Yankee Bet in Detail - How to Make It Work in Your Favour

What Is a Yankee Bet?

A Yankee represents 11 different accumulator bets of four selections: 6 doubles, 4 trebles, and one four-fold. This combo wager doesn’t include any singles. The full cover bet aims to maximise the chance for profit when playing four selections, and this makes it a bit more reliable for breaking even than a single four-fold acca. This is, in essence, what a Yankee bet is.

How Does a Yankee Bet Work?

To illustrate a classic Yankee, imagine we pick four simple 1X2 selections. If we place them all as a single accumulator, we risk the entire bet to fail if only a single pick fails. However, we can increase our chance of turning a profit by making a full cover wager, which can break even if only a couple of the selections come through. As the table below illustrates, it achieves this by covering all possible accumulator combinations of four selections.

Then again, placing 11 bets is eleven times more costly than placing one. Moreover, keep in mind that the betting odds of each selection should be high enough to bring profit. Our Yankee bet example below can turn positive for only two picks if the odds are close to evens (1/1 aka 2.0), but this may not be enough if they are lower. It is best to use a Yankee Bet Calculator to check how each selection affects your potential winnings.

Use These Yankee Bet Tips before You Start

• Always consider checking your selections with a Yankee bet calculator. This will give you an idea of how well the full cover bet will perform. Moreover, you will have a general idea of how many selections should come through to at least break even.
• Furthermore, if you pick three selections with close to even odds (1/1), you might consider higher odds for the final one. This could add extra profit in case the fourth leg of the acca comes through, and even if it doesn’t, the first three should be conservative enough to break even.
• Finally, keep in mind this type of bet is eleven times more expensive than a four-fold accumulator. While the full cover wager has a higher chance to turn some profit, when it fails completely, it hurts eleven times more than a regular acca. Therefore, it is wise always to pick both the selections and the stake carefully

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