An Irish pensioner has taken us to the cleaners to the tune of over half-a-million quid after inserting one of many biggest Cheltenham bets of all time.
The male buyer, aged 69, landed the mega windfall from a 50 cent each-way Fortunate 63 guess, with all six of his choices profitable to pocket an unimaginable €558k.
And other people say Friday thirteenth is unfortunate?One punter rounded off Cheltenham week with a 50c EW Fortunate 63, paying out a tremendous €558,595.92That’ll do properly. 18+ GambleAware pic.twitter.com/d2aNFGURH3— Paddy Energy (@paddypower) March 13, 2026
A Fortunate 63 is a mixture guess made up 63 completely different bets of the identical worth positioned on six choices, which means the payout was huge as a collection of bets all started to click on because the winners saved rolling in.
The guess obtained off to a flyer with large outsider Apolon De Charnie profitable the opener at odds of 28/1 earlier than Wilful (14/1) and Dinoblue (11/8) obtained first previous the put up within the subsequent two races.
Johnny’s Jury then received the fourth at steep odds of 20/1 earlier than 11/4 shot Gaelic Warrior received the function race of the Pageant – the Cheltenham Gold Cup – to arrange an unimaginable end for our shrewd punter.
Barton Snow then duly did the enterprise within the sixth race of the day, beating Its On The Line by a neck to seal an unimaginable payout for the Irish buyer, and pull off one of many all-time nice Cheltenham betting coups.
Paddy Energy stated: “What a sensational method to spherical off Cheltenham week – it’s one of many biggest bets of all-time.
“When an enormous outsider wins the opener the groan from punters can normally be heard all throughout the Cotswolds, however this buyer would have been cheering to the rafters, though little did he know then what was to come back.
“I’ll be popping round his home later for his lotto numbers this weekend. Significantly, effectively performed, and benefit from the winnings!”
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