Football Accumulators - Which website?

Sylv said:
I work for a bookie's. Try to keep your Acca to 5 selections max or less, anything over is nearing ridiculous and add a couple of multiples in there.

Bet365 is pretty good :cool:
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My standard bet is 7 teams, backed at acca, 6's and 5's. If they're all short i dont bother with the 5 fold. Had a few nice results doing this.

Out of interest, when people in your shop have a touch on the football generally what type of bet is it? Correct score bets, doubles, trebles etc
 
lemonkettaz I will be watching you ;) for reduced margins nothing beats bet365 in the UK and any bet bigger than a single has too many potential outs so don't do it

Remember that punting is very much a longer term strategy and investments will go down and up with alarming regularity

Wish I could bet with skybet :( so many bad prices
 
D1ngd0ng said:
lemonkettaz I will be watching you ;) for reduced margins nothing beats bet365 in the UK and any bet bigger than a single has too many potential outs so don't do it

Remember that punting is very much a longer term strategy and investments will go down and up with alarming regularity

Wish I could bet with skybet :( so many bad prices
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i have so far this season won about £1000 doing accumulators, highest being 10 teams, valencia let me down on saturday in the 86th minute otherwise i would have got 11 teams, so saying not to bet bigger than a single is complete garbage, i won about £450 this weekend from about £100 worth of bets, and if valencia didnt let the other team equalise it would have been £650. i also put 8 pence on 18 teams just for a laugh, i think 16 of them won so i was only 2 out from making a killing off an 8p bet. yes there is a bigger chance of losing but there is a bigger reward too, so telling someone not to do it is stupid. theres no point betting £100 to make £20. I would rather keep the £100. But betting £100 to make a thousand, now that is worth doing. if valencia and corinthians would have won i would have made £60 from an 8p bet.

so im up £350 this weekend, used £70 for betting on tuesday's and wednesday's games, the rest i put into my bank account, even if i lose the £70 im still up £280.

ill let you know how i get on, the minimum return im looking for from my £70 worth of bets is £100, i hope to make ten times that though if i get lucky

i have used many websites, and although some sites offer free bets, theres always a lot of rules attached which makes them a bit of a gamble. the website i find which is the easiest to use, and navigate as well as easy to explain is william hill. i used bet 365 once and found it awful in comparison.
 
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danny_mac said:
My standard bet is 7 teams, backed at acca, 6's and 5's. If they're all short i dont bother with the 5 fold. Had a few nice results doing this.

Out of interest, when people in your shop have a touch on the football generally what type of bet is it? Correct score bets, doubles, trebles etc
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Scorecasts (first/last goal-scorer and correct-score) and general accumulators seem to be the common thing. It's obviously a little harder to pick a good scorecast compared to a win/loss/draw.
 
danny_mac said:
My standard bet is 7 teams, backed at acca, 6's and 5's. If they're all short i dont bother with the 5 fold. Had a few nice results doing this.

Out of interest, when people in your shop have a touch on the football generally what type of bet is it? Correct score bets, doubles, trebles etc
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Of course the most popular is the Acca for a few quid, say I take around 200 footy bets on a sat, i'll pay out around 10 - 15 of these.
Correct Scores/Double result (HTFT) and First Goalscorer betting is always popular and some people do quite well on them.
For example, if you put First Goalscorer's into a Lucky 15 (4 selections, Singles, Doubles, Trebles and an Acca) you get double the odds.
So if Rooney was 4/1 to score first as he was last week, it gets increased to 8/1.
 
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goalscorer bets are the hardest to predict, a defender could come up for a free kick or corner and header it in, or a midfielder could hammer in a shot from outside the box, or a penalty could be awarded. i thought lucio would have been the first goalscorer in the brazil vs argentina game, extremely high odds because he was a defender, luisao the other centre back scored from a header from a free kick, wish i had put him on as well, odds were like 46/1 for both

i stick with accumulators, never bet on more than 3 or 4 games from each league. my preferred bet is 1 or 2 teams team from about 7 different leagues.

teams to bet on are fenerbache, barcelona, bayern munich, inter milan, chelsea, man utd, galatasaray, real madrid, arsenal, liverpool, man city

if you pick 4 from the above stick about £15 on it, its practically guaranteed to win
 
Simple question,

I'm confused about a 'Heinz', 'Lucky 63', 'All combos of double/treble/four (Or whatever number) fold...what does it mean by 'All combinations'? :o
 
All combinations is if you have 4 teams for an accumulator, you put more money on to cover all the doubles and trebles as well.

So if you've got the top four all to win in an all combinations acca, if one loses it wont effect the other bets if the other three come in. Same as if two lose and the other two win, you won't lose out totally.
 
Oh so you cover everything that happens really? Just noticed that when i put a fiver on a Heinz, i didn't notice the 'real stake' was 285 or something. :o

Think i'm getting it.
 
SideWinder said:
Simple question,

I'm confused about a 'Heinz', 'Lucky 63', 'All combos of double/treble/four (Or whatever number) fold...what does it mean by 'All combinations'? :o
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you will be betting on all different combinations happening, example pick 5 teams,

you are betting that team 1 win, team 2 win, team 3, etc as singles

then you are betting team 1 and team 2 win as a double, team 1 and team 3 win as a double, etc

then you are betting on triples, team 1 and team 2 and team 3 all win, etc

four teams and then all 5 teams.


these types of bets are a waste of money - stay away from them, you have a greater chance of losing a lot of money for gaining very little. stick with an accumulator and dont bet anything you cant afford to lose, if you bet money that way and lose, you will try and chase your losses, in doing so you will bet higher amounts on crazier things only making your losses higher.


if i have a bad loss, i normally try not to bet for at least 2-3 days, i have about £70 on today and tomorrow's games, and im starting to feel a bit shakey about a couple of the teams, its not my money though i won it at the weekend and banked most of it.
 
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tbh I need to change my betting habits. I have a fiver more or less every weekend and midweek if there are midweek games.

I always try and find good value bets, like a midfielder on a hot streak as FGS or a HT/FT or something and never win that much if I win even at all.

Think I'm gonna start putting my full fiver on a "banker" accumulator each match day instead of multiple little bets trying to find some value.
 
BFCTom said:
tbh I need to change my betting habits. I have a fiver more or less every weekend and midweek if there are midweek games.

I always try and find good value bets, like a midfielder on a hot streak as FGS or a HT/FT or something and never win that much if I win even at all.

Think I'm gonna start putting my full fiver on a "banker" accumulator each match day instead of multiple little bets trying to find some value.
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have a look at the pic i posted above, i had £20 on 2 accumulators, one netted me £100 the other £120 and one of them was on teams i fully expected to win, the other had ac milan in it who are a bit dodgy and they pulled through. so from £40 i made £220, not bad at all
 
daz said:
Bookies must be rubbing their hands at the thought of a thread like this.
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Actually people that do football accumulators I don't mind as they come in now and again and shot a few quid on for the weeks football.

Whereas the people who are in every night sat on those bloody machines going through hundreds of pounds that drive me insane.

Also the casual betters seem to be such friendlier talkative people not like the other bunch of wasters.
 
I'm talking with regards to making the bookies a nice profit. :)

Anything relying on the result of two or more outcomes is multiplying the bookies profit...


Just to add, you pay your money, you make your choice - but you should never look at anything like this as a way to make money or as an income stream - only as entertainment. The only way betting can be a way to make money is if you do matched betting and "make the book" yourself.
 
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