What is a Heinz bet? The 57-bet full cover that punishes your stake on any miss

Updated October 2026

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A Heinz is one of the oldest full-cover bets in British betting: six selections, fifty-seven bets, no singles. Every line is a multiple, every multiple needs all its legs to win, and the stake is multiplied by fifty-seven before a ball is kicked. That structure is the whole question this page answers. How the bet is built, how it settles when one selection lets you down, what a £2 stake per leg really costs in total, what the bookmaker’s margin does to a price that already looks short, and which of the bookmakers on the Gambling Commission’s register actually offer the bet — those are the things a punter needs to know before they tap place. Everything below treats the Heinz through that lens: cost first, mechanics second, picks of operators last.

The data below is current as of 27 October 2026 and was checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register of operating licences.

Heinz how the 57 lines are built and what happens when one leg fails

The mechanics of the bet are simple, but the cost shape is not. A Heinz takes six selections and covers every multiple that can be made from those six without including a single. That gives fifteen doubles (every pair of picks), twenty trebles (every three), fifteen four-folds (every four), six five-folds (every five) and one six-fold accumulator. Fifteen plus twenty plus fifteen plus six plus one is fifty-seven. The name comes from the fifty-seven varieties advertised by the food company, which is also why the bet has no singles in the box — every one of those fifty-seven lines is a multiple, and a multiple pays nothing unless every leg wins.

The line-by-line anatomy of a Heinz

For six selections labelled A, B, C, D, E and F, the fifty-seven bets are:

• 15 doubles: AB, AC, AD, AE, AF, BC, BD, BE, BF, CD, CE, CF, DE, DF, EF
• 20 trebles: ABC, ABD, ABE, ABF, ACD, ACE, ACF, ADE, ADF, AEF, BCD, BCE, BCF, BDE, BDF, BEF, CDE, CDF, CEF, DEF
• 15 four-folds: ABCD, ABCE, ABCF, ABDE, ABDF, ABEF, ACDE, ACDF, ACEF, ADEF, BCDE, BCDF, BCEF, BDEF, CDEF
• 6 five-folds: ABCDE, ABCDF, ABCEF, ABDEF, ACDEF, BCDEF
• 1 six-fold accumulator: ABCDEF

Every one of those fifty-seven lines needs all its legs to come in. The structure is a pyramid: the more legs a line has, the fewer lines of that size exist, and the longer the odds on each one.

Stake versus total outlay

This is where most readers first misread the bet. A Heinz is priced at a “per-line” stake, not as one total stake. Bet £2 per line and the total outlay is £2 × 57 = £114 before a single event has started. Bet 50p per line and the outlay is £28.50. Bet £10 per line and the outlay is £570. The “stake” shown on the betting slip is the unit stake, and the slip should also show the total stake, because the two numbers are easy to confuse when the slip auto-fills.

What happens when one selection loses

The Heinz is built to keep paying something when one leg fails, but only through the lines that don’t include that selection. If pick A loses, the fifteen doubles containing A die with it, the trebles containing A die, and so on up. The bets that survive are the multiples drawn only from B, C, D, E and F. A six-fold becomes a five-fold of B through F; the six five-folds become five five-folds from those same five, and so on. The size of the surviving payout depends on how strong the remaining picks were priced and how many legs they lost to.

A void selection behaves like a non-runner: the affected line drops to the next multiple down. A five-fold with one void turns into a four-fold at the book’s adjusted price. That is the standard bookmaker rule across the GB-licensed firms and is the reason a Heinz on a horse race with a non-runner is not a total loss.

Where the Heinz sits among the full-cover family

The Heinz is one of five standard full-cover bets in British bookmaking, ordered by selection count and total bets:

A Lucky 15 is the only one of that set with singles in the mix. The Heinz, by contrast, has zero singles, which is its defining feature and the source of its brutal break-point: one dead leg and a third of the lines are gone. A Super Heinz on seven picks costs 120 unit stakes before any of the seven run, and the same break-point logic applies but on a larger surface.

Heinz cost the actual arithmetic behind the £114 ticket

The arithmetic below is illustrative — the prices are round figures for explanation, not quoted prices from any bookmaker. The point of the calculation is what it does to the reader’s wallet, and what it tells them about the value of the bet.

