The US Presidential Election was the biggest political betting event in William Hill’s history, with the British bookmakers taking in around £4 million in bets.
A female client lost nearly half a million pounds on a single bet on Hillary Clinton to win the election, the bookmaker told Business Insider.
The unnamed woman bet £481,000 (around $597,000) on Clinton to defeat Donald Trump four weeks before the election, only to lose all of it after the surprise outcome. William Hill’s Graham Sharpe told Business Insider over the phone that the woman, who was not British, placed the bet online. – READ MORE
