In article one, I introduced you to the پین باهیس بدون فیلتر Exchange concept
and explained the basics of LAY Betting (Lay to Lose). Now in
this article, I’m going to introduce you to another unique and
powerful feature of the betting exchanges, the Place Markets.
Place markets are as the name suggests, markets which allow you
to bet on a selection to be ‘placed’. Eg. a horse to finish 1st,
2nd or 3rd in a 8 runner or larger field.
Now, the first and most important thing to highlight here is
that these place markets are completely different to the well
known Each Way (EW) betting markets offered by traditional
bookmakers. The Each Way bet is in fact 2 bets of equal stakes.
The 1st stake is on the selection to win and the 2nd is on it
to be placed. So a £10 EW bet will cost you £20 in total.
A £10 place bet on a Betting Exchange is a single bet and
therefore will only cost you £10. If your selection finishes in
a place, you collect your winnings and smile.
Think about it for a minute. How many times have you been
certain that a horse will be placed, but you have not been
confident that it will win…
Take the following example. A horse named ‘Im gonna be placed’
that is available to back with traditional bookmakers at 4/1
(5.0). Your very confident that it will finish in the top 3 in
a 10 runner field.
2) Place an EW bet on it. E.g. £10 EW at 4/1 (5.0). Total
stakes £20. The bookies will pay you 1/5 odds on the place
element of this E/W bet based on their standard EW rules.
On our horse which is available to back at 5.0 this equates
to 1.8
Now, the only time the above race will be profitable for you is
if the horse actually wins. In both cases you would make a very
nice profit if it did. For option 1 you would win £40 profit
and for option 2, £48 profit.
BUT, if as you suspected the horse only finishes placed in 2nd
or 3rd, you actually lose money in both cases. With option 1
you obviously lose all your stake money so are down £10. With
option 2, you win £8 on the Place side of the EW bet but still
lose £2 overall as the win part of the bet was a losing one.
Enter The Betting Exchange Place Markets
Using the above example and depending upon the prices of the
other horses in the race, you would probably see the Betting
Exchanges offering odds of around 1.60 – 2.00 (evens) on this
horse being placed. You can therefore put your £10 PLACE bet
on at say 1.8 and collect £8 profit (minus commission) as long
as the horse finishes 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Only if the horse
finishes outside of the top 3 do you lose your £10 stake.
When combined with a good staking plan and a sensible selection
process, it can be common to have very long winning streaks when
backing horses to be placed on the betting exchanges. These
longer winning streaks more than make up for the relatively
short prices that are offered on selections to be placed.
1) Unlike the betting exchange win markets, Place markets DO NOT
go “In-Running” when the race starts but this is true of the
traditional E/W bets offered by bookies as well.
2) If a race is planned as a 8 runner or more event but a number
of horses become non-runners leaving less than 8 runners, the
betting exchanges still offer odds on 3 places. This is
different to bookmakers who in such cases adjust their odds on
the place payment from 1/5 to 1/4 of the win odds BUT they only
pay out on 2 places. If a 5,6 or 7 runner field is shortened to
less than 5 runners, the betting exchanges will still offer
place markets and payout if the horse finishes 1st or 2nd.
3) You can make up the equivalent of an E/W bet on the betting
exchanges by placing a bet on the win market and a separate bet
on the place market. Depending upon the type of race and the
form of the market, you will often find that this offers more
value in terms of odds than an E/W bet with a bookmaker.
Backing Or Laying On The Place Markets
As explained in article 1, the ability to Lay a selection is
perhaps the most important feature of the betting exchanges.
You now have the ability to Lay selections to be placed. In
other words, if you have a valid reason to believe that a
selection will not even finish in a place, Lay it to Lose on a
betting exchange. The real beauty of laying on the place
markets, is that the odds are always much lower than the
outright win odds so your lay liabilities are much lower.
