500,000 bet loses as Spain beat Germany

William Hill were celebrating their biggest ever World Cup win last night, as a number of high profile bets on Germany beating Spain failed to land.

One Hill’s customer had placed a 500,000 euros bet on Germany, while there were several other five and six figure bets on Joachim Low’s side winning the tournament.

Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe told Bettingpro:

'Not only did the 500,000 euro bet lose, but so did the 100,000 and 80,000 euro bets on Germany to win the tournament, and another 75,000 euro wager on them to get past Spain'

‘Even though we have clients with £25,000 and £10,000 on Spain to win the World Cup we will be going into the Final celebrating the fact that Germany aren't there. Germany losing that game made a difference of around £5million to us - it was almost certainly our best World Cup result ever. Now we'd like the Dutch to round off a fantastic tournament for us by beating Spain' .