Man Makes 5000 Leones Sports Bet, Sets Record With 500 Million Leones Win

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Mercury International pays a record-setting cash prize to a Sierra Leonean man who won five hundred fifty-eight million on one gambling ticket. Kamara bet 5,000 leones on 14 teams at his local Redbox Mercury Bookie at Gabriel Street in central Freetown. Kamara had bet just 5000 leones on the outcome of 14 different football matches over the weekend. Before Kamara’s historic half a billion leone win, Abdul Rahman, a trader in Bo, Southern Sierra Leone, held the record for the highest individual football betting win when he won 311 million leones after-tax deductions. Before that, it was Mrs. Sesay, a petty trader in Freetown with a 272,290,000 leone win.