Woman turns £12 into £200,000 in seven days

30 October 2008

ENGLAND -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- When a new William Hill client from West Yorkshire opened her online betting account just over a week ago, she obviously had nothing more in mind than playing a little bit of bingo and placing a few lottery bets every now and again.

But, just 7 days later, the mother of two has truly beaten the credit crunch by inflating £12 stakes in to a massive £200,000 windfall, which is over a 1.5 million percent interest!

In just a week since she opened her account (opened on Saturday 18th October) , the on-line client, who is in her forties and works as a nurse, had only had a handful of bets with a total outlay of £12. As well as playing a couple of games on williamhillbingo.com, she placed the same £2, five number bet for the last three Irish Lottery draw games and it was last Saturday's draw (Saturday 25th October) that landed her the recession-busting prize. She picked numbers 03, 12, 16, 28 and 43 in a five fold and all five balls came up in the main draw, at odds of 100,000/1.

Although she doesn't want to be named, William Hill's new client is clearly delighted with her win. She commented: "I had done the occasional Irish Lottery bet in the past, so when I opened my on-line account to play bingo with Hills, I thought I would give it a go again. I'm really glad I did now! I never imagined in a million years that I would win this sort of money and it's actually a bit of a shock - there are too many 'noughts' for me to comprehend!"

Hills spokeswoman Jennie Prest said; "What credit crunch? Making £199,988 profit in 10 days is some return for £12! William Hill is certainly becoming the place for big winners - as well as Fred Craggs, who won a million pounds for 50p back in February, we've had two casino millionaires and we've paid out numerous 6-figure jackpots to online punters this year alone. These are life changing amounts of money for very small investments and, with a slice of luck, these peoples dreams are coming true."

Since the start of the year, William Hills big winners include:

A man from Oxfordshire who won £1.1million from £3 stake on williamhillcasino.com

Fred Craggs from Yorkshire who landed a 8-horse accumulator and £1million for just 50p

A Sussex based client who won £1.4 million from a winning streak on roulette

Scott Robinson from Yorkshire who won a £17,000 jackpot on the day he opened his William Hill account

Sophie M from Peterborough who won 2 progressive jackpots within a month on williamhillbingo.com - firstly £102,000 them £85,000

David H from Stevenage who won a massive £435,375 on the Millionaires Club slot machine