This Guy's 'Request A Bet' Cost Betting Company £350,000 Last Night

When Twitter user @MReid99 requested a bet at 10:53am yesterday morning, he probably didn't expect Sky Bet to lose £350,000 as a result of his genius. Take a bow, son.

Max Reid requested the following to Sky Bet - 'Robert Lewandowski to score a header and Arsenal to miss a penalty.' Sky Bet priced that request at 400/1 and clearly plenty of scrambled to the mobile app to put money on it.

Lewandowski proceeded to score a bullet header in the 53rd minute while Alexis Sanchez missed that penalty in the 30th minute.

Here's how it all happened on Twitter.

Max requested the bet:

Sky Bet responded with pretty tempting odds:

Hours after requesting the bet, Max himself won just over £2,000 but his request helped a lot of people out on this occasion

"When you cost Sky Bet £350,000..."

Fair play Max, a great shout that has left plenty of people with dollar in their pocket

Jack Kenmare

Jack Kenmare is a writer at SPORTbible. He's interviewed some of the biggest names in sport, including Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Pele, Carles Puyol and Tim Henman. He dabbles in all things sport but football is his biggest passion. He was once hit in the head by a wayward strike from Nicky Butt and lived to tell the tale.

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