Cricket betting tips — what a tip is, what the odds hide, and what changes when the game goes live

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A cricket tip is not a forecast. It is a price judgement — the bettor’s view that the bookmaker has priced an outcome shorter or longer than the chance of it happening warrants. Everything on this page turns on that distinction. Build the prediction wrong and the stake is paid on a guess; build it right and the stake still pays the bookmaker’s commission on the way through. The first part of the job is the easier one to describe; the second is where most punters stop reading and where the rest of this guide spends its time.

Cricket betting in Great Britain runs under a single legal frame, on bookmakers who hold a Gambling Commission remote licence, in three match formats whose different rules change which markets the bookmaker offers and how those markets settle. This page is a guide, not a tip sheet. It explains how a tip is constructed from form, statistics, line-ups and the market’s own prices, how a value bet is recognised, how staking and bankroll discipline work, and why no tip is ever certain and betting is no income. No picks, predicted results or odds are invented here.

As of 27 October 2026 the licence claims of every operator named on this page were verified against the Gambling Commission’s public register.

Cricket apps on a phone: what an app actually gives you on matchday

A betting app on a phone is not a smaller version of a desktop site. It is the place most cricket bets now get made, and the differences from a browser matter on matchday.

The Paddy Power app is built around the same markets as the site but adds Bet Builder+, Popular Bet Builders and a feature called Super Sub — a bet rolls over to the replacement if a selected player is substituted. Expanded Win More markets and player and accumulator statistics sit beside the bet slip. For a bettor who wants one app that handles an accumulator on a T20 international and a player-prop bet on the same match, it is one of the denser products on the GB market.

Ladbrokes’ app has the long-running Best Odds Guaranteed concession on UK and Irish horse racing, the daily odds boosts on horse and greyhound bets, in-play betting and accumulator boosts. For a cricket bettor its offer is the bigger brand catalogue and the cross-product boosts; for a pure cricket purist the horse-racing emphasis is the headline feature rather than a cricket one.

Fitzdares’ app is a smaller product — cash out, accumulators, Lucky 15s, specials and ante-post markets on horse racing, football, tennis, rugby, cricket, golf and American football, with live odds once play is under way. The cricket offer sits inside a bookmaker whose centre of gravity is horse racing.

Lottoland’s UK app combines casino, lottery betting, sports betting and scratchcards. For a punter whose interest in the app is mostly lottery and scratchcards and who occasionally wants a cricket bet on the same device, the cross-sell is the point; a cricket-only punter has thinner markets to choose from.

Swifty Sports offers Best Odds Guaranteed, cash out on markets including horse racing and football, daily price boosts, live streaming and in-play betting. A Bet Builder is listed as coming soon. The cricket offer is in-play-led, and the streaming coverage is what it claims it is rather than a comprehensive international feed.

Hollywoodbets’ app carries the sports welcome offer described in the offer section below. A new player who deposits £10 or more by card gets their stake back as a free bet of up to £30 on a first qualifying losing accumulator — stake £10 or more, three or more legs, odds of 4/1 or greater, settled within seven days. One free bet per customer. The cricket offer is solid rather than headline-grabbing, and the welcome offer’s structure is what changes the deposit surface for a new account.

888sport offers pre-match and in-play betting, cash out, Bet Builder, racing streams, a BetFinder form tool, a live bet feed and daily boosted odds. The product is broad and the BetFinder is the cricket-friendly part: form data on the same screen as the market is what the page is for.

BetTom’s app carries the welcome offer detailed further down — fifty per cent back as a free bet of up to £50, with a matching fifty per cent back up to £50 as free slot funds for casino play. Full terms apply. For a punter whose interest is split between sports and casino, the dual credit is the point.

Sky Bet’s welcome offer for new customers is £30 in free bets, credited as three £10 free bet tokens after a deposit of at least £5 and a first single or each-way bet of at least 5p at odds of 1/1 or greater. The Sky Bet app is the product many GB punters encounter first.

BetGoodwin’s app pays Best Odds Guaranteed on all UK and Irish horse and greyhound racing, up to £1,000. The cricket offer is one product among several and not the headline.

