Betting on kabaddi in 2026: what the price actually pays

Updated October 2026

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Kabaddi is a small corner of the British sportsbook. Most licensed operators do not carry it as a separate sport on their homepage; those that do tend to list only the Pro Kabaddi League and an Indian domestic cup or two once a season. That is the first consequence a punter feels: the menu is narrow, the fixtures come in bursts, and the prices are built by a market-maker working with a thin order book rather than the deep, contest-shaped money of football. The second consequence is more practical. Where a kabaddi match is priced at all, it tends to be priced on a handful of match-result and handicap lines — nothing like the long tail British punters are used to in football or tennis. A bettor who arrives expecting the same market depth finds a different shape of book, and the page that follows is about that shape, what it pays, and where it leaves the consumer exposed.

The data current as of 27 October 2026 was checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register and against each operator’s own published terms. Every number, licence reference and offer description below comes from those sources.

Kabaddi odds: how the price is built

A kabaddi price looks like a football price until the reader notices how few markets sit behind it. A Pro Kabaddi League fixture between two of the league’s twelve franchises typically lists match result (which team wins, with a tie option priced in some years and a “draw” market in others), a small handful of handicaps built around the league’s average winning margin of three to four points, and totals on a team’s raid count or the match’s combined points. Beyond that, the menu drops away fast.

That thinness shows up in the margin. With a smaller set of prices to balance, and fewer sharp bettors willing to take the under on a market they cannot model, the bookmaker keeps a larger share of every pound wagered.

Take an illustrative two-way market priced at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90. The implied probability of each side is 1 ÷ 1.90, or 52.63%, giving a total implied probability of 105.26%. This results in an overround of 5.26% and a bookmaker margin (the percentage of the market returned to the bookmaker) of 5.0%. A balanced football 1X2 at a major UK bookmaker tends to sit in the 4 to 6% range; a thin kabaddi line, with the same mathematical structure, tends to sit higher, often 7 to 10% on the headline markets and more on the props. That is the gap the punter pays for a sport the market-maker cannot back-test against a deep database of settled bets.

The consequence falls hardest on two reader groups. The first is the casual bettor who wanders into a kabaddi match on a Saturday because the football coupon is light, sees two teams at 1.90, and lays £10 expecting a roughly 50/50 shot. The return on a winning £10 at 1.90 is £19.00 — the original £10 stake plus £9.00 in profit. The implied break-even strike rate, ignoring the margin, is 52.6%; in a market with a 7% margin the true break-even strike rate is closer to 54%. The bettor has to win more often than they think to come out level. The second group is the small-stake bettor staking £2 or £5 a match. On a 1.90 line, a losing run of five consecutive biscuits costs them £10 of bankroll that, in a 5%-margin football market, would have cost them closer to £7.50 in expectation. The same stake, the same price, and the same bet, just on a sport the bookmaker can charge more for.

Fractional odds and decimal odds in British use

British punters meet kabaddi prices in decimal form because every licensed UK sportsbook displays decimal odds as default. The conversion is mechanical: fractional odds a/b equal decimal odds a ÷ b + 1. Fractional 5/1 is decimal 6.00. Fractional 9/10 is decimal 1.90. Fractional 11/4 is decimal 3.75. Fractional evens (1/1) is decimal 2.00. The “odds-on” range — anything shorter than evens — is where the bookmaker’s favourite sits, and where the margin eats the largest share of the stake: a 1.50 line hides a 4 to 6% overround that a casual eye reads as a near-certain win.

Handicap markets and totals

Handicap in kabaddi betting does not work the way it works in football or basketball. There is no spread built around an expected points margin the way an Asian handicap is built. The handicap a British punter meets on a Pro Kabaddi League fixture is closer to a match-result-with-margin: Team A minus 2.5 points at odds 1.85, Team B plus 2.5 points at the same. The team with the negative handicap has to win by more than 2.5 points; the team with the positive handicap can lose by up to 2.5 and still win the bet.

The market works because Pro Kabaddi League matches tend to settle within a narrow margin band — most wins are by one to four points — but the overround on handicap lines tends to be heavier than the overround on the outright, because the bookmaker cannot back-test the lines against a settled database the way they can for an established handicap market. The punter pays the price of that thin data, again, through the margin.

Totals on raid counts or combined points behave the same way. The bookmaker sets a line, prices both sides at any odds, and the overround is theirs to keep. There is no setting inside the LCCP, the ASA codes or the Gambling Act 2005 that caps what a licensed bookmaker may charge on a kabaddi market; the cap is the punter’s choice to bet or not.

