Sports betting lexicon
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In our guide, we commit ourselves to bring the best solutions to understand and handle the practice of sports betting. What could be more logical than begin a sport bets glossary? Indeed, the online betting universe has its own language, its own jargon. In the next page, we’re explaining the most recurring and words that you can usually find on approved bookmaker websites and off Gambling Commission.
- Accumulator:
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by betting on many different selections, you trigger an accumulator. To generate earnings, all your prognostics must be correct!
- Betting Exchange:
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a system like the stock market who allow you to gamble not against the bookmaker but against other bettors.
- Odds:
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a numerical data who allows you to calculate the amount of potential gain. Some odds express in + or -, with a fraction or an integer or decimal.
- Double:
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a double bet allows to gamble on to different selections. To win, the bettor must correctly guess both of sports encounter.
- Goliath:
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correspond to 247 bets simultaneously perform (28 double bets, 56 triple bets, 4 bets simple shutter, 108 bets accumulators with 6 flaps, 8 bets accumulators with 7 flaps and 56 bets accumulators with 5 flaps.
- Handicap:
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by adding a handicap to a bet, the gambler make the debate harder against more advantageous remuneration in case of winning. Goal at the half time, name of the scorer, every means is good to add a handicap.
- Live Bet:
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a bet who allows you to gamble during the broadcast of a live match with evolutive odds.
- Over/Under :
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the goal or scoring difference noted at the end of an encounter.
- Surebet:
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an equation which guarantees you the victory as the case may be. The formula is = (1/best odds for victory of A team) + (1/odds for a draw) + (1/odds for victory of B team).
- Triple:
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a bet is called « triple » when it’s gambling on 3 selections during different encounter. The three bets must be winners to cash the gains!
- Yankee:
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very popular in the USA, the Yankee bet encompasses 11 bets on 4 differents encounter. You can combine at will (simple bets, triple bets, accumulator bets, double bets, bets accumulators with defined number of flaps).