The judgement on the apps is not which is best in the abstract but which suits a particular cricket punter. A bettor who wants accumulator tools and player props on the same screen reads the Paddy Power product closely. A bettor who wants form data on the same screen as the odds reads 888sport’s BetFinder. A bettor who wants the app to be one of several products on the same device reads Lottoland. The thinner cricket products are not lesser apps — they are apps whose centre of gravity is elsewhere.

In-play cricket and cash out: what changes when the match goes live

Cricket in play is the most volatile market the licensed bookmakers offer. A partnership can be fifty for no wicket one minute and four for three the next, and the price on the side batting second moves with every over. That volatility is exactly what in-play betting is built to capture.

In-play betting, in the trade language, is betting on a match once it has started. The bookmaker’s job in those few seconds between deliveries is to reprice the market against a model that runs faster than any human can write a slip. The bettor’s job is to decide whether the new price is shorter or longer than the new state of the game warrants. Almost every licensed GB bookmaker offers in-play cricket; the controls are the operator’s licence conditions and customer-protection duties, not a statute.

Cash out is the bookmaker’s offer to settle the betslip mid-match at a price the bookmaker itself sets. The price is the bookmaker’s price — a function of its margin and its view of what the bet is worth now — not the back-and-lay price on an exchange. For a punter whose bet has gone well and who is no longer sure it will go the rest of the way, cash out is a paid way to take some money off the table. The price is never generous in the punter’s favour.

Live streaming of a cricket match inside an app is the feature that turns in-play into a watching-and-betting product rather than a watching-and-refreshing one. Swifty Sports’ listing names live streaming and in-play betting among its features; 888sport names racing streams. The bookmaker’s choice of which matches to stream is its own, and the rights to major international cricket are not free.

The pattern that matters on an in-play market is the same one that matters before the match: the bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price it offers. On a moving market that margin is harder to read in the prices because the prices themselves move so fast. A bettor who only plays in-play is paying the margin on every tap, often without seeing it.

A bet builder on a live cricket match — a same-game multi built while the match is going on — is the product that has grown fastest across the licensed apps in the last few years. Paddy Power’s Bet Builder+ and 888sport’s Bet Builder both sit on top of the in-play market. The same logic applies as to any other bet builder: each leg carries its own margin, and the combined price carries the margin of the combination. The product is convenient. It is not cheaper than singles.

The licence position that touches in-play play is the same one that touches every other market on a GB-licensed site: the operator holds a remote general betting licence, GAMSTOP coverage is in place, the financial vulnerability check applies once the customer’s deposits minus withdrawals pass £150 in a rolling thirty days, and the credit-card ban covers deposits made to fund an in-play bet. The cricket-specific risks of in-play — chasing a losing position over many markets, raising the stake to recover — are the same risks the responsible-gambling section addresses further down.

How a cricket tip is built: form, statistics, line-ups, and the market’s own prices

A prediction in cricket is a stack of inputs, not a single number. The inputs that matter before the toss, and how they hold up once the match has started, are what the rest of this section walks through.

Form. A team’s recent results tell the bettor something — sometimes more than they should. Recent results over the last six to twelve months are the standard window; a side that has won four of its last five T20 internationals is, on the surface, a more likely winner of the next one than a side that has won one. The catch is that form is already partly priced in. A bookmaker’s price on a side in form is shorter than it was before the form was built; the bet is not against the form, it is against the price the form has produced.

Statistics. Runs, wickets, strike rates, economy rates, average partnerships, dot-ball percentages — these are the inputs that turn form into a number. They sit on the cricinfo-style data feeds and on the form tools the bookmakers themselves offer (888sport’s BetFinder is one). The work is to use a statistic the market is under-using rather than to know a statistic the market already prices in. A bowling average that has shifted over the last six months is more useful than a career average the market has been pricing for a decade.

Line-ups. A side named the night before the toss is rarely the side that takes the field. Resting players, injury replacements, pitch conditions, dew — the eleven who actually play are the eleven who set the market. A punter who has read a team announcement an hour before the toss has information the morning’s prices do not. That information is what a tip is built on.