A worked example at round prices

Suppose six selections are priced at 1.50, 1.50, 2.00, 2.00, 2.50 and 2.50, and the unit stake is £2. The total outlay is £114. If all six win, the return is the sum of all fifty-seven lines settled at the multiplied prices.

Add the highest of each band across the line counts and the upper end is roughly £1,720 return on a £114 outlay, with a profit band of a few pounds at the low end to roughly £1,600 at the top. The arithmetic shows the bottom line for the punter: the outlay is fixed, the return is a band, and where the bet lands in that band depends on which picks won and at what price.

Why a “win” on the bet is rarer than a “win” on a single

The six-fold leg needs all six to win. With each pick priced near evens the implied chance of each individual leg is around 50%, and the chance of all six winning together is roughly 0.5⁶ or about 1.6%. The trebles need three from six to come in, the doubles need two, and so on. A bet can return less than its outlay — that is the realistic outcome most of the time, because the smaller lines pay small and the bigger lines almost never land.

What the margin does to a Heinz

Every one of those fifty-seven prices carries the bookmaker’s overround. The Heinz compounds that overround, because each line is a product of the per-leg prices. A market with a 5% margin on singles compounds to noticeably more across the 57 lines; the payout share on the whole bet is lower than the payout share on any one leg. This is the standard reason a Heinz on six short-priced favourites pays less than its face suggests. The bookmaker’s margin is not a flat fee on the bet — it is baked into every price and it gets larger as the lines multiply.

Heinz the strategic shape: what the bet is actually for

Heinz coverage turns up in punter folklore as a “spread the risk” bet, and there is some truth to that, but the framing can mislead.

What the bet does well

The bet is a way of getting coverage on six confident picks without writing six separate accumulators. A punter who likes the look of three Saturday football teams and three Sunday picks can roll them into one slip and know that any four or five that win together produces a return that beats the cumulative stake. The line with the most legs carries the longest price, and the doubles cushion the cost when only two of the six win. For an each-way version of the bet, the place side applies per leg in the same way, which makes the structure useful on horse racing where each-way terms vary by race type.

What the bet does badly

The bet punishes missing picks harder than the marketing suggests. Drop one leg and roughly a third of the fifty-seven lines are gone. Drop two legs and only the doubles between the four surviving picks still pay, plus a small handful of higher-multiple lines. A Heinz is a one-miss-away wonder and a two-miss-away disaster — that is the trade-off a Trixie or a Yankee carries too, but on a smaller surface.

Picking for a Heinz versus picking for singles

A Heinz needs picks whose prices will not collapse together if one of them lets you down. Six short-priced favourites compound into a six-fold that looks long but pays rarely. Six mid-range picks around 2.00 to 3.00 give a more balanced return distribution. There is no rule that says the picks must be from one sport, and many GB-licensed bookmakers will let a punter mix football, horse racing and tennis into a single Heinz.

Heinz the GB-licensed bookmakers that offer the bet, and how each one frames it

The ten bookmakers below all hold a Gambling Commission remote operating licence for general betting on real events and are the featured set for this comparison. The list is not a ranking and not a recommendation — the entries describe what each operator’s own site and terms say about the bet. The licence numbers below are the Commission’s account numbers; the register itself is the only place a licence is verified, and a punter can check any of them by searching the Commission’s public register by name or account number.

The table that follows carries one operator per row and four matters per row: the brand, the Gambling Commission remote licence number and the name of the licence holder, and what the operator’s own terms say about Heinz coverage or the related full-cover family. Where an operator’s terms do not address the Heinz directly, the fourth column carries the article-language no-data marker.

Midnite — the newer GB-licensed sportsbook with an acca-led layout

Midnite is the youngest licence in the featured set, and its site leans on accumulator products. The Heinz sits inside the acca builder, which is the bet constructor the operator promotes, and the welcome offer is built around a £5+ pre-match qualifying bet at evens or greater within 14 days, paying £25 in free bets and 50 free spins valid for 7 days. For a Heinz punter the relevant point is that the qualifying bet is a single, not a multiple, so the welcome offer does not directly subsidise the £114 ticket — it subsidises a separate single at minimum odds of 1/2 within the 14-day window. The acca builder is the operator’s main product surface and is where Heinz coverage lives. Verdict: a Heinz-friendly layout in a young GB-licensed bookmaker, but the welcome offer does not fund one.

