Betting markets explained — what each one means and how it settles
Ten markets, one page. What the name means, what has to happen for the ticket to win, and what each one does to a welcome slip. Handicaps and totals price up and down; double chance and draw no bet buy safety at a cost; correct score and the scorer markets pay long because they are hard. Paste VIP4YOU at registration. First deposit can be matched 130%, up to $130. That is a ceiling.
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Direct answer
The market name tells you what has to happen. The price tells you what it costs.
Every market below settles on one question. Over/Under asks how many goals, BTTS asks whether both sides scored, a handicap asks by how much. None of them asks a different question of your bonus: what a welcome slip needs is the ticket shape and the leg price its own terms set — on the international offer, bets adding up to five times the bonus on three or more matches at 1.40 or higher, inside 30 days. Paste VIP4YOU before Register; the code binds at sign-up and cannot be added later.
Live operator capture
The tiles you see first are 1X2. Everything else is inside the match
This is a captured India football board — Serie A, Premier League and Champions League fixtures. The three prices on each tile are home, draw and away. Handicaps, totals, BTTS, scorers and the rest do not appear here: tap the fixture and the market list opens inside it. Fixtures on this board change.
The ten markets
Each block is the same three things: what it means in one line, how it settles, and what it does to a slip you are using to clear a welcome offer.
Asian handicap
One team starts the match a goal or two behind.
A handicap gives the favourite a job. AH −1.5 means they must win by two or more, so a 1–0 loses. AH −1.0 is different: win by two and you collect, win by exactly one and the stake comes back, because the handicap makes it a draw. The draw disappears as an outcome either way, which is why a short favourite on the 1X2 tile turns into a longer price here. The 1X2 tile is not this market — tap the match, then Handicap.
On a welcome slip: Handicap legs carry a price like any other, so the odds floor your market prints applies to them unchanged. A whole-number line that refunds behaves like the refund below.
Over / Under (totals)
The combined score of both teams, not who wins.
Over 2.5 needs three goals or more. Under 2.5 needs two or fewer. There is no half goal on a pitch: the .5 exists so the line cannot land exactly and refund. Whole-number lines can — Over 2.0 returns the stake on exactly two. Football counts goals, basketball points, cricket runs. A 1–1 is Under 2.5 and both teams scored, so the two markets can disagree on the same match.
On a welcome slip: Totals price up and down with the line, so the same match offers a leg above and below any floor. Read the price, not the reputation of the fixture.
Both teams to score
Each side scores at least once. The winner is irrelevant.
BTTS Yes needs a goal at both ends: 1–1 pays, 4–3 pays, 3–0 does not. Who takes the three points never enters into it. The market is often confused with Over 2.5 because a high-scoring match usually satisfies both, but they part company at the edges — 3–0 is Over 2.5 and BTTS No, while 1–1 is BTTS Yes and Under 2.5.
On a welcome slip: Yes and No are separate prices on the same match, and one of them is usually the longer. That is the one to read against your market’s floor.
Double chance
Two of the three results on one ticket.
1X is home win or draw. X2 is draw or away win. 12 is either team winning, and only the draw beats you. Covering two outcomes of three raises how often the ticket lands and lowers what it pays, which is the whole trade. It is the market people reach for on a favourite they do not fully trust.
On a welcome slip: Because it covers two results, double chance is priced short — often shorter than the floor a market’s terms set. Check the number before you plan a slip around it.
Draw no bet
Pick a winner; a draw returns the stake.
Win and you collect, lose and you lose, draw and the money comes back. It is the same protection double chance offers, bought a different way: double chance pays out on the draw, draw no bet only refunds it. That is why draw no bet pays more than 1X on the same team.
On a welcome slip: The refund is the catch on a multi-match ticket. A returned leg drops out and the slip recalculates on what is left, which can take it under the minimum number of matches the offer asks for. Check what your slip still contains after a draw.
Correct score
The exact final score, nothing near it.
You are not picking a winner, you are picking one cell in a grid. A football match has dozens of plausible scorelines and only one settles your ticket, which is why the prices are long and why 2–1 losing to 3–1 feels worse than an ordinary loss. Keep the stake small and treat it as entertainment rather than a plan.
On a welcome slip: Long prices clear any odds floor easily, but three exact scores on one ticket is a very thin chance of the slip landing at all. The turnover only counts once a bet settles, and this is the market least likely to settle in your favour.
Half-time / full-time
Two results on one ticket: the break and the whistle.
Some books call it double result. You name who leads at half-time and who wins at the end, so there are nine combinations. Home/Home is the ordinary pick on a favourite that starts fast. Away/Home and Home/Away are comebacks, which is why they pay the most. Getting the final result right is not enough — a team that trails at the break and wins 3–1 loses a Home/Home ticket.
On a welcome slip: Nine outcomes means a longer price than 1X2 on the same match, and a second way to be wrong. Both halves have to go your way before the leg settles as a win.
Goalscorer
A named player scores — anytime, first or last.
Anytime scorer settles on any goal in the match, at any minute. First scorer needs the opening goal specifically, last scorer the final one, and both pay far more because the timing has to land as well as the goal. The practical starting point is anytime on a confirmed starter who takes penalties. A player who does not appear usually voids the bet rather than losing it, but the rule sits in the operator’s own terms, which we have not read for this market.
