Where to Bet on Formula 1 Online in the 2026 Season

Updated October 2026

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The 2026 Formula One World Championship is the seventy-seventh running of the title and the first to run under a wholesale reset of the technical rules: the MGU-H goes, the MGU-K climbs to 350 kW, and active aerodynamics replace DRS. Twenty-three Grands Prix stretch from Melbourne on 8 March 2026 to Abu Dhabi on 6 December 2026, six of them sprint weekends, and Lando Norris carries the #1. For a British punter that is a long season of markets — race winner, podium, fastest lap, qualifying head-to-head, sprint outright, points finish, and the constructor markets — and it sits inside one of the most tightly regulated betting markets in the world.

This page is about the choice on the table, not the choice between teams. Ten licensed bookmakers, the rules of British betting, the cost of every “free” offer and the arithmetic behind every price.

How the 2026 bookmaker lineup compares

The ten operators below all hold a remote general betting licence from the Gambling Commission for real events. None of them is “the only” licensed bookmaker — the Commission’s register lists hundreds. What separates them is the shape of their motorsport offering: how early they price up each race, how deep they go into the constructor and qualifying markets, whether they let you cash out a futures bet, how their app handles a sprint weekend compared with a Sunday afternoon.

Two patterns stand out before any individual review. First, the welcome offers are not equal: the smallest qualifying stake is a £10 accumulator with three legs, the largest is a £60 free-bet bundle tied to fixed-odds play. Second, a handful of these names sit on the same licence-holder’s roster — LiveScore Bet is part of a wider group, William Hill and BetUK both belong to large multi-brand owners — so the offer comparison is what matters, not the corporate family tree.

The bookmakers, judged on their own terms

Each operator below is described from its own published terms, not from advertising copy. The verdict at the end of each entry names what the offer actually costs the punter and who it fits.

Hollywoodbets

Hollywoodbets arrived in the UK through a white-label licence already held in its home market, and the motorsport offering pulls from its South African bookmaking tradition. The qualifying bet for the welcome offer is a £10 accumulator on three or more legs at combined odds of 4/1 or more; if the first qualifying bet loses, the stake comes back as a free bet of up to £30, and one free bet per customer is the rule, regardless of how much the losing stake was.

For a Formula 1 punter that structure is workable but constraining: a three-leg qualifying bet in F1 typically strings together a race winner, a podium finish and a fastest-lap selection, and the 7-day expiry window means the bet has to settle inside the same race weekend for the offer to be used as designed. The free bet is then a one-shot opportunity, not a reusable balance.

Worth it for an F1 punter who already bets accumulators and wants a single safety-net on the first weekend of the season; less so for someone who bets singles on every race and would have to invent a parlay just to qualify.

LiveScore Bet

LiveScore’s UK business sits on a Gibraltar-issued licence, but operates only under the conditions of its Gambling Commission authorisation. Payments are the most consistent part of the offer: debit cards from Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay, PayPal, Pay by Bank through Open Banking and Revolut Pay are all listed in the operator’s help pages — a wider choice than most of the ten.

The motorsport menu follows the live-score brand: race winner, podium, fastest lap, points finish and a small selection of qualifying markets tend to be priced the night before, with sprint-weekend prices added once the format is confirmed. In-play is single-market rather than fully featured — the race winner market is open during the race, the rest tend to settle at the start.

Worth it for someone who wants frictionless deposits and withdrawals through familiar channels and is happy to bet pre-race; the in-play product is thinner than a fully featured sportsbook’s.

BetUK

BetUK is one of LeoVegas Gaming PLC’s sports brands. The free-bet terms are the punchiest line to read first: virtual sports, esports and non-UK and non-IE horse racing are excluded, and minimum odds apply — qualifying positions are limited to real events at the bookmaker’s discretion on the eligible markets.

F1 fits inside the eligible set, which is the good news. The thin spot is horse racing: a punter who also bets the racing is missing out on half of BetUK’s offer structure, because the racing exclusions cut both the qualifying bets and the free-bet use.

Worth it for an F1-and-football punter who doesn’t follow British or Irish racing; a poor match for someone who wants the racing and the motorsport on the same welcome offer.

