This lucky bettor made more than $400,000 on inexplicable WNBA road underdog parlay
What a gamble.
If you’re going to bet $7 thousand on an all-road underdog parlay, I can only assume you have money to burn. But what can I actually say when it pays off?
Lucky bet. That’s what I’ll go with. It was a lucky bet – albeit it a very lucrative one in the case of a DraftKings bettor who ended up with more than $400 thousand from a three-leg WNBA parlay on Saturday.
The first leg, a Phoenix Mercury win over the Dallas Wings, may have been the least shocking outcome of the three. But even that was far from a given considering it was Phoenix’s first game since parting with second-leading scorer Tina Charles. At +7.5 on Tipico Sportsbook, the Mercury were actually bigger underdogs than the LA Sparks (+6.5) against the Seattle Storm.
The Washington Mystics (+9.5), who capped this parlay with a win over the Las Vegas Aces, were actually the biggest underdogs of the three winners despite having the best record of the three. That tends to happen when you’re playing against a team favored to win the league championship at +110 odds. Their one-point overtime win in the late game was the one that made our lucky bettor sweat the most.
But like I said, this bettor obviously had money to blow and took a swing. And boy did they connect.