Sports Betting Arbitrage, or Scalping as sports bettors from the US know it, is the combination of a well known financial trading concept and the modern occurrence of online sportsbook betting. Arbitrage is the idea of taking advantage of different prices in different markets simultaneously, while sports betting arbitrage is the application of that principle to the ‘price’ offered by bookmakers on sporting events: the’ odds’, or ‘the line’. Essentially, Sports Betting Arbitrage is buying the win and the loss of a sporting event at the correct price to ensure that no matter what the outcome, a profit is secured.

As with standard arbitrage, sports betting arbitrage must be done in separate markets: Any two bookmakers with differing odds will do. While the financial concept of buying and selling at two different prices is accurate, for standard betting it is confusing (in a two team event, the bookmaker is buying the win for one price, and selling the lay for a higher price), and so I will stop trying to maintain the comparison here.

In order for an ‘Arb’ or ‘scalp’ to be placed, you need one bookmaker to offer particularly high odds on Outcome 1 and a separate bookmaker to offer particularly high odds on Outcome 2, where there are only two outcomes available. If these odds are high enough to create a larger than 100% return on investment, you have an arb.

For example if a particularly close Tennis match between ‘John’ and ‘James’ is about to be played and Pinnacle offers odds of 2.1 (11/10) on John while Expekt offers odds of 2.05 (20/19) on James, you can very easily see that you have an arb. If you bet £100 on 2.10 and £100 on 2.05, you know that you are going to lose £100 because one side will lose, but the other side will win more than $100, thereby covering your loss, and making some money in the process.

A more complicated example:

Ladbrokes has odds of 1.10 on Team A and 8.00 on Team B

Blue SQ has odds of 1.20 on Team A and 5.00 on Team B

If you bet £835 on 1.20 at Blue Sq, and £125 on 8.00 at Ladbrokes, then your total investment is £960. If Team A wins, you win £1002 and lose the £125 bet at Ladbrokes, resulting in a £42 final profit. If  Team B wins, you win £1000 and lose the £835 bet at Bkue SQ, resulting in a £40 final profit.

No matter which team won, £40 profit was assured. That is the idea of Sports Betting Arbitrage.

Lay betting is used to describe bets on an event not happening. When applied to sportsbooks this means punters can bet against a team winning a tournament, or against a horse winning a race. In this context conventional betting on a selection is described as back betting.

Although the concept of lay betting might sound novel to many punters, all simple match bets are effectively lay bets, where the punter could be perceived as betting against a particular team winning the match.

Lay betting is not offered by all sportsbooks, and tends to be offered by betting exchanges like Betfair. Exchanges do not play the role of traditional bookmakers, setting odds while taking in and paying out bets. Instead, their function is to match lay bets against back bets.

Example:

A punter wishes to place a $10 lay bet against Louis Hamilton winning the Formula One driver’s Championship at odds of 3/1. This means the punter is betting on an outcome other than Hamilton winning the driver’s championship.

A betting exchange will allow the punter to enter his odds, and then attempt to match this to another bet where a punter is prepared to wager $30 on Hamilton winning the Formula One driver’s championship for a payout of $10.

If Hamilton finishes second in the championship, and the lay bet wins, the back bet will be paid out to the lay bettor along with the initial stake for a total return of $40. If Hamilton wins the championship the back bet wins, and the back bettor is paid out the $10 lay bet along with the $10 stake for a total return of $20.

Why Participate in Lay Betting and Betting Exchanges?

Betting exchanges are popular because they allow punters to select their own odds. While extreme odds are unlikely to find a match, the prices that can be generated are often better than those offered by fix-odds sportsbooks.

