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Bookmaker faces largest payout in sports gambling history

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Online bookmaker Betr may have to hand over tens of millions of dollars to Australian punters if favourites Penrith Panthers win the NRL Grand Final this weekend.

Tens of thousands of Australians have been sitting on potentially lucrative 100-1 bets on the Panthers for almost a year.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com
Sam Buckingham-Jones is the media and marketing reporter at The Australian Financial Review. Connect with Sam on Twitter.

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