Smarkets — the betting exchange that prices the Heinz differently

Smarkets is a betting exchange, not a traditional sportsbook, and the licence is a remote betting intermediary licence rather than a remote general betting standard licence. That changes the maths of a Heinz: each leg is a back bet laid against other customers, and the operator charges 2% commission on net winnings rather than building margin into the price. New customers have access to 0% commission for 60 days with a minimum first deposit of £10, which is a real edge for a Heinz during that window — every winning leg settles without commission, and the cumulative effect across 57 lines is meaningful. The trade-off is liquidity: an exchange does not always have a match for a given price, and a Heinz with one illiquid leg may not fully form. Verdict: a Heinz is cheaper on an exchange during the 60-day commission-free window but harder to place in full if any leg is thinly priced.

888sport — the established GB bookmaker with a wide product surface

888sport is a long-standing GB-licensed operator and offers the Heinz as part of its standard multiples menu. The product surface is broad: pre-match, in-play, Cash Out, Bet Builder, racing streams, BetFinder form tools, a live bet feed and daily boosted odds. For Heinz coverage the relevance is twofold. First, Bet Builder allows the construction of same-game multiples that can feed into a Heinz leg, which is useful when one of the six picks comes from a single match. Second, the boosted-odds feature can lift the price on one or more of the six legs, though the boost typically applies to singles rather than multiples. Verdict: a Heinz punter gets a mature product surface and the option of feeding Bet Builder legs into the bet.

BoyleSports — the Irish-founded bookmaker with acca insurance as the headline

BoyleSports is GB-licensed through Boylesports Enterprise and runs an Acca Insurance product that refunds stakes as a free bet when one leg of a qualifying accumulator lets the punter down. The terms matter: opt-in is required, minimum stake £5, minimum odds 1/2, maximum refund £20 as a free bet expiring in 7 days, and the qualifying bets must be placed and settled on the same day. For a Heinz, the Acca Insurance applies to accumulator lines within the bet — the six-fold, the six five-folds and the fifteen four-folds — so a single dead leg on one of those lines can trigger a £20 free bet refund on the stake portion of the affected line. The trade-off is the daily cadence: the insurance only fires when the bets are placed and settled on the same day, which suits a Saturday-only Heinz more than a build-up across a football weekend. Verdict: a meaningful safety net on the bigger lines of a Heinz, restricted to a £20 refund and a same-day window.

William Hill — the High Street name with Best Odds Guaranteed on racing multiples

William Hill is one of the oldest names on the GB register and offers the Heinz through its standard multiples menu. The headline feature for racing multiples is Best Odds Guaranteed, which pays the bigger of the SP and the price taken on UK and Irish horse racing from 8 AM on race day, on both single and multiple bets. That matters for any racing leg inside a Heinz: the SP is unknown at the time the bet is placed, and BOG lifts the doubles, trebles and bigger lines to the higher of the two prices. Ante-post, tote and pari-mutuel bets are excluded. Verdict: a Heinz with any racing legs gets the BOG uplift on the day, which is a real edge over bookmakers that do not offer it.

LiveScore Bet — the score-feed bookmaker with a deep Bet Builder

LiveScore Bet is the GB-licensed sportsbook built around the LiveScore scores feed. The Heinz is supported, and the Bet Builder is the standout feature for a Heinz punter: up to 10 selections per builder, covering match result, both teams to score, corners, total goals, player scoring and card markets. A Heinz leg built from a Bet Builder allows the punter to lock in a same-game position rather than spreading picks across fixtures, and the deeper the builder the more legs the punter can pull out of a single match. Verdict: the deepest Bet Builder on the featured set makes LiveScore Bet a natural fit for the Heinz punter who wants to source more than one leg from a single match.

Betboro — the Curaçao-headquartered GB-licensed bookmaker with responsible-gambling tooling

Betboro is operated by Webmedia Development N.V. and offers the Heinz alongside in-play markets and cash-out on football, racing and tennis. The boosted-odds feature applies to selected singles from £10 stakes, which means the price boost is a singles product rather than a multiples product and does not directly lift a Heinz leg. The responsible-gambling surface is the relevant point: deposit limits, reality checks and self-exclusion are all offered under the GB licence, which is the baseline expectation for a Commission-licensed operator. Verdict: a Heinz-friendly product on a smaller GB-licensed bookmaker, with the responsible-gambling tooling a punter should expect from any Commission-licensed operator.

