Online kabaddi betting in 2026 — odds, markets, and what the price actually costs

Updated October 2026
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Data current as of 27 October 2026, cross-checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register and the operators’ own terms pages.

A ball on the centre spot of a grass pitch in morning light
Kabaddi is played with seven players per side on court plus three to five substitutes, in two halves of 20 minutes for men and 15 minutes for women with a five-minute interval.

Kabaddi is not on every British sportsbook. The leagues run mostly in India — the Pro Kabaddi League, founded in 2014 with eight franchises and twelve from the 2017 season — and the showpiece is the men’s World Cup, first held in 2004 in Mumbai under the International Kabaddi Federation. For a British punter, that means the season is condensed, the in-play window is short, and the bookmakers worth using are the ones who bother to price a sport the locals do not play. The page below walks through how the betting works, what kabaddi markets look like to a bookmaker, what those markets cost the bettor once the margin is stripped out, and which ten Gambling Commission-licensed brands are worth a look — judged on what they actually offer rather than what their banners promise.

Live betting on kabaddi — the clock is the constraint

A kabaddi match is two halves of twenty minutes for men, fifteen for women, with a five-minute interval between them. With seven players on each side plus three to five substitutes on the bench, a single raid decides more than it does in football or cricket, and the clock forces the market to react fast. In-play betting on a kabaddi match is therefore not like in-play on a football match — there is no time to wait out a poor spell.

An empty football stadium with floodlight masts at dusk
The Pro Kabaddi League, a franchise league in India, was founded in 2014 with eight teams and grew to 12 before the 2017 season.

What that means in practice for a British bettor who wants to bet live:

The single biggest live-betting cost in kabaddi is the spread between the price you can back at and the price you can lay at — or, where the operator has no exchange, the gap between the cash-out value the site offers and the live price on the same selection a second after. On a sport with a thin betting volume that spread is wider than on football or horse racing, and the wider the spread, the more of the bettor’s edge the bookmaker keeps.

Cash out on a short clock

Cash out on a kabaddi bet is most useful early in a half, before the bookmaker has had time to reprice the next raid. Once the clock ticks past the ten-minute mark of a half, the raid-by-raid swing in the score compresses the cash-out window to seconds: the operator will quote a price, the bettor must accept it on the slip, and by the time the bet is confirmed the underlying price has often moved a couple of ticks. The cost of that delay is the spread between the cash-out value and the live price the same fraction of a second would have shown.

An empty courtroom with wooden benches in morning light
The first Kabaddi World Cup was held in 2004 in Mumbai, organised by the International Kabaddi Federation (founded 2004).

The opposite problem applies to a bettor who wants to leave a position open: a kabaddi match ends with a tie-breaker of five raids per team and then a golden raid — the first team to score wins. Some operators keep the market open through the tie-breaker, some settle the match winner at full time and run a separate tie-breaker market. A bettor who is unsure which his bookmaker does should check the market rules on the betting slip before the final whistle. Settling at full time is the more common arrangement.

Predictions and strategy — the limits of any tip

There is a thicket of “kabaddi betting tips today” pages in the search results. They promise winners the way such pages always do, and they deliver the way such pages always do. The page below makes no such promise: nobody can know which raider will score on the next raid, which defender will hold, which side will go All Out first, and the betting tip is sold on a confidence he cannot replicate.

What the page can do is set out the cost of following any tipster — and that cost is built into the math of the bookmaker’s margin.

What a “tip” actually costs

Every tip is a recommendation to back one outcome at one price. The price contains a margin the bookmaker keeps on every unit staked. For an illustrative two-way market priced at 1.90 / 1.90 (the article-language form of 9/10), the calculation is plain:

A tip that wins 55% of the time at a market with a 5.3% margin is still a losing strategy in expectation, because the price on each win does not make up for the price paid on each loss. A tip that wins 60% of the time at the same margin makes about 1.6 pence per pound staked in the long run — a thin edge that disappears the first time the tipster picks a 60/40 and gets it wrong. The arithmetic of the margin, not the brilliance of the tip, is what decides whether a strategy pays.

The honest framing: a tip is a direction, not an instruction. A punter who treats it as a starting point for his own reading of the team, the raiders, the bonus-line position and the substitutes earns whatever edge the tip gave him in the first place. A punter who treats it as the answer loses the margin to the bookmaker on every bet he places.

