Betting rules

A bet counts only once it has been checked and booked. It is checked against:

• the market: it must be open for betting, not suspended, not locked by the trading desk and not past its close time;
• the price: your odds are checked against the market's live price, and odds too far from it are refused. In-play, a bet is only taken while the live price can be confirmed as current. On exchange markets odds must be between 1.01 and 1000;
• your limits: the market's minimum and maximum stake (which can differ before and during play), the most you can win on the market across all your bets on it, and any stake or odds limits on your account;
• your funds: the bet must fit within your available balance (balance minus exposure). Only the amount the bet adds to what you could lose on that market is needed, so a bet that lowers your exposure never needs free balance.

A refused bet places nothing and moves nothing on your balance, and the app tells you why it was refused.

A bet is matched in full or not at all. When it is accepted your whole stake is booked at once at the accepted odds. A bet is never part-matched and never left pending.

Once matched, a bet stands until it settles: you cannot cancel it. The only bet you can cancel yourself is an unmatched (limit) order that has not filled yet.

Your operator can cancel a matched bet while its market is still open or suspended, but not once the market has closed. A cancelled bet has no win and no loss: what it held against your balance is released.

On some markets your operator sets a bet delay: a short hold, never longer than 15 seconds, before the bet books. The delay can be different before and during play, and the bet slip counts it down.

When the hold ends the bet is checked again in full, against the market as it is then. It is refused if:

• the market was suspended, or changed status in any other way, at any moment during the hold, even if it re-opened before the hold ended;
• the market turned in-play during the hold;
• the price moved against you and your Odds Settings do not accept that, or it moved too far from the live price;
• any other check now fails, such as a limit or your available balance.

A refused bet places nothing. You can place it again at the current price.

A market can be suspended at any time: at key moments in play (a wicket, a goal, the end of an over), while its live price cannot be confirmed, or by the trading desk. No new bet is accepted on a suspended market.

A suspension does not change bets that are already matched. They stand and settle with the market's result.

Prices move all the time, so the live price may have moved by the time your bet is checked. The Odds Settings in your bet slip decide what happens then:

• Accept Higher Odds (the default): if the price has moved against you, the bet is refused.
• Accept Any Odds: if the price has moved against you, the bet books at the current, worse price.
• Don't Accept Changes: the bet is refused if the price moved against you, or moved more than 0.5% either way.

When the live price is better for you, a single bet on exchange match odds books at the better price (or at the price you asked for, if the better one would take you past one of your limits). Every other bet, including bookmaker, fancy and accumulator legs, books at the price you asked for.

Whatever the setting, odds too far from the live market are refused. The setting is applied when the bet is checked: a bet it rules out is refused, never changed.

A void bet has no win and no loss. What it held against your balance is released, so your balance ends as if it had not been placed.

• If a market is voided (cancelled), every bet on it is void. A market is voided when its result source cancels it or the trading desk decides it cannot be settled.
• If a selection is withdrawn, bets on that selection are void. Bets on the other selections stand, and in racing they may be reduced (see Racing).
• Your bet report shows the reason given for a void.

Whether a market is voided, and why, follows its result source or is decided by the trading desk.

Most markets settle automatically once their result is in. If a market was settled on a wrong result, the trading desk can correct it: the first settlement is reversed and the market is settled again on the corrected result, which can also be a void, in one step.

A correction can move your balance either way. Your statement shows the reversal and the new settlement as separate rows, and the bet's settlement receipt says the result was corrected.

Only the trading desk can correct a settlement, and the code sets no time limit on it. If you think a result is wrong, raise it with your agent.

Match odds settles automatically on the winner its result source records.

• Tie and super over: a tie is not void by rule. When a tied match goes to a super over, match odds stays open until the super over decides the winner, and settles on that winner.
• More than one winner: if more than one selection is recorded as the winner, it is a dead heat. Your stake is divided by the number of winners; that share wins at your odds and the rest is lost.
• Abandoned: if the match is abandoned and every selection is removed, the market is void and every bet on it is void.
• Reduced overs and no result: there is no separate reduced-overs rule; the market settles on the result recorded for it. A result that cannot be settled automatically goes to the trading desk, which settles or voids the market.

Where these markets are offered they settle like match odds, on the result recorded for them. On a tie they settle at the tie, while match odds stays open for the super over.

A bookmaker market is priced by the book, not matched against other bettors. Its price is a rate per 100: a back bet at 45 wins 45 for every 100 staked and risks the stake; a lay bet at 45 wins the stake and risks 45 for every 100 staked.

The price is take-it-or-leave-it: the bet slip only lets you set a stake. The market settles on the one selection recorded as the winner. Bets on a removed selection are void, and if the market is voided every bet on it is void.

Bookmaker markets the trading desk creates itself are always resulted by the trading desk.

A fancy market quotes a line (a number, such as runs in an over) with a rate for each side:

• Yes wins if the result is at or above the line. It wins the rate for every 100 staked and risks the stake.
• No wins if the result is below the line. It wins the stake and risks the rate for every 100 staked.
• The Yes and No sides can show different lines. Your bet is settled against the line on the side you took, which is fixed when the bet is accepted.

Each fancy market settles as soon as its own result is declared, often long before the match ends. A whole-number result from the market's source settles it automatically, and a void from its source voids it. Anything else goes to the trading desk. Fancy markets the trading desk creates itself are always resulted by the trading desk.

Cash-out is never offered on fancy markets.

There is no fixed rule for a session that is cut short by rain, an innings ending early or an abandonment. The outcome is the one declared for that market:

• if a number is declared, the market settles on that number;
• if the market is declared void, every bet on it is void;
• if nothing is declared, the trading desk decides whether the market settles or is voided.

