Online rugby league betting in 2026: how the price is built and which sites carry the markets

Updated October 2026

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A bet on a rugby league match is a bet on a market whose tick of the clock and tick of the price are different. Matches are short — eighty minutes, two banks of forty — and prices can move between the team announcements on Friday and the first carry on Saturday. That is why this guide leads with what follows from each part of the market: what a margin costs the punter, what a handicap covers and what it does not, what a free bet is worth in money and not in marketing, and what a bookmaker’s licence terms mean for the bettor who reads them and the one who does not. The current state of the data is set out below; licences were checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register on 27 October 2026.

Staying in control: what a GB licence means for the person placing the bet

Every brand reviewed in this guide holds a Gambling Commission remote licence, and that licence carries rules the punter actually meets. The three that change how a bet feels: identity verification before the first deposit or bet, the GAMSTOP self-exclusion register, and the cap on bonus wagering. The first means no anonymous play at a licensed site — name, address and date of birth are checked, including when a free bet or bonus is being claimed. The second means a single GAMSTOP registration closes the door at every GB-licensed online operator, with periods of six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal; after the minimum period, the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to remove it. The third means a wagering requirement on a bonus is capped at 10x the bonus amount, and an offer that asks the punter to gamble on more than one product type — for example, bet on football to get free spins — is no longer permitted at all. Those rules cut both ways. They protect the bettor, and they also shape what an offer can be.

Two further checks sit underneath those. A financial vulnerability check applies once deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days: the bookmaker runs a public-record check, not a credit reference check, and not an income check. Beyond that, a staged plan for fuller financial risk assessments has been announced, with no start date, so it should not be written about as a thing already happening. Operators must also offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame, and the first changes to those limits have been in force since 31 October 2025, with a second phase postponed to 30 September 2026 — at the time of this guide, whether that second phase is live is not established. There is no state-set ceiling on what a punter may deposit or lose: limits are the customer’s own choice.

A credit card cannot be used to fund a gambling account in Great Britain — that has been the rule since 14 April 2020, including credit-card-funded payments through an e-wallet. Debit cards and bank-based payments are not covered by the ban. The player pays no tax on betting winnings; General Betting Duty is paid by the operator.

Help is named, and free: GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline, GambleAware funds treatment and research, NHS gambling clinics operate in parts of the country, and Gamblers Anonymous runs meetings. Several of the bookmakers reviewed in this guide link to one or more of these directly from their safer-gambling pages, which is the small print that matters when the small print needs to.

A consequence worth naming: the GB framework protects the bettor in ways the licensed bookmaker’s marketing does not advertise. GAMSTOP, the bonus cap, the vulnerability check and the credit-card ban are all the difference between a market a person can step away from and one they cannot. The price of that protection is the identity check at the door, and the absence of an offer that ties a sports bet to a slot spin. The offshore alternative offers none of the protections above and no Commission route if funds are withheld — which is why the rest of this guide stays inside the licensed set.

What a “free bet” or bonus is actually worth in rugby league terms

The marketing says “free bet”. The arithmetic says something else. A free bet whose stake is not paid back with a win returns, on average, the free-bet amount multiplied by (odds minus 1) divided by the odds, then multiplied by the payout share of the market it is placed on. A £10 free bet at decimal odds 3.00 on a market that returns 95p in the pound is worth, before any qualification, roughly £6.33 in expected value — not £30 and not £10. That is the ceiling on what an offer can be, and the closer the odds, the smaller the ceiling: a £10 free bet at 1.20 is worth, by the same formula, around £1.58.

The wagering requirement does the rest of the damage. With the 10x bonus cap now in force, a £10 bonus requires £100 of qualifying bets before it can be withdrawn, and only bets at or above the minimum price the bookmaker names count toward the total. A stake-limit rule during bonus clearance — flat stakes only, no higher-odds singles — is the kind of condition that quietly pushes the punter onto markets with a thicker margin, where more of every pound bet stays with the bookmaker. Read the small print on the stake cap and the minimum qualifying odds before claiming. The deadline is the third line: most welcome packages expire within seven or fourteen days of the opt-in, and any unused free bet is taken back at the end of it.

