What kabaddi betting tips really mean when the bookmaker's margin sits behind every price

Updated October 2026

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The phrase “kabaddi betting tips” pulls in two kinds of searcher: one looking for a name and a price, the other trying to work out whether the first kind of answer is worth anything. This page is written for the second. Kabaddi is a fast, scoring, contact sport built around raids and tackles; the betting market around it is small but real; and the gap between a tip and a winning bet is not luck but the bookmaker’s margin, the bettor’s staking discipline, and what the sport actually rewards. The guide that follows explains all three — the sport enough to read form, the market enough to spot a price that has slipped, the rule book enough to know what an offer really costs. No outcomes are predicted here, because nobody can know them.

Current data: 27 October 2026. Licences cross-checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register, accessed the same day.

Responsible gambling sits before the first bet

A page about kabaddi tips that skips the part about keeping the bet small enough to lose is a page that has not earned the right to talk about anything else. The British framework puts that frame on the betting firm first and the customer second, and a reader who uses a licensed operator inherits the frame whether they notice it or not.

GAMSTOP is the national multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme. Every operator reviewed in the comparison below is a GAMSTOP member, and that is the single most useful single fact on the page for any reader who already knows their betting is no longer fun. Exclusions run for six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal, and after the minimum period the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to remove it. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps; betting shops use a separate service.

The deposit limit (RTS 12, in force for licensed remote betting since 31 October 2025; a second phase was announced for 30 September 2026 but its status has not been published) lets a customer set a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame, and the first changes have applied for nearly a year at the time of writing. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling. A reader worried about a run of bad form can call up GamCare, the National Gambling Helpline, or one of the NHS gambling clinics, or reach out to Gamblers Anonymous; the links on every licensed operator’s safer-gambling page lead to the same places.

Identity verification happens before the first deposit or first bet. Since 7 May 2019 a licensed operator has to verify name, address and date of birth before the customer can put money in or wager — including with a free bet or bonus. There is no shortcut around it. For higher spend the operator is allowed — and at certain thresholds required — to ask where the money comes from. That is not a quirk of one brand; it is the licence condition.

Credit cards have been banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020, including credit-card-funded payments through an e-wallet. A punter who wants to fund bets on credit has to go to an unlicensed site, and on that point the comparison below names its owner too.

Reading the sport enough to read the form

The market’s smallest unit is the result, and the result comes from a sport with rules that look simple and turn out to be densely statistical. Seven players per side on court, with three to five substitutes; two halves of twenty minutes for the men, fifteen for the women, with a five-minute interval. A raider crosses into the opposition half chanting “kabaddi, kabaddi” on a single breath and either tags a defender or retreats; one point per defender tagged, plus a bonus point for crossing the bonus line when six or more defenders are still on court. A team that tackles all seven opponents in one move scores two extra points, the All Out. A tied match goes to five raids per side, then a golden raid: first team to score wins.

That is the engine. Reading form means reading how a team uses the engine. A side that concedes too many tackles gives up All Outs and falls behind on the scoreboard faster than its raid-rate suggests; a side that relies on a single raider has a higher variance than one that rotates three. The same numbers — raid strike rate, tackle success rate, do-or-die raid success — show up in every team summary, and the difference between a tipster who reads them and one who names a winner from the jersey colours is the difference between a forecast and a coin toss.

The tournament calendar is small and lopsided. The Pro Kabaddi League, the franchise competition in India, was founded in 2014 with eight teams and grew to twelve before the 2017 season; the season runs over a couple of months and dominates the betting market the way the Premier League dominates English football. The international fixture list is thinner. The first Kabaddi World Cup was held in 2004 in Mumbai, organised by the International Kabaddi Federation (founded 2004), and the Indian men’s and women’s teams have won every edition of that World Cup. A reader who sees a long list of “international” fixtures is, in most cases, looking at the Pro Kabaddi season, and the betting market is concentrated there.

What form looks like on a betting site

Three numbers carry most of the information a tipster needs, and a reader looking at a team page will find them labelled in slightly different ways on different books. Raid strike rate is the share of raids that produce a tagging point or a bonus; tackle success rate is the share of tackles that put the raider out; do-or-die raid success is the share of raids from a do-or-die situation that produce a point. The first measures attacking quality, the second measures defending, and the third measures composure under pressure. A side with a high raid strike rate and a middling tackle success rate tends to win games; a side that is the other way around tends to keep games close and lose them on a single All Out.

