Football fan wins £158k from crazy 60p accumulator

Throwing a couple of quid, sometimes even less, on a rather hopeful accumulator of football fixtures is a hopeless endeavour for most fans.

Plenty of us try, most of us fail. That all changed for one punter, though, as their obscene, 16-fold accumulator reeled in winnings of £158,000 this week, from a 60p stake.

No, really.

At odds of 263,109/1, the lucky player had zero right to be taking anything back from their 60p. If anything, it was odds on for others to be betting that his bet had no chance of coming in.

But alas, it did. The Liverpool Echo report that the punter, using Ladbrokes, had bet on all 16 games across the Premier League and the Championship on Saturday, hence the mammoth odds they were given.

It always feels like a risk to bet on the Premier League‘s early kick-off, but Liverpool emerged victorious against Newcastle, to give the punter’s bet some much-needed momentum.

It wasn’t as smooth sailing as it sounds, though. Having Burnley to beat Watford and Crystal Palace to triumph at Southampton resulted in a real scare, with both games at risk of sabotaging the accumulator. Fortunately, though, Burnley managed to wipe out Watford’s late equaliser through Josh Brownhill, while Wilfried Zaha struck in injury time to keep the ambitious bet alive. Talk about holding your nerve.

Resisting the urge to ‘cash out’ throughout Saturday as the price fluctuated must have been torture for the punter, who was chasing down six figures despite placing the bet with a stake that wouldn’t even buy you anything from McDonald’s.

The punter held strong, though, and cruised over the finish line as Manchester City thumped Leeds 4-0 to secure a nauseating prize purse. Quoted by the Liverpool Echo, Alex Apati from Ladbrokes said:

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