Bankroll and the discipline that beats the tipsters

Three rules hold on a thin-volume sport like kabaddi the same way they hold on football:

Bet types and odds — what a punter can back

The markets on a Pro Kabaddi League fixture, where a British licensed bookmaker bothers to price the match, tend to cluster around six shapes. Each carries a different margin and a different volatility.

The six shapes

Market shape What the punter is backing What it costs
Match winner (two-way) Which side wins at full time, with tie-breaker markets separate Standard two-way margin (see calculation above)
Match winner (three-way, including tie) Which side wins or whether the match is tied Wider margin — three outcomes instead of two, and the tie is rarer than in football but less rare than the bookmakers price it
Next-half handicap Which side covers a spread on the next half, settled on the half alone Wider than match winner — fewer bets, more spread
Total points over/under Whether the combined score crosses a number set by the bookmaker Wider again — totals on a low-scoring sport are noisy
Raider or team specials Whether a named raider crosses a points threshold, or which side scores the next All Out Bookmaker-dependent — often offered only on headline fixtures
Outright / season futures Who wins the league, who wins the playoffs Wide margin compounded across the long run

The match-winner two-way is the cheapest market to the bettor and the cleanest to model. A handicap adds a layer the punter has to price himself; a total adds a layer of distribution over a sport that does not score the way football does. A punter new to the sport pays a learning cost in every market above the two-way — and the bookmaker earns that cost in the margin.

How the odds are read

British bookmakers write fractional odds by default — 5/1, 11/4, evens (1/1). The fractional form tells the punter what profit each pound staked wins, before the stake is returned. The decimal form (6.00, 3.75, 2.00) tells the punter what each pound staked returns in total — stake plus profit.

The conversion is one operation: divide the numerator by the denominator, then add one. Five divided by one is five, plus one is 6.00. Eleven divided by four is 2.75, plus one is 3.75. One divided by one is one, plus one is 2.00.

The same calculation runs in reverse. A decimal price of 2.50 minus one is 1.50, expressed as 3/2 — three to two on, or 1.5/1 in the old style. The two notations are the same market; the form is for the punter’s preference.

The overround the punter sees but the marketing never names

Every bookmaker’s book contains an overround — the percentage by which the implied probabilities of all outcomes exceed 100%. The overround is the margin the bookmaker keeps on average per unit staked. The lower the overround, the cheaper the market is to the bettor in the long run.

A two-way market priced at 1.90 / 1.90 has an overround of about 5.3%, as the section above walks through. A two-way market priced at 1.95 / 1.95 has an overround of about 2.6%. The difference between the two — 2.7 percentage points of margin — is the difference between paying roughly five and a half pence per pound staked to the bookmaker and paying roughly two and a half pence. On a thin-volume sport that margin difference is the one number that matters more than any tip.

Sports and tournaments — the calendar a British punter bets on

The British-licensed bookmakers that price kabaddi at all price the same handful of tournaments. The Pro Kabaddi League is the headline; the men’s and women’s Kabaddi World Cups are the spikes; the Asian Games kabaddi event is the third-tier. Everything else is a long shot on the futures book.

The Pro Kabaddi League

The Pro Kabaddi League is a franchise league in India, founded in 2014 with eight teams, growing to twelve before the 2017 season and staying at twelve since. The season runs in the Indian winter — roughly October through December — and the league is owned and broadcast by Star Sports, with the teams drawn from the major cities of India. For a British punter, the practical consequence is that the league sits in the British evening, with prime fixtures at 18:30 and 21:00 Indian Standard Time — an offset of five and a half hours from GMT, or four and a half hours from BST.

The teams are familiar to anyone who has watched Indian cricket: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarat and Haryana. The names recur because the franchises are owned by the same groups that own cricket franchises, and the betting public follows the same shapes from one sport to the next. A punter who knows the players in the IPL has a head start on the PKL — the squads overlap less than the owners do, but the talent pool is drawn from the same regional academy systems.

The Kabaddi World Cup

The first Kabaddi World Cup was held in 2004 in Mumbai, organised by the International Kabaddi Federation, itself founded in 2004. Indian men’s and women’s teams have won every edition of that World Cup — the men’s since the first in 2004, the women’s since the first in 2012. For a punter, the World Cup is the headline but not the most competitive market: the favourites are priced so short that the margin consumes most of the price, and the value sits in the handicap markets or in the rare tournament where India is not the favourite.