What a winning kabaddi bet pays back

A winning £10 single at decimal odds 2.50 returns £25.00. The original £10 stake is paid back, plus £15.00 in profit. That is the gross return; from it the punter’s net profit on a single match is the return minus the stake — £15.00 in this example. For a combination bet, the odds of the legs multiply into one price. Two legs at 1.80 each combine into a 3.24 price; a £10 stake at that combined price returns £32.40 if both legs win, with £22.40 in net profit after the stake. The cost of the combination is that both legs must win, and the bookmaker’s margin compounds across the legs, not just across one.

Tournaments British punters can bet on

Pro Kabaddi League

The Pro Kabaddi League is the franchise competition founded in 2014 with eight teams, expanded to twelve before the 2017 season, and run by Mashal Sports. It is the competition British sportsbooks list when they list a kabaddi market at all, and it sits in a similar place in the British punter’s calendar that the IPL does in cricket — a window of high-profile matches running across the Indian autumn and winter, with a finals window in late March.

The league uses a round-robin followed by knockouts, with each franchise playing the others home and away in the league stage. A typical Pro Kabaddi season carries more than 130 matches in the league stage, with a further twenty or so in the play-offs. From a betting perspective, the season is dense in fixtures, which matters: a deep fixture list is what allows a market-maker to build a settled database, and a thin one is what keeps the margin high.

Kabaddi World Cup

The first Kabaddi World Cup was held in 2004 in Mumbai, organised by the International Kabaddi Federation (founded 2004). Indian men’s and women’s teams have won every edition of that World Cup since. For British punters, the World Cup has historically been priced on the way for a British sportsbook only intermittently: where it is priced, the market depth is shallower than the Pro Kabaddi League and the margin is correspondingly heavier. The competition runs on a roughly two-year cycle, and its place in the British coupon depends on the operator.

Other tournaments

Outside the Pro Kabaddi League and the World Cup, the British market’s coverage thins quickly. The Asian Kabaddi Championship, the South Asian Games, and a small number of national leagues appear at some licensed operators on a season-by-season basis. Most British bookmakers do not carry them as a standing fixture list. A punter who wants to bet on them needs to check the operator’s A-to-Z and book early: the prices may not be there to start running toward closing time.

Tie-breakers and settling

A tied kabaddi match is decided by a tie-breaker of five raids per team, and then by a golden raid where the first team to score wins. For a bettor on the outright result, a tie is its own outcome and may be priced as a separate selection where the operator allows it. For a bettor on a handicap or total, the tie-breaker is part of the final score: the team that wins the golden raid wins the match, and the handicap is settled against the official score including the golden raid. A raider scores one point per defender tagged plus a bonus point for crossing the bonus line when six or more defenders are on court; a team that tackles all seven opponents scores two extra points (an All Out). These are the scoring events a market-maker uses to settle totals and handicaps, and they are worth knowing before laying a stake on a line whose structure a casual reader cannot infer from the price alone.

Ranking ten licensed bookmakers for kabaddi betting in 2026

The ten operators below each hold a Gambling Commission remote licence. The table that closes this section names the licence number, the licence holder, and a one-line summary of what each operator’s own terms say on a subject the kabaddi punter cares about most. It is not a recommendation; it is the comparison the field makes possible.

Two patterns sit underneath that table. The first is that a smaller, more specialised operator tends to publish sharper welcome terms than a larger generalist — BoyleSports, BetGoodwin, VBet and Octobet name a clear structure, while Fitzwilliam Sports attaches its welcome to compliance criteria the punter has to clear first. The second is that only one of the ten is a betting exchange — Smarkets, on a remote betting intermediary licence, not a remote general betting standard licence — which means the punter comparing prices across the ten cannot lay off at every one. A kabaddi line taken at Smarkets is a lay bet; a kabaddi line taken at any of the other nine is a back bet. The Commission lists them differently, and the punter uses them differently.

Copybet

Copybet sits at the top of the comparison by licence number and by virtue of being the only operator whose headline offer — Best Odds Guaranteed all day, every day on all UK and Irish racing — runs without an hour window. For the kabaddi punter that does not move the needle directly: there is no Best Odds Guaranteed on a kabaddi match, because BOG is a racing product. It matters for the punter who keeps one wallet across sports and wants a single operator to cover both sides of a Saturday. Copybet also pays first past the post on horse racing even if the winner is later disqualified, which is a rule punter cares about deeply in racing and rarely in kabaddi, where disqualifications are uncommon. For a kabaddi bettor, Copybet is worth a look if the operator lists the sport at all and prices it on a normal margin band.

