Spain vs Cape Verde Upset: Bettor Loses $990K on Lamine Yamal

Spain’s underperformance against the Blue Sharks proved extremely costly for an overconfident internet user. On Polymarket, an American betting site, this individual had invested 990,000 dollars on a victory for La Roja. The operation was supposed to guarantee him a profit of 86,000 dollars due to a logically very low odds. However, the Iberian attack ran into the Vozinha wall (from 50k to 11.6 M !). By making multiple decisive interventions, the Cape Verdean goalkeeper frustrated the opposing strikers while seeing his own popularity explode on the Instagram network.

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If this result ruined the predictions of most observers, it paradoxically made the fortune of a bold bettor, as The Mirror points out. Going against the general consensus, this second bettor had chosen to place 370,000 euros on a draw or a Cape Verde triumph. An intuition that proved particularly profitable at the end of regular time: his high-risk bet allowed him to win more than four million euros.