“A performance never before achieved in the world of sports betting.
This is how Betlic comments on the colossal gains accumulated by Jérôme, one of its players, in the space of a month on its online betting site.
This 23-year-old Bordeaux native, who asked for discretion about his identity, won 902,779 euros on the platform after depositing "only" 500 euros on January 16.
After a first bet of all the same 400 euros on a victory of Troyes on Sochaux at the odds of 2.07 (we multiply the starting bet by 2.07), the machine is racing.
Jérôme decides to make what the players call "a rising", that is to say he replay almost the whole with each winning bet.
After his first bet, he commits 628 euros on a combined including victories for Chelsea, PSG and Rodez or Pau, in Ligue 2.
The next day, he doubled his winnings again thanks to a draw between Liverpool and Manchester on which he had played Liverpool or the draw, accompanied by a short victory for Strasbourg against Saint-Etienne.
It is also a constant in the glorious march of the winner: he often trembled, with results by a single goal.
He bet on draws
At the end of two other victorious bets, the jackpot of the one who registered on the site for the 2018 World Cup, exceeds 11,000 euros.
It will then oscillate, before recognizing a serious boost thanks to the victory of PSG in Marseille, and especially a dream weekend for Valentine's Day.
Friday evening February 12, Jérôme ventures into the NBA and commits 8,000 euros on victories for the Knicks and Charlotte Hornets.
At the end of the matches, his account shows 22,320 euros and the story accelerates.
True to his logic, he decides to bet everything… only on draws in seven matches in the German championship.
A challenge, since only a quarter of football matches end in a draw, on average, in the major European leagues.
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The winner recalls that "the money (which he) risks comes only from (his) past earnings" and explains his strategy.
“I had spotted a trend in Ligue 1: after three or four days without almost any draw, the 23rd day of February 3 had seen six games ended in a sharing of points.
By analyzing the matches of the weekend, I realized that the German league was in the same situation, so I decided to bet on the draws.
I thought there could be three or four, but I never imagined there would be so many!
"
A complex technique
In detail, the Girondin, who is however presented as an occasional player, adopts a fairly complex technique to try to maximize his gains.
Rather than simply dividing his commitment over the weekend's seven games, he makes every possible three-game combination (but without changing the results), with a total of 35 bets.
On Saturday 13 February, the Bayer Leverkusen-Mainz match had everything to drive him crazy, with three goals scored in the last ten minutes.
The score goes from 1-0 to 2-2 for his greatest happiness.
Two other games are tied in the last ten minutes.
Only Eintracht Frankfurt, by winning 2-0 against Cologne on Sunday, thwarted (barely) its plans.
A draw in this meeting would have brought the total winnings to 1.4 million euros.
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To the 800,000 euros gleaned from the German championship, Jérôme added a “small” combined offering him 100,000 euros extra thanks to the cumulative victories of Ajax Amsterdam, Sassuolo, Braga, Clermont and Troyes.
The Aube club has been favorable to him for the third time during this blessed month.
A record for the site
With such a sum, the mad bettor has plans that resemble those of big lotto winners: "I am going to use this sum to save, to please my loved ones and maybe buy myself the house of my dreams."
I will especially enjoy the moment, and I may try my luck again in the coming months!
"
Betclic confirms that no sports bettor has ever accumulated such an amount on its site.
Absolute winning records are usually collected in combination bets where the slightest error destroys the attempt.
The record in this area is held by a Toulousain who won 399,441 euros on Winamax by accumulating 21 correct results.
With a different method, the lucky winner of Valentine's Day went even higher.