Spreadex — the spread-betting operator with a separate fixed-odds Heinz

Spreadex is licensed by the FCA for spread betting and by the Gambling Commission for fixed-odds betting, and the distinction matters for the Heinz. Spread-betting losses can exceed deposits, which is a structural feature of the financial-spread product and not of the fixed-odds Heinz. The new-customer offer is £60 in free bets for a £10 fixed-odds bet, usable across fixed odds and spread betting, with the qualifying bet placed within 28 days of opening the account. For the Heinz punter the relevant point is that the fixed-odds Heinz settles under the Gambling Commission licence, while any spread-betting position is on the FCA-regulated book and is not the Heinz at all. Verdict: a Heinz is on the fixed-odds side, and the welcome offer subsidises a £10 single rather than a multiple.

Lottoland — the lottery-and-sportsbook hybrid with a GB licence for both

Lottoland runs a GB licence that covers its lottery betting, casino, scratchcards and sportsbook. The Heinz is offered across the sportsbook product, and the licence covers all of it under one Commission account. For a Heinz punter the relevance is the breadth of the product under one roof: lottery bets settle under the same Commission account but are a separate product, and the sportsbook’s Heinz coverage runs under the general betting standard (real events) licence category. Verdict: a Heinz is on the sportsbook surface, with the rest of the Lottoland product under the same GB licence umbrella.

Paddy Power — the Irish-founded high-street name with the deepest Bet Builder surface

Paddy Power is operated under PPB Counterparty Services Limited and the Heinz is supported as part of the standard multiples menu. The standout features for a Heinz punter are Bet Builder+, Popular Bet Builders, the Super Sub replacement rule (a substituted player’s bet rolls to the replacement), expanded Win More markets and player and ACCA stats. Bet Builder+ extends the builder surface and is useful when more than one leg of the Heinz comes from the same match. Super Sub matters because a substituted player voids the leg on most books; Paddy Power’s rule keeps the bet alive on the replacement, which is a structural advantage on football-heavy Heinz tickets. Verdict: the Super Sub rule is the clearest edge for a football-heavy Heinz, and the builder surface is the deepest alongside LiveScore Bet’s.

Heinz legality in Great Britain: what the Gambling Commission licence actually covers

A Heinz is not separately licensed. The bet is a structure built from standard multiple-bet lines, and the bookmaker offering it needs a remote general betting standard (real events) licence from the Gambling Commission for customers in Great Britain. There is no statutory list of permitted bets or markets; the operator offers markets under its own rules within the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice.

Who regulates what

The Gambling Commission is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, set up under the Gambling Act 2005. The Act covers Great Britain — England, Scotland and Wales — and Northern Ireland sits outside it under older legislation. 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, and a Gibraltar, Maltese or Curaçao licence is not a substitute. Financial spread betting sits with the Financial Conduct Authority, not the Commission, which is why Spreadex’s Heinz settles on the fixed-odds licence while the spread book runs separately.

What the Commission’s public register shows

The Commission’s public register is searchable by business name, trading name, domain or account number, and it is the only place a licence is verified. A punter can confirm any of the operators in the comparison above by searching the register for the licence number or the licence holder name. Several major brands operate under a single licence holder — Paddy Power and Betfair both sit under PPB Counterparty Services Limited — and the register shows that grouping rather than treating them as independent operators.

What the licence does not do

The licence is a permission to operate, not a guarantee of any specific bet. A bookmaker may drop or restrict the Heinz on a given market, may cap stakes on a per-customer basis, and may void bets where terms allow. The Heinz itself is a contractual offer between the punter and the bookmaker; the Commission’s role is the framework around that contract, not a per-bet guarantee.

Verification, age and source-of-funds

GB-licensed operators must verify name, address and date of birth before the first deposit or bet, including with a free bet or bonus, and a financial vulnerability check applies to remote betting when deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days. That check is a public-record check, not a credit reference check and not an income check. The minimum age is 18 and credit cards have been banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020.

Heinz responsible gambling: the protection a Commission licence actually buys

A Commission licence buys a set of player-protection measures that an unlicensed site does not offer. The Heinz punter should know what those are, because the cost discussion above assumes the bet is being placed under them.

GAMSTOP and self-exclusion

GAMSTOP is the national multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme and is a mandatory licence condition for online operators. Self-exclusion periods are six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal, and after the minimum period the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the punter asks GAMSTOP to remove it. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps; betting shops use a separate service. A Heinz placed at a Commission-licensed operator sits inside GAMSTOP, and the punter’s exclusion applies across all participating operators.