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12:15 Chel	Reve de Sivola (FR)	(Daily Mail - Robin Goodfellow)
	Starluck (IRE)	(Daily Mirror - Newsboy)
12:30 Donc	French Saulaie (FR)	(Morning Star - Farringdon)
	Pop (FR)	(Weekender - Andrew Barr)
12:45 Chel	Something Wells (FR)	(Independent - Chris Mcgrath)
	Something Wells (FR)	(Racing Post - Rp Ratings)
	Tidal Fury (IRE)	(The Guardian - Not Applicable)
12:55 Ling	Aux Le Bahnn (IRE)	(Racing Post - Spotlight)
	Quaspia (FR)	(Daily Post - Mercury)
13:20 Chel	Junior	(Nottingham Evening Post - Eammon Gavigan)
	Punchestowns (FR)	(News Of The World - Pegasus)
	Punchestowns (FR)	(Racing Post - Lambourn)
	Punchestowns (FR)	(Western Mail - Alan Keyte)
13:30 Ling	Mylord Collonges (FR)	(Western Daily Press - Bob Watts)
13:40 Donc	Daldini	(Newcastle Journal - Doug Moscrop)
13:55 Chel	Buck The Legend (IRE)	(Sunday Mail - Rockavon)
	Hold Em (IRE)	(Sunday Express - Chris Goulding)
	Naiad du Misselot (FR)	(Sheffield Star - Fortunatus)
14:15 Donc	Puy d’Arnac (FR)	(Racing Post - Trading Post)
	Puy d’Arnac (FR)	(The Sun - Templegate)
	Smugglers Bay (IRE)	(Belfast Newsletter - Wise Owl)
14:25 Sthl	Jojesse	(Racing And Football Outlook - Not Applicable)
14:30 Chel	Abragante (IRE)	(Northern Echo - Janus)
	Finger Onthe Pulse (IRE)	(Liverpool Daily Post - Chris Wright)
	Finger Onthe Pulse (IRE)	(The Star - Tony Lewis)
	Imperial Commander (IRE)	(Sunday Telegraph - Whistler)
	My Petra	(Birmingham Mail - Paul Castles)
	Notable D’Estruval (FR)	(Raceform Update - Not Applicable)
	Private Be	(Oldham Evening Chronicle - Keith Mchugh)
	Silverburn (IRE)	(Daily Record - Garry Owen)
	Silverburn (IRE)	(Daily Star Sunday - Moorestyle)
	Silverburn (IRE)	(Irish Post - Kevin Walsh)
	Three Mirrors	(The People - Larry Lynx)
14:40 Ling	Lodge Lane (IRE)	(Racing Post - West Country)
14:45 Donc	Brave Rebellion	(Racing Post - The North)
	Leading Attraction (IRE)	(Daily Telegraph - Marlborough)
	Leading Attraction (IRE)	(Yorkshire Post - The Duke)
15:05 Chel	Binocular (FR)	(Dundee Courier - The Ferret)
	Chomba Womba (IRE)	(The Scotsman - Jim Kean)
	Chomba Womba (IRE)	(Yorkshire Evening Post - Carl Harris)
	Crack Away Jack	(London Evening Standard - Paul Fielder)
	Crack Away Jack	(The Express - Computerman)
	Crack Away Jack	(Western Morning News - West Tip)
	Katchit (IRE)	(Carlisle News & Star - Phil Rostron)
	Khyber Kim	(Sunday Mirror - Gary Nutting)
	Solwhit (FR)	(The Times - Rob Wright)
15:35 Chel	Diamond Harry	(Evening Press, York - Ebor)
	Massasoit (IRE)	(Blackpool Gazette - Steve Simpson)
	Toby Belch (IRE)	(Shropshire Star - Bob Downing)
15:40 Ling	Maximix	(Racing Post - Postdata)
	Maximix	(The Mail On Sunday - John Martin)
20:20 Wolv	Azure Mist	(Glasgow Evening Times - Jeffrey Ross)

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A Single is a bet on one selection in one event. Your selection must be successful for your bet to win.

Doubles
A Double consists of one bet involving two selections from different events. Both selections must be successful for your bet to win.

Trebles
A Treble consists of one bet involving three selections from different events. All three must be successful for your bet to win.

Accumulator
An Accumulator is one bet with four or more selections from different events. All selections must be successful for your bet to win.

Four-fold accumulator = Accumulator with four selections. Five-fold accumulator = Accumulator with five selections, and so on.

Trixie
A Trixie consists of four bets involving three selections from different events:
3 doubles and 1 treble
A minimum of two of your selections must be successful to get a return.