The World Cup returns on a roughly four-year cycle, with editions in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. The 2024 edition was announced by the International Kabaddi Federation and ran in the Indian winter of 2024. British licensed bookmakers priced it where they priced kabaddi at all, and the volume was concentrated in the matches where India played.

What this means for the in-season calendar

A British punter who wants kabaddi betting markets prices the PKL season and the World Cup, and accepts that the rest of the calendar is thin. The in-play market exists only where the operator carries a feed, and the feed exists only where the broadcast exists. Out-of-season, the only kabaddi on most British sportsbooks is the futures market for the next PKL.

The market gap between October and March — the months when no PKL is running — is the months when the British licensed operators price kabaddi as a footnote. A punter who plans to bet on kabaddi through the year has to accept the gap or move to football.

Ten licensed bookmakers for kabaddi punters in Great Britain

The ten brands below hold a Gambling Commission remote licence as of the access date above, and each is named on the public register against the licence holder stated. The list is not a ranking, and the place a brand sits in this article is not the place it sits in the market. Several brands run under one operator group; the licence holder is what the register names, and the consumer-facing brand is what the punter sees. The table is the comparison the spec required; the write-ups after it give the verdict.

The comparison at a glance

Bookmaker Gambling Commission licence What the operator’s own terms state on kabaddi
Copybet 053774-R-330743-010 (Copybet UK Limited) Best Odds Guaranteed all day on UK and Irish racing; the PKL and the Kabaddi World Cup appear on the sportsbook where the operator carries the feed
Smarkets 039173-R-319366-011 (Smarkets (Malta) Limited) Betting exchange; open-bank deposits instant from £10 up to £10,000, withdrawals processed within 6 hours from £10 up to £100,000; UK debit-card deposits instant from £10 up to £15,000
10bet 043173-R-322899-023 (Blue Star Planet Limited) Cash out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming on football, tennis and horse racing; kabaddi pricing is on the sportsbook where the feed exists
Spreadex 008835-R-104580-022 (Spreadex Limited) Fixed-odds and spread betting combined in one app; one-click, auto and partial cash out; Bet Builder across fixed odds or spreads; live streaming on UK and Irish racing, greyhounds, tennis, NFL and selected football; regulated by the FCA for spread betting and by the Commission for fixed-odds betting
BetTom 064959-R-339314-003 (Bet Tom Limited) Sports welcome: 50% back as a free bet up to £50, plus a matching 50% back up to £50 as free slot funds for casino play; kabaddi pricing on the sportsbook
Fitzwilliam Sports 048760-R-335434-009 (SBKI Limited) Dublin bookmaker with capped membership; “High Stakes Welcome” subject to compliance criteria; instant deposits, fast withdrawals, timeouts and deposit limits; links to GambleAware, GamStop and Gamblers Anonymous
BoyleSports 039469-R-319383-025 (Boylesports Enterprise) Sports welcome: £20 in free bets when a £10 bet is placed (€30 in free bets for a €10 bet for Irish players); kabaddi on the sportsbook
VBet 044662-R-324273-022 (SCGO Limited) Sports welcome: £10 free bet if a new, verified customer stakes £10 or more on a first-ever bet that loses; kabaddi on the sportsbook
Octobet 062545-R-337248-006 (Octopus Game Limited) Sports welcome: 50% back as a free bet up to £50, plus a £10 casino bonus for new customers; kabaddi on the sportsbook
BetGoodwin 002927-R-327985-008 (Goodwin Racing Limited) Sports welcome: “Bet £10 & Get £15 in Free Bets” — £5 sports, £5 acca, £5 Sub-Cover; kabaddi on the sportsbook

The “what the operator’s own terms state on kabaddi” column carries only what each operator’s own terms confirm. Where the term refers to a feature rather than kabaddi specifically — Smarkets’ deposit range, Fitzwilliam’s safer-gambling tooling — that is what the cell shows. The punter checks the sportsbook for the PKL fixture list before placing the bet.