Injuries and suspensions matter more in a seven-a-side sport than in an eleven-a-side one. One raider down can move a raider strike rate by several points, and a defender out can lower a tackle success rate by a similar amount. The smaller the squad, the bigger the swing. Form over the last five matches, read alongside the squad news, is more useful than a season-long average for the matches that are about to be played.

Bankroll, staking, and why the size of the bet is the discipline

The arithmetic of staying in the game is older than any sport on the calendar. A bankroll is the money set aside for betting, separate from rent, food and savings. A unit is a small fraction of that bankroll — one to two per cent is the common range — and the stake on any one selection is a multiple of that unit. A reader who treats a stake as a fixed number of pounds is betting at level stakes; a reader who scales the stake to the perceived edge is staking proportionally; both work if the unit is small enough to survive a losing run.

The losing run is not an aberration. Even at a fair price, a 55% strike rate produces a ten-bet losing streak once in roughly 250 bets. A bankroll that does not survive a ten-bet losing streak at unit stake is too small for the stake the punter is using, and the change that matters is not the next pick but the size of the stake. A staking plan is not a strategy that wins; it is the difference between going broke on a bad week and being there for the next one.

What a tip is, and what it never is

A tip is one person’s view, expressed as a price the market is offering. It is not a forecast in the sense of “this will happen”; it is a statement that the available price is higher than the tipster’s estimate of the true probability. The translation from price to probability is the bookmaker’s own arithmetic: a decimal price of 2.00 implies a 50% chance; a decimal price of 4.00 implies a 25% chance. The tipster’s edge, if there is one, is the gap between the implied probability and the tipster’s own estimate. A tip that comes with no price is not a tip — it is a name.

Every tip is uncertain. A 55% probability is a 45% probability of being wrong, and even a 65% probability loses one time in three. Anyone who sells certainty is selling something that does not exist. The discipline is to size the bet to the uncertainty, not to the conviction.

Mobile and app: how the kabaddi market sits inside a phone

The kabaddi betting market in Britain lives inside the same apps that carry football, racing and tennis. There is no specialist kabaddi-only bookmaker among the brands reviewed here; there is one sport among dozens inside a general app. That has consequences. A reader who only bets on kabaddi will spend most of their time in the racing or football sections; the markets they want are tucked under a sport tab; the in-play layout they learn for football is the same layout they will use on the Pro Kabaddi season.

Three practical notes follow. First, an app is the same site as the desktop site, with the same licence, the same safer-gambling tools and the same terms. The operator’s licence is not a mobile licence; the brand’s licence number on the desktop is the licence number on the app. Second, a phone is where the in-play market lives, because that is where the punter is when a match runs; the in-play screen is built for one-handed use and the cash-out button is never far from the stake box. Third, app-only offers exist, and they are still subject to the same terms as the desktop offer — the 10x wagering cap on bonuses that came into force on 19 January 2026 applies to a free bet unlocked from a mobile push the same way it applies to a desktop welcome.

For a punter who wants to watch the action while they bet, several of the apps reviewed below include live streaming of selected events, generally horse and greyhound racing but in some cases other sports, alongside a live bet feed that updates the odds as the match unfolds. The Pro Kabaddi season does not always make it onto the streaming tab; the punter checks the schedule before relying on it.

Live betting and cash out on a sport that scores quickly

Live betting sits naturally on a sport that scores every few seconds. The kabaddi point comes in clusters — a raider tags two defenders, the bonus line is crossed, an All Out adds two more — and the market has a moment of suspension between the visual of the score and the live price. A reader who understands that moment has a real edge over a reader who bets on the price without watching the action.

The mechanics are the same as on any other sport, and they are worth saying once. A cash-out offer is the bookmaker’s price on the current state of the bet; the punter takes it and closes the wager early, locking in a profit or a smaller loss than running the bet to the final whistle. The offer is the bookmaker’s, not the punter’s, and it is always worse for the punter than the bet’s true value at that point; the bookmaker keeps a margin in the cash-out price the same way it keeps a margin in the pre-match price. A punter who cashes out at the first sign of nerves is paying the bookmaker for the privilege of not trusting the selection.

The cash-out button is most useful where the bet has drifted the wrong way and the punter no longer believes the original read; it is least useful as a habit. Used once or twice in a long session it is a tool; used as a default it is a slow leak.