Deposit limits and the announced affordability checks

Operators must offer gross deposit limits on a fixed time frame, and the first changes have applied since 31 October 2025. A second phase was postponed to 30 September 2026 and whether it is in force at the time of reading should be checked on the Commission’s site. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling: limits are the punter’s choice. A financial risk-assessment regime — the “affordability checks” of the press — has been announced in a staged plan with no start date, and a punter reading this should treat it as “announced, staged, no start date” rather than “in force”.

Where to get help

GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline, GambleAware funds treatment and education, NHS gambling clinics operate in several regions, and Gamblers Anonymous runs peer-support meetings. The Heinz is a high-stakes bet by construction — fifty-seven lines at the unit stake — and the player-protection framework above is what makes the difference between placing it at a Commission-licensed operator and placing it at an unlicensed one.

Heinz and the bonus question: why a “free bet Heinz” is rarely what it sounds like

The Heinz sits inside the wider market for bonuses and free bets, and the angle of this page — cost — is where the bonus money most clearly fails the punter.

Wagering and the 10x cap

A free bet is usually credited as bet credit with a one-turn turnover requirement: stake it once, keep the winnings. Some offers carry a wagering multiplier on the winnings or on the bonus, and under Commission rules that multiplier is capped at 10x. A £10 bonus at 50x needs £500 of bets to clear; under the cap, no more than £100. The cap does not apply to free bets with no wagering condition, and any cap on the money value of a bonus is not established in the rules reviewed here.

Why the Heinz is the wrong shape for a free bet

A free bet whose stake is not paid back is worth more on a longer price than on a short one: value scales with the difference between the odds and 1. A Heinz on six short-priced favourites has each leg close to evens, and the free bet is multiplied into fifty-seven lines at low odds, which produces a small expected return. The same free bet placed as a single on an outside price produces a much larger expected return per unit of stake. The Heinz is the wrong place to spend a free bet unless one of the legs is at a long price.

The “boosted Heinz” and what the boost actually boosts

Boosted odds on a Heinz work the same way as boosted odds on a single: the boost is on the headline price of the bet or the leg, and the boost typically replaces rather than adds to the price. The expected value of a boosted Heinz depends on the boosted price relative to the true price, and the boost is most useful on a leg whose true price is well above the boosted price — which is rarely the case in a Heinz of short favourites.

The “acca insurance” trap

Acca insurance — BoyleSports’ Acca Insurance is the example — refunds the stake of a qualifying accumulator when one leg lets the punter down. The refund is a free bet, not cash, and the free bet usually expires in 7 days. A Heinz punter can claim the insurance on the multi-leg lines within the bet, but the refund caps quickly: a £20 maximum refund on a £114 Heinz is the difference between a partial recovery and a meaningful one.

Heinz worked example: a full ticket at round prices

The example below carries the Heinz from the earlier worked calculation through to a payout, to make the cost-shape concrete. The prices are illustrative and the stake is £2 per line.

Outlay: 57 × £2 = £114.

The bands in the table show the range of possible outcomes: the outlay is fixed, the return is a band, and the difference between the bottom and the top of the band is roughly an order of magnitude. That is the shape of the bet.

Heinz and the betting exchanges: a cheaper route with thinner liquidity

A Heinz can be placed on a betting exchange as fifty-seven separate back bets, with each leg matched against a lay price from another customer. The operator takes commission on net winnings rather than building margin into the price. The result is a cheaper bet in expected terms: every leg pays closer to its true price, and the cumulative effect across fifty-seven lines is a noticeable saving on the bookmaker’s overround.

The trade-off is liquidity. A traditional bookmaker takes the other side of every leg and is happy to do so at any size within its stake limit. An exchange needs a counter-customer willing to lay each leg at the price the punter wants, and a thin leg can stall the bet or force the punter to take a worse price. For a Heinz built from popular football and racing markets the liquidity is fine; for a Heinz with one or two niche legs the bet may not fully form.

Heinz and the responsible gambler: the practical question of stake size

The Heinz is structurally expensive. At a £2 unit stake the outlay is £114; at £5 it is £285; at £10 it is £570. A punter who plans to place Heinz bets regularly should size the unit stake against a budget that absorbs fifty-seven losing lines, not against a single-event losing bet. The Commission’s deposit-limit regime is the framework around that decision, and the punter’s own deposit limit is the practical answer.