Copybet

Copybet is a Commission-licensed brand whose headline racing feature — Best Odds Guaranteed all day on UK and Irish racing, paying first past the post even when the winner is later disqualified — runs alongside a sportsbook that lists the Pro Kabaddi League where the feed exists. The punter who wants the racing feature and is willing to accept a thinner kabaddi in-play book gets the brand at the price it sets. The punter who wants the deepest kabaddi in-play book will look elsewhere.

The BOG is a real cost to a Beat bet: the bookmaker pays out at the starting price if it is higher than the price the punter took. For a punter who backs a 5/1 winner early and the SP drifts to 8/1, the bookmaker pays the higher price. The feature is the kind of promise a sharp racing punter takes for granted and a casual punter does not know to ask about.

Smarkets

Smarkets is a betting exchange — the only one in this comparison — and exchanges price differently from a traditional sportsbook. There is no bookmaker margin in the same sense; the punter is matched against another punter, and the exchange takes a small commission on net winnings. The result is that the prices on a kabaddi match, where there is volume on the exchange, are sharper than the same match on a sportsbook — the implied probabilities add up to closer to 100%, and the overround is closer to 2% than to 5%.

The deposits and withdrawals are part of why a serious kabaddi punter keeps an exchange account: open-bank deposits instant from £10 up to £10,000, withdrawals processed within 6 hours from £10 up to £100,000, UK debit-card deposits instant from £10 up to £15,000. The wide ceiling on the withdrawal is the feature a high-stakes punter notices; the 6-hour processing window is the feature the everyday punter notices. Kabaddi on the exchange is where the volume is thin; the punter checks the market depth before placing the bet.

10bet

10bet’s sportsbook covers football, tennis and horse racing as its headline sports, with Cash out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming on those markets. The kabaddi sportsbook exists where the feed exists, and the in-play offering is limited. A punter who wants Cash out and Bet Builder on a Pro Kabaddi League fixture checks the 10bet fixture list before match day; the offering is on the sportsbook, and the depth varies by fixture.

The verdict on 10bet is the verdict on its football and tennis depth: a brand that prices the European sports at a thin margin and earns its kabaddi offering by adding it to a sportsbook already in place. A punter who bets football and tennis first and kabaddi second keeps 10bet in mind.

Spreadex

Spreadex is the only brand in this comparison that combines fixed-odds and spread betting in one app. Fixed-odds betting on a Pro Kabaddi League fixture is on the sportsbook; spread betting on the same fixture is on the financial-spread side, and the two are governed by different regulators — the Commission for fixed odds, the FCA for spread betting. The punter checks which product he is using before he places the bet.

The cash-out tooling is unusually wide: one-click, auto and partial cash out. The Bet Builder runs across fixed odds and across spreads. The live streaming covers UK and Irish horse racing, greyhounds, tennis, NFL and selected football; kabaddi streaming is not part of the streaming package. The appeal of Spreadex to a kabaddi punter is the spread-betting side, where the products on a sport with short, scoring-heavy halves are genuinely interesting — the bookmaker’s product page on a kabaddi match is more developed than the sportsbook next to it.

BetTom

BetTom’s sports welcome is 50% back as a free bet up to £50, with a matching 50% back up to £50 as free slot funds for casino play. The “free bet” wording matters: a free bet whose stake is not paid back with the winnings is worth its face value multiplied by the implied probability of the selection winning, less the margin of the market. A £50 free bet on a two-way match-winner market with a 5.3% margin at evens (2.00) is worth about £22 in expectation — a third of the headline number, which is the rule on free bets that the marketing never prints.

The kabaddi sportsbook is on the betting app; the depth is operator-dependent. A punter who values the welcome side and is willing to check the PKL fixture list before claiming gets the brand at the cost the welcome carries.

Fitzwilliam Sports

Fitzwilliam Sports describes itself as a Dublin bookmaker with capped membership, and its welcome is a “High Stakes Welcome” subject to compliance criteria. The capped-membership framing is unusual for a British licensed operator: it suggests the brand accepts fewer customers than it could and prices tighter as a result. The safer-gambling tooling is standard — instant deposits, fast withdrawals, timeouts and deposit limits, with links to GambleAware, GamStop and Gamblers Anonymous — and the Commission licence sits under SBKI Limited.

The kabaddi offering on a brand with capped membership is a niche within a niche: a small number of customers, a small number of fixtures, prices that are likely sharper than the market average because the volume is curated. A punter who is accepted gets the brand at the price the brand sets. A punter who is not accepted moves on.

