Argentina and Lionel Messi will face France and Kylian Mbappé in the 2022 World Cup title match in Qatar on Sunday.
A player hopes that France can pull off a victory, not because he is a fan of the team or the country, but because it will bring a serious reward.
After winning six bets in a row on his parlay bet, a bettor named Daniel Forte will win $557,770 if France wins on Sunday, according to betting slips published by Bleacher Report. Parlays combine multiple bets into a single bet, and each bet must be won for the overall bet to be considered a win. In this way, each win within a parlay results in a higher payout than if a bettor had placed all of these bets separately.
As part of this conversation, which can be seen below, Forte also bet on the Golden State Warriors to win the 2022 NBA Championship, the Colorado Avalanche to win the Stanley Cup and Kansas to win the NCAA men’s basketball championship.
Forte’s $26 bet will pay more than half a million dollars if France beat Argentina. If France loses, her parlay loses and she gets nothing even if all the other parts of her parlay are correct.
The implied probability of winning when all these bets were placed is so statistically small that it is closer to 1% than 0%.
“I have two games to go,” Forte said last week after leading France to the semi-finals. “My heart is racing. I’ve never felt alive in a game like this.”
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Sportsbook operators include FanDuel, the sportsbook that Forte placed this bet on, and DraftKings
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they’re not shy about highlighting betting cards like Forte’s because those long bets give hope to people who believe he’ll be the next one to turn $26 into $557,000. FanDuel has confirmed that the betting screenshots are accurate.
