What On Earth?

 The biggest wins are not always the best gambling stories. Money does add a bit of a ’wow’ factor, but some punters have won by some remarkably ridiculous and unconventional means.

 A Welsh punter beat the odds of 6,479/1 with a strange novelty bet in 1989. He gambled £30 that in the year 2000, U2 would still be a band, EastEnders and Neighbours would still be on the BBC, and Cliff Richard would be knighted. Ladbrokes paid out £194,400 in one of the biggest novelty bet payouts ever.



In 2014, a Norwegian gambling website offered odds of 175-1 that Uruguayan football star, Luis Suarez would bite someone in the World Cup. Given the striker’s penchant for such a thing, 167 punters took the bait. Suarez took the bite and made some very happy Scandinavians

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