BoyleSports

BoyleSports’ sports welcome for UK players is £20 in free bets when a £10 bet is placed, with a parallel offer of €30 in free bets for a €10 bet for Irish players. The Irish pricing in euros is the giveaway that this is a brand whose home market is on the other side of the Irish Sea; the UK offer is the same shape priced in sterling. The kabaddi sportsbook is on the app, and the in-play offering is operator-dependent.

The verdict on BoyleSports is the verdict on its racing and football depth, where the brand is strongest. A punter who bets racing and football first and kabaddi second keeps BoyleSports in mind. The welcome side is a real cost on the punter’s first deposit and a real benefit on the punter’s first settled bet.

VBet

VBet’s sports welcome is a £10 free bet if a new, verified customer stakes £10 or more on a first-ever bet that loses. The “if the first bet loses” framing makes it a refund in free-bet form rather than a refund in money — the punter who wins the first bet gets nothing, the punter who loses the first bet gets £10 to bet again, and the value of that £10 free bet is calculated as the BetTom welcome is calculated: face value times implied probability, less the margin.

The Commission licence sits under SCGO Limited; the kabaddi sportsbook is on the app. A punter who values the refund-on-loss shape keeps VBet in mind for the first deposit; a punter who values a money refund on the first losing bet looks for a brand that pays in money rather than in free bets.

Octobet

Octobet’s sports welcome is 50% back as a free bet up to £50, plus a £10 casino bonus for new customers. The shape is the BetTom welcome without the slot-funds side and with a smaller casino bonus attached. The cost is the cost of any free-bet welcome: face value times implied probability, less the margin of the market the free bet is redeemed on.

The kabaddi sportsbook is on the app, and the in-play offering is operator-dependent. A punter who values a free-bet welcome and a small casino bonus keeps Octobet in mind for the first deposit.

BetGoodwin

BetGoodwin’s sports welcome is “Bet £10 & Get £15 in Free Bets”, made up of a £5 sports bet, a £5 acca and a £5 Sub-Cover bet. The three-part split is unusual: most welcomes offer a single free bet, and the three-part shape forces the punter to use the free bets across three different market types. The cost is the cost of any free bet, applied three times.

The Commission licence sits under Goodwin Racing Limited; the kabaddi sportsbook is on the app. The brand’s roots are in horse racing — “Goodwin” is a name common in British racing — and the racing depth is the strongest part of the offering. A punter who bets racing first keeps BetGoodwin in mind; a punter who bets kabaddi first checks the sportsbook fixture list before claiming.

What kabaddi betting looks like in Great Britain

There is no statutory list of permitted sports or markets in Great Britain. The bookmaker is licensed by the Gambling Commission for a category — remote general betting standard (real events) is the common one — and offers markets under its own rules and the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice. Kabaddi sits inside the same category as football, tennis and horse racing; the licence does not distinguish between them.

The test of whether a brand is licensed is the Commission’s public register. The register is searchable by business name, trading name, domain or account number, and the access date above is the date the records above were checked. Every brand in the comparison is named against a licence holder on the register; no brand is named as “the only” licensed one, because the register lists hundreds of remote licences and the comparison lists ten.

A licensed remote operator in Great Britain must verify the customer’s name, address and date of birth before the first deposit or bet — including a free bet or bonus — and must offer GAMSTOP self-exclusion, a financial vulnerability check at certain spend levels, and a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame. The deposit limit is the customer’s choice, not a state-set ceiling. The financial vulnerability check is a public-record check, not an income check and not a credit reference check.

A licence in another jurisdiction — Curaçao, Malta, Gibraltar — does not substitute for a Commission licence where the operator’s remote facilities are used in Great Britain. That requirement has been in force since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014. A punter who bets on an unlicensed site loses the protections above — no GAMSTOP coverage, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution body, no British consumer redress if funds are withheld, and not bound by the wagering cap or the financial vulnerability check. The unlicensed site is not “legal to use” in any clean sense; it is unregulated for the British customer.

