A Perth punter has incredibly turned a $10 Sportsbet.com.au outlay into $241,744 by picking the first four in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup - in correct order.
The finishing order of winner Almandin, followed by Heartbreak City, Hartnell and Qewy, paid $24,174 for a $1 outlay.
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The extraordinary windfall of 10 times that amount for the Perth customer - a tidy profit of $241,734 - came on top of nearly $13.6 million paid out by Sportsbet to people who backed Almandin.
Sportsbet reported a variety of sizeable bets on Almandin, including a wager of $100 at $301 when markets opened (a $30,000 collect) and then bets of both $5465.7 and $5000 at $11 on the Lloyd Williams-owned gelding.
"The person who won nearly a quarter of a million dollars on the first four is an absolute genius," Sportsbet's Christian Jantzen declared.
Meanwhile, a string of other West Australian punters had slightly less lucrative but only marginally more remarkable cup outings with the WA TAB.
In Albany, a $2 mystery first four, consisting of Almandin to win, Heartbreak City to finish second and then either Hartnell or Qewy to finish third or fourth, netted its owner $24, 174.
A Geraldton punter had $50 on the trifecta - in order - and picked up a very handy $77,065.
And another WA TAB user has $24, 174 to play with on Tuesday night after boxing the first four placegetters in a first four, with a $24 spend.
Even though favourite Hartnell finished third and the heavily-backed Jameka went unplaced, the late backing for Almandin still probably made his win an unpalatable one for the bookmakers.
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