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The glossary of Betting Terms

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Single Bets

What is a Win Bet?

What is a Place Bet?

What is a Show Bet?

What is a Single Bet?

What is an each-way bet?

Place Terms

What are place terms?

How are place terms decided for UK horse racing?

What if I bet Each-Way and the event becomes Win Only?

Multiple bets

What is a double?

What is a treble?

What is an accumulator (or acca)?

What is a parlay?

What is a Teaser bet?

What is a Patent or Twist?

What is a Trixie?

What is a Yankee?

What is a Lucky 15?

What is a Super Yankee?

What is a Lucky 31?

What is a Heinz?

What is a Lucky 63?

What is a Super Heinz?

What is a Goliath?

Scoop 6 Explained?

Forecasts:
What is a forecast?

What is a straight forecast?

What is a computer straight forecast or CSF?

What is a reverse forecast?

What is a combination forecast?

What is a tricast?

What is a combination tricast?

Types of betting odds

What is a Starting Price or SP bet?

What  are live shows or Board Prices?

What are Early Prices?

What is Fixed Odds betting?

What is Ante-Post betting?

What is Futures betting?

What is Tote betting?

What is Pool betting?

What is Pari-Mutuel betting?

Rule 4

What is Rule 4?

Can Rule 4 apply to anything other than horse or dog racing?

Dead-Heats

What are the Dead-Heat rules?

Other types of betting

Betting Exchanges explained? 

A heinz bet is six selections with all possible combinations of doubles upward. That’s 57 bets. It is named after the old marketing that Heinz had 57 varieties.

What is a Lucky 63?

A Lucky 63 is a Heinz plus the six single bets, so 63 bets.

What is a Super Heinz?

A Super Heinz is seven selections and 120 bets (doubles and upward).