William Hill take biggest ever Tennis bet on Novak Djokovic to beat Roger Federer

[jw]

http://www.bettingzone.co.uk/tennis/betting/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=betting/11/06/01/manual_131656.html&BID=3716

William Hill are reporting taking their biggest-ever tennis bet - from a punter trying to win enough money to buy a house.

According to the firm, a London-based customer has staked £120,000 on Novak Djokovic to beat Roger Federer in Friday's French Open semi-final.

The bet is the 27th in a run of bets from the man, all of which have won so far. They included punts on curling and cage fighting.

He started with an £8,400 bet back in March and his pot has since reached £161,000.

"Six-figure bets on tennis are so rare as to be almost an endangered species, and in 30-plus years in the business I cannot recall having seen, or even heard of, a tennis bet of this size," said Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe.

"We can think of no other punter to compare him to - he told staff when he placed his first bet that he hoped to win enough to buy himself a house - well, he can already afford a small place out in the sticks, but a Mansion in Mayfair may take a few more winning bets! He is effectively betting the house every time he bets.

"The crucial question now is - when will he decide he has won enough and walk away with his house-sized profits?"

Djokovic, unbeaten so far this year, is in from 1/3 to 2/7 to win the match with Hills.

[Badgers13]

that takes some nuts to bet that much against federer

[HeeeHAWWWW]

You'd have to have lost a giant amount to willhill for them to raise your limits that much.

Either that or they just made up the whole thing for PR.

[LostBankroll]

We already had a Federer LOCK thread on here so you know this is a winner. This guy risked that much on a ******* tennis match Id say ride this muthafucker to the bank!!

[daimoshokage]

Guy will get his mansion..

[LLXC]

26-0...this guy is SHARP.

[BigSpoon]

26-0...this guy is SHARP.

I disagree, he's made a couple bets of 100K to win 1K which is just mad: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-the-trot.html

Good on him to have run his streak up to 26-0 but his lack of bankroll management is going to ruin him eventually.

[Congruency]

We already had a Federer LOCK thread on here so you know this is a winner. This guy risked that much on a ******* tennis match Id say ride this muthafucker to the bank!!

lol thats true

a lock thread on here= usually full of fail

[mikeanite]

i wish i can bet that and not worry about the book showing me the door

[jairocon]

Right... and my willhill account is limited to pennies - while this joker can place 120k... Anyway, Djoko is bound to lose if not with Federer, then Nadal for sure.

[ttwarrior1]

i like federer with the different balls they are using, he looks good

[8ArIvd5]

i'd take his bets too laying 1:100, 1:40, 1:10.

this guy's asinine.

[neverstoppers23]

N-D is playing out of his mind right now, fed has looked beatable in the last couple of years. And if memory serves me right N-D has already beaten Fed this year. Its a tough bet to make. But I tend to like it.

[pavyracer]

That's a good bet. He is backing a guy on a 42-0 run. That's like betting on Patriots to win the Superbowl with Giants when they were 18-0.

[jjgold]

Betfair takes six figure bets daily or should I say most days where there is lots of tennis

[k13]

What's the lines for the semi's?

[Ruifgalmeida]

Willhill knows that this guy will lose all of is money , so they will alow big bets.

[Boscoe]

sucks he's going to lose so much.

[jjgold]

It's a good bet
Fed has to play perfect tennis to have shot

[Gaskan]

He'd be better served betting 16K on Federer. Same payout and a fraction of the risk.

[ochenta y cinco]

He'd be better served betting 16K on Federer. Same payout and a fraction of the risk.

And very little chance of winning...

[cankid]

people can call him stupid or reckless, personally im really pulling for him to win his bet and move on after hopefully if he wins

[stats13]

pretty gangsta

[kmarinouofm]

26-0...this guy is SHARP.

pretty gangsta

right anyone who bets 58k to win 500$ is a hamburger in my book

[bettilimbroke999]

You'd have to have lost a giant amount to willhill for them to raise your limits that much.

Either that or they just made up the whole thing for PR.