Patent
A Patent consists of seven bets involving three selections from different events:
3 singles, 3 doubles and 1 treble
You need only one successful selection to guarantee a return.

Yankee
A Yankee consists of eleven bets involving four selections from different events:
6 doubles, 4 trebles and 1 four-fold accumulator
A minimum of two of your selections must be successful to guarantee a return.

Lucky 15
A Lucky 15 consists of fifteen bets involving four selections in different events:
4 singles, 6 doubles, 4 trebles, 1 accumulator
You need only one winner to guarantee a return.

Super Yankee
A Super Yankee (or Canadian) consists of twenty-six bets involving five selections from different events:
10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 four-fold accumulators and 1 five-fold accumulator
A minimum of two of your selections must be successful to guarantee a return.

Lucky 31
A Lucky 31 consists of thirty-one bets involving five selections in different events:
5 singles, 10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 four-fold accumulators and 1 five-fold accumulator
You need only one winner to guarantee a return.

Heinz
A Heinz consists of fifty-seven bets involving six selections from different events:
15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-fold accumulators, 6 five-fold accumulators and 1 six-fold accumulator
A minimum of two of your selections must be successful to guarantee a return.

Lucky 63
A Lucky 63 consists of sixty-three bets involving six selections in different events:
6 singles, 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-fold accumulators, 6 five-fold accumulators, 1 six-fold accumulator
You need only one winner to guarantee a return.

Super Heinz
A Super Heinz consists of one hundred and twenty bets involving seven selections from different events:
21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-fold accumulators, 21 five-fold accumulators, 7 six-fold accumulators and 1 seven-fold accumulator
A minimum of two of your selections must be successful to guarantee a return.

Goliath
A Goliath consists of two hundred and forty-seven bets involving eight selections from different events:
28 doubles, 56 trebles, 70 four-fold accumulators, 56 five-fold accumulators, 28 six-fold accumulators, 8 seven-fold accumulators and 1 eight-fold accumulator
A minimum of two of your selections must be successful to guarantee a return.

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• Accumulator: A series of bets on multiple outcomes, all outcomes must be successful for the Punter to win the bet.
• Action: Any kind of bet.
• Against the Spread: A bet where you try to determine which team will cover the spread; not necessarily which team will win.
• Ante Post: It is also possible to place some football bets weeks, months and sometimes years in advance. For example when you bet on the premiership or world cup winner. Such bets are called ‘ante post’-bets. The term ‘ante post’ comes from the world of horse racing. Making such an ante-post bet can be really successful if during the time it becomes clear that the team backed is increasingly favoured to win.
• Asian Handicap: Asian handicaps are, as the name suggests, a special type of handicap betting popular in the Far East and commonly used in football betting. In addition to typical +1, 0, and -1 handicaps seen in standard handicap football match betting, Asian handicap allows for a ¼ goal, ½ goal and a ¾ goal start. On the face of it this may not seem to make a lot of sense, since any team that beats (or loses to) a ½ goal start will also beat (or lose to) a ¼ goal start. However, there is more to ¼ and ¾ ball betting than meets the eye. As for normal handicap betting, the underdog will be awarded a head start of a handicap, and the favourite will concede a handicap of the same magnitude. For the purposes of bet settlement, the predetermined number of the handicap will be added to the real number of goals. Where no handicap is awarded (0:0 handicap), a drawn game will result in a tied bet and returned stakes. if either side wins, bets backing that team will win, whilst bets backing the other will lose. Similar rules apply for 1 goal (0:1) and 2 goal (0:2) Asian handicaps. When ½ ball handicaps are applied, bets can only be won or lost - a tied bet is impossible. If the handicap is set at ¼ (or ¾, 1¼, 1¾ etc) of a goal, then any bets on the match will be settled as a split stakes bet, with half the stake going on the handicap ¼ of a goal less than the quote and half on the handicap a ¼ of a goal more. For example, with a ¼ ball handicap, half the stakes will be settled as though the handicap was 0, and half as though the handicap was ½. It follows, then, that if a team beats a ¼ ball handicap by ½ or more, the backer will win the whole bet; if they lose by ½ or more, the backer will lose the whole bet. It is only when the result falls within ¼ of the handicap that the result is different from a conventional handicap. When a team beats the handicap by a ¼, the backer receives half stakes on a win, and half returned. For example, if £10 were staked at odds of 1.95 for a ¼ ball advantage, a drawn game would return a profit of £4.75. This is known as a “win ½”. If a team loses by a ¼, the backer has only half his stake returned. This is known as a “loss ½”.