In-play betting on kabaddi is offered by the operators reviewed below, alongside live streams of selected matches on some, and a price boost or enhanced price on a Pro Kabaddi headline is a common sight on a season night. The legal frame in Great Britain is that in-play betting is offered under the same licence as pre-match betting, and the controls are the operator’s licence conditions and the duty to keep the customer protected — not a free-for-all. None of the limits a punter sees on a match — minimum stake, maximum payout, market suspension after a point is scored — is a quirk; each is part of how the operator runs the book.

Predictions, value and the price that matters

The single most useful sentence a reader can carry off this page: a tip is a price, not a name. A price of 3.50 on a team the reader thinks should be 3.00 is a value bet; if the reader thinks it should be 4.00, it is a bet to leave alone. The first has the edge; the second does not. The punter does not need to be right about who wins; they need to be right about whether the price is fair.

The arithmetic is the bookmaker’s own. A decimal price of 3.00 implies a probability of one divided by 3.00, or 33.3%. A decimal price of 4.00 implies 25%. A bookmaker’s price on a two-way market where each side is 1.90 in decimal terms — fractional 9/10, with the punter winning nine tenths of a stake — implies a probability of about 52.6% on each side. Two of those add up to 105.3%, not 100%, and the missing five per cent or so is the margin, the bookmaker’s take on every pound staked on that market. That is what the words “bookmaker’s margin” mean in practice: the gap between the implied probabilities of the prices and the sum that ought to be 100%, which is in fact the sum that is the operator’s edge. The market’s price on the same event in another book — same event, two prices — can be cross-checked against this calculation in a moment, and the comparison will show the difference between a market with a thin margin and a market with a thick one.

A reader who has been told a tip on a Pro Kabaddi match should do three things before staking. First, check the implied probability of the price and compare it to the reader’s own estimate. Second, check the price on the same selection in another book, because a price that is out of line with the rest of the market is either a tip or a trap. Third, size the stake to the size of the edge the reader believes they have, not the size of the conviction they feel.

Reading the market’s odds

The odds the punter sees on a kabaddi match are a snapshot of where the market thinks the contest will go, set by the bookmaker and adjusted as money comes in. Three things move them: news (an injury, a rest), money (one side backed heavily), and the bookmaker’s own risk management (a position too big to want to grow). A reader looking at the odds over the morning before a match will see them move on the back of team news; a reader looking at the odds during the match will see them move on the back of points.

The deeper markets on a kabaddi contest — total points, handicap on the raid count, first raid result — carry a wider margin than the headline match winner. The headline market is the one the bookmaker has to be sharpest on, because that is where the most money goes and the most price comparison happens; the deeper markets are where the bookmaker can afford to be a little softer on the price and the punter pays for the privilege of having something more interesting to bet on.

A worked example of the margin

The audit on this page runs the same arithmetic on a worked example, with a stated assumption and the band of the result. Take a two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90 — fractional 9/10, a hair shorter than evens. The implied probability on each side is one divided by 1.90, or about 52.6%. Two sides at 52.6% add to 105.3%. The margin — the slice of every pound staked that the bookmaker keeps on average, before the event is decided — is therefore roughly 5.3% in this example.

That figure is the average. On any one match the bookmaker may keep more (if the result lands on the side the punter backed less) or less (if the result lands on the side the punter backed more), and over many matches the margin converges on the bookmaker’s. The 5.3% is what the punter is paying for the privilege of betting, and it is the number that decides whether a tip is worth following. A tip that names a winner is a tip with a hit rate; a tip that names a price is a tip that does the actual work.

The 5.3% band, in other words, is what the punter’s edge has to beat. A punter who reads form well enough to be right 55% of the time at fair odds is right enough; a punter who is right 53% of the time is, after the margin, right enough to break even. The 5.3% is the figure that turns a hobby into an expense or, very rarely, an edge.

Bet types, odds formats and how a winning return is worked out

The three bet types that matter on a kabaddi match are the single, the accumulator, and the handicap. A single is one selection; an accumulator (or “acca”) is two or more selections whose prices multiply, with the stake lost if any one leg fails; a handicap gives one side a fictional lead or deficit to make the price fairer. The bookmaker’s market on a Pro Kabaddi headline will offer all three.

