Best UK Accumulator Bets

What is an Accumulator Bet?

An accumulator bet is a wager placed that contains multiple bets and combines them into one singular bet. You can do this for any sport, from WWE to football. You can even engage in a bet accumulator for multiple sports, and combine these into the same accumulator. 

The appeal of these bets are the high odds that they offer. Of course, with multiple outcomes in the balance, they’re harder to win – you need to predict every event correctly to win your bet. We have provided advice for accumulator bets further on, so if you’re looking for Grand National accumulator tips or football accumulator, we’ve got you covered. 

If you’re still a bit unsure, which is perfectly normal, take a look at this example below:

Say that you want to create a bet accumulator that consists of three different legs. You choose to bet on Manchester City to win a football game at 1.5 odds, Roger Federer to win a tennis match at 1.2, and the horse ‘Red Lightning’ to win a horse race at 1.3. You combine all of these into one bet and choose to wager £10 – your potential winnings from this bet would be £23.40 (1.5 x 1.2 x 1.3).

How to Place an Accumulator Bet

To make an accumulator bet, simply head into the sportsbook that all of the best online bookmakers have, navigate through your desired events and add them into your bet slip. You should be able to make selections from across the sportsbook, meaning you can expect to add UFC, boxing, golf and darts bets to the same accumulator as Premier League bets. After you’ve selected all of the events you’ll be able to see the total odds, and then you can enter your stake and place the bet.

Some sites even have their own football accumulator tips readily available too, so you can check these out if you’re feeling like placing an accumulator bet.

Your next accumulator is never more than a few clicks away at the best online bookmakers. You’ll find what sports they have on offer, what markets each sporting event offers, and some even have their own football accumulator tips readily available. Some have even evolved to provide horse racing accumulator tips too.

Accumulator Bet Calculator

In the previous example, you can see that the odds for each selection are multiplied together to give the potential winnings from the bet accumulator. This can become an awful lot of math if you are doing it by hand, but the good news is that bookies often show the number in your bet slip, before you even make the bet.

Accumulator Bet Calculator

As a general rule of thumb, the potential returns will be significantly higher if you combine bets that contain odds higher than 2.0. This is because every single event that you add to the bet accumulator will double the potential return.

Accumulator Betting Tips

Before you go and place your first accumulator bet, you’ll want to make sure you’re clued up on what makes a good accumulator bet. Some tips are specifically for horse racing or football, but several apply to the vast majority of sports, so here’s some general betting advice for your accumulator wagers.

• Bet lower if the odds are higher – if you place a bet accumulator where the odds get to a high figure, bet low since this accumulator will be riskier
• Stay alert for cash out (when a bookie offers an early payout on a bet) options – this is one of our key football accumulator tips since this sport can sway in your favour thanks to a few early goals
• Do your research before making your choices – team/player history and statistics are sometimes available at your chosen bookie, or you may need to search online, but either way it will guide you in your betting decisions 
• Don’t combine too many sports into your bet accumulator – if you can keep the number of legs under 5 then you are much more likely to win your accumulator

Whichever bookie you choose to visit from the list on this page, we strongly advise keeping a note of these tips with you – especially if you are new to accumulator betting. Our football accumulator tips and horse racing accumulator tips should help you navigate the world of accumulators with ease.

Football Betting Accumulator

With so many leagues and tournaments across the world, football is arguably the most popular sport to make bet accumulator wagers on.

While applying our football accumulator tips, especially when you’re combining multiple events into one, you’ll typically concentrate on three bets. You’ll bet on the home team to win, for the game to end in a draw, or for the away team to win. These will often be shown as ‘1’ for the home team, ‘x’ for the draw and ‘2’ for the away team. 

There are usually many games taking place at the same time too, so if you’ve placed a bet accumulator where all the games start at the same time, you could be looking at some good cash out options. You’ll also find odds above 3.0 for a draw most of the time, which can happen in football a lot.

Horse Racing Accumulator

You can apply the horse racing accumulator tips mentioned above when building your horse racing accumulator, especially if you are a beginner. Tips aside, and much like the football bets mentioned above, horse racing betting contains three main markets that you’ll focus on.

You can bet on the winner of a race, which is of course whoever crosses the line first. You can bet on a horse ‘to place’, which means that the horse must come in first or second for you to win the bet. You can also bet on a horse ‘to show’, where they must come in first, second or third to win the bet. Of course, you can also combine multiple bets into one larger bet accumulator through using these markets.

Unlike some other sports, there’s less emphasis placed on the form book or the odds when it comes to betting. Anything can happen in horse racing – there are plenty of underdog wins

Today’s Best Accumulator Tips

The game of making bet accumulator wagers hasn’t changed enormously in recent years, so we have some tips that can still be applied today.

1. When making your bet accumulator, check that the odds are to your satisfaction before rushing and placing your bet
2. Compare odds between bookies – this is a great way to extract added value from your bet accumulator activities
3. Look for accumulator boosts – bookies sometimes offer increased odds and payout boosts for accumulator bets, so be vigilant