If ever there was a carrot and stick situation in the world of sports betting, it would be in
the land of accumulator bets. Essentially, an accumulator bet is one where you have to
pick multiple outcomes correctly to get the payoff. The more you get right, the more you win.
Of the different bet accumulator options, the football accumulator is the most popular.
No surprise there! Football betting is still the top draw for most punters, and adding
multiple bets to the scorecard is just another way to play.
If you’re a thrill seeker, or if you love the charge money on a match gives the action, you’ll be
drawn to accumulators. However, you may want to double check that you’ve truly got the guts
for it. An accumulator bet will take your thrill and seriously ratchet it up.
It can also seriously hit your nerves. When one of your teams wins, you can’t relax and get back to
enjoying the football. Accumulator bets will keep you on edge until all of your results are in
and you’ve either won it all or lost it big. Your mates might have found you a bit twitchy before,
but it’s nothing to how you’ll be with a bet accumulator on the line.
For this reason, many of the advice columns will warn punters away from placing multiple bets
and using accumulators. Colloquially known as “accas” experts say the chances of losing are
far greater than your odds of ever winning a single penny. They point out that accumulator bets
were invented by bookies as a profit booster, and that there’s no reason to walk into a stacked hand.
However, many casual punters get over their heads by losing their smarts when faced with an
accumulator bet card. They add in teams they don’t know anything about to hit a certain mark,
say £100, or £500. They’ll also bet on their favourite team without thinking through the odds.
They might as well just put their money straight in the bookie’s pocket, because they’ll never lay
eyes on it again.
Instead, just as with any other kind of betting, you’ll want to handle your risk. Yes,
accumulators by nature are higher risk bets. Thus, you’ll want to stick strictly to teams that you
know and matches you understand, leaving your favourites strictly out of it to keep yourself
objective. Keeping the number of teams involved low increases your odds of walking away from your
accumulator bet with something to show for it later.
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