On July 3, the Daily Telegraph reported that a gambler bet hundreds of thousands of pounds on Vladimir Putin stepping down before the end of the year.
The trader, using a Ukrainian flag as his profile picture on the Polymarket prediction market, placed a bet of $409,000 (306,000 pounds) that the Russian president, who has been in power for 26 years, will leave office by the end of December.
The odds of winning were only 12%, so they could win up to $2.5 million (1.9 million pounds).
According to NBC, the gambler, who goes by the pseudonym ZnotluvuiSamez, joined Polymarket in April and also bet