What do YOU reckon the odds were...

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

If you put £1 on a 14/1 bet you'd have £15 returns. If that then goes on at 3/1 you win £45 in total. Am I missing something?

£60 returned

 

[Fazz62]

f***. I've been adding my accululators up wrong for ages then. Please explain....!

TCB
£1 @ 3/1 = £3 + your £1 stake.
That makes
£4 going on at 14/1= £56+£4 stake back= £60
Hope this helps

 

[Paxton Dazo]

9/2
1/3
6/4

would be

1x 11(9/2) divided by the second number (2) = 5.5 X 4 ( 1/3) divided by second number (3) 7.3 X 10 ( 6/4) divided by second bumber (4) = 18.6

So would be 19/1

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

f***. I've been adding my accululators up wrong for ages then. Please explain....!

3 X 15 = 45 + 15 bet = 60 returned, as 15 will be put on the second bet. HTH.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Folds bets are they way forward. You pick 7 teams; get 5 right and you get your money back, 6 right £30-£40, 7 right couple of hundred quid. I won £30 quid this weekend.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

But if you get 7 you dont win as much as you would if you done a £2 Accumalator.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Sounds good. Do you HAVE to pick 7, or can it be more or less?

I dont know the ins and outs of it, to be honest. My old man just gave me a brief explanation and I liked the sound of it so went for it, but I think you can do however many teams you like, e.g you could pick 5 teams, then have it as if you get 4 right you win and if you get 5 right you win, but that wouldnt pay much.

Better off asking someone else on this thread, cause I havent got a clue how it all works.

 

[Fazz62]

Sounds good. Do you HAVE to pick 7, or can it be more or less?

Word of warning.
Pays big. But technically your odds of winning diminsh the more teams you put on. Providing the bookies have priced the market up right.
Most bookies pay "overound" so you are likely to get minus 5-10% each match you bet on. Thats where the bookies make there money a bit like the more times a roulette wheel spins in a casino.
Its your bet at the end of the day. You seem to be having a bet for a bit of fun, not worrying about getting "value" like I do.
Be Lucky!

 

[otk]

Sitting in the pub with my Spurs mate on Saturday, I asked him to get the odds for Hull to beat Spurs on his BT super-duper internet phone, with the pile of crap promptly failing to connect to the web and thus Oddschecker, meaning I failed to put a bet on

Ho hum

 

[Fazz62]

Yeah, I just put a few quid on each weekend to make the football results more interesting. I'm not an addict or anything! Thanks for the info though

TCB
Exactly what I do.
I put approx £35 on at the beginning of the season, in a mixture of bets. Gives me nine months of interest. Which works out almost the same as playing the Lotto for £1 once a week.
Admitely I will not ever win millions like I could do on the lottery.But I find it more interesting seeing how my bets are geting on with the ups and downs of the teams over the season.
Rather than I one minute slot on BBC each week!

 

[Anchorman]

Hull would have been bigger than 14-1 on the Exchanges more like 20 plus to beat Arsenal before kick off. I do know that when Arsenal were 1-0 up Hull traded at 600 and were matched for small money! Not saying you would have expected it mind but that price was way too big.

 

[RonnieO'Sullivan]

hull were 20/1 with one bookies against arsenal...

and were 4/1 against spurs... still a big price considering