For most, it’s a dream. Turning £50 into £60,000 just doesn’t happen unless you play so well Sir Alex Ferguson chooses to elevate you from the YTS scheme to the team for the Champions League final. Yet that kind of dramatic increase in fortune is exactly what one student has done. Not overnight, admittedly, but two years isn’t exactly slow, and his remarkable gambling story illustrates the beauty of Betfair, the largest betting exchange. Young and old, gamblers and traders can all mix in one huge melting pot of numbers and action. Confidence trick

Marc Daniel is 20, from Bournemouth, and is studying psychology at Bath University.