What You Need to Know to Use an Accumulator to Bet on Footie Matches and the Financial Benefits that it Can Give to Punters Saturday, Jan 2 2010
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Wagering can be a quite labor-intensive task with only a little return. If you bet big on the favourite and it beats the rest you will receive a small amount in return. Once you’ve got the hang of the art of odds and placing bets, there are exotic and probably more stimulating modes of wagering and one of them is the Accumulator.
This is where you place multiple bets on a number of matches or races and if they all come first your modest investment blossoms into an astronomical amount of money.
Ever sat with your friends at 5 pm on a Saturday watching for the football results to be read out and supposed you could have done better than the so-called pundits? If that is the case then an accumulator could be worthy of consideration.
If we select football for example there is a whole host of games over a weekend with a smorgasbord of different standards and there’s a vast range of exhilarating chances for you to win some money especially if you are trying online betting.
An accumulator can make a Saturday’s soccer more captivating. By forecasting a number of final scores though the football league you not only have the added interest in the team you support but you also care enormously if Northampton can keep a one goal lead at Hereford.
By putting money on multiple matches you substantially lessen the
chance of all the results coming in but that means that even though the bet you placed was low the magnitude of your winnings will be unbelievable.
So here is how it works - you choose a selection of results and place a wager of say one on them. If your opening result comes in the winnings are placed on the next result and this goes on until your last result. So by the time you reach your last fixture you have all of your winnings (which could be 1000s) put on the result giving you a much bigger return on your single 1 outlaid.
Accumulators come in loads of bizarre names, shapes and sizes for example Four-Ten-Fold Accumulator and Heinz. All have unique rules in terms of the amount of bets placed, the type of the events and potential winnings.
The main benefit is that you place a small stake and that yields a huge return.
On the disadvantage side of things the obvious one is that if you win all your bets up until the final one and it does not come off then you will have lost the lot. However looking on the positive side as the initial outlay is so small then you will have only lost what you put in.
