Explaining Draw No Bet in Betting: What it Means and How it Works in the UK<\/h2>\n
The main idea of any sporting contest is to determine a winner. There are two competitors – teams or individuals – and those competitors do battle to find out who, on the day, is better. That’s easy enough to understand.<\/p>\n
However, in some sports a draw or tie is an accepted outcome. The two sides are evenly matched, and the final score does not separate them. At the end of the day, neither competitor is declared the winner.<\/p>\n
The existence of the draw or tie is an annoyance to many sports bettors. Statistically, predicting a draw is the hardest result to get right. Older bettors may remember the days of the old football pools in which the aim of the game was to correctly predict eight scoring draws – an almost impossible task that was completed by only a few dozen people down the years.<\/p>\n
Most people want at least one side to win, and those who bet on sport are most likely to want to bet on the winners, and not for bragging rights to be shared. This means that people will chose the ‘1X2’ odds in football or other sports where ties are permitted, but still select who they think will be the winning side.<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could eradicate the draw? … well you can, with the ‘draw no bet’ type of wager<\/a>. If you decide to back a team on a ‘draw no bet’ basis, then should the game actually finish in a draw the result is what is known as a push – i.e. your stake is returned to you. With a ‘1X2’ bet if you back a team and the game results in a draw, then your money is lost, as it is if the side you didn’t back wins.<\/p>\n You may ask yourself why anyone would bet on a team to win using a ‘1X2’ bet when ‘draw no bet’ is available. That’s a question with a simple answer – the odds are less attractive on a draw no bet basis than 1X2. We’ll take a look at the difference a little further on in this article.<\/p>\n Once you’ve understood what does draw no bet mean, you’ll also soon understand how to place a draw no bet wager. It really is barely any different than placing any other kind of wager – you just have to make sure you are placing it correctly.<\/p>\n For our example, we are going to go to one of our favourite betting sites, BetUK<\/a>. We want to place a draw no bet wager on Manchester United at home to Chelsea. It’s a big game, so it’s easy to find on the site! The ‘draw no bet’ option is not readily available via the main page, so you need to click the ‘+488’ number which will give you the full list of markets for this game available (and yes, that does mean there are 488 markets!)<\/p>\n For the next step you need to scroll down the page until you find the draw no bet odds. This should not take you very long to do.<\/p>\n To select the bet, just click on the odds. Here we are going to place a ‘draw no bet’ wager on Manchester United.<\/p>\n We’re confident of a Manchester United win (Frank Lampard is the current Chelsea manager after all) so we’ve placed \u00a35 on our bet in the hope of winning \u00a36.20. Remember if Chelsea do manage to hold the Red Devils then our stake will be returned, but if the unthinkable does happen and Chelsea win, then our bet is a losing one.<\/p>\n To confirm our bet all we need to do is hit ‘Place Bet’.<\/p>\n The ‘draw no bet’ option is most commonly used with football bets, mainly because (a) a draw is a perfectly valid and accepted result in football and (b) football is the most popular sport in the UK!<\/p>\n One thing that is important to remember is that when it comes to betting, football is more or less a 90 minute game. As far as bookies are concerned, the game ends once the referee blows for full time. Extra time and penalties do not count when it comes to football betting, so if you back a team to win on a ‘draw no bet’ basis and it’s 2-2 at full time but they go on to lose in extra time or on penalties, then your wager is still paid out as a draw.<\/p>\n The same goes for two-legged matches. Say the team you are backing were 1-0 down from the first leg and at full time in the second leg they are 1-0 up. Overall, the game is tied so (depending on the rules of the competition) extra time is needed. If the final result of the second leg game after extra time is 1-1, then your bet is paid out as a win to the team who ended the game 1-0 before extra time. If you are confused in any way just remember that in football betting terms, extra time and penalties just do not exist!<\/p>\n There are a handful of other sports where ties are permitted, which leads us to ask the question ‘what does draw no bet mean in betting, and can it be used on sports other than football’. The easiest answer to this question is ‘nope!’.<\/p>\n Cricket is a game where, famously, two teams can play for five days and there still not be a winner at the end of the match. The final batting team must surpass the other’s side total to win, but if they have wickets remaining at the game’s conclusion, the game is a draw rather than a loss. Games can also end with both sides scoring the same amount of runs, in which case the game is declared a tie.<\/p>\n So, is ‘draw no bet’ available on cricket matches<\/a>? The answer, disappointingly perhaps, is no.<\/p>\n Americans do not like ties in their sports, although ties are possible. In baseball, they just keep on playing until there’s a winner. Ties only happen if the weather intervenes while the game is tied. The last tie in baseball happened in 2016<\/a>, and the one previous to that in 2005.<\/p>\n Ties are more common in American football. There’s a ten-minute overtime period if a game ends in a tie in normal time, and if the scores remain level after that, then the game is declared a tie. On average though, there are only one or two tied American football games a season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Moving on to basketball, a tied game results in an extra five minutes. The game continues with extra periods until one team ends a period in a winning position. In ice hockey there is also one five minute extra period, after which the game is decided by a shoot-out.<\/p>\n As you can see, ties are very rare in all American sports, hence ‘draw no bet’ is a pointless bet for betting sites to offer.<\/p>\n So, which other sports are ties or draws possible? Obviously, matches in most individual sports such as tennis, golf, snooker and darts never end with a tie, but what about team sports? Well, ties are possible in chess, boxing, Aussie rules (though extremely rare), motor sports, horse racing<\/a>, greyhounds and rugby union, however, out of all these sports only chess sees a ‘draw rate’ as common as football, and who wants to bet on chess?<\/p>\n So, if you are looking for ‘draw no bet’ options on any sport that’s not football, you’re going to be disappointed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n It’s easy to get ‘draw no bet’ mixed up with double chance, so as part of this ‘draw no bet explained’ article, we’re going to look at the differences between the two.<\/p>\n A ‘double chance’ bet allows you to combine two match results in one. In our Manchester United vs Chelsea example, the options would be as follows:<\/p>\nHow to Place a Draw No Bet Wager<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nDraw No Bet in Football<\/h2>\n
Draw No Bet in Other Sports<\/h2>\n
Cricket<\/h3>\n
American Sports<\/h3>\n
Other Sports<\/h3>\n
Draw No Bet vs Double Chance<\/h2>\n
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