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With the FA Cup Fourth Round taking place on the weekend, now would be the perfect time to employ some of the best Accumulator betting available online. SportingBet offer a little compassionate compensation for punters who see their accumulators fall short by just one leg. Speaking from experience that is an agonising feeling, when just one result lets down the whole bet, and with higher opposition player lowing in the FA Cup, it is made worse when an unexpected giant killing happens. Leeds beating Manchester United ruined my accumulator in the third round, for example.

Fortunately though, Sporting Bet will refund stakes on Accumulators which go oh-so-very-close. If just one result lets you down, then you will at least be comforted by the fact that they will give you your stake back so that you can try again another time. This week’s offer includes all matches over the weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), and so this offer is again ideal for taking on the FA Cup. In order to automatically qualify for the Sporting Bet Accumulator Refund on the FA Cup matches, your bet needs to have a minimum of five legs to it. While a banker or two is always nice, the money on the accumulator is going to come from games which harbour potential giant killing acts. You could go out all gung-ho and pick an underdog, and teams from the Championship taking on Premier League teams are ideal for this. How about Reading to follow up dumping Liverpool out of the competition, by beating Burnley?

The beauty of the Sporting Bet Accumulator Refund, is that you can go for it. Four legs along the lines of bankers plus a tempting tasty odds leg, will be covered if that one outsider doesn’t happen. Sure, it will be a balance against playing it safe in the hope of some return, as opposed to risking more for more return. This is all the fun of accumulators, and it is good knowing that your bookmaker has your back to some degree.

Let’s look at building an accumulator for this very purpose with Sporting Bet:
Fulham to beat Accrington Stanley at 9/20
Man City to beat Scunthorpe at 7/20
Bolton to beat Sheffield United at 3/4
Wigan to beat Notts County at 3/5
Wolves to beat Crystal Palace at 4/6

Would bring a payout of nearly £50 on the minimum £5 bet. That is expecting Premier League teams to beat teams from lower divisions, which, all in all, is not too bad a return really, even though those Premier League clubs are not the strongest. Remember that if just one leg fails, you would get your stake back, and you won’t be able to go for big bankers here, because each leg has to be at decimal odds of 1.3 or bigger. The above accumulator is just a suggestion of course, as the punter will make up their own mind as to how big they will want their accumulator to be, and of course, which teams to plump for. There is a limit of £50 per customer per bet, so check out the Sporting Bet site for full details.

Sporting Bet are excellent for promotions, and this weekly Accumulator Refund is great. If you want to keep up with the action from Melbourne and the Australian Open, SportingBet are currently offering Refunded Stakes on any outright losing bet in the event of Andy Murray winning the Grand Slam. Couple with a matched deposit bonus of up to £50, for new accounts, SportingBet provide excellent coverage and brilliant service on their online sports betting website.

Among our favourite bookmakers to deal with are bet365, who are getting bigger and better every year. They are one of the world’s leading online gambling groups and have over 3 millions customers in 200 different countries. Over 1000 people are now employed by bet365 and they currently rank as the UK’s 7th largest private company.

There is plenty to like about bet365, who offer all new customers a 100% deposit bonus when they register. However, while lots of other bookmakers also provide generous starter offers, the Stoke-on-Trent company take other great lengths to offer customers a top-class service.

Over 5,000 events streamed live every year

It’s the free live streaming of sporting events that has been making waves for bet365 in 2009. In October, the bet365 website was the only place where UK customers could watch Ukraine v England completely free of charge. That is just the tip of the iceberg, with this bookmaker showing over 5,000 events every year. A cursory glance at the site reveals that they are planning to stream soccer, tennis, basketball, volleyball, badminton, darts and snooker in the next seven days.

However, let’s not forget that bet365 are a bookmaker first and an online sports channel second! Therefore, you can expect all of the live streamed events to have accompanying live odds and its In-Play betting which is the real jewel in the bet365 crown. It appears as though they aim to be covering at least one event at any given time, so you will find live betting at bet365 at least 80% of the time when you visit the website.