The price boost is the offer that costs the least, because it pays in cash and the wagering cap does not apply: the extra winnings are paid as cash, not as a further free bet, and the stake is paid back in the usual way. The accumulator insurance is the offer that costs the most attention: it refunds a losing accumulator as a free bet or as bonus funds, which means the refund is itself subject to the cap and the minimum-price rule, and the punter ends up clearing the new requirement inside the same thin-margin markets the original stake was on.

A consequence for the punter: treat the headline number as the question, not the answer. A £50 free bet at 2/1 is worth less than a £25 free bet at 4/1 on the same market, because the higher odds multiply the (odds minus 1) over odds ratio. Two promotions on the same site, at the same headline value, can be worth different amounts of money depending on where they push the stake.

Live rugby league betting and cash out

In-play betting on rugby league is offered by every GB-licensed bookmaker reviewed here. The market carries the same match-betting and handicap lines as the pre-match board, and adds a rolling set of next-score and race-to markets that did not exist before kick-off: first to ten points, first try-scorer, total points in the next ten minutes. The price moves faster than in football because the scoring bands are wider — a try is worth four, a conversion two, a penalty two — and one score changes the picture enough to move the line. A scoreboard matters more in rugby league than in most other sports: the punter who watches the match reads the price the bookmaker has not yet read.

Cash out is the second tool, and it is the one that costs the bookmaker its margin twice. A bet cashed out at decimal odds 1.85 on a market with a 5% margin returns less than the equivalent fair value, because the bookmaker’s margin is sitting inside the 1.85 it is offering to buy back. The punter who cashes out early locks in a known loss; the punter who lets the bet ride bets on the bookmaker’s margin being smaller at full time than it was at the moment of cash out. There is no free lunch in the cash-out button: it is a price for certainty, and the price is built into the quote.

Live streaming changes the picture, because the punter who can watch the match is not paying the bookmaker’s delay on the data feed. Bet Builder and in-play combined are the most expensive market on the in-play board: combining six legs at average margin 5% produces a market margin closer to 26%, which is the price of a same-game multi. The bet builder at full-time is cheaper than the bet builder in-play, for the same reason: the bookmaker has more information by full-time than by the sixtieth minute, and the wider information at full-time narrows the margin.

A consequence for someone watching the match on a licensed site with cash out: the cash-out price is the same calculation as the pre-match price — overround, then haircut for the bookmaker’s delay in re-pricing. The punter who waits pays the delay; the punter who watches pays the same haircut, but sees it coming. There is no scenario in which cash out improves the price the punter would have got by waiting. There are scenarios in which it saves the stake from a known later swing, and those are the only ones worth taking.

Predictions, tips and the cost of being right

There is no system that wins at rugby league betting, or at any other sport. Tips services, AI models and tipster syndicates all sell the same product: a forecast with a margin attached, and a price the punter pays either in subscription or in worse odds when the tipster’s “best price” comparison pushes the bet onto a thinner market. The only number the punter controls is the margin of the market the bet is placed on, and that number is the same for the punter and the tipster.

Bankroll management is the strategy that survives any forecast. A flat unit per bet — say 1% of the bankroll — survives the long losing runs that are normal in rugby league, where a tipped outsider can lose by twenty points without the price ever being wrong. Chasing losses by raising the unit after a bad week is the most common way a bankroll disappears; doubling the stake to recover a single losing bet is the second most common. A weekly review of which markets the punter actually wins on — match betting versus handicap versus totals — narrows the field in a way that no tipster can.

The betting tip itself is a forecast, not a fact. A tip that names the price at which the bet should be placed is more useful than one that names the team, because the price carries the margin. A tip that names the team but not the price is advertising. The punter who follows tips without a price has bought a forecast without a market and has no way of knowing whether the tip was right or wrong on the day.

A consequence for the punter: the only sustainable edge in rugby league betting is the price, not the pick. A bookmaker’s margin of 5% on a match market is a 5% tax on every pound bet, before any forecasting skill is applied; the punter who finds the same selection at 4% on a different bookmaker keeps 1% of the stake for the same pick. That is the arithmetic of shopping around, and it is the closest thing to a strategy this market offers.

