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A market is a settlement rule, not a name
Most disputes a reader will have with a bookmaker are not about the result of a match, they are about what the market settled on. Draw no bet, handicap, both teams to score and total goals each have a written rule, and the rule is the product.
MSport's Ghanaian welcome terms are a useful illustration, because they exclude handicap, draw no bet and asian no bet from qualifying play by name. A reader who does not know what those three abbreviations mean cannot tell that a large part of the football board has been excluded.
Where the hold is widest
The main three-way price is the most competitively priced market on any of these boards, and everything built on top of it costs more. Multiples compound the hold once per leg. Same-game combinations compound it and then correlate the legs against you.
Crash and instant games sit at the far end. They are promoted heavily on all three markets, they are frequently what a welcome free bet is pushed towards, and they are priced with a hold no football market would carry.
Nothing on this page is a selection
These pages explain what a market is. They do not say which side of one to take, and while there is no settled record on this site, nothing here should be read as though they did.
The single most useful habit costs nothing: read the settlement rule for a market before the first time you bet it, not after the first time it settles against you.