Betboro

Betboro’s motorsport offering is short but practically built. In-play is offered on football, racing and tennis, with cash-out across those three sports, and a Boosted Odds product on selected singles starts at a £10 stake. Safer-gambling tools are explicitly listed on the operator’s site — deposit limits, reality checks and self-exclusion are all present without having to dig into the help pages.

For F1 specifically, the choice sits between pre-race prices and the in-play markets: boosted singles on podiums, points finishes or qualifying head-to-heads can shift a long price for one selection a weekend, and the reality-check timer is the kind of feature a bettor running a season-long plan values more as the year goes on.

A solid pick for the punter who wants a regular boost on single race outcomes and clear safer-gambling visibility; the exchange-style menu is deeper elsewhere.

Spreadex

Spreadex carries two licences. The fixed-odds arm is regulated by the Gambling Commission; the spread-betting arm is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. That makes Spreadex unusual on this list — it is the only operator here that offers both conventional betting and financial-style spread bets through one account. The new-customer offer is £60 in free bets for a £10 fixed-odds qualifying bet, with the free bets usable across both fixed odds and spread markets; the qualifying bet has to be placed within 28 days of opening the account.

The cost of that flexibility is the spread-bet risk: spread-bet losses can exceed the deposit, and the FCA regulation covers conduct, not a guarantee of any individual position. A F1 punter who treats Spreadex as a conventional bookmaker and ignores the spread markets will not expose themselves to that risk; a punter who also tries spread bets on driver performance points markets trades on a different product with a different risk profile.

A flexible option for those who use both fixed-odds and spread accounts, provided the spread-betting risks are fully understood before placing a position.

Tote

Tote’s offer is built on the pool-betting model rather than the fixed-odds bookmaker model. The Best Odds Guaranteed-style product on UK and Irish horse racing from 8 AM each race day is the daily anchor. For F1 the menu is conventional fixed-odds racing markets with pool-style jackpots added on the headline races — a feature other operators on this list do not match.

The trade-off is menu depth: Tote prices F1 well, but it does not always price the same breadth of qualifying or fastest-lap markets as the bigger sportsbooks. A punter who wants every sub-market on every session may have to combine Tote with another book.

Ideal if you enjoy pool-style jackpots on major races, though the fixed-odds menu for F1 is less expansive than at the larger bookmakers.

William Hill

William Hill is the longest-established name on this list and the one whose motorsport menu is most thoroughly built out. Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing from 8 AM on race day, on both singles and multiples, is the headline, with the carve-outs stated up front — no ante-post, tote or pari-mutuel bets.

For F1 specifically the offering includes race winner, podium, points finish, fastest lap, qualifying head-to-head, both cars in the points, both cars classified, and a small number of season markets (drivers’ and constructors’ championship). In-play is present across the main markets. The free-bet structure around the welcome offer varies — current forms are welcome-bet refunds and stake-back variants — but the live product is what carries the brand through a long season.

Worth it for the F1-and-racing punter who wants both markets fully priced on a single account; the single drawback is that William Hill’s prices are not always the headline price on every market, and a multi-account punter will find the matching odds elsewhere for some races.

QuinnBet

QuinnBet’s free-bet structure is unusually well documented on the help pages: free bets are valid for 7 days from credit, usable on any market at odds of 1/2 (1.50) or greater, capped at 50/1, with straight accumulators permitted and the multi-leg combinations Trixie, Patent and Yankee explicitly excluded. The exclusion list is unusual — most bookmakers block only the heaviest combinations.

For an F1 punter the practical limit is the 7-day expiry. A free bet credited on a Thursday before a Sunday race can sit across two race weekends if used carefully; credited on the Monday after, it expires before the next race. The market exclusions are rare rather than blocking: anyone who bets singles or trebles is unaffected, and the same applies to most drivers’-championship outright bets that settle late in the year.

A straightforward choice for the singles-bettor who prefers clear 7-day terms, leaving the more complex combination bets to specialist operators.

NetBet

NetBet’s product set is the most explicitly “boosted” of the ten: Daily Boosts, Profit Boosts and free-bet offers are all listed on the operator’s app store entry. The Bet Builder with instant dynamic odds is the differentiator — the price updates as selections are added, which lets a punter price-build a race-day position without leaving the slip.

