The Full Time Result or 1×2 Bet is the most commonly placed football bet. This bet will be decided at the end of normal time, e.g after 90 minutes have been played plus injury time. Extra time does not count so if the match finishes as a draw and goes to extra time the draw is the result for the full time result bet.

 You have three options:
 Home also known as 1.
 Draw also known as x.
 Away also known as 2.

The total goals or goal-line is the number of goals that we think will be scored in total for a soccer match during normal time 90 minutes including injury time but excluding extra-times (ET).

Over/under 2.5 goals is the most common market as far as the football matches are concerned, meaning that you can bet on over 2.5 goals to be scored (you win if there are three or more goals scored) or under 2.5 goals (you win if there are two goals scored or less). There are just two possible outcomes in over/under betting, which significantly increases the winning chances.

Halftime/fulltime covers the regular 90-minute game, meaning extra time and penalties are excluded (do not count). It is a special bet that belongs to the category of double bets, meaning you have to get right both the half-time standing and the end result correctly, in order to win. For this reason, the odds are also much higher.

Let’s say there’s an upcoming football match in which you’re sure that one team will be ahead at the break, but you feel confident the final score will end in a draw. For example, Leeds, may be ahead at half-time, with Newcastle tying the game in regulation time. In a case like this, you can bet for Leeds leading after the first half and then a draw at full-time. The odds can be higher, usually around 16/1 (or 17.0 in decimal) for the game to end a draw. That means you’d be getting a huge profit for yourself if you bet HT/FT. 

Half-Time/Full-time Sports and Options

Halftime/Fulltime can be offered for any sport that is divided into two equal parts – football, basketball, rugby and American football, among others. Therefore, it offers 9 possible results (see the table below). An exception is ice-hockey, which is made up of 3 periods, but is also a sport that offers this type of bet (with 27 possible outcomes).

The match result market is football’s most popular bet, and now many online bookmakers offer a half-time result market. What’s the difference? Which is better? Let’s take a closer look and find out.

The half-time result market is exactly as the name suggests. It’s identical to match result apart from this bet is settled at the halfway point of the match. You have three options when you’re betting on the half-time result:

Another difference between full-time match result and its half-time counterpart are the odds given by the bookmaker. As you are only betting on 45 minutes (plus additional time) instead of the full 90 minutes for football matches, the prices of the possible outcomes change accordingly.

Well, basically a Draw No Bet market provides the chance to bet on a team to win a football match knowing you will get your stake money back if it ends in a draw.

Although the odds for this type of bet will be lower than just betting on a team to win in a normal win market, you have less chance of losing your money.

If you back the home team in a normal win market and they win, you win. However, if the game ends in a draw, you lose your money. Whereas, if you back the home team in the Draw No Bet market and the game ends in a draw, you get your stake money back.

This means you have insurance against last minute equalisers, poor refereeing decisions, and all the other things that frustrate you most Saturday afternoons.

Obviously, you will still lose if the team you didn’t back wins the match.

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Asian handicap – also known as AH – is a form of spread betting and works in the same way as a regular handicap, with teams either given goals or having goals taken away from the total score.

This type of betting originally became popular in Indonesia, with the term believed to have first been coined by journalist Joe Saumarez Smith. Since the turn of the century more and more people have been getting involved in this market and, in recent years, it has found a home in Europe where increasingly it is becoming the market of choice for many professional traders.

What Asian handicap tries to do is to make each game a 50/50 decision. To do that, there is a handicap system where the favourite gets a negative handicap and the underdog is handed a positive handicap.

For instance, Chelsea v Watford may see Chelsea get a -1.5 goal handicap and Watford +1.5 goals. If Chelsea win the game 1-0 and you backed them on the -1.5 goal handicap you would have lost your bet because Chelsea needed to win by 2 goals. However, if you had backed Watford on the +1.5 goal handicap you would have won your bet.

With a -1.5 handicap, Chelsea might be priced up as 1.95 with Watford at 2.0 having been handed their +1.5 goals. On this occasion, the -1.5/+1.5 handicap is where the Asian handicap line has been drawn in order to give both teams roughly the same chance of winning the bet.

In essence, that is what AH is about; giving each team an equal chance of winning the bet.

One of the big benefits is that Asian handicap can eliminate the draw, which is a fairly common outcome in football. Due to the handicaps on offer, one team is always going to come out on top.