dettori winning all seven of his races on the day. In his stunning victory, now known as the magnificent seven, Frankie Dettori surprised everyone and Farren Yates took one of the biggest sports bet win of £550,000.

Mike Futter

Mike Futter tried his luck and made a crucial decision in his career by basing his bet on his own horse, Montis Pass. In the end, Montis Pass won the horse races and Futter received £348,000 as the owner and an additional £400,000 as winning for the bet. Throughout his career, Futter made bets with over eight bookmakers and his winnings totalled about $1.1 million.

James Adducci

Tiger Woods is one of the most famous professional golfers in the world, yet he hasn’t always been the top choice for bettors. This trend was especially evident in 2019, when it had been 11 years since his last win in a championship. It was at this point that James Adducci decided to bet on Tiger Woods despite the low odds. Tiger Woods won the 2019 Masters tournament, and Adducci got the largest individual payout on a futures bet — $ 1.2 million. With his bet, he also beat records at the time for the largest payout from a bet on a future sports event.

Fred Craggs

Fred Craggs placed a small £0.50 bet on an eight-furlong express at odds of 2,800,000/1. He chose his horses very carefully, but did not fully believe that anything would come of it. However, luck was on his side that day and Fred made an incredible £1 million winning. What’s interesting, he would have earned a total of £1.4 million, if he had chosen a no-limit bet.

Anonymous bettor

One bettor at MGM Resorts once placed an $8,500 wager and triumphantly ended the NFL weekend in 2017 with an impressive $250,000 (approximately £191,000) winnings. He bet on the Detroit Lions beating the New York Giants in game five. The game ended with a score of 24-10 in favor of the Detroit Lions, which put the anonymous punter on the list of top betting winners.

Steve Whiteley

Back in 2011, Whiteley was a 61-year-old, heating engineer from North Tawton in Devon, England. He got a free ticket to a horse race and decided to try his luck. He placed a £2 bet on the six horses, and… all of them ended-up as a jackpot. Whiteley even doubted his eyes and ears when receiving winnings as they equalled to £1.5 million. This instance secured his place on the list of the biggest betting wins in history.

Billy Walters

Billy Walters started playing poker, but quickly switched to sports betting. In a short time, he became known for his insane wins, proving that success in betting requires incredible skill. One of his most notable wins earned him $ 4.5 million bet when, during the 2010 Super Bowl, he bet on the New Orleans Saints, the underdogs, would beat the Indianapolis Colts. It was their first win over the Colts in the Super Bowl xliv.

1XBet

On the 1XBet platform, a resident of Almaty once made an incredibly successful bet from a 44-event spread on several European soccer matches. With a 100,000 tenge bet, he won 876,682,300 tenge, which is equivalent to about $1,800,000. It is worth noting that the bettor intended to spend received winnings on charity.

BetVictor

One of the biggest winnings in soccer betting has been made on the BetVictor bookie. The anonymous bettor bet just £5 on a 20-event express and won £223,000 after Tottenham’s 2-1 win over Burnley in 2016.

Coral

There have been as many as three of the greatest winnings in history on the Coral platform. In 2017 and 2018, for example, someone from Leicester won £823,000 from a £19 accumulator bet. After that a customer from Newcastle won £300,000 on a lucky £63 accumulator (which included a 150/1 winner’s choice) and another won £250,000 with a £30 bet on Heinz at Sandown.