A punter who treats the Heinz as a one-off ticket should expect most tickets to return less than the outlay. The bet pays best when four to six of the six selections win together, and that outcome is rare. The structure is not a “safer” multiple bet — it is a more expensive one with a wider distribution of outcomes, including a small but real chance of a six-fold payout that dwarfs the stake.

Heinz what to look for in a bookmaker’s terms

The Heinz punter reading a bookmaker’s terms should look for five things, in order of importance:

1. The minimum stake per line. Most books price the Heinz at a £0.10 or £0.50 minimum, but the punter should check rather than assume.
2. The maximum stake per line. Bookmakers cap stakes per customer per bet, and the cap varies widely across the GB-licensed operators.
3. The void-selection rule. The standard rule is that a void leg drops to the next multiple down, but a few books void the whole line. The Heinz punter should know which rule applies.
4. The boosted-odds eligibility. Boosted odds typically apply to singles and named accumulators, not to arbitrary multiples within a Heinz.
5. The bonus eligibility. Free bets and bonuses typically do not apply as a stake to a Heinz unless the terms say otherwise; the punter should check whether the offer is a multiple-bet offer or a single-bet offer.

Heinz and the reader’s checklist: the questions a punter should answer before tapping place

• What is the unit stake, and what is the total outlay? The slip should show both, and the punter should know the difference.
• What happens if one leg is voided? The standard rule is that the affected line drops to the next multiple down.
• What happens if one leg loses? Roughly a third of the lines are gone, and the surviving lines depend on the prices of the remaining five picks.
• Is any of the legs a Best Odds Guaranteed racing selection? If so, the price on the racing leg lifts to the SP if the SP is bigger.
• Is the bet placed with a free bet or with cash? The Heinz punter should know which it is, because the stake is not returned on a free bet.
• Is the operator GB-licensed? The Commission’s public register is the check.

Heinz the final word

The Heinz is a bet that pays well when six strong picks win together and pays nothing when two or more of them let you down. The outlay is fifty-seven times the unit stake, the margin is compounded into every line, and the bonus products that purport to help the Heinz punter mostly cap their refund at a small number of free-bet pounds. The bet is for a punter with a budget that can absorb a £114 losing ticket and with six picks whose prices compound into a six-fold worth backing. For a punter without that budget or those picks, the structure is the wrong shape.

The ten operators above all hold a Gambling Commission remote licence and offer the Heinz within their product surface. The differences between them are real — Super Sub on Paddy Power, BOG on William Hill, the deep Bet Builder on LiveScore Bet, the exchange pricing on Smarkets — but none of them changes the structural cost of the bet itself. A Heinz costs £114 at £2 per line wherever it is placed, and the punter’s edge comes from the picks, not from the bookmaker.

Frequently asked questions

What is a super Heinz bet?

A Super Heinz is a full-cover bet on seven selections that produces 120 bets: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 7 six-folds and 1 seven-fold. The structure is the same as a Heinz but one selection wider, and the total outlay is 120 times the unit stake rather than 57.

What is a heinz bet?

A Heinz is a full-cover bet on six selections that produces 57 bets: 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and 1 six-fold. There are no singles in the structure, so every one of the 57 lines is a multiple that pays only when all its legs win.

How many bets in a super heinz?

A Super Heinz contains 120 bets: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 7 six-folds and 1 seven-fold. The unit stake is multiplied by 120 for the total outlay, so a £1 unit stake produces a £120 ticket before any of the seven events starts.

How can it be checked that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

Search the Commission’s public register by the operator’s business name, trading name, domain or account number. Every GB-licensed operator lists its account number on its own homepage or in its terms, and the register confirms whether the licence is current and which activity it covers.

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

For a single bet, return equals stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 3.00 returns £30, of which £20 is profit and £10 is the original stake. For a multiple bet, the odds of the legs multiply into one price before the stake is applied, and the return is stake multiplied by that combined price.

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

The margin is the share of every pound staked that the bookmaker keeps on average across a market. On a three-outcome football match priced at 2.10, 3.40 and 3.60, the implied probabilities add to 1.08 and the margin is the 8 percent above 100 percent — the overround that makes the market pay less than a fair price on every outcome.

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