The odds themselves come in two formats. Fractional odds — 5/1, 11/4, evens — are the older British form and the form a punter will see on the racing pages of most British books. Decimal odds — 6.00, 3.75, 2.00 — are the form most British books offer as an alternative, and the form the rest of the world uses. A 5/1 fractional is a 6.00 decimal; a 4/6 fractional is a 1.67 decimal. The conversion is one over the other plus one: a divided by b, plus one. Both forms price the same bet; the only difference is what the punter reads more easily.

The return on a winning bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 3.50 returns £35; the net profit is £25, the stake is included. On an accumulator, the legs multiply into one price and the stake is multiplied by that combined price. A £5 accumulator with two legs at 2.00 and 3.00 has a combined price of 6.00 and returns £30 on a win. None of this is gift-wrapped — the stake is at risk on every leg — but the arithmetic is the same one the punter will see on the betting slip before they press confirm.

Markets on a kabaddi match

A Pro Kabaddi headline will offer, at minimum, the match winner, the total points, and a handicap on the points. The match winner is the simplest and carries the thinnest margin; the total points is a market over or under a number set by the bookmaker; the handicap gives one side a head start of a fictional number of points and prices the contest at near even money. Some books add a market on the first raid, on whether there will be an All Out, and on the highest-scoring raider. The deeper the market, the wider the margin tends to be.

A bet builder on a kabaddi match is rare; the market is too small for most operators to price several selections from one match in a single slip. Where one is offered, the legs multiply and the margin is the bookmaker’s own.

A note on staking

A stake is the money risked. The punter sets it; the bookmaker sets the minimum (usually a small amount) and the maximum (the most the bookmaker will accept on the bet, which can vary by market and by customer). A stake limit at the upper end is a commercial decision by the bookmaker; a stake limit at the lower end is the practical floor for a bet. Neither is a constraint on skill.

Tournaments and the calendar

The Pro Kabaddi season is the centre of the betting calendar and runs over a couple of months. Eight original franchises grew to twelve before the 2017 season, and the season format is a round-robin followed by a knockout. A punter looking for a season of betting markets will find most of them on the league; a punter looking for international markets will find fewer. The Kabaddi World Cup has been held since 2004 and the Indian teams have won every edition; the international fixture list outside that tournament is thin, and a punter who sees a “World Cup” market in the middle of the year is most likely looking at the league’s playoff round.

The smaller the calendar, the more concentrated the market. The bookmaker’s margin on a one-off Pro Kabaddi match is set the way the bookmaker sets the margin on any other sport: by balancing the book and keeping a slice on the side. A punter who wants the best price has to shop around at the moment the market is most liquid, which on kabaddi is usually a few hours before the match starts when the team news has settled and the early money has come in.

The bookmaker’s landscape in Britain

Ten brands hold a Gambling Commission remote licence for general betting on real events and are reviewed below. They are not the only licensed operators in Britain; they are the ones selected for this comparison. Several can run under one licensee and are not presented here as independent brands; the public register is the source for the licence number, the licensee and the trading name. Every GB-licensed online operator takes part in GAMSTOP, and that is the single most useful single fact about the brand for any reader who has already decided their betting needs a break.

The comparison at a glance

A column without a value for most rows would tell the reader nothing, so each operator is judged on what its own terms state at the point of writing, not on a single common metric. The punter checks the licence against the Commission’s public register before staking — every licence in the table above is current at the access date of this page, but the register is the only test of currency.

Swifty Sports

A generalist bookmaker with a racing-friendly feature set, including Best Odds Guaranteed, Cash Out on selected markets, daily price boosts and live streaming. The Bet Builder is listed as coming soon on the app, which is a small but real gap for a punter who wants to combine several selections from one match in a single slip. The licence sits with Swifty Global (UK) Ltd, and the operator is part of the GAMSTOP scheme. For a punter who wants the racing and football features and is willing to wait for the bet builder, this is a credible all-rounder; the gap to a brand with the builder live is the practical distance between them.

Copybet

A bookmaker built around the racing market: Best Odds Guaranteed all day on UK and Irish racing, and a rule that pays first past the post even if the winner is later disqualified. The racing focus shows in the offer. A punter who bets mostly on football or on the Pro Kabaddi season will find the racing strength incidental; a punter who bets mostly on racing will find it useful. The licence sits with Copybet UK Limited.

Betfred

A long-established British bookmaker with the racing and football features a British punter expects: Bet Builder, Sub Switch on football, Racing Post data, Extra Places on selected racing, and a casino and bingo product alongside the sportsbook. The licence sits with Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited, which is a familiar arrangement in the British market: the operator is based in Gibraltar, the licence is British, the customer is in Britain. The breadth of the feature set is the practical difference between Betfred and a racing-focused brand.

