The parlay heard ‘round the world landed on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Dec. 20.
All it needs to reach the finish line: Ohio State winning the 12-team College Football Playoff, which is hardly far-fetched. And the wager is arguably one of the most unimaginable you’ve ever seen: 85 cents on a 14-leg parlay.
It’s a mix of March Madness, the NBA All-Star Game, NBA, and NHL futures, along with UFC and boxing outcomes. It’s capped by college football’s national champion.
As the CFP begins, the first 13 legs are all in. The bettor only needed Ohio State to win it all: $147,507.44.
Unless the bettor first sold his ticket — which he did.
He listed the parlay play on PropSwap and WagerWire, secondary marketplaces specializing in selling sports betting tickets. Think StubHub but for sports bets and typically for futures wagers and parlays.
The ticket sold on WagerWire for $16,750. That’s a phenomenal ROI on an 85-cent wager, and the new holder of the ticket still stands to net $130,000 or so, if Ohio State wins it all.
Even though PropSwap didn’t get the sale, founder and CEO Luke Pergande was still thoroughly impressed by the parlay ticket.
“It’s the best bet I’ve seen this year. Eighty-five cents buys literally nothing in this economy,” Pergande said.
Pocket-Change Parlay
Back on Feb. 12, a FanDuel Sportsbook customer, who perhaps had only 85 cents in his account, decided to utilize that couch-cushion money in the wildest possible way.
The parlay opened by taking the NBA All-Star Game Over, with a total of 363.5 points. That was one of the easiest legs, as the East beat the West 211-186, for 397 total points.
So the first leg was in. But 13 more legs to go? Seriously?
However, one by one, over the course of the next three months, the parlay remained alive.
Takuma Inoue scored a ninth-round knockout of Jerwin Ancajas in a WBA title bout on Feb. 24. Then UConn won the NCAA men’s basketball championship on April 8.
April 13 was a particularly key day, the end of the NBA regular season. Five legs of this bettor’s parlay hinged on division champions, and he hit them all:
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