Pitch and conditions. A dry pitch turns to spin. A green pitch turns to seam. A flat pitch produces runs. The toss decides who bats on the unchanged pitch and who bats on the worn one. The decision has been the most consistently mispriced input on the GB cricket market for a decade. A punter who treats the toss as a coin flip rather than a forecast has paid for that mispricing.

The market’s own prices. A bookmaker’s odds are a forecast in their own right. Where two bookmakers disagree on a price, the disagreement is information. Where a market has moved sharply in the hours before the toss, the move is information. A back price on a betting exchange is a forecast made by a backer whose money is on the line; the lay price is a forecast made by a layer. The bettor’s job is to read the market’s view as one input rather than as the answer.

A value bet is the term for a price the bettor judges longer than the true probability of the outcome. If the bettor judges the true chance of a side winning at 60 per cent, then any price longer than 1.67 in decimal odds (5/3 in fractional, the equivalent of 1 ÷ 0.60) is a value bet. The bookmaker will keep its margin on every bet the punter places; a value bet is one whose margin the punter judges to be in the punter’s favour on this single bet.

No tip is ever certain. A bet on a side priced at 1.10 (1/10 fractional) is a bet with a 91 per cent implied chance of winning, and a 9 per cent implied chance of losing; on a long enough run, roughly nine in every hundred of those bets will lose. The punter who treats a short price as a certainty will, over a season, lose a stake they did not plan to lose.

Bet types and how they settle: what a cricket market actually asks of you

The markets a licensed GB bookmaker offers on a cricket match break into a smaller number of families than the menu on the betting slip suggests. The shape of the family decides how the bet is read, how it settles and how the bookmaker’s margin sits inside it.

Match result. A two-way or three-way bet on which side wins, with the draw a third outcome in Test cricket. The price on each outcome is the bookmaker’s forecast; the sum of the implied probabilities on the three outcomes is greater than 100 per cent by an amount that is the bookmaker’s margin. The bet settles on the official result.

Innings runs. A bet on the number of runs a side scores in a single innings, with the bookmaker setting a line and the punter taking over or under. The price on either side is set by the bookmaker, and the margin sits inside both halves of the market.

Top batsman / top bowler. A bet on which player scores the most runs or takes the most wickets in an innings or a match. The price is set against a field of players; the longer the field, the higher the margin the bookmaker carries, because the bookmaker is offering a price on every player. A bettor who has read a team announcement an hour before the toss has information that the field-of-players price has not yet absorbed.

Player props. A bet on a named player’s runs, wickets, sixes, fours, strike rate, economy rate, or any other single-player market. Each prop carries the bookmaker’s margin; the prop’s price is set against the bookmaker’s model. A bettor who has a view on a player the bookmaker’s model does not have a view on has found a value bet, if their view is right.

Bet builder / same-game multi. A combination bet built from several markets on the same match, with each leg carrying its own price and the combined price the multiplication of the legs. The combined price carries the margin of the combination. Paddy Power’s Bet Builder+ and 888sport’s Bet Builder are the headline products. A bet builder is convenient; it is not cheaper than singles.

Each-way. Two bets of equal stake: one on the win, one on the place. The stake the punter risks doubles. The place terms vary by market and operator and are stated on the bet slip. Each-way is most often used on outright markets where a place pays out.

Outright / futures. A bet on a tournament winner, a series winner, a top run-scorer or a top wicket-taker. The market is set weeks before the tournament and moves with form and team news. The price the bookmaker offers at the start of the tournament is rarely the price the bookmaker offers at the end.

Spread betting. A bet on a margin of victory, runs scored, wickets taken, or any other quantity, with the punter winning or losing per unit of margin. Spread betting losses can exceed the deposit. Spreadex, which is regulated by the FCA for spread betting and by the Gambling Commission for fixed-odds betting, states this explicitly on its site.

The shape the bettor is betting into is what changes between formats. A Test match that ends in a draw carries a third outcome in the match result market; an ODI that is tied carries a result the punter has priced into the bet; a T20 that is tied is decided by a super over and the result market pays out as a win for the side that wins the super over. The cricket-specific rules of each format are what change which markets settle and how.

Cricket: the formats and the tournaments the market moves on

Cricket is played in three international formats, each with its own rules and its own betting markets. A bettor who treats a Test match like a T20 reads the market wrong from the toss.