On a welcome slip: Anytime prices on a first-choice striker are often around the range a floor sits in; first and last scorer are far longer and far thinner.
Outrights and futures
One ticket on a whole season or tournament.
Champion, top scorer, relegation, tournament winner. The stake sits with the operator until the competition finishes, which can be months. Prices are longest before a ball is kicked and tighten as results come in, so the trade is early value against a long wait with no way out except a cash-out, if the market offers one.
On a welcome slip: A welcome offer runs on a clock — thirty days from registration on the international offer, and its own window on the country sites that publish one. A bet that settles in May cannot help a slip that has to be finished this month.
System bets
Several combinations funded at once, so one loss need not kill it.
A Trixie is four bets built from three picks: three pairs plus the treble. A Yankee is eleven from four. A Lucky 15 is fifteen from four, singles included. You fund every combination, so the stake is a multiple of the unit, and in exchange one losing pick can still leave a return. That is the appeal and the cost in one sentence.
On a welcome slip: A system is not one ticket covering several matches — it is many tickets. The welcome terms we have read name accumulator bets and nothing else, so a system slip is not the shape they describe.
10 markets do not use this rule
The 5× target above is the international offer. Where we have read the operator's own country terms, 10 markets publish something different — and in those markets the tickets described above move nothing:
- India — three winning single bets at 2.00 or higher, each staked at the full bonus and placed one after another. One loss ends the offer. Handicaps and totals are excluded.
- Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Zambia — the bonus arrives in two halves. One clears on accumulators; the other only counts inside the 1xGames section, at 30 or 35 times. That section is 1xBet's own quick-games area — the terms name titles like PF Dice, Pachinko and PF Roulette in it, some of which are excluded from the count. It is not the third-party crash games most people mean by that phrase: Aviator, JetX and Spaceman sit in the casino and move neither half.
- Tanzania — eight times the bonus, not five, and the qualifying legs start at odds of 2.10 rather than 1.40.
- Jordan and Thailand — we could read the offer but not the multiplier: those terms pages render their own numbers blank until you have an account. Rather than repeat the five-times figure from elsewhere, we say nothing and point you at your own bonus balance.
Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia also step the percentage with the size of the deposit, and their multipliers step with it. Every country page carries its own figures; the country list is the index, and it now says which rows we read off the operator and which still come from partner listings.
One more line from the terms: on Armenia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Uganda, handicap and total bets do not count toward the wagering at all — the rules strike them out together with refunded bets. Build those tickets from match winners, double chance or both-teams-to-score there.
Which of these belongs on a bonus slip
| Market | Price tends to be | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Over / Under | Either side of the floor, depending on the line | Whole-number lines refund on the exact number |
| Asian handicap | Longer than the same team on 1X2 | Whole-number lines refund; half lines cannot |
| BTTS | Both sides priced close together | Disagrees with totals on 1–1 and 3–0 |
| Double chance | Short, it covers two results | Often below the floor a market’s terms set |
| Draw no bet | Between 1X2 and double chance | A draw removes the leg from the slip |
| HT/FT | Long — nine outcomes | The break has to be right as well as the result |
| Goalscorer | Anytime moderate, first and last long | A player who does not appear is the operator’s rule, not ours |
| Correct score | Very long | One cell of a large grid settles it |
| Outrights | Long, and slow | Settles after the offer’s window has closed |
| System bets | Depends on the combination | Not the accumulator the terms we read name |
The two markets that carry their own page are the ones that touch the bonus directly: a bet on several matches at once, which is the ticket shape most welcome terms describe, and cash out, which the terms we have read do not say counts once a bet is sold. The shorthand the tables above use — 1X2, AH, BTTS — is spelled out in the glossary.
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Betting markets FAQ
Which betting market is the easiest to understand?
Double chance. 1X means home win or draw, X2 means draw or away win, and 12 means either team wins. You cover two of the three results, so the ticket lands more often and pays less.
What is the difference between draw no bet and double chance?
Double chance pays out on a draw as a win. Draw no bet returns your stake on a draw instead of paying a profit. That is why draw no bet is priced higher than 1X on the same team.
Does Over 2.5 mean two and a half goals?
No. There is no half goal in a match. Over 2.5 wins with three goals or more and Under 2.5 wins with two or fewer. The half exists so the line cannot land exactly and refund the stake, which is what a whole-number line such as Over 2.0 does.
Can BTTS Yes and Under 2.5 both win on the same match?
Yes. A 1-1 has a goal at each end and only two goals in total, so BTTS Yes and Under 2.5 both settle as winners. A 3-0 does the opposite: Over 2.5 wins and BTTS settles No.
Do these markets count toward the welcome bonus?
What counts is the shape of the ticket and the price of each leg, not the name of the market. On the international offer that means bets adding up to five times the bonus, each covering three or more matches with at least three legs at 1.40 or higher, inside 30 days of registration. Ten of the sixteen country sites whose terms we have read publish something else, and each country page says which.
Why can a draw break a multi-match ticket?
On draw no bet a drawn match refunds that leg and removes it from the slip. The ticket then recalculates on the remaining picks, which can leave it with fewer matches than the offer requires.
Are system bets the same as a bet on several matches?
No. A bet on several matches is one ticket that needs every pick to land. A system is several tickets funded at once — a Trixie is four bets from three picks — so a losing pick can still leave a return, at a higher total stake. The welcome terms we have read name accumulator bets, not systems.
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