Rugby league odds and bet types — what each market settles on

A rugby league match betting market settles, at most GB bookmakers, on the result after eighty minutes of play. Extra time does not count unless the market is explicitly stated to settle on the official result. The same applies to handicap betting on Super League and NRL matches: a handicap line of plus or minus a number of points settles after eighty minutes, and a whole-number handicap hit exactly — for example, a six-point start on a team that wins by six — refunds every wager on that line. Most other markets — outright tournament winner, top try-scorer, season points — settle on the official result including extra time, and the rules vary by bookmaker.

The handicap bet is the most-used market in rugby league because the scoring bands are wide and the favourites tend to win by more than the margin the bookmaker first prices. A handicap of minus six points on a strong favourite wins only if the favourite wins by seven or more; a handicap of plus six on the underdog loses only if the underdog loses by seven or more. The favourite at minus six on a bookmaker’s margin of 5% is a more expensive bet than the same favourite at minus four on the same margin, because the bigger handicap carries the same margin on a smaller payout.

The over/under on total points is the second market that punter attention goes to. The standard line is set by the bookmaker and moves with the betting, and the margin on a totals market is usually thicker than on a match-betting market because the bookmaker takes more risk on a wider range of outcomes. A line of 42.5 points on a Super League fixture settles at 42 if the total is exactly 42 and the result is a push, which is rare; a line of 43 is settled over at 43 or more, under at 42 or fewer. The dead heat rules for first try-scorer apply: a punter who has backed a player who scores the first try of the second half does not win the first-try-scorer market; only the first try of the match counts.

Each-way betting works as in horse racing: two equal stakes, one on the win and one on the place, where the place terms are set by the bookmaker. A each-way treble is six bets (two on each of three selections). The combinations are named and numbered: a Trixie is four bets, a Patent seven, a Yankee eleven, a Lucky 15 fifteen, a Super Yankee or Canadian twenty-six, a Heinz fifty-seven, a Goliath two hundred and forty-seven. The total stake on a Lucky 15 at a £1 unit is £15, and the headline return is the stake times the combined odds of the legs multiplied together — minus the bookmaker’s cut at each leg.

A consequence for a punter new to the sport: start with match betting on one league for a season, then add handicap once the match patterns are visible, then add totals once the handicap lines stop surprising. The order is not the order of complexity; it is the order of margin. Match betting is the cheapest market per pound bet; the same-leg combinations are the most expensive. The bookmaker’s margin at a five-leg accumulator is roughly five times the margin of a single leg, before the leg-by-leg compounding.

Rugby league competitions and what each one offers the punter

Three competitions carry most of the betting volume on rugby league in Great Britain. Super League is the main European club competition, contested by twelve teams over a regular season from February to September, with a finals series that runs into October. The NRL is the Australian and New Zealand club competition, played over a longer regular season from March to September, with a finals series that runs into October. The Rugby League World Cup is the international tournament, held every four years, contested by national teams. State of Origin is the annual three-match series between New South Wales and Queensland, played in the middle of the NRL season. Each competition has its own market depth, its own media coverage and its own punter profile.

Super League is the competition most GB bookmakers price to the deepest level. Match betting, handicap, total points, first try-scorer, team try-scorer, half-time result and the race-to-ten markets are all routinely offered; ante-post on the Grand Final winner is priced months ahead. The NRL carries the same markets but with longer weeks between rounds because of the Australian time zone — most NRL matches are played in the early hours of the UK morning, which is the reason the in-play market on the NRL is thinner than on Super League: fewer UK-based punters are watching live. The Rugby League World Cup and the Four Nations are priced ahead of the tournament and during it, with ante-post markets that are taken down once the tournament starts and replaced with match-by-match pricing.

International Rugby League is the governing body, and the international calendar is the one the World Cup and the Four Nations sit on. Domestic rugby league competitions in England below Super League — the Championship and League 1 — are priced by fewer bookmakers and on thinner markets, with ante-post markets that are pulled at the start of the season. The rule for ante-post on a non-runner matters here: a team that withdraws from the Championship before the season starts voids every ante-post wager on it, and the punter’s stake is returned; the same rule in a mid-season withdrawal may settle the bet as a loser at the bookmaker’s discretion.

A consequence for a punter choosing a competition: the deeper the market, the tighter the margin. Super League match betting is the cheapest rugby league market per pound bet, because more bookmakers price it and the prices are compared in public; the Championship and the international friendlies are the most expensive, because fewer bookmakers price them and the prices do not move in public. The punter who follows the deeper competition pays a thinner margin on the same kind of pick, all else equal.