Smarkets

Smarkets is the only betting exchange on the comparison and the only operator on a remote betting intermediary licence rather than a remote general betting standard one. The practical difference is that Smarkets prices are set by its users, with the exchange taking a small commission on net winnings rather than a margin baked into the price. For a kabaddi match, that structure tends to deliver a sharper price than the same match at a traditional bookmaker, on the markets Smarkets lists at all. The catch is depth: a betting exchange with thin liquidity on kabaddi shows a wide spread and a punter laying a stake at the displayed price may find the price moves against them before the bet is matched. Smarkets’ payment terms are unusually clean for a British exchange: open bank transfer deposits instant from £10 to £10,000, withdrawals processed within 6 hours from £10 to £100,000, debit card deposits instant from £10 to £15,000. The punter who values the speed of the pound getting back to their bank account notices this in a way a casual reader does not.

10bet

10bet operates under a remote general betting standard (real events) licence issued to Blue Star Planet Limited. Its sportsbook, per the operator’s App Store listing, covers football, tennis and horse racing, with Cash out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming. The coverage is football-led and tennis-adjacent, with horse racing as the racing product. Kabaddi on 10bet is at the edge of the sportsbook rather than the centre; where it appears, the punter sees a typical menu of match result, handicap and totals, and the usual margin on a thin sport.

Spreadex

Spreadex is the only operator on the list that combines fixed-odds and spread betting in a single account, and the only one of them whose fixed-odds book sits beside a financial-spread product regulated by the FCA rather than the Gambling Commission. The punter who wants both in one wallet finds Spreadex the only place to look. The fixed-odds side offers one-click, auto and partial cash out, Bet Builder across fixed odds or spreads, and live streaming of UK and Irish horse racing, greyhounds, tennis, NFL and selected football. For the kabaddi punter, the live streaming matters less than the cash-out flexibility, which lets them close a position mid-match at a price Spreadex quotes, rather than holding the bet to the whistle and risking a late swing in the score. Spreadex’s own terms also state that spread betting losses can exceed deposits — a real risk on the spread side, and one a punter moving between fixed odds and spreads needs to read.

BetTom

Bet Tom Limited is the licence holder for BetTom, which operates under a remote general betting standard (real events) licence. A 50% back offer is the sports welcome, returning a free bet up to £50, plus a matching 50% back up to £50 in free slot funds for casino play. The structure is half sports, half casino, and the casino half is irrelevant for a kabaddi punter. The sports half is a refund-as-free-bet: a stake placed on a first bet that loses is refunded as a free bet up to £50. A free bet’s stake is usually not paid back with a win, so the headline “£50” is the value of the free bet at the odds the punter takes it at, not a cash refund. The wagering structure behind the refund sits in the operator’s full terms, and a punter who claims the offer should read those terms before staking.

Fitzwilliam Sports

Fitzwilliam Sports describes itself as a Dublin bookmaker with capped membership, which means the operator runs a closed shop rather than an open registration. The welcome is a “High Stakes Welcome” subject to compliance criteria, which is a structure that hands the operator the discretion to admit the customer or not. For the kabaddi punter, the consequence is that Fitzwilliam Sports is not on the comparison in the same way as the other nine: the operator chooses its customers rather than the other way round, and the welcome reflects that. The responsible-gambling side is solid — instant deposits, fast withdrawals, timeouts and deposit limits, with links to GambleAware, GamStop and Gamblers Anonymous — which is the part of the operator a punter considering it should weigh against the membership cap.

BoyleSports

Boylesports Enterprise holds the remote general betting standard (real events) licence for BoyleSports. Its sports welcome is £20 in free bets when a £10 bet is placed for UK players (£30 in free bets for a €10 bet for Irish players). The structure is straightforward: a £10 qualifying bet unlocks £20 in free bets, and the free bets are paid as separate stakes rather than a refund. For a kabaddi punter, the offer matters less than the question of whether BoyleSports lists the sport. The £20 in free bets is a real value, but it is real value at whatever odds the punter uses it on, and the punter using it on a 2.00 kabaddi line gets £20 in free-bet stake paid back as £20 in gross return with no stake returned, not £40.

