Trump thắng
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Some
gamblers won millions betting on a Trump win
Carlos Slim, Mexico’s richest man and
the fifth wealthiest billionaire in the world, lost roughly $5
billion after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
Slim didn’t bet against Trump -- not officially anyway -- but was
affected because the value of the Mexican peso cratered after the election,
resulting in the evaporation of roughly 9% of Slim’s fortune.
Many other people won or lost money on the election in an instant the more traditional way: gambling. It’s illegal to bet on U.S. elections on American turf, but gambling on election outcomes is totally fair game in the U.K.
Leading
up to November 8, with virtually all polls predicting a Hillary Clinton
victory, U.K. bookies were swamped with bets. “The U.S. election attracted more
bets than any other political gamble ever in the U.K., with what bookies
estimate at around £200 million ($247.6 million) worth of wagers,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
While
69% of individual election bets placed with the bookmaker William Hill picked
Trump as the winner, most appear to have been relatively small wagers. Roughly
three-quarters of the stake money bet with William Hill was on a Clinton
victory. That appeared to be the safe bet, after all: Bookmakers were giving
Trump only a 20% chance of winning on Tuesday.
But
wagers on Trump obviously paid off, and a few very large bets on Trump’s
election victory paid off handsomely. Perhaps the biggest payout of all came
from the bet placed by one real estate magnate on another. The (UK) Metro reported that the Iranian-British real
estate tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz won £1.2 million ($1.5 million) thanks to bets
worth £350,000 ($435,000) on Trump.
According to the (UK) Independent,
one unknown gambler won £500,000 ($622,000) on a £200,000 ($249,000) bet on
Trump, and several six-figure wagers were placed on one or the other American
candidates. Meanwhile, Trump paid off over and over for a British hotel owner
named John Mappin, who won a total of £103,000 ($128,000) thanks to a string of
33 bets on Trump’s political run.
Mexican
billionaire Carlos Slim speaks about a new educational application during a
news conference at the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City earlier this year.
(NICK WAGNER/AP)
Perhaps
most interesting of all is the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power’s decision to pay
off around $1 million worth of bets before
the election even took place. Convinced that Clinton would win, the
bookmaker preemptively paid off wagers on the Democratic candidate with the
hopes of avoiding bigger losses later. Obviously, the move didn’t pay off for
Paddy Power.
“We’re in the business of making predictions and decided
to put our neck on the line by paying out early on Hillary Clinton, but boy did
we get it wrong,” said Paddy Power spokesman Feilim Mac An Iomaire, according
to Bloomberg News. “We’ve been well and truly thumped by Trump.”
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