How Does 1x2 Betting Work on Basketball and American Football?

**bookie** · 10-23-14, 04:12 PM

Or closer to home if home is U.S.:

**raiders72001** · 10-23-14, 04:12 PM

edit- saw there was a HT there.

**LT Profits** · 10-23-14, 04:12 PM

Originally posted by bookie

When there are no ties, I don't understand the point of listing them this way. Or do they count overtime games as ties making both home and away bettors losers?

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Would make sense, you'd think 1x2 is for regulation time only. That said, USA facing books do not have 1x2 lines on foots or hoops.

**spider** · 10-23-14, 05:44 PM

if you have only two prices listed, then it includes any overtime that is played.
if there are 3 prices listed, (home,draw,away) then its the final score in regulation that counts.

**bookie** · 10-23-14, 08:27 PM

So a tie in regulation is considered no bet? Or both home and away bettors lose? By the odds it looks like it has to be the latter.

**LT Profits** · 10-23-14, 08:57 PM

Originally posted by bookie

So a tie in regulation is considered no bet? Or both home and away bettors lose? By the odds it looks like it has to be the latter.

It is a 1x2, so home and away both lose, tie (draw) wins.

**LT Profits** · 10-23-14, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by bookie

So a tie in regulation is considered no bet? Or both home and away bettors lose? By the odds it looks like it has to be the latter.

I just opened up the link and it looks like a regular straight line and not a 1x2? Despite what the heading says?

**LT Profits** · 10-23-14, 09:02 PM

Originally posted by LT Profits

I just opened up the link and it looks like a regular straight line and not a 1x2? Despite what the heading says?

Yes, what is being described as a 1x2 simply looks like a straight Money Line.

**Optional** · 10-23-14, 11:37 PM

If you switch to classic view you will see the same odds listed under the column heading MONEYLINE

**bookie** · 10-23-14, 11:57 PM

Originally posted by Optional

If you switch to classic view you will see the same odds listed under the column heading MONEYLINE

My first thought was that those must be moneylines, but if you look at the VT-MIA game that would mean one was about +200 and the other +180. Unless I am confused about how to read Hong Kong lines.

I gotta figure it out because I don't have the option of switching to classic view.

**Optional** · 10-24-14, 02:29 AM

Originally posted by bookie

My first thought was that those must be moneylines, but if you look at the VT-MIA game that would mean one was about +200 and the other +180. Unless I am confused about how to read Hong Kong lines.

I gotta figure it out because I don't have the option of switching to classic view.

Yeah you are confused by conversion. And it's just decimal odds not HK.

$2.09 = +109 (Decimal is saying you get $2.09 back in total for each $1 bet)
$1.81 = -120 (if you risked $100 @ -120 you make $81 profit... hence your decimal return on $1 = $1.81)

It's actually bloody US odds that are the complicated ones!

**bookie** · 10-24-14, 10:24 AM

Thanks Optional...now it makes sense.