The ten sites reviewed — what each one offers on rugby league

The ten brands below are the ones reviewed in this guide. They are not a ranking and not a recommendation: each is a holder of a Gambling Commission remote licence, and the only test of that licence is the Commission’s public register. Some brands run under the same licensee, and a few are more familiar for racing or casino than for rugby league, which is named where it is the case. The table sets out the licence; the write-up that follows it sets out what each brand’s own terms say on the subjects that matter to a rugby league punter.

The licence column is the public-register entry, not a recommendation. The operator-terms column is what each brand’s own site or app listing says about the subject matter; it is the source the punter reads before claiming, not a summary the punter can rely on instead of reading.

Swifty Sports

Swifty Sports holds a Gambling Commission remote general betting standard licence and publishes Best Odds Guaranteed, Cash Out, daily price boosts, live streaming and in-play betting. Bet Builder is listed as coming soon, which means the same-game multi product is not yet on the platform and the punter who wants that feature elsewhere. The pricing on rugby league is not separately stated, which means the punter checks the match-by-match card on the day. Swifty Sports is well-aligned for users who prioritize the Best Odds Guaranteed and Cash Out products on racing and football, with rugby league markets acting as a secondary addition.

Ladbrokes

Ladbrokes runs under LC International Limited alongside Coral, and both brands carry a full sportsbook with horse racing, football and the major US sports priced to depth. The Bet Builder, in-play and live streaming products are present on both. Rugby league is priced on Super League and the NRL during their seasons, and on the World Cup when it is on. The Bet Builder product is the one that changes the cost of a rugby league bet, because the same-game multi adds the bookmaker’s margin at each leg. A Ladbrokes or Coral account provides a full-depth sportsbook, though the pricing reflects the standard competitive margin found across most major brands.

Smarkets

Smarkets is a betting exchange and holds a Commission remote betting intermediary licence, which is the licence category for exchanges rather than for traditional sportsbooks. The pricing on rugby league is therefore an exchange price — back and lay — and the margin sits inside the spread between back and lay rather than inside a single bookmaker price. Bank-transfer deposits are instant from £10 to £10,000, withdrawals are processed within 6 hours from £10 to £100,000, and UK debit card deposits are instant from £10 to £15,000. Trading a position rather than simply backing a team is possible on Smarkets, which provides the liquidity of the exchange market.

Midnite

Midnite holds a remote general betting standard licence and shows in-play events, an acca builder, popular accas and price boosts with maximum-stake limits on its app. The welcome offer on the sports side is a £5-or-more pre-match bet at evens or greater within fourteen days of sign-up, returning £25 in free bets and 50 free spins valid for 7 days; the offer is described only as the operator’s own terms state it, and the wagering cap and minimum qualifying odds should be checked before claiming. Rugby league is priced inside the same sportsbook; price boosts run daily and maximum-stake limits apply on the boosted lines. Midnite’s offer is a choice: either use the price-boost product for cash returns or take the welcome offer, but avoid applying the welcome offer to thin-margin markets that struggle to clear the wagering requirement.

Copybet

Copybet holds a remote general betting standard licence and offers Best Odds Guaranteed all day every day on UK and Irish racing, and pays first past the post on horse racing even if the winner is later disqualified. The brand carries a copy-betting product that lets the punter copy the bets of named tipsters at the platform’s own prices. Rugby league sits inside the same sportsbook, with match betting and the major handicaps priced during the Super League and NRL seasons. Copybet provides a racing-focused experience where the copy-betting tool and BOG rules offer the main incentive for opening an account.

Betfred

Betfred holds a remote general betting standard licence under Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited, with a sports, casino and games app covering 21 sports and over 2,000 casino-style games. The brand has a long UK high-street history, which is why the safer-gambling and dispute-resolution pages carry the weight of a long-standing operation. Rugby league is priced on Super League and the NRL; ante-post on the Grand Final is taken down once the season starts. The high-street presence makes Betfred a reliable option for those who use a single account across both the digital app and the physical shops.