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• Bar: This shows what the lowest odds of horses not mentioned in the betting forecast are likely to be - ‘50-1 bar’ means those not quoted are 50-1 or bigger.
• Banker: A selection that is fancied very, very strongly indeed. It will often be the cornerstone of combination bets.
• Beard: A friend or acquaintance whose job is to place a bet in order to conceal the true identity of the real bettor.
• Bet: To lay money on the correct prediction of an outcome.
• Betting Exchange: to come
• Bookie/Bookmaker: A company who is licensed to accept bets on the result of an event based on their provision of odds to the customer.

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• Canadian: A Canadian (also known as a Super Yankee) consists of 26 bets involving 5 selections in different events. The bet includes 10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 fourfolds plus an accumulator. A minimum of 2 of your selections must be successful to get a return.
• Chalk: The favorite.
• Chalk player: A person who usually places his bets on the favorite.
• Circled Game : Applies to US sports. A game where the betting activity is limited by the bookmaker; this usually happens where bad weather or injury may significanlty alter the chances of either team winning, thereby making the outcome far more uncertain.
• Correct Score: Correct score betting is popular with football, where the total number of typical scores is limited. The odds are dependent on the actual match odds between the two teams.

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• Dog: Somebody who is expected to lose a fight or contest. Also known as the “underdog”.
• Dog player: A person who usually places his bets on the underdog.
• Doubles: An accumulator which involves two selections. Both must be successful for the bet to win.
• Double action: An “if-bet” that proceeds if the precedent bet is won, tied or cancelled.
• Double Chance: Occasionally, bookmakers may reduce the 3 outcomes for a football match to 2, by what is known as ‘Double Chance’ betting, where a single price is offered on a win or draw. If the backed team wins or draws, the bet wins; if the team loses, so does the bet. With double chance bets there is no possibility for the draw. The win/draw odds will always be shorter than for both the individual win and draw odds, because the chances of either outcome occurring are greater than for each one separately.
• Double Result: Some bookmakers now offer books for the half-time result only, and more typically the “double result”, that is, the result at both half-time and full-time. For football matches this means a total of 9 betting possibilities is commonly available. This is a popular alternative to simply backing an outright result, which may often be at unattractively short odds. Obviously the risk is greater since there are more possible outcomes (9 as compared to 3 with standard match betting), but consequently the odds are better. The highest odds are obviously available for the home team to be winning at half-time and the away team to win after 90 minutes. Typically, odds of 28/1 can be found for this unlikely double result, and can be even higher if the home team is a strong favourite.
• Drift: When the price of a selection moves out (gets bigger), often due to a lack of support. That selection is said to be “on the drift”.

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• Each Way: In contests with large fields, even the shorter-priced favourites may have quite high odds. To increase the chances of a punter winning something from this bet, it may be offered each way. Each way bets are actually two bets, one for the win and one for a high placing, and are settled as two bets. The place part is calculated at a fraction of the win odds. This fraction will vary by sport and event, and will always be displayed where each way betting is available. In a football tournament the each way part is usually settled at half odds for 1st and 2nd place only. Consider a £10 each way bet on England to win the World Cup at 10/1. If England win, a £150 profit would be made; £100 for the win at 10/1 and £50 for finishing in the top 2 at 5/1. If England lost in the final, the profit would only be £40; £50 from the place part minus the £10 stake lost on the win.
• Edge: A punter’s advantage in a bet.
• Exotic: Any bet other than a straight bet or parley - also called a prop or proposition.
• Exposure: The maximum amount of money a sports book stands to lose in a game.

