Some weeks we are flat out picking two or three winners. How would you like to be on the winning end of a 19 bet accumulator. One punter from Malta was this past weekend, and he stands to collect €683,739 for a €1 stake – that’s the equivalent of £585,143.24. Of course, picking 19 winners is normally pretty difficult, but this past weekend was a nightmare for bookmakers with favourites getting home in almost every contest.

According to bookmaker William Hill, this past weekend was the biggest winning weekend in living memory as all the best fancied teams in the Premier League, Championship, Leagues One & Two, Blue Square, SPL and William Hill Scottish Cup turned out be winners. Liverpool was the only team to buck the trend winning at 7/2 – fortunately this punter decided to back the Reds instead of Chelsea. It must have been a nervous wait with the whole accumulator riding on that one result. The situation would have been made worse by the fact the score was 1-1 until very late in the game when Liverpool scored their match winning goal, and for this punter, William Hill’s biggest ever payout.

Accumulators are popular betting options since you can place very small bets that have high potential payouts. The aim of an accumulator is make several selections, with winning accumulating from one selection to the next. If one selection loses, then your bet dies. You can create your own accumulators at all leading bookmakers and they can be as small as two selections or as large as you like. The more selections, the higher the risk, however, the more selections, the higher the payout.

Nineteen consecutive winners is very rare and while each selection may have been made on form, we all know how fickle football can be, how a red card or penalty can affect a game, and how sometimes it’s pure luck rather than skill that gets a team across the line. If you’re interested in creating an accumulator, check out one of the online bookmakers – perhaps one day you’ll score motza as well.