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Bettor sells 85-cent parlay ticket, forfeits chance at $147k if Buckeyes win CFP

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Bettor sells 85-cent parlay ticket

The speech heard around the world landed on X (formerly known as Twitter) on December 20.

All he needs to get to the finish line: Ohio State winning the 12-team College Football Playoff, which is hardly far-fetched. And the bet is probably one of the most unimaginable you’ve ever seen: 85 cents on a 14 game bet.

It’s a mix of March Madness, the NBA All-Star Game, NBA and NHL futures, plus UFC and boxing results. He is crowned the national champion of college football.

As the CFP begins, the first 13 rounds are all contested. The bettor only needed Ohio State to win it all: $147,507.44.

Unless the punter sold his ticket first – which he did.

He listed the Parlay game on PropSwap and WagerWire, secondary marketplaces that specialize in selling sports betting tickets. Think StubHub, but for sports betting and generally for futures betting and parlays.

The ticket sold on WagerWire for $16,750. That’s a phenomenal return on an 85-cent bet, and the new ticket holder can still win around $130,000 if Ohio State wins it all.

Even though PropSwap didn’t get the sale, founder and CEO Luke Pergande was still very impressed with the parlay ticket.

“It’s the best bet I’ve seen this year. Eighty-five cents literally buys nothing in this economy,” Pergande said.

Pocket Change Parlay

On February 12, a FanDuel Sportsbook customer who may have only had 85 cents in his account decided to use that couch cushion money in the craziest way possible.

The parlay opened by winning the NBA All-Star Game Over, with a total of 363.5 points. This was one of the easier stages, as the East beat the West 211-186, for a total of 397 points.

The first leg was therefore played. But there are still 13 games to play? Seriously?

However, one by one, over the next three months, the discussions remained alive.

Takuma Inoue scored a ninth-round knockout over Jerwin Ancajas in a WBA title fight on February 24. Then, UConn won the NCAA men’s basketball championship on April 8.

April 13 was a particularly key day, that of the end of the NBA regular season. Five stages of this bet relied on division champions, and it hit them all:

Milwaukee Bucks win the Central Division
Orlando Magic wins Southeast Division
The Los Angeles Clippers win the Pacific division
The Dallas Mavericks win the Southwest division
Oklahoma City wins the Northwest division

There was some serious sweating over this part of the debate. Oklahoma City and Denver tied it with straight wins (SU) at 57-25, but the Thunder won the tiebreaker. Milwaukee, Orlando and Dallas won their respective divisions by one game.

Los Angeles finished two games ahead of Phoenix.

Hockey night/Fight nights

Then it was the turn of the NHL division winners on April 15:

New York Rangers win Metropolitan Division
Vancouver Canucks win Pacific Division

These were followed by a trio of favorable results in boxing. On April 21, Ryan Garcia – a +440 underdog – scored a majority decision over WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney.

In an IBF lightweight title fight on May 12, Vasyl Lomachenko won a TKO over George Kambosos Jr. And on May 18, Oleksandr Usyk won a split decision over Tyson Fury in a battle for the undisputed lightweight title. heavy weights.

That’s 13 legs.

Since then – seven months and counting – we have to hurry and wait. Ohio State is the final stop.

The Buckeyes defeated Tennessee 42-17 in the first round of the College Football Playoff.

Ohio State Buckeyes crush Tennessee: How impressive was their game plan?

Three matches to go

Of course, there is still a considerable distance to cover. Ohio State is the No. 8 seed in a 12-team field. The Buckeyes now face No. 1 seed Oregon in the Rose Bowl for a quarterfinal showdown on Jan. 1.

It’s the revenge of an exciting regular season match. The Ducks were 3.5-point home underdogs and earned a 32-31 victory in Week 7.

If Ohio State wins the rematch as a 2.5-point favorite, Texas could wait in the semifinals at the Cotton Bowl. Currently, Caesars Sports has Texas as a +270 favorite to win the national championship, followed by the Buckeyes at +360 and Oregon at +375.

Next is Penn State at +500 and Notre Dame and Georgia, both at +550. Any of these three teams could await Ohio State in the championship game.

The original owner of this bet thought it was better to get out early. But the 14-step bet endures for the person who made an investment of $16,750, hoping that investment will turn into $147,507.44 on January 20.

Buckle up for what could be a very entertaining ride.

More potential payouts

At DraftKings Sportsbook, three clients have large parlay tickets tied to the College Football Playoff. Perhaps the most intriguing is a nine-stage $5 parlay that has great potential.

Only step remaining: Georgia wins the CFP title. If the Bulldogs succeed, the bettor’s five dollars will increase to $94,234. This represents an incredibly huge odds of +1884680, or in slightly shorter form, around 18847/1.

Then there’s a $35 five-leg parlay that only needs Penn State to complete. The odds are high at +464273 (approximately 4643/1), for a potential profit of $162,495.55.

Finally, there’s that juicy five-step $500 bet, but it still has two steps to go to win over a million dollars: