The Tote’s Scoop 6 has been a very popular bet with punters and professional gamblers alike. In recent weeks, I’ve read three great publications to see in any had these bets where within their compass:
Dave Nevison’s A Bloody Good Winner (2007)
Patrick Veitch: Enemy Number One (2009)
Harry Findlay’s: Gambling For Life (2017)
For those who aren’t into their betting, the Scoop 6 takes place every Saturday. You have to pick six winners from half a dozen specified races in hope of winning either the entire pool or share of it.
The appeal of the Scoop 6 is that punters can literally win a fortune for a £2 bet. If the pool isn’t won, it is rolled over to the next Saturday. In fact, the biggest Scoop 6 rollover was £10,740,797. Craig Brazier, a bin cleaner, won a share of £1.3M, while others remained anonymous.
However, along with regular punters are professional gamblers who often form syndicates to buy thousands of perms, investing considerable money, hoping to win the entire pool or a share. If all the favourites win the pool will be small, but if a couple of outsiders pop up it will limit the number of winning tickets. Some of the syndicates have won and actually lost money! For that reason, many wait for a few rollovers so it is a bumper prize.
Take a look at three professional gamblers who won big with Scoop 6 & Jackpot payouts:
Dave Nevison:
5th August, 2004.
With their final two selections Look At The Stars (16/1) and Mrs Moh (12/1) winning, Nevison and his partner, Mark, held one and a half tickets and a prize of £268,643.
Harry Findlay:
Findlay, Tony Bloom and Glen Gill staked big money in 2000 to win £2.2 million and Findlay the lion’s share. The Scoop 6 bet cost a colossal £184,000. As with so many professionals, they stake to the extreme and literally can’t afford not to get a winning ticket. Findlay said over the next two years he lost £1.5 million on the Scoop 6 and gave it all back.
Patrick Veitch:
April, 2001.
Veitch and his partners had a bumper win when collecting on a rollover of £512,000 and his share £312,958,95.
In conclusion, Scoop 6 & Jackpots are every punters dream and so it would seem with professional gamblers too. In fact, I suspect that some of these wins have involved all three big names. It’s a shame that probably Nevison and Findlay, although having major wins, probably lost money over the duration.
Those big pots could even tempt the biggest names in the game; professional gamblers.