Fafabet

Fafabet holds a remote general betting standard licence and pays Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing win and each-way bets from 9am on race days: if the starting price is bigger than the original price, the bigger odds are paid. The brand is also one of the smaller operators on this list, which is why the licence holder’s name is Taichi Tech Limited rather than a high-street name. Fafabet serves the punter who wants a focused racing operator, with rugby league markets priced competitively as a secondary offering.

Fitzwilliam Sports

Fitzwilliam Sports holds a remote general betting standard licence under SBKI Limited and describes itself as a Dublin bookmaker with capped membership and a “High Stakes Welcome” subject to compliance criteria. Instant deposits, fast withdrawals, timeouts, deposit limits and links to GambleAware, GAMSTOP and Gamblers Anonymous are all stated on the site. The “capped membership” wording means the brand is not open to every applicant, and the compliance criteria that gate the welcome offer are the kind of small print that should be read before claiming. Fitzwilliam Sports is for the specific user who values restricted membership and a clear, albeit gated, approach to their sports betting welcome.

Bar One Racing

Bar One Racing holds a remote general betting standard licence, has rebranded as BAR 1 Betting, and runs as an Irish independent bookmaker with shops across Ireland and horse racing sponsorships at Dundalk, Fairyhouse, Navan, The Curragh, Curraheen Park and Cork. The brand is more familiar as a racing bookmaker than as a rugby league bookmaker, and the rugby league board sits inside the same sportsbook as the racing product. Bar One Racing appeals to those who prefer an independent operator over the larger, high-street brands.

BetTom

BetTom holds a remote general betting standard licence and runs a sports welcome offer of 50% back as a free bet of up to £50, with a matching 50% back up to £50 as free slot funds for casino play; the offer is described only as the operator’s own terms state it, and full terms apply. The dual-product structure of the welcome — sports free bet plus casino free slot funds — is the kind of mixed-product promotion that is no longer permitted at GB-licensed operators under the rules in force since 19 January 2026, so the offer as named sits inside a period before the rule took effect or inside a structure the rule does not catch. Worth taking on the sports welcome offer if the free-bet value calculation (above) lands well above the qualifying stake; the casino-side free funds are a separate question.

How the rugby league market fits the wider British betting framework

A bookmaker serving customers in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence wherever it is based. The 2005 Act covers England, Scotland and Wales; Northern Ireland is outside the Act and has its own older law, so a GB licence does not regulate Northern Ireland. The Commission’s public register is the whole test of whether a brand holds a licence: a search by business name, trading name, domain or account number returns the licence category and the licence holder, and the licence categories for the brands reviewed here are remote general betting standard (real events), for traditional sportsbooks, and remote betting intermediary, for exchanges. A Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute. Several of the brands reviewed here are based in Gibraltar — Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited for Betfred, Platinum Gaming Limited for Unibet, Smarkets (Malta) Limited — and they hold GB licences at the point of consumption rather than relying on the home jurisdiction.

There is no state monopoly and no cap on the number of licences. There is also no statutory list of permitted bets or markets: the bookmaker holds a licence for a category and offers markets under its own rules and the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice. In-play betting is offered by GB bookmakers under the operator’s licence conditions, not under a separate statute. Esports are treated like any other event, virtual events are a separate licence category, and bets on politics, TV shows and novelty markets are offered by GB bookmakers under their general betting licences. Spread betting that is not a financial product is inside General Betting Duty, and financial spread betting is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, not the Commission. Off-course pool betting on horse or dog racing is a separate licence and duty.

The licensed market is not the whole market. An unlicensed brand offering facilities to customers in Great Britain is committing an offence under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005, which is aimed at the operator. There is no offence aimed at a customer who merely bets on an unlicensed site: the consequence is loss of protection — no GAMSTOP coverage, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution body, no British consumer redress if funds are withheld, and not bound by the 10x bonus cap or the £150 vulnerability check. The Commission’s enforcement is disruption, not blocking: cease-and-desist notices, search-engine referrals, work with registrars, hosts and payment providers, and court-order DNS blocking powers that have been given or are about to be given. ISP blocking is not in operation as a national policy.

A consequence for the punter choosing between a licensed and an unlicensed brand: the licensed brand carries the identity check at the door, the credit-card ban, the GAMSTOP register, the bonus cap and the vulnerability check; the unlicensed brand carries none of those and no British recourse if funds are withheld. The licensed brand is not the safe choice by default — it is the choice with a regulator. The unlicensed brand is the choice with no regulator.

