In Saint-Étienne, Tobacco-press “Le Solaure” seems to be bringing luck to the bettors of the region. After an FDJ gain of 124,000 euros won six months ago, this time it was a PMU player who won 100,809 euros on Saturday August 9.
Enough to have a good end of summer, but not enough to radically change a lifestyle. “Thanks to their earnings, some buy a horse, a car or a house,” says Audrey Espinosa Viale, communications officer for PMU. “But very few winners stop working. »»
If it happens that big winners agree to testify, most prefer to remain anonymous, some even going so far as to hide their good fortune from their loved ones.
Only 218 winners at more than € 100,000 in 2024
Although such sums can run the heads (especially since the most frequent bet of winning bets is 2 euros), it is good to remember that out of 4.1 million horse racing bets per day, on average in 2024 (almost one billion and a half of bets over the year), only 14 % were winning, and only 218 (or 0.00001 %) led to a gain greater than 100,000 euros.
If PMU sets up control and ceiling mechanisms for online bettors, it is more complex to trace the transactions carried out at a point of sale, which still represent 85 % of the bets.
To be accompanied in your practice, it is possible to contact players-infos-service anonymously on 09.74.75.13.13.