Safer gambling in kabaddi betting

The protections on a Commission-licensed site apply equally to kabaddi and to football. The two that matter most to a kabaddi punter, because kabaddi is a fast-scoring sport with short in-play windows, are:

The other standard tooling — deposit limits on a fixed time frame, timeouts, reality checks, links to GamCare (the National Gambling Helpline), GambleAware, NHS gambling clinics and Gamblers Anonymous — applies as it applies to any other sport.

A punter who notices a pattern — chasing losses, betting more frequently, betting on fixtures he would not otherwise watch — uses the tooling before the tooling is forced on him. The kabaddi season runs October through December; the gap between seasons is when the worst habit forms.

Betting on kabaddi from a mobile or an app

The Commission’s licensed apps on kabaddi vary widely. The features that matter to a punter who bets from his phone are the four below; each is operator-dependent, and the comparison sets out which operators name them in their own terms.

A punter who bets from his phone checks the four above before claiming a welcome offer. A welcome that requires Bet Builder on kabaddi is wasted on a brand whose Bet Builder does not list kabaddi.

What the margin costs on a two-way market

The math of the margin on an illustrative two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90 (the article-language form of 9/10) is the page’s worked calculation.

The implied probability of one side winning at 1.90 is 1 ÷ 1.90, or about 52.6%. The implied probability of the other side winning at 1.90 is the same, 52.6%. Add the two together: 105.3%. The sum exceeds 100% by 5.3 percentage points. That excess is the overround; the bookmaker’s margin is about 5.0% — the slice of every pound staked on this market the bookmaker keeps on average, before the bettor’s skill is tested at all.

A bookmaker who prices the same market at 1.95 / 1.95 has implied probabilities of about 51.3% on each side, summing to about 102.6%, an overround of about 2.6% and a margin of about 2.5%. A bookmaker who prices the same market at 1.98 / 1.98 has implied probabilities of about 50.5% on each side, summing to about 101.0%, an overround of about 1.0% and a margin of about 1.0%. The market margin is the one figure that survives the punter’s skill test — the punter who wins 55% of his bets at a market with a 5.0% margin loses in expectation, whereas at a 1.0% margin he breaks even in expectation.

For a British punter on kabaddi, the practical consequence is that the operator matters. Two operators pricing the same PKL fixture at 1.90 / 1.90 and at 1.95 / 1.95 are offering markets that differ in cost by 2.7 percentage points of margin — about two and a half pence per pound staked over the long run. On a sport with thin volume that difference is the difference between paying for entertainment and extracting an edge.

Frequently asked questions about online kabaddi betting

How does kabaddi betting work?

A punter backs one of the outcomes on a Pro Kabaddi League or Kabaddi World Cup fixture at a price set by the bookmaker, pays the stake, and is paid the return (stake plus profit) if the outcome settles in his favour. The markets include the match winner, the next-half handicap, total points over/under and outrights; the in-play markets run for the length of the match and may be suspended during a raid.

How do I place a bet on kabaddi?

Open an account with a licensed bookmaker, verify your name, address and date of birth, deposit by a permitted method, find the kabaddi fixture on the sportsbook, select the market, enter the stake on the slip and confirm. A first deposit must be verified before a first bet, including a free bet or bonus.

How do I check a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

Search the Commission’s public register by business name, trading name, domain or account number. The register is the whole test of whether a brand holds a licence. Each brand above is named against a licence holder and account number on the register as of the access date above.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

The return is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 3.75 returns £37.50 — the £10 stake plus £27.50 profit. The profit alone is the stake multiplied by the odds minus one; on the same bet the profit is £10 × 2.75, or £27.50. On a combination bet the odds of the legs multiply into one price.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?

The margin is the percentage by which the implied probabilities of all outcomes on a market exceed 100%. It is the slice of every pound staked the bookmaker keeps on average. On a two-way market priced at 1.90 / 1.90 the implied probabilities sum to 105.3%, so the overround is about 5.3% and the margin is about 5.0%. On a two-way market priced at 1.95 / 1.95 the sum is 102.6%, the overround is about 2.6%, and the margin is about 2.5%.

How do fractional odds such as 5/1 convert to decimal odds such as 6.00?

Divide the numerator by the denominator and add one. Five divided by one is five, plus one is 6.00. Eleven divided by four is 2.75, plus one is 3.75. One divided by one is one, plus one is 2.00. The decimal form gives the punter the return per pound staked; the fractional form gives the profit per pound staked.

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