Untrue, this guy is basically a psycho thats just going all in on 26 bets....and still going, this would be the ideal customer for any book, for every 100k of these type of bettors that lose they pay one guy and naturally make a big deal about it for free advertising, willhill would be crazy to cut his limits unless he is arbing in which case they would've cut him off a long time ago, willhill is not a stupid book. This guy is making all in bets @ -300 against the greatest tennis player of all time (granted in the twilight of his career but still), shortly his account will be empty, although since the guys betting 120k pounds on tennis matches hes prolly got a million in the bank anyway

[singgooner]

Lads,

This story is pure 100% BS - media loves these kind of stories and William Hill gets free advertising - with punters thinking they can have thousands on a bet in a William Hill shop.

Any English punter will tell you - William Hill are the worst - unless you are playing their one-arm bandit machines that make you lose, as you are playing a computer - they don't want you.

Last time I went in - I had 100 quid on a 1/5 favourite and I asked for a price as it was an Aiden O'Brien maiden running in Ireland and I knew the bookies would shorten the price up on track to save money
on their betting shop accumulators. The favourite won at 1/7 !

When I asked for the 1/5 price at the 1st show, the betting shop manager looked at me like a Jew shaking hands with Osama bin Laden in Jerusalem !

Then when I went in next day to collect my winnings - I asked about another horse race and asked for another horse that I knew would shorten up on track in the afternoon and after picking up 120 pounds = 20 pounds profit - the William Hill manager told me that I could only have Starting Price (SP) !

So, some guy putting 120k on with William Hill - LMFAO - this story is utter and complete bollocks
to make sure William Hill get free advertising over a busy sports betting weekend - Derby, England football match, French Open Finals, etc

Anyone swallowed this bookies PR shite !

[hutennis]

It's a good bet
Fed has to play perfect tennis to have shot

Unless his BR is in a millions, it can't possibly be a good or anything remotely close to a good bet.
In fact, it's a typical suicide mission of a typical idiotic degenerate gambler.

I don't know what probabilities of Federer winning are attached to your definition of "perfect tennis" (must be somewhere from 1% to 3%), but betting world puts that number to just about 30%

That means, just a few bets like this and this moron is flat broke.
Unless off course he'll promptly quit forever after winning, realizing somehow that he was nothing more but an extremely lucky fool.

I doubt it very much though.
Lucky fool by definition does not know that he belongs to such category.
As far as he is concerned, his wins are all the result of skilled handicapping. So why quit?

[singgooner]

@hutennis - if the lucky gambler exists !

[hutennis]

@hutennis - if the lucky gambler exists !

Sure, it very well may be just an PR BS.

"Its a good bet" nonsense just got me going.

[crustyme]

djoker also playing for #1 ranking, which he will get if he beats federer.

djoker also has extra motivation cause federer has taken numerous pot shots at him saying he quits cause of sore throat and cause of a little heat.

in other words, djoker is a

[bettilimbroke999]

That's a good bet. He is backing a guy on a 42-0 run. That's like betting on Patriots to win the Superbowl with Giants when they were 18-0.

But didnt the Patriots.......

[bettilimbroke999]

When I asked for the 1/5 price at the 1st show, the betting shop manager looked at me like a Jew shaking hands with Osama bin Laden in Jerusalem !



Then when I went in next day to collect my winnings - I asked about another horse race and asked for another horse that I knew would shorten up on track in the afternoon and after picking up 120 pounds = 20 pounds profit - the William Hill manager told me that I could only have Starting Price (SP) !

I dont understand this, when betting on horses here in US you are pari-mutuel betting so the odds are not determined until the betting is closed. Are you saying in England betting shops you can normally lock in a current price (like an exchange) and that Will Hill will only let you take some other price (do you mean their opening price or closing price?)

Confusing to me but then I am from US where making a bet that you have a chance to win at is highly illegal (though the government is happy to allow us to throw our paychecks away on one-armed bandits, lotto, bingo, pari-mutuel betting with unreal takeout, casino games with huge house advantage, etc) so I dont concern myself with details like this normally but Im just trying to understand what you're saying Will Hill does that is worse than normal

[jjgold]

Why would anyone bet Fed???

He is playing against a guy that is having the greatest run in tennis history

[hutennis]

Why would anyone bet Fed???

He is playing against a guy that is having the greatest run in tennis history

Because past performance does not guaranty future results and whoever takes Federer is being compensated for taking underdog by smaller risk and larger payout.

You make it sound like Federer does not have a chance.
Rest of the world puts Federer's chance to win at 28% last time I checked.

[crustyme]

Why would anyone bet Fed???

He is playing against a guy that is having the greatest run in tennis history