Big odds
A big price pays more because that result is expected less often.
Intermediate · 4 min
Big odds
A big-odds selection is a result the bookmaker prices as less likely. The decimal price is long, so a winning stake returns more. The same length is why most of these selections lose. The price and the chance move together.
On this list, big odds means the published tip is one of those longer prices. It might be an underdog win, a particular score, or another less likely market. Read the selection itself. The page name does not tell you how the bet is settled.
A long price can be fair, short, or generous relative to the chance you give it. Fair means your chance and the price agree. Generous means you give the result a higher chance than the price implies. Short means the opposite. Only the gap matters, not the size of the number on its own.
Long losing runs are normal here. If a result is priced at 6.00, a simple reading of that price is that it would win about one time in six if the price were fair, and lose the other times. A blank week is not a surprise and it is not a signal to raise the stake.
Do not build an accumulator out of several big prices to manufacture a huge quote. The ticket loses if any one leg loses, and long shots lose often. A single long price is already a speculative bet.
Use the match page and the team news to see whether the long price is long for a reason you accept, such as a clear gap in the table, or long because the market has missed something you can actually name. If you cannot name the reason, you do not have a view. You only have a number.
Stake less on a long price than you stake on a short one, not more. The stake should be an amount you can lose many times in a row. Skip the row when the story is only that the odds look large.
The day's list for this market is on the tips page.