{"id":41417,"date":"2026-06-16T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/41417\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:17:10","slug":"mystery-polymarket-trader-turned-4-million-into-9-million-after-spains-shocking-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/41417\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Polymarket trader turned $4 million into $9 million after Spain’s shocking World Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the game ended 0-0, both paid out. The wallet redeemed about $4.7 million on the Spain market and $8.5 million on the spread, per its public trading record, for a one-day profit of roughly $9 million. <\/p>\n

On the other side, a trader using the name ‘betoor619’ lost nearly $1 million, Polymarket’s trading records reviewed by CoinDesk show. The bettor had put almost $1.1 million on a Spain win when the market priced the favorite at about 92%. Had Spain won, the payout would have been only about $85,000, the thin reward typical of betting on near-certain outcomes.<\/p>\n

The account had never won or lost more than $9,000 on a single event before, history tied to the account shows.<\/p>\n

\"(CoinDesk)\"<\/p>\n

Polymarket is a prediction market where people trade shares tied to real-world outcomes, with prices that act as implied odds and settlement in USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, on a public blockchain.<\/p>\n

Traders use crypto wallets and operate under pseudonyms rather than real names, a feature lawmakers have criticized because the platform does not collect the background information regulated sportsbooks do. <\/p>\n

About $64 million traded on the Spain match alone. Polymarket’s market on the overall tournament winner has drawn about $2.4 billion, making the World Cup its biggest event since last year’s U.S. election and pushing it past the roughly $1.4 billion wagered on this year’s Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the game ended 0-0, both paid out. The wallet redeemed about $4.7 million on the Spain market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14881,17],"class_list":["post-41417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-polymarket","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}