Betting Strategy for 7 Selections (Football Accumulator?)

A Betting Strategy For Punters Who Like To Bet Multiples

This can work for Saturday Horseracing (for the brave) or for those that like to play football accumulators.

You can see in the image here an OLBG winning acca across a range of sports. 

To get this many selections correct is not common, but it can help by mix and matching the sports, where you find a decent bet on those sports. 

You can see there was football, tennis and horse racing on this particular accumulator. 

1 or 2 will normally let you down whatever type of bet you have.

it could be a ten-fold, a four-fold, or a double, there is always one that lets you down!

The gambling gods can even scupper your single!

What's the answer then? Well, there isn't one. Well, not one definitive answer that is. 

Many would encourage you to look at the long term picture and build your profit slowly through selective processes and playing single bets only. 

To be honest, I am in this particular camp myself, I feel this is the right way to go for me. But that's the point. It works for me. 

What works for me and pleases me as far as having a bet goes may not work for the next person. Especially with football betting.

I will bet on any given day I think I have researched sufficiently a league I know enough about and have found a bet to have. 

A lot of punters bet on football on a Saturday only. 

Once a week, like a religion, during the football season and for those punters, who maybe are budgeting a fiver perhaps, a single, or a couple of £2.50 singles, are just not going to satisfy. 

So the "quick slip" is pulled from the rack, filled with any number of teams and bet all to win, boom or bust, all or nothing. 

I will play doubles and sometimes trebles if I really am confident in a bet but maybe, just maybe there is a way to help minimize a loss if you pick something like 7 selections. 

Hell, this might even work if you play horses too. 

Although, it would be a very speculative punter looking for this bet on horse racing where singles are king!

Many moons ago, I used to pick four selections and play Permed Patents, that is, groups of three in full cover bets.

The full range of bets available can be checked on the betting school types of bet article. 

I used to add a final Lucky 15, of the four, just to take advantage of the treble odds bonus for one winner. 

Betting Example

This bet I am about to introduce is an extension of that. A big extension.

Use this is if you have 7 selections you are about to put onto your Football coupon and put in a single accumulator.

NUMBER YOUR SELECTIONS, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

The bet is a permutation of groups of four, and indeed Yankees in this instance. 

A Yankee consists of 11 bets. 6 doubles, 4 trebles, and a four-fold. We will play 7 Yankees across the seven selections.

1236 - 1245 - 1357 - 1467 - 2347 - 2567 - 3456

This is where the "one or two always let me down" bit comes in. 

If you were let down on two teams in this bet, but still got five right, this permutation will guarantee that four of the five right would fall together to return a complete Yankee. 

If it's a case of just the one that got away, then you will land at least three Yankees fully completed.

In both cases, with just the one or two letting you down. 

In addition to the full Yankees you will have landed, there will be plenty of doubles and trebles elsewhere in the bets that you will collect on.

Even if you get three selections incorrect, there is a chance the four you get right will sit together and complete a Yankee for you.

Even with just three or two winners, consolations prizes will ensure you get something if not your full stake back depending on the prices and where they sit in the permutation.

This is just one example of how to put a little safety net into multiple betting long lists of football matches in particular, but maybe even horses for some.