A Test match lasts up to five days with up to four innings in total — a maximum of two per team. A minimum of ninety overs is scheduled per day. A match that is not won by either side is a draw. The draw is a third outcome in the match result market and is priced by the bookmaker; a bettor who backs a side at 2.00 (1/1 fractional) has paid for the chance of a draw as well as the chance of a loss.

A One Day International, or ODI, has each side batting a fixed fifty overs. If the scores are level when the chasing side is all out or runs out of overs, the match is a tie. In rain-affected ODIs the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method usually sets the target or result; if too few overs are played — usually twenty — the match is a no result. The DLS rule is the single most important settlement rule in the format and is what makes a fifty-over market look very different from a Test market when the rain is on the radar.

Twenty20, or T20, has each team batting a maximum of twenty overs — 120 legal deliveries. A bowler may bowl at most four overs. A tied match is decided by a super over. The shorter the format, the less time the bookmaker’s model has to absorb a partnership break and the more the in-play market can move.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) governs cricket. Twelve full members hold Test status, and the World Test Championship began its inaugural season in 2019. India won the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, played from 7 February to 8 March 2026 and co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka across twenty teams, beating New Zealand by ninety-six runs in the final. The Hundred, run by the ECB in England, and the franchise leagues — the IPL, the Big Bash, the Caribbean Premier League, the SA20 — each have their own betting markets, with the depth of the market a function of how many GB punters the bookmaker expects to follow the competition.

A cricket side has eleven players. The formats change the shape of the bet; the number of players on each side does not.

The ten licensed UK bookmakers compared

The table below compares the ten featured bookmakers on their GB licence and on what each operator’s own terms state on the subject of this page. The numbers under each licence are the public register entries at the Gambling Commission.

What the table cannot show is the spread of the offer across products. Paddy Power and 888sport are the deeper cricket products in the comparison, with bet builders and form tools on the same screen as the market. Ladbrokes and BetGoodwin are horse-racing-led products whose cricket offer is one product among several. Lottoland’s centre of gravity is lottery and casino. Fitzdares’ centre of gravity is premium horse racing. A bettor who wants the app to be one of several products on the same device has a different shortlist to a bettor who wants the app to be a cricket-first product.

The licence column is the test of who is licensed to take a GB customer’s bet. The right-hand column is what each operator states about its own product; it is not a verification of those statements, and a punter’s own check at the bookmaker’s terms is the closer source than any third-party page.

Cricket betting in Great Britain: who may take the bet

Cricket betting in Great Britain is legal at a bookmaker licensed by the Gambling Commission under the Gambling Act 2005. Since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 an operator whose remote facilities are used in Great Britain needs a Commission licence wherever it is based; a Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute. There is no state monopoly and no cap on the number of licences. Every GB-licensed online operator takes part in GAMSTOP.

Betting exchanges run under a separate licence category — the betting intermediary licence — and a betting exchange’s rates and rules are stated only from the exchange’s own terms. Spread betting that is not a financial product is inside the same General Betting Duty that covers fixed-odds betting. Financial spread betting is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, not the Commission.

What may be bet on is not on a statutory list. The operator holds a licence for a category and offers markets under its own rules and the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice. In-play betting is offered across the licensed market; the controls are the operator’s licence conditions, not a statute. No statutory cap on stakes in sports betting has been set; operators set their own maximum stakes and may restrict customers.

The minimum age is 18. Name, address and date of birth are verified before a customer can deposit or gamble — since 7 May 2019 — and the verification covers the path to a free bet or bonus as well as the path to a stake. A bettor who has not been through that check is not on a GB-licensed site.

Northern Ireland is outside the Gambling Act 2005 and has its own older law. A “Great Britain licence” or a “GB-licensed” bookmaker is licensed in GB only; the same brand in Northern Ireland sits under a different rule, and the registration at the same brand may differ. A punter in Belfast and a punter in Bristol see different markets on the same product.

A GB licence is compulsory at the point of consumption. Providing gambling facilities in Great Britain without the licence the Act requires is an offence aimed at the operator — section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005, on summary conviction up to fifty-one weeks’ imprisonment, a fine up to level 5, or both; six months in Scotland. No offence aimed at a customer who merely bets on an unlicensed site was been found: the loss for the customer is the loss of protection — no GAMSTOP coverage, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution body, no British consumer redress if funds are withheld, and not bound by the £150 vulnerability check or the 10x bonus cap.

