The sport where a Lucky 31 is most commonly placed is horse racing. With football a sport that has a packed schedule, there are constant opportunities to place a Lucky 31, giving you extra interest in the afternoon or evening results. Goalscorer markets and correct scores are a couple of examples of football betting markets that tend to feature big prices. Ideally, you would want at least some selections to feature larger odds. Picking five teams that are favourites, to win their respective matches, would therefore be a high-risk strategy. Out of all bet types, punters particularly like to place multiple and acca bets, so Lucky 31 betting is a popular choice for those wagering on the beautiful game.Īs you will have seen from our example, you need reasonably large odds or a high percentage of winners, to generate a profit with a Lucky 31. Lucky 31 Football Betįootball is the sport which betting sites really push to their users. As you will have noticed there are big leaps between the sort of profit that you can make, from three correct picks upwards. You are probably wondering what happens if all five selections are winners. If we had four winners at 1/1, 6/4, 2/1 and 5/2, with only the 3/1 shot losing, the return would be £188, which would give you a £157 profit. Were there to be three winners, at say 1/1, 2/1 and 3/1, the total return would be £59, giving you a £28 profit.

So you can see that you either need some bigger priced selections than the ones from our example, to break into any sort of profit when you only have two winners. If the two biggest priced selections of 5/2 and 3/1 were the winners, the total return would be £21.50, resulting in a £9.50 loss. The total returns were £9.50 from a £31 stake, which means that you have had a £21.50 loss.

So of the 31 bets, three were winners and 28 were losers.

1 winning doubles = £1 x 1/1 x 6/4 = £5 returns.

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