It isn't whether Everton will win the league in 300 years it's whether everton will win the league this year. Yes bookies sometimes give over the top bets like that to entice people to gamble.
Bookies stop you placing bets if you are shown to be making a consistent profit, betfair takes a bigger chunk of your winnings to the point it'll destroy any edge.
Also to make profitable bets that are 2000/1 you need to have a huge bankroll and you need to be able to make a lot of them.
During the world cup a lad I knows work did a betting thing where you predict every match, so many points for a result, more for perfect score and a few other things like winner & top scorer giving points. This guy knows nothing about football but did some research into common outcomes etc. He handed his sheet in with basically every result being 1-0 (or like 2-0 for huge favourite etc) to a team picked someone like Brazil to win it and a big name for top scorer. His work lol'd at him and asked him if he understood he was meant to be picking the score.
He got by far the most points from correct results and perfect scores. And only missed out on winning the whole thing by a couple of points because the winner result was so top heavy.
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