Responsible gambling: the controls that sit on top of every bet

The safer-gambling controls on a GB-licensed site sit on top of every market, every offer and every bet. They are the difference between a licensed product and an unlicensed one.

GAMSTOP is the national multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme and a mandatory licence condition for online operators since 31 March 2020. Periods are six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal. After the minimum period the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to remove it. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps; betting shops use a separate service.

A financial vulnerability check (LCCP condition 3.4.4, in force since 30 August 2024) applies to licensed remote betting when a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling thirty days — since 28 February 2025. The check is a public-record check (for example, bankruptcy or county court judgments), not an income check and not a credit reference check. Financial risk assessments — the affordability checks of the press — have been announced in a staged plan, with no start date at the time of writing.

Deposit limits sit with the operator: every licensed operator must offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame. The first changes have applied since 31 October 2025; a second phase was postponed to 30 September 2026. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling for betting; limits are the customer’s choice. A punter who wants a hard ceiling sets it themselves before the first deposit.

The licence position is that no operator is “the safe choice” by default. A licensed site carries checks, limits, GAMSTOP and the bonus cap, and the verification before the first bet is part of the licence frame. An unlicensed site carries none of those protections and the possible loss of funds. The trade-off a punter makes between the two is the trade-off the rest of the responsible-gambling frame assumes is being made.

The help lines a punter can call sit outside any one bookmaker. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline. GambleAware funds treatment and research. NHS gambling clinics sit in a small number of regions. Gamblers Anonymous runs peer-led meetings. The links are on every licensed operator’s safer-gambling page.

Cricket offers and free bets: how an offer costs the punter

An offer on a cricket match is paid for in turnover, in a minimum price and in a deadline. The headline number is rarely the number the punter pays.

Hollywoodbets’ sports welcome offer, as stated on its App Store listing, gives a new player who deposits £10 or more by card their stake back as a free bet of up to £30 on a first qualifying losing accumulator. The accumulator must have three or more legs, odds of 4/1 or greater, and must be settled within seven days. One free bet per customer. The free bet’s stake is not paid back on a win; what the punter keeps is the winnings only, at the price the bet settles at.

BetTom’s sports welcome offer, also as stated on its App Store listing, is fifty per cent back as a free bet of up to £50, with a matching fifty per cent back up to £50 as free slot funds for casino play. Full terms apply. The offer splits between sports and casino, and the split is part of what the punter is buying.

Sky Bet’s welcome offer for new customers is £30 in free bets, credited as three £10 free bet tokens after a deposit of at least £5 and a first single or each-way bet of at least 5p at odds of 1/1 or greater. The minimum price is 1/1 (2.00 in decimal) and the qualifying stake is 5p. The credit is in three tokens rather than one; each token carries its own conditions and its own expiry.

Promotion rules that apply across the whole active market sit on top of any one offer’s terms. Wagering requirements on bonuses are capped at 10x — a £10 bonus at 50x would need £500 of bets; under the cap no more than £100. Mixed-product promotions — an offer that requires gambling on two or more product types such as betting, casino, bingo and lottery, for example “bet on football to get free spins” — are banned. The cap applies to bonuses; whether it applies to free bets with no wagering condition has not been established.

The arithmetic that gives the cost of clearing an offer is the same one the calculation section sets out, and the offer section does not retell it.

The bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price a punter sees — and inside every offer a punter claims. On a two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 and 1.90, the implied probability of each outcome is 1 ÷ 1.90, roughly 52.6 per cent. The sum of the implied probabilities on both outcomes is roughly 105.3 per cent. The five-point-three percentage points above 100 is the bookmaker’s margin on this market: the share of every unit bet on this market the bookmaker keeps, on average. The margin is a property of the market, not the punter.

A punter who wants to read a margin in the odds reads the back-and-lay spread on an exchange or compares prices across bookmakers. A punter who wants to know what the margin is on one specific market reads the bookmaker’s site on that market on that day. The margin is not printed in the price; it sits inside the price.