For F1 the builder is unusual. Most Bet Builder products are designed for football or basketball, where leg combinations can be micro-priced: a “Norris to win, Verstappen podium, fastest lap to Leclerc” multi-leg at this race meeting is the kind of bet the builder supports without much fuss. The other weekly football accumulators NetBet lists use Daily Boosts the way most bookmakers do.

Strongly oriented towards users who enjoy building their own race-day parlays; the boosts are a frequent extra for those active across multiple sports.

Geoff Banks

Geoff Banks’ book is a niche operation run through GB Sports Advisors Limited. Live in-play prices and ante-post on future motorsport events are what the operator publishes on its app store entry. The welcome offer structure has historically been small-stake-and-refund rather than headline-grabbing.

For an F1 punter the appeal is the ante-post market — driver championship and constructor championship outrights early in the season, when other books are tighter. A small book that holds open driver-tournament positions for longer than the big four gives a long-game punter a place to lay a position before the season settles into a pecking order.

Worth it for the ante-post punter who wants a second opinion on the season markets and is comfortable with a smaller bookmaker; less so for the punter who wants the full F1 menu priced every session.

What “licensed” means in the British betting market

A bookmaker serving customers in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence wherever it is based. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 changed the test from where the operator was incorporated to where the customer sits: a Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is no substitute for the British one, and the Commission’s public register is the whole test of who holds a licence. The register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number.

Three points the Commission’s own rules make that go beyond the bare licence:

• Minimum age 18, with name, address and date of birth verified before the first deposit or bet. Free bets and bonuses are inside the verification rule; no anonymous play exists at a licensed site.
• Identity verification in the bettor’s name is the price of access. The public register lists the licence, but the practical cost for the punter is the upload of a photo ID at sign-up.
• British punter, no Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland runs under separate older law, and a GB licence does not regulate it. The ten operators on this page are licensed for Great Britain — England, Scotland and Wales — and that is the frame the rest of the page works in.

What may be bet on

There is no statutory list of permitted bets. An operator holds a licence for a category — remote general betting standard (real events), remote general betting standard (virtual events), remote pool betting, remote betting intermediary, remote general betting limited — and offers markets under its own rules and the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP). All ten brands above hold the standard remote general betting licence for real events, which covers Formula 1, so each of them is permitted to price motorsport markets.

In-play is offered by British bookmakers and is regulated by the operator’s licence conditions and customer-protection duties; there is no statutory “unrestricted” rule and no statutory ban. Esports sit inside the same regime as any other event; virtual events are a separate licence category. Bets on politics, TV and novelty markets are offered without a statutory prohibition.

What the 10x bonus cap means in practice

The promotion rules in force since 19 January 2026 set a 10x cap on the wagering requirements attached to a bonus. A £10 bonus with a 50x wagering requirement would need £500 of qualifying bets; under the 10x cap, the same bonus needs only £100. The rules also ban mixed-product promotions — an offer that requires gambling on two or more product types such as betting, casino, bingo and lottery is not allowed. Whether the cap applies to free bets that carry no wagering condition, and any cap on the money value of a bonus, are not established from the LCCP alone.

For an F1 punter the practical reading is short: a bonus that needs you to bet £100 on real sporting events at odds of 1/2 or better clears in a single race weekend; a bonus that asks for the same volume across casino and betting is no longer on the table.

Tax on the punter

The punter pays no tax on betting winnings in Great Britain. General Betting Duty is the operator’s tax, not the customer’s; it is a duty on gross profits. From 1 April 2027 a new remote rate of 25% applies within General Betting Duty for remote bets (UK horse racing, self-service betting terminal bets, pool betting and in-person bets stay at 15%). Until that date the remote rate remains 15%. Whether operators pass duty on through odds is not established, so prices are read as the price the book publishes.

The section above is general information, not tax advice. A professional gambler should ask HMRC or an adviser; the rules for trade are different.

What offshore means

A British punter can place a bet with a brand that has no Gambling Commission licence. That is not the same as it being licensed for Great Britain: it is not licensed for Great Britain. The cost of going unlicensed is concrete:

• No GAMSTOP coverage. The national self-exclusion scheme is a mandatory licence condition for online operators; an unlicensed book sits outside it.
• No Commission complaints route. A dispute with an unlicensed brand has no British regulator to escalate to.
• No approved dispute-resolution body. The ADR providers approved under the LCCP are not available to an unlicensed customer.
• No British consumer redress if funds are withheld. Recovery is a private action across borders.
• No 10x bonus cap, no £150 vulnerability check, no deposit-limit framework. The whole British consumer-protection layer is gone.

Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes it an offence to provide gambling facilities in Great Britain without the licence the Act requires; enforcement is at the operator (on summary conviction up to 51 weeks’ imprisonment, a fine up to level 5, or both; six months in Scotland). No offence aimed at a customer who simply places a bet on an unlicensed site was found in the law. The honest framing: licensed = identity checks, limits, GAMSTOP and the 10x bonus cap; unlicensed = none of the British protections and possible loss of funds.

Safer gambling and what a licensed bookmaker has to offer

The British safer-gambling layer is the most fully built in Europe. Six things sit on a licensed bookmaker’s site and they are not optional:

The financial vulnerability check is not an income check and not a credit check. It is a public-record look-up: bankruptcy orders, county court judgments, similar adverse records. From 28 February 2025 it has been applied at the £150 in 30 days trigger. A heavier “financial risk assessment” framework has been announced in stages by the Commission, with no start date set — write “announced, staged, no start date”, never “in force”.

Three points matter beyond the table:

• Deposit limits are the customer’s choice. The state does not set a deposit or loss ceiling for betting; limits are the customer’s own decision under the operator’s tool.
• Wagering caps are an offer protection, not a personal one. The 10x cap on bonus wagering is the rule an operator cannot break; it is not the same as a maximum stake the bettor can set.
• The minimum exclusion period on GAMSTOP is six months, after which the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the bettor asks GAMSTOP to lift it. Re-registering during the active period is not possible.

Where to get help outside a bookmaker

• GamCare — runs the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133; free, 24 hours a day.
• GambleAware — funds research, treatment and education; not a treatment provider itself.
• NHS gambling clinics — gambling-specific treatment pathways through the NHS.
• Gamblers Anonymous — peer-support meetings, in person and online.

The safer-gambling layer on a licensed site is a list of links rather than a referral; it is the operator’s job to publish and the bettor’s job to act on.

The shape of F1 betting in the UK

The 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship is the seventy-seventh running of the title. Twenty-three Grands Prix and eleven teams were on the original calendar; the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was cancelled, leaving twenty-three on the running order. Lando Norris is the reigning Drivers’ Champion into this season.

The calendar moves from Melbourne on 8 March 2026 to Abu Dhabi on 6 December 2026, with six sprint weekends attached: China, Miami, Canada, Britain, Netherlands and Singapore. Sprint weekends change the betting menu — sprint qualifying on Friday, the sprint itself on Saturday, the Grand Prix on Sunday — and most bookmakers price all three sessions as separate markets rather than as one weekend event.

The technical reset that shapes every bet

The 2026 regulations are the largest reset since 2014. The MGU-H has been removed; MGU-K output has risen from 160 bhp (120 kW) to 470 bhp (350 kW); the Drag Reduction System (DRS) has been replaced by active aerodynamics. The cost cap for teams has risen from $135 million to $215 million.

For a punter that combination has three consequences:

• Pre-season form is a weaker guide than usual. A new aero package and a much larger electrical component change how every car behaves on track, and the first three or four races of the season are read as testing rather than as a verdict on each car’s pace.
• Strategy markets widen. With more electrical energy available on each lap, undercut and overcut strategies are different from the 2025 reference, and the strategy markets some bookmakers offer during a race will show different probabilities than the previous season’s prices.
• Markets that depend on consistent gap structure are higher variance than usual. The constructor standings, both cars in the points, gap-to-leader betting — anything that assumes a known performance spread between teams is a less reliable bet early in the year than the same market late.

The market menu on a British F1 race weekend

A typical race weekend at a fully featured British bookmaker offers the following markets, with the day’s session updating the prices:

• Race winner, podium, top six, points finish — headline markets, priced the night before.
• Fastest lap, winning margin, retirements — session markets, priced at the formation lap.
• Qualifying head-to-head, qualifying top three, pole position — Saturday markets.
• Sprint outright, sprint podium, sprint qualifying head-to-head — Friday and Saturday markets on the six sprint weekends.
• Both cars in the points, both cars classified, constructor head-to-head — markets that pair the two cars in each team.
• Championship outrights — drivers’ and constructors’ championship, priced continuously through the season.