The margin on a rugby league market — how the bookmaker’s cut is built into the price

The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every pound bet on a market that the bookmaker keeps on average, and it sits inside the odds on both sides of the market. For a two-way market priced at decimal odds 1.90 on the home team and 1.90 on the away team — the kind of even-money line a bookmaker posts on a competitive Super League fixture — the payout share is 1 divided by the sum of the reciprocal odds. The reciprocal of 1.90 is roughly 0.526, so the sum of the two reciprocals is roughly 1.053, and the payout share is roughly 0.950, or 95p in the pound. The margin is 1 minus that payout share, which is 0.050, or 5%. That is the band the margin sits inside on a competitive rugby league match-betting market: somewhere between roughly 3% and 7%, depending on the bookmaker and the fixture. State the result as a band with its condition, never as one figure.

The same calculation on a handicap market — where the bookmaker’s margin is usually thicker because the bookmaker takes more risk — produces a payout share closer to 92p in the pound and a margin closer to 8%. The same calculation on a five-leg accumulator at five match-betting legs each at 5% margin produces a market margin closer to 23%, because the margin compounds at each leg. A price boost moves the margin on one leg, not the others; a bet builder at one match carries the bookmaker’s margin on each of the combined markets at that match, with no compounding across matches.

A consequence for a punter choosing a market: the thinner the margin, the cheaper the bet. Match betting on a Super League fixture during the season, at a major bookmaker, carries a thinner margin than a same-game multi on the same fixture, and the difference between a 5% and an 8% margin is the difference between 5p and 8p in every pound bet, before any forecasting skill is applied. The punter who finds the same selection at the thinner margin keeps the difference, on every bet, for the season.

FAQ

How does a bet on rugby league actually work?

A bet on a rugby league match is a wager on a market — match betting, handicap, total points, first try-scorer, or one of the same-game multi legs — at a price set by the bookmaker. Match betting and handicap settle after eighty minutes of play; most other markets settle on the official result including extra time. A stake is placed, the bet is recorded, and the return is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds if the bet wins. A losing bet returns nothing.

How can it be checked that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

The Gambling Commission’s public register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number, and the search returns the licence category and the licence holder. Every brand reviewed in this guide is named on the register against a remote betting licence for Great Britain, with the licence holder named in the table above. The register is the whole test of whether a brand holds a licence: no other check, no third-party list, and no marketing claim is a substitute.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

The return on a winning bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at decimal odds 3.00 returns £30, of which £20 is profit and £10 is the stake returned. A combination bet — a double, a treble or an accumulator — multiplies the odds of the legs into a single price, and the return is the stake multiplied by that combined price. The profit is the return minus the stake.

What is the bookmaker’s margin, and how can it be seen in the odds?

The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every pound bet on a market that the bookmaker keeps on average. It sits inside the odds on both sides of the market, and it can be read off by adding the reciprocal of each decimal odds and subtracting from 1. For a two-way market priced at 1.90 on the home team and 1.90 on the away team, the reciprocal sum is roughly 1.053 and the margin is roughly 0.050, or 5%. State the result as a band, not as one figure.

How do fractional odds such as 5/1 convert to decimal odds such as 6.00?

A fractional price of a divided by b converts to a decimal price of a divided by b plus 1. So 5/1 becomes 5 divided by 1 plus 1, which is 6.00; 11/4 becomes 11 divided by 4 plus 1, which is 3.75; evens, or 1/1, becomes 1.00 plus 1, which is 2.00. The conversion is one-way and arithmetic: every fractional price has a decimal equivalent and every decimal price has a fractional equivalent, and the bookmaker’s odds display on a GB-licensed site usually offers both side by side.

Which tools for controlling play does a licensed bookmaker have to offer?

A GB-licensed bookmaker must offer GAMSTOP registration for self-exclusion, timeouts, deposit limits and access to safer-gambling information, and the customer can set the deposit limit themselves. Beyond those, the bookmaker must run a financial vulnerability check once deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days, which is a public-record check rather than a credit reference check or an income check. The customer can ask for a longer self-exclusion, a shorter self-exclusion, or a permanent self-exclusion, and GAMSTOP’s exclusion periods run for six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal.

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