The rule of the offside, the system in 4-4-2 or the recovering circles, it is hardly his thing. When it comes to football, Sylvie (her first name has been changed) readily admits that she knows “not much”. However, she has just won almost € 600,000 (€ 593,393 and exactly 70 cents) at Parions Sport Loto Foot after registering her receipt on Saturday January 11 at the "Tabac d'Annet" in Annet-sur-Marne (Seine -et-Marne).
"My technique is simple: I play the reverse of the forecasts of my father and my husband who are football fans and regularly play Loto Foot together", she explained to the Française des Jeux (FDJ) during the payment of his fortune a few days ago. You don't always have to trust the experts, or at least those who believe they are ... By betting on a victory when the two "pros" bet on a defeat and vice versa, by also operating your instinct and the unknown "Stroke of luck" with a few dummies, she just had.
She had already won 40,000 euros
Fourteen good results on 14 duels of the French, Italian and English championships. She thus anticipated the victory of Nîmes against Reims, that of Dijon against Lille, the defeat of Saint-Etienne against Nantes or even the surprise draw of PSG against Monaco. It was on Monday, January 13 in the morning that she learned, on the Web, of the verdict of the weekend games and discovered that she was going to pocket an astronomical sum thanks to her spirit of contradiction and her unstoppable tactics.
"It took me a few hours to realize," she said. This is not the first time that luck has smiled on him in sports betting, she who plays "from time to time". A few years ago, doing the strict opposite of her husband and father had already won her no less than € 40,000.
In the history of sports betting, there is even more incredible! In July 1988 in Nice, a certain Émile, then aged 54, who completely ignored the intricacies of the Sports Loto, had asked the owner of the bistro named Élise to make the "pronos" for him. “I didn't know anything about it either. I was crowded, I was in a hurry. But he insisted so much that very quickly, I checked thirteen boxes as it came to me, "testified the coffee maker in the press.
Chance sometimes does things very well. Because Émile, the lucky guy who knows how to delegate, won over a million francs (€ 152,000). “Madame Élise was my good God. I had nothing at all, ”commented the man who, at the time of this gift from the sky, was on a night watchman's internship in a hotel.
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To thank the benevolent employer who had welcomed him in his establishment and whose accounts were in red, the new rich man pledged at the time to dip into his jackpot to help him financially. “It's a fair return of things. While I was on the fringes of society, he taught me how to use Minitel and an electronic switchboard. I owe him that, ”he said.