A smaller bookmaker may price only the race winner and podium markets. The price depth of a bookmaker’s F1 offering is the most reliable signal of how much of the calendar it will price in any given year.

Apps and in-play betting on F1

The British F1 punter’s day is increasingly an in-pocket one. Eight of the ten brands in this guide have an iOS app on the UK App Store; the other two sit on a mobile-responsive site. Live in-play is offered by all ten, but the quality of in-play is the differentiator, not the existence of it.

What an F1 in-play product is up against:

• A race lasts 90 minutes to two hours; a sprint is shorter. In-play coverage has to be a single product across the whole session.
• The most bet-on markets during the race are race winner, podium and fastest lap — markets that settle at the chequered flag, not as the race unfolds. Only the outright winner market stays open all the way.
• Safety cars, red flags and weather resets mean in-play prices jump in steps rather than smoothly. A model that ticks every second is more exposed to suspension-of-pricing periods than a snapshot model.

The realistic shape of an F1 in-play product is the race winner market, often with cash-out, and a small selection of session markets on qualifying and the sprint. A punter who wants every market open during a race has to look at the football in-play product and accept that F1 is shorter and less deep.

What cash-out does to a race-day position

Cash-out is offered on selected markets before settlement. The price the bookmaker shows is its own model of the current value, less a margin; the punter either takes that price and ends the bet or lets the bet run to settlement. On an F1 race weekend the markets where cash-out is most useful are the pre-race outrights — race winner, podium, points finish — and the constructor markets, because by the time the race settles, the in-running price has often moved well clear of the pre-race price and the cash-out offered is a meaningful chunk of the potential return.

The early-exit value is never the same as the edge at the moment of exit. The bookmaker keeps a margin on the cash-out price the same way it does on a bet, and the punter who uses cash-out regularly is paying that margin on top of any edge gained.

Mobile deposits and withdrawals on a race weekend

The payment methods the ten operators take vary, but the headline differences are few. Most take debit cards from Visa and Mastercard; Apple Pay is universal; PayPal is offered at all ten, sometimes through the betting site and sometimes through the operator’s own wallet; Pay by Bank through Open Banking is available at several of the newer brands. Revolut Pay sits at LiveScore Bet as an additional option. Credit cards have been banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020 — including credit-card-funded payments through an e-wallet — which is why every licensed bookmaker’s deposit page lists debit, not credit.

Withdrawals on a British licensed bookmaker go back to the source method where possible: debit card, e-wallet, bank transfer. Pay-by-Bank deposits usually settle fastest because the rail is direct; debit-card withdrawals are typically one to three working days.

Predictions, tips and what “form” actually costs

The “predictions and tips” market for F1 is dominated by free content: previews, qualifying analysis, fantasy-team suggestions. The honest framing has three points:

• Past form is a weaker signal early in a major regulation reset. The first half of the 2026 season is the on-track testing; the markets don’t move on lap-one form the way they would in a stable-rules season.
• Bookmaker prices are aggregated opinion. A price on Norris to win the race is the bookmaker’s margin-adjusted view of a market that includes its own bookmakers’ opinions; the price moves as money comes in, and a bet placed early in the pricing window is a different bet from one placed after the steam.
• Free tips and paid tipsters carry the same risk as any other information source. There is no such thing as a guaranteed winning selection; a paid tipster who charges for picks is selling information that has its own batting average, and the batting average is rarely disclosed.

What the punter actually controls is the bankroll management: the size of the stake relative to the bank, the maximum stake the punter will accept on any single race, and a stop-loss on a losing streak. A £10 punter with a discipline of never staking more than 5% of the bank on a single bet will last across a long season in a way that an undisciplined punter staking 25% on a hot streak will not.

Bankroll management for a 23-race season

Twenty-three races plus six sprint weekends and the mid-season test means roughly 120 separate sessions of betting value to a punter who prices each one. Three rules of thumb hold across the season:

• Cap a single bet at a fixed percentage of the bank. The 5% rule is the most common small-bank version, the 2% rule the more conservative.
• Reset the bankroll at the season’s halfway point rather than at the start. The 2026 season’s regulation reset means half-distance is the right moment to revisit whether the model still fits.
• Don’t chase. A losing weekend is not a signal to double the next stake; the signal is to revisit the model.

