Betting Dictionary

You may notice that there are many important terms and phrases relating to the football betting world. Of course, these aren’t words that you will have come across without having participated in sports betting before. To add to this, there are multiple different bets that you can place, and these all have a different meaning, as well as a different requirement for winning them. Reading through this page will allow you to learn about some of the most common phrases you’ll come across.

So, to find out what backing and laying mean, what cashback and moneyback mean or what arbitrage and equivalent are explained as, this is the right place to be.

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Results for the letter "r":

Return

Profit + returned stake in a successful wager

ROI

Another way to say yield. An abbreviation for “return on investment,” referring to the amount of money a sports bettors has won or lost, compared to the amount risked.

Rollover

It's a minimum amount of money you have to wager with that betting site before you're allowed to cash out any funds from your account.Rollover requirements are typically expressed with multipliers like 3X, 5X, or 8X. These numbers mean the rollover that you have to meet will vary by player, and more specifically, by how much you initially deposited.

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