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• Favorite: The team or individual the bookies rate most likely to win the contest they are betting on.
• First Goalscorer: A bet placed on a player to score the first goal in the event.
• First half bet: A bet placed solely on the first half of a game.
• Fold: A fold represents the number of selections in an accumulator, i.e a Four-Fold Accumulator consists of 1 bet involving 4 selections in different events. All must be successful to get a return.
• Form: Form rates how a team is currently performing.

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• GamCare: The UK national centre for information, advice and practical help with regard to the social impact of gambling.
• Goliath: A Goliath consists of 247 bets involving 8 selections in different events. The bet includes 28 doubles, 56 trebles, 70 fourfolds, 56 fivefolds, 28 sixfolds, 8 sevenfolds and an accumulator. A minimum of 2 of your selections must be successful to get a return.

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• Half time bet: A bet placed on the half time result.
• Half time Result: A bet that involves the Punter correctly predicting the result of a match at half time.
• Handicap: A system used by bookmakers to make a one sided event become a more attractive betting proposition to the punter. For example, the weaker team may start with a one goal advantage. Known as the Spread in US sports. For fractional handicaps (0.5, 1.5 etc.), there is no possibility of a draw. If the margin of victory is same as the quoted handicap, all bets on the selected team will lose.
• Handicapper: A person who studies, rates and bets on sporting events and/or races.
• Hedging: This involves placing a bet on opposing outcome to the punters original selected outcome in order to guarantee winnings or cut losses.
• Heinz: A Heinz consists of 57 bets involving 6 selections in different events. The bet includes 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 fourfolds, 6 fivefolds and an accumulator. A minimum of 2 of your selections must be successful to get a return.
• Hook: Half a point added to e.g. football or basketball betting lines.

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• IBAS: Independent Arbitration Betting Service. An arbitration service which was launched to deal with betting disputes between punters and bookmakers.

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• Lay: When a bookmaker accepts bets it is often said that they lay a bet. A bookmaker It will often be known as a layor. You can lay yourself on Betting Exchanges (see our section)
• Lengthen: When a bookmaker sees little activity on a particular outcome, they may choose to lengthen or increase the odds available.
• Line: The current odds or point spread on a particular event.
• Lock: US term for an almost guaranteed winner.
• Longshot: A team or horse perceived unlikely to win.
• Lucky 15: A Lucky 15 consists of 15 bets involving 4 selections in different events. The bet includes 4 singles, 6 doubles, 4 trebles, and 1 fourfold. If only one selection wins, as a consolation returns are paid to double the odds. If all four selections win, a bonus of 10% is added to total returns. For the bonus to apply, all selections must win (none void or non-runners). For each-way bets the consolation is paid only on the win part of the bet. Lucky 15 bets are accepted on horse racing and greyhounds only. Also Lucky 31 and Lucky 63 exist.

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• Match Betting: The most popular and common fixed odds betting market is match betting. In standard match bets between two teams, winning odds are available for both, and the wager will either win or lose depending on the outcome of the event. Since a significant proportion of games end without any winner, the “draw” is offered as a betting option. Football fixed odds match betting is sometimes known as 1X2 betting. On fixed odd coupons, a “1″ denotes the home team, with the away team represented by a “2″ and the draw by an X.
• Monkey: Bookmakers slang for £500.
• Multiples: Another term for Accumulators. Multiple bets involve more than one selection. Double and trebles are popular wagers for football match betting. A double is one bet involving two selections in different events, both of which must be successful for the bet to win. The odds for a double are calculated by multiplying together the separate odds for the two single bets. Accumulators contain 4 or more selections. Often, the only limit to the number of selections included within an accumulator bet is the bookmaker’s maximum allowable payout on one bet.

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• Nap: A tipster’s best bet of the day.
• No action: A bet where no money is lost or won.
• Number Spread: An index spread based on the number of runs, goals and points scored in an event.