A Yes or No bet with no result or no line to settle against is void.

Last Digit (Lucky Number): instead of Yes and No you pick a digit from 0 to 9. You win only if the last digit of the result is exactly the one you picked. A negative result makes the bet void.

Khado: a Yes-only market on a range. The line "60 - 10" means 60 up to 69: Yes wins if the result is at least 60 and below 70. A Khado market whose range is not known is voided by the trading desk.

Odd/Even: these are not settled automatically. The trading desk voids them.

A ball-by-ball market is a Yes/No line on one ball, named like "6.1 Ball Run" for the first ball after six overs. The line is the batting side's innings total after that ball, not the runs off that one delivery: Yes 51 wins if the total after the ball is 51 or more.

It is priced like any fancy market, as a rate per 100. The trading desk creates these markets, records each ball's result and settles them, so the result recorded by the trading desk is final, unless it is corrected.

A ball is void when the trading desk records it as void, for example when the rest of an innings is called off for rain. Every bet on a void ball is void.

Soccer markets settle on the result their source records. There are no soccer-specific rules on top of the general rules:

• if more than one selection is recorded as the winner on a single-winner market, it is a dead heat and your stake is divided by the number of winners;
• if a match is abandoned and every selection is removed, the market is void, and so is a market its source cancels.

A market that cannot be settled automatically goes to the trading desk, which settles or voids it.

Tennis markets settle on the result their source records. There is no separate retirement or walkover rule: if a player retires or a match is not played, the market settles on the result its source records, or is void if its source cancels it.

A market that cannot be settled automatically goes to the trading desk, which settles or voids it.

Horse and greyhound races take bets from 10 minutes before the scheduled start. You cannot bet on a race before that, and you cannot bet once it is off: racing has no in-play betting. The same window applies to a race in an accumulator.

Races have Win markets and, where offered, Place markets, which pay a selection that finishes in one of the places the market covers. Each-way bets are not offered.

A bet on a runner that is withdrawn (a non-runner) is void, back or lay. On a live market a withdrawn runner is flagged Non-Runner on its row. If every runner is withdrawn, the whole market is void.

When a runner is withdrawn after you bet, the others become more likely to win, so bets struck before the withdrawal are reduced by that runner's chance at the moment it was withdrawn:

• on a Win market your odds are reduced; a runner with a chance under 2.5% makes no difference;
• on a Place market your winnings are reduced;
• only the winnings change: a winning back bet is paid less and a losing lay bet costs less. Your stake, a losing back bet and a winning lay bet are unaffected;
• several withdrawals add up, each applied in turn, and reduced odds never go below 1.01;
• bets placed after the withdrawal, other racing markets and accumulator legs are not reduced.

Rule 4 is applied automatically. The settlement receipt says when a result was adjusted.

If runners tie for the win, your stake is divided by the number of runners tied: that share wins at your odds (after any Rule 4 deduction) and the rest is lost. At a short price a "winning" bet can end with a small loss.

A tie for a place on a Place market, and any dead heat on a market that is part of an accumulator, is not settled automatically: the trading desk settles or voids the market.

An accumulator combines 2 to 10 back bets on match odds (or a race's Win market), one per event, into one bet at the combined odds. Accumulators are not available on exchange accounts.

• It loses as soon as any leg loses. It wins only when every leg has won.
• A void leg drops out: the accumulator carries on at the combined odds of the other legs. If every leg is void, the whole bet is void.
• Two legs from the same event are not allowed, and the combined odds are capped by your operator.
• Once placed, an accumulator cannot be cancelled, and it has no cash-out.

Rule 4 deductions do not apply to accumulator legs. A dead heat on a leg's market is not split automatically: the trading desk settles or voids that market.

Cash-out lets you settle your position on a market early, at a value worked out from the live price. It places one bet on the other side of your position, sized so you end with the same result whoever wins.

• It is offered only on two-outcome exchange and bookmaker markets where your operator has switched it on, never on fancy markets.
• It closes your whole position on the market. There is no partial cash-out.
• It needs an open position and a current live price. While the price it needs is suspended, cash-out is unavailable.
• The cash-out bet is placed like any other bet, so a bet delay and your Odds Settings apply: if the price moves against you while it is held, it is refused unless you accept any odds.
• When a cash-out is matched, your unmatched orders on that market are cancelled. A cash-out that is refused, or rests as an unmatched order itself, cancels nothing.

A cash-out bet then settles with the market like any other bet.

Where your operator offers unmatched bets, on exchange match-odds markets you can ask for better odds than the market offers, backing or laying. The bet then rests as an unmatched order instead of booking.

• Nothing is taken from your balance while an order rests.
• If the live price reaches your odds, the whole stake fills at once at the live price, which is your odds or better. It is never part-filled.
• Your balance, limits and account controls are checked again when it fills, and it is rejected if they no longer allow it.
• You can cancel a resting order, or change its odds, at any time before it fills.
• An order expires when its market turns in-play (unless your operator lets orders keep working in-play, after a short delay), and when the market closes, is voided or settles. A race order always expires at the off.

Your operator sets how many orders you can rest and how far from the live price you can ask. Odds must be between 1.01 and 1000. Once filled, an order is a matched bet like any other.

Casino games use the same balance as the sportsbook. The result of every round is decided by the game, not by this site.

• Your stake is taken from your balance when a round starts, and winnings are credited when the game reports the result.
• If the game cancels a round, your balance is put back exactly as it was before the round.
• Your operator can cap the stake per round, the amount at risk and how many times your stake a round can win. A bet over a cap is refused inside the game.
• Account locks and responsible-gaming controls stop new rounds from starting, but never stop a result or a refund from reaching your balance.