The point of bankroll management is to keep the punter in the game long enough for the edge — if there is one — to show up in the cumulative numbers. An undisciplined bankroll either runs out or grows fast enough that the variance is unrepeatable.

Reading the price: the margin behind every F1 quote

A bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price it offers; it is not printed on the ticket. A two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90 has an implied probability of 1 ÷ 1.90 + 1 ÷ 1.90, which works out to about 52.6% on each side and 105.3% combined. A “fair” book with no margin would show 100%; the extra 5.3 percentage points are the bookmaker’s edge, the margin. The corresponding payout share — the fraction of every pound bet that is returned to winning bettors across both outcomes, on average — is roughly 95%.

That band is the realistic one for a competitive British F1 race-winner market at the bigger books. Smaller books, niche markets and in-running prices routinely show wider margins — 7% to 12% is not unusual when the book is built around volume rather than margin. A price at decimal odds 1.50 / 2.75 has an implied combined probability of about 103%, a margin closer to 3% — a sharper line. A price at 1.20 / 5.00 has an implied combined probability of about 103% as well, but the asymmetry makes the underdog side carry more of the margin.

The takeaway for a punter: the race-winner and podium markets at the bigger books are usually inside a 5% to 7% margin range. The qualifying head-to-heads and fastest-lap markets are wider — typically 6% to 10%. The championship outrights early in the season are the widest of the regular F1 markets, often above 12%, because bookmakers price them as longshots and price them before the steam lands.

A punter who wants to compare markets doesn’t compare headline prices alone; the headline price next to the margin of its market is the comparison that matters. A 6/4 race-winner quote at a 6% margin is a different bet from a 13/8 quote at a 9% margin at the same bookmaker, and a different bet again from a 6/4 quote at 4% margin at another book.

Choice, not direction

The ten operators are different shapes, not different rankings. The bookmaker for a small-stake accumulator punter with no interest in horse racing is BetUK. The bookmaker for a punter who already bets spreads through a separate FCA-regulated firm is Spreadex. The bookmaker for a punter who wants the deepest in-play on motorsport is William Hill. The bookmaker for the ante-post seasonal punter is Geoff Banks. None of them is the right choice for every punter, and none of them is the wrong choice for any punter who already accepts the offer as published.

What every licensed bookmaker costs a British punter is the same: identity checks at sign-up, a willingness to declare source-of-funds at higher spend, the discipline of a deposit limit the punter sets themselves, and the 10x bonus wagering cap on every welcome offer.

What every unlicensed book costs a British punter is also the same: none of the above.

That is the choice. The rest of the season’s bets are on the menu under each bookmaker’s app.

Frequently asked questions about Formula 1 betting in the UK

How do I bet on Formula 1?

Place a bet through any of the bookmakers reviewed above, or any other brand listed on the Gambling Commission’s public register. Open the account at least 30 minutes before the race so identity verification has time to clear; deposit by debit card, Apple Pay, PayPal or Pay by Bank; pick a market such as race winner or podium; enter the stake and confirm the bet on the slip.

How is a Gambling Commission licence verified?

Open the Commission’s public register, type the brand name, the trading name or the domain into the search box, and read the licence record. The record shows the licence number, the categories the licence covers and the operating company behind the trading name. A brand not on the register is not licensed for Great Britain.

What does a winning bet pay back?

A winning bet pays back the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 single at decimal odds 3.75 returns £37.50, of which £27.50 is profit. On a combination bet the leg odds multiply into one price and the same arithmetic applies.

What is the bookmaker’s margin?

The margin is the bookmaker’s edge on a market, expressed as the percentage of every unit staked the book keeps on average. A two-way market at 1.90 / 1.90 has an implied combined probability of about 105% and a margin around 5%. The lower the margin, the sharper the book.

How do fractional odds convert to decimal?

Divide the numerator by the denominator and add one: 5/1 becomes 5 ÷ 1 + 1 = 6.00; 11/4 becomes 11 ÷ 4 + 1 = 3.75; evens (1/1) becomes 2.00. The same calculation works in reverse: a decimal price of 3.50 minus 1 multiplied by the denominator gives 5/2.

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