What is accumulator bet? How accumulator bet works? How to place accumulator bets?

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If you want to make the most amount of money with your bets, you need to start looking into accumulator bets. Sure, they are going to be a lot riskier than your average bet but, let’s be honest for a second, you probably didn’t get into the world of betting because you want to play it safe. If you want to get rich in this game, you need to take risks.

 

What are accumulator bets?

You can think of accumulator bets as ‘combined’ bets. There will be multiple parts to the bet, and if you want to win the bet, all of the parts need to happen. This is an example of an accumulator bet:

  • Brighton to win
  • Newcastle to win
  • Manchester City to win
  • Crystal Palace to win

    • If all four of those events happen, you win cash. If Crystal Palace, for instance, lose, then you will walk away with nothing.
    Accumulator bets may be a bit more complicated than this too. For example, the typical accumulator bet is to guess the first goal scorer for a match and the ultimate winner.


    Basically, all you need to remember is that it is a combination of different bets. There is no upper limit to the number of bets that you can have, but the minimum is always going to be two.

    How are accumulator bets calculated?

    Most people seem to think that the ‘science’ behind calculating potential returns from accumulator bets are complicated.
    They are not. While there are plenty of accumulator calculators out there that you can use (and the betting company will calculate it for you), you can easily do it on your own. How?


    Well, the easiest way is to find out what the decimal odds are. Multiply everything, including your initial bet, together. For example, if you have decimal odds of 1.5, 1.4, 3 and 5, with an initial bet of 5, then you would do this calculation:

    5 x 1.5 x 1.4 x 3 x 5

    This means that the potential return is 145.

    Told you, it is simple! If you are doing it for fractional odds, as you may do in the United Kingdom, you simply add 1 to the fraction. So, for example, if the odds are 2/1, you would add this as a part of your calculation (2/1 + 1). Not quite as simple, but it works.

    How do you choose an accumulator bet?

    One of the major benefits of an accumulator bet is that you can still go for some of the ‘safer’ bets and make bank. So, for example, if there are 3 matches which, in your mind, are a ‘dead cert’ to win, then you can combine all three of those matches into a single bet and make a bit more cash than betting on them individually.
    However, if you want to make the ‘big bucks’, then it is probably best to put a small amount of cash on some of the more ‘out there’ bets. There was a guy in the United Kingdom who managed to become a millionaire from a single £2 bet on an accumulator. Now, I am not saying that this is something which could happen for you, but the possibility is always there, right?
    As with all other bets, when you are placing an accumulator, you are going to want to be doing your research.
    This absolutely should not be a ‘free for all’. After all, if one part does not come through, none of the bet wins. There is nothing worse than placing an accumulator on five different matches, seeing four of them win, and the last…nah. It is frustrating.
    In my case, I tend to stick to betting on a single match i.e. winner, score, goal scorer. It is easier to do your research that way as it means that you only need to focus on one thing at a time.
    Nearly every bookmaker out there will allow you to place accumulator bets (it is where they make the most money), so it is just a case of finding a place which tickles your fancy and lumping a bit of cash on some of your more preferred choices.