Betting education
One evergreen guide per market, never per market and country and league. Each links to the previews that use it.
Markets
Learn a market
- Both teams to score
A bet that each side scores at least once, whatever the result.
- Over 2.5 goals
A bet that the match has three goals or more.
- Double chance
Cover two of the three outcomes at a shorter price.
- Draw no bet
Back a side; the stake is returned if it is a draw.
- Asian handicap
A goal start or deficit applied to one side, with half-goal lines removing the draw.
- Correct score
Predict the exact final score. Long odds, low hit rate.
- Accumulators
Several selections multiplied into one bet. One loser loses the lot.
- Bet slip
The list of selections, stake and potential return a bookmaker shows before you confirm a bet.
- Under 2.5 goals
A bet that the match has two goals or fewer.
- Over 1.5 goals
A bet that the match has two goals or more.
- Void bet
A bet the bookmaker cancels and settles at odds of 1.00, so the stake comes back.
- Odds
The price of a bet: decimal odds multiplied by the stake give the total return.
- Stake
The amount placed on a bet, and the base every return is calculated from.
- Half time full time
Predict the result at half time and the result at full time in one bet.
- Bet builder
Several markets from one match combined into a single bet at one price.
- Cards betting
Bets on the number of yellow and red cards, or booking points, in a match.
- Clean sheet
A bet that a side concedes no goals in the match.
- Win to nil
A bet that a side wins without conceding.
- Cash out
Settling a bet early for the value the bookmaker offers at that moment.
- Corners betting
Bets on the number of corners in a match, usually over or under a line.
- Over under goals
The family of goal line bets: over or under a set number of goals in the match.
- Match result (1X2)
The home win, draw or away win market, the simplest bet on a match.