Check out the 100% Euro Soccer Accumulator

Whether you’re betting before or during an event, you will find competitive odds at bet365, whose football coverage is very impressive. Leagues from around the world are covered in a comprehensive fashion and we found an excellent promotion available for the Premier League, Serie A, Primera Liga, Bundesliga 1 and Champions League. If you like placing accumulator bets, then bet365 will pay you a bonus on top of any winnings that you receive. Customers can get a 5% bonus for a winning treble, while there is 10% added to a winning 5-fold. If you really fancy striking it rich, there is a whopping 100% bonus available for a winning 14-fold!

We also unearthed two more football offers at bet365, something that’s easy to miss with the live streaming and in-play odds occupying so much of the homepage. The Bore Draw Money Back promotion means that you get insurance from a match finishing 0-0. Any correct score, HT / FT or Scorecast bets are refunded on a soccer game if there are no goals. It’s ideal if you think a match is going to be tight and want to back 1-0 to either team, while a correct score multiple bet also means that bet365 is a welcoming place to visit.

Finally, for those of us that like football stats, it’s well worth checking these out at bet365. In the left-hand menu, you can launch ‘Soccer Stats’ and fill your boots with football data. It’s especially good for judging a team’s form and also for analysing total goals bets.

Click here to open a bet365 account today and enjoy a first-class football service.

Bookmakers love it when customers place accumulator bets. While they are keen to publicise any big win that’s been achieved from a multiple wager, that’s because the vast majority of bet slips are losing ones.

Ultimately, football accumulator bets fail for two reasons. Firstly, football can be a very unpredictable sport, with odds-on favourites regularly getting beaten. There haven’t been many weekends where Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal have all won this season, with the Red Devils slipping up unexpectedly against Burnley and Sunderland. Meanwhile, regularly including Rafael Benitez’s team in a weekend multiple bet would have spelt disaster for your accumulator.

The second reason is pure mathematics. For each football match, there are three outcomes; the home win, the away win and the draw (which is rarely included in a multiple bet). Therefore, if you pick three teams to win their matches on a Saturday in a treble, then you are essentially backing one of 27 possible permutations that could happen in those games (3 outcomes x 3 outcomes x 3 outcomes). If you take this further and put together a five-team accumulator, you are going for one of 243 possible outcomes.

While many three-team or five-team accumulators include odds-on favourites, Manchester City and Celtic proved at the weekend that beefing up your multiple bet with a 1.33 selection does not automatically mean it’s a safe inclusion. If you are placing these type of bets, always ensure that you consider each team to be value at the prices quoted, the bookmakers clearly aren’t foolish with their pricing up of any team.

While it’s fun to place accumulator bets for small stakes, a more sensible option for a long-term profit is to select five teams and place 10 trebles on the selections. With this bet, you will get a return providing that at least three selections win, while a handsome profit can be achieved by getting four right and a very nice win by managing to pick all five. The beauty of this bet is that you can afford to get up to two of your picks incorrect and still make a profit.

Obviously, with trebles from five, it makes little sense to back teams at big odds-on. However, say you pick five teams at odds of 2.25, roughly the price that Chelsea were available at against Manchester United on Sunday. Say that three of your teams win (not unrealistic) and that two draw or lose. Therefore, one of your ten lines have won and you have made a unit stake profit of over 1 point (1 x 2.25 x 2.25 x 2.25 = 11.4). Your overall stake is 10 points for this bet and you naturally have the potential to win a lot more by getting four or five selections correct.

This also means that if you think a team is value at 3.00 or 4.00 but want some kind of insurance in case they don’t win, you can offset with one or two strong fancies at odds-on in your trebles from five.

Although the potential winnings from getting all five right aren’t as great as accumulator bets, this is a wager which should ensure much more of a return on a long-term basis.