This guide will walk you through exactly how you can lay your accumulators on smarkets.
There are many reasons that you might want to lay an accumulator if you are a matched bettor, the most common is if you’ve got a free bet with a bookmaker and you need to use that free bet on an accumulator with the bookie, so you would want to lay those outcomes on the exchange for a profit.
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You may also simply be placing a trigger bet with the bookmaker to unlock a future bonus or free bet, in which you can use the freebie to make a guaranteed profit by backing and laying using your bonus.
Or perhaps the bookmaker has boosted the price of an accumulator on their website and as a result, the lay price on the betting for the same teams is shorter (know as a price boost), this also would be a situation where placing a lay bet on an acca would be highly beneficial.
Or finally, if you are mug betting and placing a mug acca with a bookie you can simply jump over to smarkets and lay your accumulator really quickly.
In this guide, I’ve got a free bet with a bookmaker which they have specified needs to be used on an accumulator.
Video Walkthrough
Placing An Accumulator With The Bookmaker
The first step is to load in your accumulator’s legs with the bookmaker, the more legs you add the larger the cumulative odds will be, doing this will increase the liability of the subsequent lay bet that I will be placing on the betting exchange in just a few moments.
In the above image, you can see I’ve loaded in three legs to my accumulator and that’s provided me with my cumulative odds which as you can see is 6.67.
Once satisfied I place my back bet on the accumulator with the bookmaker.
How To Lay An Accumulator On a Betting Exchange
I’m going to locate the same games that I used on my acca with the bookmaker on the betting exchange.
Once I locate each of the individual games on smarkets, instead of clicking on the lay odds box next to each of the outcomes (the blue boxes) we actually click on the back odds boxes (the green boxes) even though we are looking to lay these teams.
As you can see in the above image, I have specified the same teams in my betting exchange bet slip as the teams that I have backed on my accumulator with the bookmaker.
We now need to change our bet type on Smarkets from a back bet to a lay bet.
To do this simply locate the multiples box in the bet slip on the betting exchange and change the option from buy to sell (on smarkets buy represents a back bet whereas sell represents a lay bet).
Once you change the bet type to sell this will increase the odds.
It’s important to note that you can only place a lay bet on an accumulator if there is at least £1 of liquidity underneath each of the blue lay boxes of each section that you are looking to use in your accumulator on the exchange.
Next, load up the matched betting calculator on OddsMonkey and select the bet type that you have, in my case this is a free bet so I select “free bet SNR”.
After specifying the type of bet you have, enter the back stake, back odds and lay odds that you are going to be using between the bookmaker and the betting exchange respectively.
In my case, the free bet back stake I used with the bookmaker was £25, the back odds I got with the bookmaker were 6.67 and the lay odds on the same accumulator on the betting exchange were 8.8.
After providing all the required information to the calculator a lay stake will be generated, enter the lay stake into your bet slip on smarkets, you should double-check that all the outcomes in your lay acca match those in your back acca, you should then check the liability on the matched betting calculator matches up with your liability on your bet slip on the betting exchange, if so click on the sell button and confirm to lay your accumulator.
How To Lay Accas on Your Mobile Phone
To lay an acca on your phone to process is very similar and just as simple.
To do this on the smarkets mobile phone app you should locate the outcomes that you want to lay on the exchange.
After locating all the desired outcomes you should turn on the multiples mode slider tab in the top right-hand corner of the screen, this activates multiples mode.
Selecting multiples mode deactivates all the lay odds boxes on each of the outcomes, simply select the back odds boxes for all the selections that you are looking the lay, and then, just as before, simply switch the tab in your bet slip to sell as opposed to buy.
Finally enter in all your information such as the back stake you used with the bookmaker, the back odds and the lay odds into the matched betting calculator.
Once this information has been added to the calculator, use the lay stake provided to place your lay bet on your acca on the exchange, be sure to double-check all the selections match your back bet and the liability matches what is displayed on the matched betting calculator.
