What other Bets are There?

Within each person there is a risk, but this quality is developed in different degrees to everyone. Someone is afraid to argue with just a bottle of beer, and someone is ready to part with their own housing.

This article describes the strangest bets that bookmakers have ever offered. One question arises: is it worth risking your own health, reputation for the sake of getting a ghostly gain?

Bookmakers and totalisators are popular in most countries of the world. The bulk of visitors to such establishments are looking for easy money, by testing good luck. To get rich, people sometimes dare to bet on such events, which at first glance seem incredible.

So, let’s consider the most interesting and unusual bets.

The existence of aliens

More than 30 years ago, the British bookmaker Ladbrokes took a very strange bet from an Englishman: a man argued with the office that on our planet in 2000, live or dead aliens will be found.

The code for the man became aware of the existence of the newcomers (in his opinion), then he turned to the bookmaker office to get the win, but in payment he was denied. Representatives of the BS said that the UN does not have official confirmation of the presence of aliens on Earth. However, the player did not calm down because he wanted to achieve justice, and made an official request to the British Ministry of Defense. However, the response from the military unfortunately did not make the player happy.

Bet on the end of the world

This bet is difficult to explain. It can be considered as pessimistic, meaningless, whatever, but it is. In addition, the end of the world comes up very often, especially often this topic is paid attention to the media. Imagine if the end of the world and the truth will come, who and to whom will pay the prize? For the first time such an unusual bet was taken by the bookmaker’s office PaddyPower.

It was made soon after the launch of the Andron collider. Especially popular were these types of bets at the end of 2012, when the Mayan calendar announced the end of the world on December 21. By the way, the coefficient for the end of the world was an interesting figure of 666. The end of the world, fortunately did not happen, and the players who made a bet on this event lost.

Betting for a career

Chris Kirkland – goalkeeper of English football club Wigan, who inconceivably helped his father to win the prize of 10 thousand pounds. For the period when the bet was made, Chris’s age was 11 years. But already then his father had no doubt that his son would play for the English national team before the age of 30. The bookmaker accepted the bet from the man. The bet was 100 pounds, and the coefficient was 100. It turns out the bet won a few more years ahead of schedule. Chris became one of the best goalkeepers in England, and the 27-year-old was first called to the national team. And in 2006, Chris Kirkland emerged on the field in his debut match against the Greeks, and his father in 15 years, won the prize of 10,000 pounds.

Weather

Today, weather bets are accepted in several bookmakers at once. Often, players bet on the coldest weather at a certain time, that the river will freeze on a certain day, that snow falls on the new year, that it rains, etc. Great popularity such bets are used in Britain, because of capricious weather. For example, the William Hill bookmaking office took a lot of bets on the fact that in winter there will be snow in Glasgow. The coefficient for this event was quite high, because there was no snow in this city for five years. By the way, that winter snow in the city really fell out, so the bookmaker had to pay players their winnings.

Bite of Count “Dracula”

The world football championship in 2014 in Brazil will be remembered by football fans not only with spectacular matches and beautiful goals, but also with the unusual act of an odious Uruguayan striker. Everyone knows that during the match Uruguay – Italy, striker Uruguayans Luis Suarez bitten Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. The most interesting thing in this story was that some bookmakers had proposed to make a strange bet before the start of the tournament, that Suarez would bite one of the rivals during the World Cup 2014. The coefficient for this event was 175 to 1. The Norwegian player Thomas Siversen put a small amount on this event and won $1000. This bet was not invented with a simple, because in his career, Luis Suarez has already managed to bite two people. Before that, Otman Bakkal and Branislav Ivanovich suffered from his teeth . And now Giorgio Chiellini joined them, and there is no guarantee that this bite was the last.

There are a lot of examples of strange bets. Let us mention two more that deserve our attention. For example, the popular poker player Gavin Smith once bet $100,000, which jumps from the roof of the car to the canopy of the building and does not get injured.

Unfortunately, he could not do this and was seriously injured, but he also lost a very large amount.

Another player wanted to bet that he would cut his leg off with a chainsaw. Of course, this bet was not accepted. There were also failures when people wanted to bet on the fact that Gordon Brown (the British prime minister) would commit suicide, or the population of Glasgow would die out as a result of the swine flu epidemic.

It turns out that such bizarre, even insane bets, bookmakers do not always take, because people risk not only their finances, but not only their lives and health are at risk. But other people too.