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A British hotelier has won more than £100,000 after he placed £5,000 worth of bets on Donald Trump to become the next President of the United States.
John Mappin – who owns the Camelot Castle hotel in Tintagel, Cornwall – started by placing a small bet last year, at odds of 20/1, that Trump would win the Republican Party nomination.
He then placed further bets at 33/1 that Trump would win the presidency, and in total placed a total of around £5,000 on 30 bets between June 2015 up until the election day on Tuesday 8 November.
Following the announcement of the results, Mappin’s total payout was confirmed as £110,000.
Speaking to The Mirror, Mappin said: “My total stake was around £5,000 and in the end I got a return of £110,000 – which is better than a slap in the face with a Cornish mackerel.
“I have a way of analysing information. It’s a private method I have used to analyse America. I knew he was going to win so I thought I’d stick a bet on. Everyone has been slagging him [Trump] off in the UK, apart from me. I said ‘no, he is good news for everyone’.”
Mappin is believed to be a “long-term admirer” of Trump and is said to have even made him an honorary ‘knight of the round table’ at his hotel.
