Are you looking to make a bet on a tennis accumulator but before doing so, want to understand it in detail? You have come to the right place!
In this article we look at tennis betting accumulators (or accas as they are called) in-depth and try to explain what are the advantages and disadvantages associated with them.
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Introduction to Tennis Betting Accumulators
For starters, what exactly is a tennis betting accumulator? A tennis betting accumulator is a way of betting on tennis matches by which you can combine bets on multiple markets together into one bet and get higher odds for it. Each of these individual selection is called a leg.
Essentially, instead of betting sums of money individually on different markets, a tennis punter can combine all of these multiple bets into one to get higher returns for their bet.
The risk associated with this tennis bet is also higher because all of the selections made by the tennis punter need to come right for one to win the bet, i.e. all the legs of an accumulator bet need to come right for an accumulator to win.
How Tennis Accumulators Work in Betting
Tennis accumulators work on the principle of combining the tennis odds associated with all the selections and giving one higher odds for your bet. So, for example, instead of making four bets on outcome A, B, C and D for which the returns are 1/4, 1/2, 4/5 and 1/1, you can combine all of them into a single bet for which the return would be 5.75/1.
These odds are based on the perceived probability of the bookmaker that all four outcomes will come right.
Accumulators can be a combination of any number of bets from two to technically more than 20 (some bookmakers have an upper limit to the number of selections but that’s typically 20 or more).
Take the following example of four individual bets of £10 each made on four different results.
In the above image, there are four different bets made and if the tennis punter making these four different bets of £10 apiece (i.e. total of £40) wins all of them, he/she stands to gain a profit of 17.5.
Now, let’s assume the tennis punter goes for an accumulator bet of £10 on all four results combined. Here’s what he would earn if he won this accumulator.
As can be seen above, for the same set of markets, a single bet of £10 will win the tennis punter a profit of £27.8. In the first case, an investment of £40 won the punter £17.5!
Advantages and Benefits of Tennis Accumulators
Here’s why tennis punters opt for accumulator betting.
Increased Potential Returns
One of the biggest advantage, and which is also why tennis punters opt for accumulator betting is the chance for an increased return. As can be seen from the example mentioned above, a very small bet can lead to the kind of profits that four different bets of a total of way more amount doesn’t get.
Entertainment and Excitement
There is also no doubting the excitement associated with accumulator betting. To win an accumulator you need to bet a very small amount but it could lead to substantial returns if all the legs of the accumulator come good.
What this does is to add an extra layer of excitement and anticipation to the betting experience, thereby increasing engagement for the punter.
Flexibility and Customization
Punters can structure their bets based on the kind of markets they want to bet on and even mix sports instead of focussing on just tennis or any other sport. There is a choice of different type of accumulators and to go with that, there multiple tennis betting markets to choose from as well.
Elevated Interest in Multiple Matches
It’s no surprise that if a multiple bet accumulator bet has been bet on, there is also a good chance that the interest in all the tennis matches associated with that bet will have a certain amount of interest from the tennis punter.
This adds to the excitement over multiple matches for the bettor.
Maximizing Bookmaker Offers and Promotions
We have already spoken about the various tennis betting offers here, the types and the reasons behind why they are made by bookmakers.
Punters may utilize accumulator betting to take advantage of bookmaker offers and promotions specific to accumulators. By combining selections within a single bet, punters can meet the criteria for bonus eligibility or qualify for enhanced odds, maximizing the value of their betting activity.
How to Calculate Accumulator Betting Odds
In this section we will look at how the overall tennis betting accumulator odds are calculated. For starters, it is necessary that the odds used for the individual leg of an accumulator are mentioned in the decimal format for easy calculation.
If the odds in front of you are in either fractional or American format then you will need to convert them into their decimal formats. Once that is done, you just need to multiply the odds associated with each of the individual leg with each other to get a final value.
Using the same example as mentioned above, we have an extra column in which we have converted the individual match odds from fractional to decimal (it would be no different for American odds too).
Once that is done, on multiplying those decimal odds we get the resulting combined odds that gives us the same final return as we had seen in the previous example.
Types of Tennis Accumulators
Tennis accumulators typically need to have four or more legs or selections. If you make just two selections, then it is called a Double while three legs in a bet is a Treble.
In reality, a Tennis Double or a Treble also works on the same principle as an accumulator.
The rest of the accumulators are called Four-Fold, Five-Fold, Six-Fold and so on till the number of individual legs a bookmaker allows (somewhere around 20-fold to 25-fold).
Understanding Ways to Improve a Tennis Accumulator Bet
There are multiple ways in which one can improve one’s accumulator bet, either by getting better odds or by reducing the risk associated with it.
For instance, bet365 offers a percentage bonus for every extra leg of an accumulator.
Betfair, on the other hand, reduces the risk by offering an edge, which means tennis punters still earn a profit but at smaller odds if one of their accumulator legs fails. This is like taking out an insurance policy for your accumulator bet.
There is also a cashout option which some bookmakers offer for an accumulator bet using which a tennis bettor can cash out a bet while the accumulator bet is still live.
For example, if a punter has already won three legs in a four-fold tennis accumulator bet of 10/1, the bookmaker could offer a cashout option at the end of the third win in order to reduce his/her risk of going through with the fourth leg as well.
Some of the best bookmakers for cashing out an accumulator bet include bet365, Paddy Power and William Hill. There are other bookmakers which offer a cashout facility as well.