Terms and definitions

Bookmaker-one of the participants of the betting on sports. He accepts the bets from bettors, sets the odds and also pays out.

Return - payment of the amount of the bet, made in a number of cases (for example, when the event was cancelled, in a case of a draw with allowance for handicaps, etc.).

Deposit – player's virtual account, whereto he credits money and from which he pays bets and whereto the winnings are credited. Outcome is one of the variants of the result of the event, offered by the bookmaker for betting to participants.

Client (player) - a bettor who makes bets on the bookmaker's lines.

Coefficient-the amount by which the bet amount is incremented if you win. It is determined by the bookmaker separately for each event in the line. There are several different types of coefficients, "Goal+Pass" bookmaker applies European (decimal) coefficient, which is multiplied by the amount wagered if you win. For example, with a bet of 100 roubles and a coefficient of 1.7, the total winnings will be 170 roubles, net - 70 roubles.

Live bets are accepted by the bookmaker during the match. Live bets are accepted for major and additional outcomes. You can make single live-bets and combine them in a parlay or a system.

Line – list of events and their outcomes with the odds for winning offered by the bookmaker for betting.

"Any other" – a betting option on the victory of a participant, a variant of a score etc., not listed in the line. As a rule, there is a certain set of outcomes presented in the betting line, for example, for football, it is as follows: 1:0; 2:0; 2:1; 3:0; 3:1; 3:2; 0:0; 1:1; 2:2; 0:1; 0:2; 1:2; 0:3; 1:3; 2:3. Other scores in football belong to"any other" category.

*Single (single bet)** is a separate bet on a specific outcome of an event. The winning is equal to the product of the bet amount and the coefficient.

** Player's Profile** is a set of client's personal confidential information on the bookmaker's site: login, password, name, bet history (date, amount, bet status), current balance on the deposit, allowing the player to efficiency of his bets.

proposition bets/action line – additional betting options, for example, on the number of goals, corners, cautions for each team or individual players, half-tomes scoring, total performance of individual players, the correct score of the match, etc.

Event for betting is a single action, event or phenomenon, which may occur during sports or other activities with a particular probability.

Permutations/perms/System type bet – full combination of parlays of given size made of a predefined number of events (the maximum number of events in the permutations is 16). Each combination is calculated as a separate parlay. The main difference between the "permutations" and the "parlay" is that all outcomes must not be correct to win. "2/3 permutations", in particular, consist of three results. To win, it is enough that 2 out of the three predictions are correct. Please note that the amount of possible winning, which is displayed when making a bet is at the same time the sum of the maximum winnings.

Bet -the amount of money that the player puts in the game and loses when the losing, as well as the totality of the selection of outcomes of events that player has combined, betting a certain amount on them.

Sports event (match)-a contest between two or more athletes or teams. Has a certain date and time of the beginning and end (duration in time), as well as the result - the final score with which it ends.

Total – is the type of bet, where the bet is made on whether the final result of the game will be greater than the outcome published by the bookmaker or lesser than this number. The winner of the bet on the outcome is determined by the addition of the final results of both teams. If the final result in the sum will give exactly as much as was supposed by the bookmaker, then the the bet amount is refunded.

Favorite (Favourite) – a team with higher chances to win by common opinion or in the opinion of the bookmaker.

Handicap - this an advantage of one of the teams, provided by the bookmaker, expressed in goals/points/sets/seconds, etc. The handicap may be negative, positive or equal to zero. A handicap given to abettor is added to the corresponding result shown by the participant in the competition. If the result obtained in this way is in favour of the selected participant, he is considered the winner, and the bets on his victory, taking into account the handicap, win. If the result is in favour of a rival the bet is lost. If the result obtained with allowance for the handicap is a tie, then the winning odds for this outcome will be "1", unless bets are accepted for a draw with allowance for handicaps.

Handicap with buying – adding a 0.5 goals (or multiple value) to the positive handicap or subtraction from negative handicap, with a corresponding decrease in the odds. For example, there is a handicap (+1) for CSKA with odds 2.00. One can buy a half of a goal at the expense of lowering the odds and have a handicap of (+1.5), and the odds become equal to 1.55. Not all bookmakers give the possibility to buy in a handicap. Some foreign offices also provide the opposite opportunity to reduce the handicap in order to increase the odds.

Parlay/multiple a common bet on several independent outcomes of events. To win a parlay, none of the outcomes that are included in it can be lost. Winning on a parlay is equal to the product of the bet amount and the odds of all outcomes included in the multiple bet. If at least one of these events in express is not guessed, the bet is lost.

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