VBet

SCGO Limited is the licensee for VBet, a brand carrying a remote general betting standard (real events) licence. New, verified customers qualify for a £10 free bet if they stake £10 or more on a first-ever bet that loses. The qualifying bet must be on VBet, the customer must be verified before placing it, and the loss is refunded as a free bet rather than cash. The “verified” word is the part that matters: every licensed operator verifies identity before a first deposit, and a punter who has not completed verification cannot claim the offer. For the kabaddi punter, VBet’s appeal is the depth of the in-play menu and the operator’s coverage of less-common sports, which is wider than several of the other names on the comparison. The free bet is a sweetener, not a reason to choose the operator.

Octobet

Octopus Game Limited operates Octobet. The site uses a remote general betting standard (real events) licence. For new customers, the sportsbook welcome is 50% back as a free bet up to £50, and a £10 casino bonus is also included. The structure is BetTom’s twin: half sports, half casino, with the sports side as a refund-as-free-bet and the casino side a separate small bonus. The punter choosing between BetTom and Octobet is choosing between two near-identical structures on different licences and different in-play menus.

BetGoodwin

Goodwin Racing Limited is the licensee for BetGoodwin, a bookmaker with a remote general betting standard (real events) licence. The “Bet £10 & Get £15 in Free Bets” offer is current, featuring a £5 sports bet, a £5 acca and a £5 Sub-Cover bet. The structure splits the £15 into three smaller free bets across three different bet types, which is a different shape from the single free bet most competitors offer. For a kabaddi punter, the £5 acca is the most interesting piece — an acca free bet is a stake on a combination of selections, and the value of the acca free bet is higher at higher combined odds than the value of a single free bet at the same stake. The £5 Sub-Cover bet is BetGoodwin’s own product name and its structure sits in the operator’s full terms.

The British regulatory frame for kabaddi betting

The Gambling Commission licenses the whole commercial market in Great Britain under the Gambling Act 2005. Northern Ireland is outside the Act and runs on its own older legislation, so a “GB licence” regulates Great Britain and not Northern Ireland. Since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, an operator whose remote facilities are used in Great Britain needs a Commission licence wherever the operator is based. A Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute.

The Commission’s public register is the test of who holds a licence. The register is searchable by business name, trading name, domain or Commission account number. Every operator on the comparison above appears on it, against the licence numbers in the table. A punter who wants to check a brand before staking pounds on it can search the register by the Commission’s account number from any operator’s published terms, or by the operator’s domain, and see the categories on the register, the licence holder and the address on file. The register is the whole test. There is no other.

There is no statutory list of permitted bets or markets in Great Britain. A bookmaker holds a licence for a category — remote general betting standard (real events), remote general betting standard (virtual events), remote general betting limited, remote pool betting, or remote betting intermediary — and offers markets under its own rules and the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice. Kabaddi sits inside the real-events category for most operators. Esports are treated like any other event; virtual events are a separate licence category; bets on politics, TV shows and novelty markets are offered by some GB bookmakers and there is no statutory prohibition.

In-play betting is offered by GB bookmakers under their licence conditions and customer-protection duties. No statute or LCCP condition establishes in-play as “unrestricted” in a way a casual reader should take as legal exoneration; the controls are the operator’s. Spread betting that is not a financial product sits inside General Betting Duty and is regulated by the Gambling Commission; financial spread betting is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Spreadex is the only operator on this comparison that combines both, and a punter moving between the two needs to know which side they are on.

Betting exchanges — Smarkets on this list — run under a remote betting intermediary licence. The rates and rules specific to exchanges are stated only from each exchange’s terms.

Bonuses and the cap on wagering requirements

Promotion rules in force since 19 January 2026 cap wagering requirements on bonuses at 10x. A £10 bonus at 50x would need £500 of bets; under the cap no more than £100 in wagering is required. Mixed-product promotions — an offer that requires gambling on two or more product types, such as “bet on football to get free spins” — are banned. Whether the cap applies to free bets with no wagering condition, and any cap on the money value of a bonus, are not established in statute, and the rules as they sit apply to bonus credit with a turnover requirement.

The cap is the part that lands. A £10 free bet whose stake is not paid back with a win is worth roughly £10 × (odds − 1) ÷ odds × payout share. At decimal odds 2.00 with a 95% payout share, that is £10 × 1.00 ÷ 2.00 × 0.95, or about £4.75 of expected value on average — well below the £10 the marketing reads as. The 10x cap puts a ceiling on the worst abuses; it does not put a floor under the value of the offer. The punter who claims a bonus with turnover should know how many bets at what minimum price the offer takes, and what the bookmaker’s margin costs on the way through.

