Guide to If Bets

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Consider these situations and relate if you can:

1) You have $50 in your BetUS account. It is Sunday morning and you want to let your wife sleep in while you watch some football and the kids. Sounds relaxing, doesn’t it? Until about 10 minutes before the first games kick off when you notice that both of your favorite teams are playing that same morning for a playoff spot! You always bet an even $50 on both of your favorite teams! They, and you, need that little bit of extra luck! Call it a superstition. A cold sweat starts to break on your forehead and you realize there is no way you will make it to the Western Union office in time to deposit more money into your BetUS account before game time. What can you do?

2) You put your entire $50 balance on one of your teams in the morning game and when they win, you are going to collect your winnings and then put another $50 on an afternoon game. The afternoon ticks on and you watch as the early game goes into OT and has no chance to finish before the later games start. What could you have done to avoid this horrible situation?

When your funds are limited and you need to make multiple wagers with those funds, you need to know how to use If Bets! Simply put, they can be life-savers!

An If Bet is a selection of 2-6 straight wagers on the same ticket where each leg of the wager is conditional on the outcome of the previous play on the ticket. Subsequent legs of an If Bet will only be placed upon the successful completion of the preceding leg. This type of wager allows you to limit your risk by having only one risk amount but allowing you to use that same risk amount on various games. This wager type is especially helpful when your funds are limited as you can use the same funds to wager on up to 6 games going off at the same or overlapping times.

You have two options on how you would like the action of your If Bets to proceed. The first is called Single Action and your wager only continues if the previous leg is graded as a win. This means that the wager does not continue if the preceding leg is settled as a push, no action, or cancelled.

If you would like to have the action continue and have your wager amount placed on the next game regardless of whether or not the preceding leg was a win, you would choose the Double Action option. This way, if for any reason a part of the wager is settled as a win, push, no action, or cancelled the next part of the wager is then placed.

Any loss in any leg of an If Bet will cease the continuation of the order and no subsequent wagers in the If Bet will be placed.

For example: If you have a $50 6-Team If Bet Double Action and the first leg is a Tie, your $50 would then be placed on the 2^nd leg of the wager. If that part is a win, the win amount for that game will be placed into your account and the original $50 will then be placed on the 3^rd game of the If Bet. If that 3^rd game is a loss, you would lose the original $50 wager amount and the If Bet would cease to function. Nothing would be placed on games four through six of that wager. If, in this same example, you had chosen Single Action, the $50 wager amount would have been placed back in your BetUS account when the first leg was a tie and no other wagers would have been placed in that If Bet.

RULES:

1) Only the major sports can be included in an If Bet.

2) Between two and six bets can be included in an If Bet.

3) Circled games, parlays, teasers, futures and props cannot be included in an If Bet.

4) An If Bet must be placed prior to the start time of the earliest event on the ticket.

5) All wager amounts MUST EQUAL or be less than the amount of the first bet.

6) In a Single Action sequence, subsequent bets will not have action unless the preceding bet is a win.

7) In a Double Action sequence, subsequent bets will not have action unless the preceding bet is a win, push, no action, or cancelled.

Buying Points

In basketball and football, the sports with point spreads, you will sometimes see a game and a point spread that you like somewhat but you are not quite sure about. For single wagers, we allow you to buy points on those games and, thus, put the odds of winning more in your favor. Of course, there is a premium to be paid for this service as we would otherwise run ourselves right out of business. The price you pay for each half point you buy averages out to an extra 10% juice, or vigorish.

When a line is at standard odds of -110, there is a 10% juice. An extra 10% then would make that line at -120.

For example: You see the Pistons at -4 against the Heat but would feel more comfortable with them at -2 as you are pretty sure Shaq will keep it close at least. You then would have to purchase 2 full points. Paying an extra 10% per half point means it would cost you an extra 40% to move the spread 2 points, however, there is a 10% charge to get from 1.5 points to 2 points. So, where the game started at -4 (-110), you are now getting it at -2 (-150). You now have to wager $150 to win $100, instead of the standard $110. By paying more and buying those extra two points, your chances of winning your bet have increased significantly. Detroit ends up winning 121-118. At the standard price, you would have lost that wager but, by paying the premium and taking the points, you are now up $100 whereas you otherwise would be down $110. As in most things in life, you get what you pay for.

One more facet to this feature is in football where, if you buy on, off or through the 3-point mark you have to pay 25%. The extra charge is because three points is the difference between a field goal and a touchdown and also the number of points awarded for a field goal. Three points is the winning/losing margin in close to 1 in 5 NFL games and as such is the most important key number in football.

For example: If the game above were a football game and you bought from -4 down to -2 for the favorites, you would have bought through 3 and so, on top of the -150 you had to pay in basketball, you add another 15%, bringing the line up to -165. It might seem costly to have to wager $165 in order to win $100 but you must decide for yourself whether or not you deem that price worth paying in order to better guarantee yourself a winning wager. After all, in the end it is not about how much you risked to win, but that you actually do win.

You may buy points on straight bets, if bets and action reverses.

1/2 point - you lay 120/100
1 point - you lay 130/100
1 1/2 points - you lay 140/100
2 points - you lay 150/100
3 points - you lay 170/100

You may not buy more than 3 points on any one game on NFL.