A William Hill customer has gambled £600,000 on a NO vote in the upcoming Scottish Independence Referendum.
The company said the punter staked a record political bet of £400,000 in June, when the odds were 1/4, but has since returned to the same Hill’s branch in Surrey and added an extra £200,000 to his wager, this time at odds of 1/6.
He stands to collect £733,333 should the Scots reject independence early next month. (£400,000 @1/ 4 returns £500,000; £200,000 at 1/6 returns £233,333)
‘As the odds about a No vote had lengthened in the run-in to the recent tv debate in anticipation of a mind-changing performance by Alex Salmond, only for Alastair Darling to outshine him, it seems probable that the customer decided that now was the best moment to get the longest odds available, so he added fifty per cent to what was already a record-busting bet,’ said Hill’s spokesman Graham Sharpe.