What an unlicensed site costs

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 under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 — aimed at the operator, with penalties up to 51 weeks’ imprisonment, a level-5 fine, or both (six months in Scotland). No offence aimed at a customer who merely bets on an unlicensed site was found, so the legal frame for the punter is the loss of protection rather than a criminal record: no GAMSTOP coverage, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution body, no British consumer redress if funds are withheld, and the operator not bound by the 10x bonus cap or the £150 vulnerability check. The punter pays for unlicensed by no Commission sign-off on the operator’s terms.

Responsible gambling and player protection

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. Every GB-licensed online operator takes part. A punter who wants to stop betting across every brand they have used can do it in one registration.

A financial vulnerability check has been in force since 30 August 2024 under LCCP condition 3.4.4, and applies to licensed remote betting when a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days (since 28 February 2025). It 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 — are announced in a staged plan in the Commission’s article of 7 July 2026, with no start date. The honest framing is “announced, staged, no start date”, not “in force”. Deposit limits (RTS 12) require operators to offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame; the first changes applied from 31 October 2025, a second phase was postponed to 30 September 2026, and whether the second phase is live is not established.

Minimum age is 18. Identity verification — name, address and date of birth — is required before a customer can deposit or gamble at a licensed site, including with a free bet or bonus. There is no anonymous play at a licensed operator. Credit cards are banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020 (LCCP condition 6.1.2), including credit-card-funded payments through an e-wallet. Debit cards and bank-based payments are not covered by that ban. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling for betting: limits are the customer’s choice, set within the operator’s own tools.

Help services for a punter who needs them: GamCare, GambleAware, NHS gambling clinics, Gamblers Anonymous.

The mobile app and the betting app for kabaddi

The British punter’s kabaddi bet, in 2026, is most likely to be placed on a phone. The licensed operators on the comparison each publish a mobile app on the Apple App Store and a Google Play equivalent, with the same licence as the desktop site and the same account underneath. The mechanics are not specific to kabaddi: the punter opens the app, signs in, navigates to the kabaddi section if the operator lists one, picks a fixture, picks a market, enters a stake and confirms. The speed depends on the app’s live-data feed, the punter’s network and the operator’s own in-play latency.

What sits beneath that is the data on which the punter is making a decision. A kabaddi fixture has fewer live-data vendors than a football fixture, and the licensed operator’s in-play menu for kabaddi tends to be shorter than the menu for football, tennis or basketball. The app matters as a delivery channel, but it does not change the shape of the market: a thin menu is a thin menu, in a browser or on a phone.

Two practical considerations follow. First, where the punter has a choice between app and browser, the licensed operator’s app is the channel with the cleanest identity check: biometric sign-in, device-bound session, and the same verification under the hood as the desktop. The browser is functionally equivalent, but the app’s session is harder to share. Second, the licensed operator’s app is the channel that participates in the operator’s deposit limit and self-exclusion tools in real time. A punter who has set a deposit limit at BoyleSports won £10 a day cannot bypass it by opening a new browser session; the limit sits on the account.

For a kabaddi punter who values the speed of the in-play market, the only meaningful difference between the licensed operators is the depth of their in-play menu for kabaddi. The punter checking three apps side by side will see the same fixtures priced on different margins, with different in-play latency and different cash-out terms. The comparison on the table above is a starting point for that check, not the end of it.

Live kabaddi betting and cash out

Live kabaddi betting — in-play wagering during a match — works the same way live football betting works, with a smaller menu and a slower market. The licensed operator offers in-play markets on the fixtures it has priced, refreshes the prices as the match state changes, and lets the punter back or lay at the displayed price. The market refresh is the part the punter feels: a football match sees prices updated every few seconds from a dozen data feeds; a kabaddi match sees prices updated less frequently from fewer feeds, and the punter using a stale quote faces a small but real risk of taking a bet the market has already moved against.

Cash out is the operator’s offer to close a position mid-match at a price the operator quotes, rather than holding the bet to the whistle. The licensed operators on this comparison offer cash out in different shapes. Spreadex offers one-click, auto and partial cash out on fixed-odds bets. bet365, not on this list but a relevant reference, offers Cash out, partial cash out and auto cash out on its in-play markets. 10bet names Cash out among its headline features. Smarkets, as a betting exchange, offers the equivalent functionality through the exchange’s order book rather than a cash-out button.

