What do you guys think of this bet?

Owned! Strike - what say you?

 

No. You are right that he would have won all bar the Juve game. But his winnings would have been very small. Barely worth the risk. Now for putting substantial sums on...even £20 I agree with you.
But for chucking two £1 lines on at a weekend for a bit of added interest, accumulators are the way to go. He won £350 a couple of months back, at £2-£4 stake per week that pays for the next years betting and more.

On a £5 accumulator we put on, we missed by one result from a £2,500 win.

It is not a way to make regular money, but it is also costing less than a pint for a weekends flutter.

If it was a money spinner then larger stakes on two games at a time. Using a snowball account, so when you win 40% of the total pot goes on to bankers and so on.

 

I answered. It is missing the point. His stake was £1. He would have had to bet around £35 in individual bets to scrape close to £80 as a total return. So £40-£45 winnings from £35 bet, with Juve drawing, the winning comes down again. So for arguments sake he doubled his money at best with a strong chance of winning nothing.

£1 a week is nothing. Put it this way if he had put £1 on each of the games individually he would have winnings of about £2 in total.

 

No argument, it can be a bit of fun. You are correct that, barring finding a completely ******ed bookmaker using a ****** to compile odds, it can never hope to be a profitable strategy.

 

If you aim is to have as much fun as possible and not risk too much money accumulators are probably pretty good.

If your only consideration is long-term profit it's best to stick to singles on well chosen markets.

I was only looking at it from the expected profit point of view earlier.

 

Peter beats Maskaev but its worth a punt. I wouldnt put a 1er on it tho.

 

How much the return be if you swapped the heavyweight and middleweight results round. Peter to beat Maskaev and Taylor to beat Pavlik... I think thats a better bet, and you'll prob get simlar odds as KP KOs Taylor last time...