CPL Result Scuttles Bet Worth $100K+ In Kenya

The scoreless regular season closer between Atletico Ottawa and Vancouver FC might have occurred on a matchday sponsored by Tonybet, but it’s biggest twist actually liked in gambling from abroad.

Kenyan outlet Mozzart Sport reports that the drawn match cost a punter over $100,000 Canadian after a wild 32-match bet saw all but one result fall into place. If you thought Ottleti fans were mad at how the final whistle unfolded, imagine being the one who lost out on a six digit win at this exact moment:

If all thirty-two games had gone as the punter predicted, they were on course to win a tidy 10,871,598 Kenyan shillings. At press time, that equates to some $116,200 in CAD. Mozzart Sport reports that the betting company handed the gambler 2,667 shillings to ‘soothe their pain’. That comes out to…thirty bucks or so.

The near-miss better looks to have also banked on Cavalry besting Valour, so he would have been sweating after Abdul Binate found the net after just a few minutes. Similarly, they also took a swing on Halifax over York United, with the east coast side leaving it late to score a winner. They also called Pacific beating Forge, correctly predicting the playoff structure before the dust settled.

There was a wide spread of countries on the punters bet slip, including matches in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Spain (both first and second tier), Morocco, France, Ireland, Belarus, and the US second tier, amongst others.

If they come back to spend a few more shillings, there’s only two Canadian Premier League matches to bet on this week: York United hosts Pacific for the fourth-versus-fifth seed match tomorrow, with the winner of that travelling to the nation’s capital to take on Atletico Ottawa on Sunday.

We think the punter will avoid Ottleti this time around, though.

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