An ugly contest provided a beautiful outcome for Marco Piemonte, who collected a payday of nearly $3 million from a six-leg parlay after the Denver Broncos rallied for an 11-10 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
Piemonte, who oversees five of the Al Piemonte Auto Group’s car dealerships in Illinois, had to sweat out the Broncos +1.5 points at -107 for the final leg of his $65,000 wager through PointsBet. Denver was miserable offensively for much of the contest until late in the fourth quarter, when Russell Wilson engineered a 12-play, 80-yard drive that culminated with a 1-yard scoring run by Melvin Gordon III with 4:10 to play.
Denver missed the ensuing two-point conversion, which left Piemonte in jeopardy of losing since the 49ers would have covered with a potential game-winning field goal. The Broncos, though, delivered defensively by forcing turnovers on San Francisco’s final two possessions to seal the narrow win and Piemonte’s payday of close to $2.96 million. A spokesperson for PointsBet said it was the sportsbook’s largest payout of a parlay wager placed in the U.S. to date.