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Colossus Bets operator of football pools mega jackpots , today confirmed the first WINNERS of its £1,000,000 HDA in just the 8th weekend the bet has been offered.
After last week’s near miss with one player getting 14 out of 15 and turning down a Fractional Cash-In offer of £320,000 in the process, this week 2.5 tickets have gone one better and scooped the pool.
Each full ticket receives £200,000 for their £2 stake, (£20,000 for those that staked only 20p), a return which is significantly bigger than a bookmaker equivalent acca on the same matches.
Additionally each player has a free pick at the £500,000 bonus pot which will require them to nail the correct outcome in next Sunday’s 3pm TV match between Barnsley v Bradford.
Colossus Bets COO David O’Reilly said “Sure lots of favourites won, but winning £20,000 for a 40p spend which one player has managed, is some feat. There was no Cash-Ins done on that ticket – maybe the player slept through the later legs on Sunday and will wake up to a pleasant surprise Monday morning!
Several of the other winning tickets banked profits along the way with our Fractional Cash option, though none of the winning ticket holders cashed-in fully and all of them hold at least 50% of their original ticket. Sunday’s League One match will take on an unusual interest as the try and add some of the £500,000 bonus to their current winnings.
The £1,000,000 HDA15 is a weekly 15 leg pool bet with a Home/Draw/Away or 1X2 format comprising a minimum £500,000 win fund and a minimum £500,000 bonus – both numbers net of deductions. Any winners of the win fund will have a free pick on the outcome of one further football match the following week, to try and land the £500,000 bonus.
A full unit costs players just £2, but like all Colossus pools, the HDA15 can be played for as little as 20p (which buys a 0.1 unit and plays for a proportional £100,000).
The next £1,000,000 HDA15 kicks off this Saturday with a selection of the weekend’s Premier League fixtures and the bet is also available across all of Colossus Bets’ B2B partner sites, including BETDAQ, Betfair, Boylesports and Sportsbet.io.
The £1,000,000 HDA15 is available on www.colossusbets.com on both Desktop/Web as well as a customized smartphone and tablet experience on Mobile Web.