The margin in the odds: a worked example

The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every unit bet on a market that the bookmaker keeps, on average. The calculation has one formula. On a two-way market at decimal odds of 1.90 and 1.90, the implied probability of each outcome is 1 ÷ 1.90, or roughly 52.6 per cent. The sum of the implied probabilities across the two outcomes is roughly 105.3 per cent. The five-point-three percentage points above 100 is the bookmaker’s margin on this market.

A punter who wants to read a margin in real prices reads the back-and-lay spread on a betting exchange, where the spread is the visible margin. A punter who wants to know what the margin is on a specific market at a specific bookmaker reads the prices on that market at that bookmaker and adds up the implied probabilities. The result is the bookmaker’s take on that market on that day.

The five-point-three per cent figure is a number for one market at one price. The margin on a different market — the totals market, the handicap market, the top-batsman market — is not five-point-three per cent; the margin on each market is the bookmaker’s own, and a thinner market with fewer punters typically carries a wider margin. The point of the calculation is not the number but the shape: the bookmaker keeps the margin on every bet, on every market, on every price, and the punter’s job is to find the markets where the margin is at its thinnest and the bettor’s own view is sharpest.

How to bet on cricket: the questions this page has answered

The five questions at the bottom of the page are the ones a punter is most likely to ask first. The answers are short; the body above sets them out at the length they earn.

Frequently asked questions

How to bet on cricket?

The same bet, opened on a licensed GB bookmaker, is settled under the same rules. The added question is which bookmaker, and the answer is whichever carries the licence, the market and the price that suit the bet. A licensed bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission remote licence for Great Britain. A price that holds a margin the punter judges smaller than the next book’s margin is a price worth a closer look. A market the punter has a view on is a market worth a stake. The three together — licence, market, price — are the test of a bookmaker worth opening an account with.

How to win cricket betting?

A cricket punter wins by reading a market better than the bookmaker has priced it, on bets where the price is longer than the punter’s own forecast of the chance. Over a season the bookmaker’s margin will eat a share of every stake, and the only way to come out ahead is to be right more often than the price implies, on enough bets to make the margin a smaller share of the total stake. No system wins. No tip is ever certain. A short-priced bet at 1.10 still loses nine per cent of the time; a long-priced bet at 10.00 still loses ninety per cent of the time. The bookmaker’s edge is permanent; the punter’s edge is what the punter builds.

What is a value bet and why is no tip ever certain?

A value bet is a price longer than the punter’s own forecast of the chance of the outcome. If the punter judges a side’s chance of winning at sixty per cent, then any price longer than 1.67 in decimal odds — 5/3 in fractional, the equivalent of 1 ÷ 0.60 — is a value bet. The bookmaker will keep its margin on every bet the punter places; a value bet is one whose margin the punter judges to be in the punter’s favour on this single bet. No tip is certain because every price carries uncertainty the bookmaker’s model cannot price away: a player injured in the warm-up, a pitch that turns more than the forecast said, a partnership that holds for longer than it should. A punter who treats a tip as a certainty is a punter who will, over a season, lose a stake they did not plan to lose.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?

The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every unit bet on a market that the bookmaker keeps, on average. On a two-way market at decimal odds of 1.90 and 1.90, the implied probability of each outcome is roughly 52.6 per cent, and the sum of the implied probabilities across the two outcomes is roughly 105.3 per cent. The five-point-three percentage points above 100 is the bookmaker’s margin on this market. The margin sits inside every price the punter sees — the difference between the price the punter is offered and the price that would imply a fair market is the margin. The punter’s job is to find markets where the margin is at its thinnest and the punter’s view is sharpest.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

The return on a winning single bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 3.50 returns £35 — the £10 stake plus £25 of profit. On a combination bet — a double, a treble, an accumulator — the odds of each leg multiply into one price, and the return is the stake multiplied by the combined price. A £5 accumulator at a combined price of 25.00 returns £125, the £5 stake plus £120 of profit. The stake the punter risks is the unit stake the punter enters on the slip, regardless of how many legs the combination has. The profit on a free bet is calculated on the winnings only — the free bet’s stake is not returned with a win.

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