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• Odds: Also referred to as the price. The returns a bookmaker offers for a selection to win.
• Odds On: Refers to a price where the odds are less than evens (fractional) or 2 (decimal).
• Odds Against: Refers to a price where the odds are greater than evens (fractional) or 2 (decimal).
• Outsider: The opposite of a favourite.
• Over: An increasingly popular football fixed odds market is total goals betting, sometimes known as over/under. A commonly available over/under bet available in football is over/under 2.5 goals. By introducing a decimal, this removes the possibility of a draw, leaving only two possible outcomes. Some bookmakers like to introduce an extra outcome to the book. 3 outcomes might include: fewer than 2 goals; exactly 2 goals; and more than 2 goals. Other bookmakers introduce even more, although this is with a view to increasing their profit margin on the book.
• Over-round: In theory a betting book should be 100%, so a toss of a coin would be even money heads, even money tails. However the bookmakers’ profit margins mean the figure is usually above 100%. In cases where it is less this is referred to as ‘over-round’.

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• Parlay: The US term for an accumulator.
• Patent: A Patent consists of 7 bets involving 3 selections in different events. The bet includes a single on each selection, plus 3 doubles and 1 treble. Just one successful selection guarantees a return.
• Permutations or Perms: There is a way to find 7 bets from only 3 selections, making use of what have incorrectly become known as permutations or perms. Consider the following 3 selections: Bolton to beat Charlton, evens Leeds to beat Liverpool, 6/4 Southampton to beat Tottenham 5/4 First off, each selection can be taken as a single match bet. Secondly, there is one treble available at odds of 11.25, calculated by multiplying together the odds for each of the 3 singles (2 x 2.5 x 2.25). However, there are also 3 doubles available too, by “perming” any 2 games from the 3 selections. Such a series of bets is commonly known as a ‘Patent’, or a ‘Trixie’ if the singles are left out leaving only 4 bets. The greater the number of selections to choose from, the greater the number of combinations available. Combinations are not, of course, restricted to doubles. If we wish to choose from 4 matches, there are 6 combinations of doubles and 4 combinations of trebles available, in addition to 1 fourfold and 4 singles.
• Point spread: The predicted scoring differential between two opponents as quoted by a sports book.
• Pony: Bookmakers slang for £25.
• Price: Betting or gambling odds.
• Punter: The individual who puts on a bet.

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• Round Robin: A series of three or more teams in 2-team accumulators.
• Runner: Somebody who places bets for another person.

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• Scout: Somebody who waits for what he thinks is an unusual strong wager. AKA. Sports Player.
• Sharp: A sophisticated or professional gambler.
• Singles: The simplest of all bets is the single. With a single bet on a football match, only one outcome is backed, and the bet can generally either win or lose, although in Asian handicap, there are other possibilities. With a simple win/lose single, a selection must be successful to achieve a return. A typical single match bet might be Liverpool to beat Manchester United at 2/1. If Liverpool win, a £10 stake would realise a profit of £20; if they draw or lose, the stake is lost. Singles odds are today generally available for almost any football game.
• Special Bets: In an attempt to attract spread bettors into fixed odds football betting, some online bookmakers have started to offer specialised markets. Special bets include odds on the number of corners and bookings a televised match will have, odds for team performance, or the time of the first and the last goal scorer. These bets have their origins in the spread markets, and it is only through the availability of online gambling that fixed odds bookmakers have been able to break into this market.
• Spread Betting: to come
• Super Heinz: A Super Heinz consists of 120 bets involving 7 selections in different events. The bet includes 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 fourfolds, 21 fivefolds, 7 sixfolds and an accumulator. A minimum of 2 of your selections must be successful to get a return.
• Super Yankee: See Canadian.

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• Tic-tac: The ’sign language’ with which bookmakers on the racing course communicate.
• Trebles: A Treble consists of 1 bet involving 3 selections in different events. All must be successful to get a return.
• Trixie: A Trixie consists of 4 bets involving 3 selections in different events. The bet includes 3 doubles and 1 treble. A minimum of 2 of your selections must be successful to get a return.

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• Under: An increasingly popular football fixed odds market is total goals betting, sometimes known as over/under. A commonly available over/under bet available in football is over/under 2.5 goals.
• Underdog: A team or individual that is expected to lose. Also known as the dog.

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• Wise guy: A well informed or knowledgeable handicapper or bettor.

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• Yankee: A Yankee consists of 11 bets involving 4 selections in different events. The bet includes 6 doubles, 4 trebles, and an accumulator. A minimum of 2 of your selections must be successful to get a return.

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