When it comes to placing bets, one of the most annoying things can be when you think you’re on a winner only for something to change at the last minute and see your bet slip away. Thankfully, some bookmakers have promotions out there that you can look to take advantage of that will give you the opportunity to still win your bet even if it would ordinarily have ended up being a loser.
Sometimes this can simply involve taking advantage of the cash out option, whilst other times it is about the bookie being more proactive in their approach.
This is a look at early payout offers that are put forward by some bookies for people who place bets on given sports. Not all bookmakers offer them and there are often some restrictions in place in terms of what to expect and how you can take advantage, but they are still offers that are worth knowing about and keeping an eye out for if you know what to expect.
Current Offers
Place a pre-match bet on the match winner market of selected leagues and cups including the Premier League, EFL Championship and the Champions League and if your team leads by two goals you could be paid as a winner even if the team go on to draw or lose.
Place a pre-match bet on an NFL money-line or fulltime result market and if your team takes a 17 point lead, you could be paid as a winner no matter what the final result is. Applies to single bets and multiples, 60-minutes only.
Place a bet on a football match winner and if they go two goals ahead during the game, you could be paid as a winner even if the team draw or lose by full time. This applies to both singles and multiples, 90 mins only.
On Rugby Union games, you could be paid as a winner if your team takes a 17 point lead, even if they go on to lose the match. For Rugby League games, you could be paid as a winner if your team takes a 16 point lead. This applies to both singles and multiple bets placed pre-match, 80 minutes only.
What is an Early Payout Offer?
There are some promotions that do exactly what you’d expect them to given the name of them, which is very much the bracket that these offers fall into. They come in different shapes and sizes, but generally speaking you’re looking for an offer whereby a bookmaker pays your bet out as a winner as soon as certain criteria are met and irrespective of whether or not it goes on to be a winning wager. Imagine, for example, that you’ve placed a match winner bet on a football match. Your team goes 2-0 up, only to end up losing 3-2 and you think that you’ve lost your bet as a result of that.
If you’ve placed your wager with a bookmaker that has an early payout offer, it is entirely possible that they will have had a promotion in place saying that bets on teams to win that see the chosen team go two goals up during a match will be paid out as a winner as soon as it happens. In that instance, therefore, your wager will have been paid out on the moment the checks had taken place and your team was officially 2-0 up, even if they then went on and lost the match later on. It is a nice little insurance against a possible collapse from your chosen team.
Which Sports it is Available On
Football is the most popular sport in the United Kingdom and it is also the easiest sport on which to offer such a promotion. If you want to place a wager on a team to win, therefore, then you will be best placed to do so with a company that has this offer in place. Of course, it isn’t just football that bookies will put such a promotion on. They want to win the business of as many people as possible, so the idea is that they will be quick to ensure that as many sports as possible will be covered.
That being said, it is obviously the case that certain sports lend themselves to such offers more than others. It is easy to see when a football club has taken a two-goal lead, for example, whereas knowing how to payout on a cricket team being X number of runs in front of another cricket team, bearing in mind the impact of how many wickets are left and so on, is certainly much trickier to do.
If you shop around, you could find a bookmaker with this offer on a tennis player going two sets ahead in a match, for example, or a rugby team having a lead of sixteen points or more. It isn’t impossible for bookies to look towards a sport like American football and figure out a way of offering an early payut when it is gridiron season, knowing that it will appeal to punters to take advantage of that kind of promotion. Whatever your sport, before you place a bet it is worth looking to see if there are any bookies are offering this if certain criteria are met during an event.
Things to Think About
Whatever sport that a bookmaker is covering with an early payout, there are certain things that you need to bear in mind. Bookies tend to be very clear when it comes to the terms and conditions that are in place for their offers, so it is always worth checking whether or not the bet that you want to place will qualify for their promotion. Generally speaking, this will be in place on pre-match bets that you stake on the full-time result market, which is generally the case irrespective of the sport.
Obviously the easiest bets to understand are win singles, which will be paid out as soon as you meet the given criteria. If you’re betting on a team to win a football match, for example, and they go ahead by two or more goals during normal time, your bet will be a winner regardless of the final score. If, on the other hand, you’ve added your selection to an accumulator or other multiple bet, you will find that that specific part of the bet is marked as a winner but you will still need the other legs to come in in order for it to be a winning bet overall.
Each bookmaker will have their own rules and regulations in place, which will include which competitions, league and cups that the offer applies to. It might be, for example, that you can get an early payout in a Premier League game but not in a Champions League match. Typically speaking, it is only during normal time that the offer will be applicable, so if your team goes 2-0 up in extra-time then that won’t result in a payout. The terms and conditions will tell you what you need to know on that front.