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A Beginner's Guide to Common Betting Terminology

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This is the first in a new series of articles aimed at helping those new to betting. This series, “Betting: 101” will provide a range of articles and guides on all aspects of betting, primarily focused on football.

We’ll cover the following topics: key calculations used in betting; the different types of odds including fractional, decimal and US; the range of markets available for football; the main offers provided by bookmakers; common strategies and types of bets; stats used in betting; plus logging and tracking your bets.

The articles will be simple and are inteded to help beginners, but could also serve as a quick reference for more experienced readers.

Introduction to the most popular bookmakers offers (and how to profit from them)

This article provides a brief introduction to the variety of offers you're likely to encounter on bookmaker online websites. We'll provide a general introduction, outline some of the most common and popular offers you're likely to find and comment on some ways to profit from them.

Bookmaker offers will vary from location to location but there are a few common across countries for some of the larger bookmakers. for example, Bet365 2up offers are available in a number of countries including in Latin America.

Understanding popular betting markets for football

This article continues our “Betting 101” series which provides an introduction to football betting subjects. This article provides an explanation of the most popular betting markets that you're likely to encounter at bookmakers.

Some of these can be a little confusing at first so it's important to fully understand what the markets are, how they work and how they can be used.

Bookmakers often compete with each other on the range of markets available. This can be quite overwhelming at first, so it's often a good idea to start with the most common and easily understood.

Below we highlight some of the most commonly used and popular markets.

The value of logging bets and what to look for in a bet tracker.

What is a Bet Tracker?

A bet tracker is a tool that enables you to record the bets you've made and the outcome of those bets.

This can come in a variety of forms. It could be a simple notebook, an excel spreadsheet, a dedicated tracking tool like futstats.net or increasingly account management tools / statements provided by online bookmakers.

An Introduction to Accumulator Bets

What is an Acca?

An Acca (or accumulator and in the US a parlay), is one bet that is made up of multiple parts or "legs". In futstats.net we just refer these to "multiples".

For the bet to win, each leg of the bet must succeed. Let's look at a few examples. The simplest multiple consists of two legs and is called a "double" e.g.