Londoner Wins £117,000 Payout From A £40 Accumulator Bet – Due To The Big Freeze!

One lucky punter in London had an extra reason to cheer the current Big Freeze as a £40 bet landed him a stonking payout of £117,000.

The Paddy Power punter had been forced to look further afield for his weekend football betting as the arctic weather across the country wiped out the UK’s football fixtures.

The punter from Edmonton in North London staked a life-changing £40 weekend accumulator across a variety of European football matches and having seen thirteen of his fourteen selections come up trumps at the weekend was left sweating on Manchester City’s match against Blackburn Rovers on Monday night. Needing a win for City to land his bonanza bet Carlos Tevez’s hat-trick in City’s 4-1 win secured the payout and a great start to the punter’s 2010.

Paddy Power himself said: “What a great win – I’m not sure anyone has profited from the country’s Big Freeze in quite spectacular style although the celebrations could literally be on ice as he’s not even telling his wife!”

The anonymous man said: “I wouldn’t normally pick so many European fixtures in my weekend accumulator but what with the weather there was no real alternative. I didn’t really think it stood a snowball’s chance of coming home as my knowledge of European football isn’t brilliant but now I must be the happiest person in Britain with all the chaos the snow has caused. Without it I may not have won.”

Winning Bet Selections

Valencia (to beat Xerez @ 8/15)

Deportivo (to beat Osasuna @ 4/5)

Espanyol (to beat Real Zaragoza @ Evs)

Real Madrid (to be Real Mallorca @ 2/7)

Barcelona (to beat Tenrife @ 2/5)

Fiorentina (to beat Bari @ 7/10)

Bologna (to beat Cagliari @ 2/1)

Genoa (to beat Catania @ 3/5)

Napoli (to beat Sampdoria @ 10/11)

Palermo (to beat Atalanta @ 4/5)

AC Milan (to beat Juventus @ 2/1)

Academica (to beat Naval @ 10/11)

Porto (to beat Leiria @ 1/4)

Man City (to beat Blackburn @ 4/9)