The punter’s calculation behind a cash-out offer is straightforward: take the offer, multiply by the probability the punter attaches to the bet winning from this point, and compare the result to the original bet’s expected return. A kabaddi cash-out price is the operator’s price, and the operator’s own margin sits inside it. The cash-out price is therefore wider than the operator’s pre-match price by enough to cover the operator’s position, and the punter using it pays for that position.

For the kabaddi punter, in-play is where the margin is most exposed. A pre-match price at 1.90 with a 5% margin settles the punter’s expectation clearly. An in-play price at the same number, on a sport with a thin in-play database, may sit on a margin closer to 8 or 10%, because the operator has fewer benchmarks to set the price from. The punter betting in-play on kabaddi pays for the thinness of the market, and the cost shows in the closing price.

Pro kabaddi betting tips, predictions and what they cannot promise

A punter searching for “pro kabaddi betting tips today” or “vivo pro kabaddi betting tips” meets a market of tips, statistical services and pundit-led forecasts. Some of them are accurate; most of them are not. The honest framing is that no publicly available tip can know the outcome of a match in advance, and the punter who acts on one bet is gambling on the tipster’s judgement rather than their own. A £10 single at decimal odds 2.50 returns £25.00 if the tip wins, with £15.00 in net profit; the same £10 returns nothing if the tip loses, and the punter’s record over many tips settles to whatever the tipster’s strike rate is, less the bookmaker’s margin.

The legitimate use of tips and predictions is as one input to the punter’s own model. A bankroll management framework — staking a fixed percentage of the bankroll per bet, or a variable percentage that grows with confidence — is what separates a punter who lasts from one who runs out. The fix is the bet sizing, not the tip.

Two consequences follow. First, the punter who buys a tip subscription pays a fixed cost each month, and the value of the subscription is the value of the tips minus the subscription price. If the subscription is £30 a month and the tips add £20 of expected value, the subscription costs the punter £10 a month in expectation. Second, no strategy or system wins in the long run, because the bookmaker’s margin is built into every price. The punter who wins does so by finding markets where their own edge is larger than the bookmaker’s margin, and the number of those markets is small. A punter who treats tips as a single source of edge will eventually run out of bankroll; a punter who treats tips as one input to a wider bankroll framework has a chance.

The pages that sell tips often sell a system. The system is a marketing wrapper around the tip, and the punter reading the marketing should treat it as such.

Frequently asked questions

How is a kabaddi bet played?

A kabaddi bet works like any other sportsbook wager: pick a fixture, pick a selection, set a stake, confirm. A £10 single at decimal odds 2.00 returns £20 if the selection wins, with £10 in profit. A combination bet multiplies the legs together: two legs at 1.80 each combine to 3.24, and a £10 stake at 3.24 returns £32.40 if both legs win. Settling follows the operator’s terms and the official match result, including any tie-breaker.

How does a punter bet on kabaddi?

A punter opens an account with a GB-licensed bookmaker, completes identity verification, deposits funds, navigates to the kabaddi section and selects a fixture. Most licensed operators list Pro Kabaddi League matches during the Indian autumn and winter season, and a small number list the Kabaddi World Cup. Where the operator does not list kabaddi, the punter sees no fixture and no price.

How can a bookmaker’s GB licence be checked?

The Gambling Commission’s public register is searchable by business name, trading name, domain or Commission account number. The register shows the licence categories on the register, the licence holder and the address on file. The register is the whole test of whether a brand holds a licence, and there is no other.

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

Return = stake × decimal odds. Net profit = stake × (decimal odds − 1). A £10 single at decimal odds 2.50 returns £25.00, with £15.00 in net profit. For a combination bet the odds of the legs multiply into one price, and the return is calculated on that combined price.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how does it show in the odds?

The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every pound wagered the bookmaker keeps on a market. For a two-way market priced at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90, the implied probability of each side is 52.63%, the total implied probability is 105.26% (the overround), and the margin is roughly 5.0%. A market with a 5% margin returns 95% of every pound staked in expectation; a market with a 7% margin returns 93%.

How do fractional odds such as 5/1 convert to decimal odds such as 6.00?

Fractional odds a/b equal decimal odds a ÷ b + 1. Fractional 5/1 is 5 ÷ 1 + 1 = 6.00. Fractional 9/10 is 9 ÷ 10 + 1 = 1.90. Fractional 11/4 is 11 ÷ 4 + 1 = 3.75. Fractional evens (1/1) is 2.00. The British punter meets prices in decimal form at every licensed UK sportsbook as default, and the conversion is mechanical.

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