DAZN Bet

A sports-focused brand with a payments policy that is unusually transparent: deposits from £5 by debit card, Apple Pay, Paysafecard, Trustly and Skrill; from £20 by PayPal; no processing fees. The minimum deposit of £5 by PayPal is a real practical constraint, and a punter who only funds with PayPal will find that floor a small barrier. The licence sits with DZBT Limited.

888sport

A generalist brand with the full feature set: pre-match and in-play betting, Cash Out, Bet Builder, racing streams, the BetFinder form tools, a live bet feed and daily boosted odds. The breadth is the practical difference between 888sport and a racing-focused brand; the BetFinder form tools are useful for a punter who wants the same form numbers the tipsters cite. The licence sits with 888 UK Limited.

VBet

A sportsbook with the standard feature set: Bet Builder, pre-match and in-play betting, live streaming and a live calendar of results and stats. The publisher on the App Store is SCGO Limited. For a punter who wants a clean in-play screen and a live calendar to plan the session, VBet is a credible option; the gap to a more racing-focused brand is on the racing side, where the feature set is thinner.

BetMGM

The sports welcome offer for new UK customers deposits £10 or more and places a sports bet within 7 days: four £10 free bets, made up of two football accumulators of four or more selections and two sports multiples of two or more, valid for 7 days with minimum odds and opt-in required. The split between football accas and other sports multiples is a real practical constraint for a punter whose sport is kabaddi; the football accas do not fit the Pro Kabaddi market. A punter who bets on both football and kabaddi will use the second pair and leave the first pair aside. The licence sits with LeoVegas Gaming PLC.

Bar One Racing

An Irish independent bookmaker with shops across Ireland and horse racing sponsorships at the major Irish tracks. The brand has recently rebranded as BAR 1 Betting. For a British punter who bets mostly on racing, the Irish track focus is a useful specialism; for a punter who bets on the Pro Kabaddi season, it is incidental. The licence sits with Bar-One Racing Limited.

DragonBet

A bookmaker with cash out both in-play and pre-match and live streaming of racing. The racing focus shows in the streaming list. For a punter who wants a clean cash-out experience and a live racing stream, DragonBet is a credible option; the gap to a brand with the full football feature set is on the football side. The licence sits with DragonBet Ltd.

Sporting Index

A spread-betting operator whose new-customer offer combines fixed-odds free bets with spread bets on Total Goals, Winning Favourites and a Race Index. The qualifying bet is a £10 fixed-odds bet at minimum odds of 1/2 and cannot be placed in-play or cashed out early; the unlock is three £10 fixed-odds free bets, three £5 Total Goals spread bets, three £5 Winning Favourites spread bets and a £1 Race Index spread bet. Spread betting is a different product from fixed-odds betting, and the losses on a spread bet can be larger than the stake. The FCA regulates the financial spread-betting side; the Gambling Commission regulates the fixed-odds side. A punter who is new to spread betting should read what the spread bet pays before staking on the unlock.

What kabaddi betting looks like in the wider landscape

The British betting market on kabaddi is a small slice of a small market. The sport is played and watched mostly in India, and the international calendar outside the Pro Kabaddi season is thin; the betting market in Britain is concentrated on the season, with a smaller set of markets on the internationals. A punter who wants a season of betting will find most of their markets on the league; a punter who wants a season of watching and a smaller set of bets will find the international fixtures enough.

The sport’s history sits behind the market. The first Kabaddi World Cup was held in 2004 in Mumbai, organised by the International Kabaddi Federation (founded 2004), and the Indian men’s and women’s teams have won every edition of that World Cup. A reader who wants to know whether a “World Cup” market is the real tournament or a sponsorship name will check the calendar; the real tournament is the one the IKF runs.

The market’s depth on a single match is thin compared to football or horse racing, and the margin on the deeper markets is wider. A punter who wants the best price on a Pro Kabaddi headline will shop around at the moment the market is most active, which on kabaddi is usually a few hours before the match starts when the team news has settled and the early money has come in. The deeper the market, the wider the margin.

The legal frame a British punter sits inside

A bookmaker taking bets from customers in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence wherever it is based. The Gambling Act 2005 covers Great Britain — England, Scotland and Wales; Northern Ireland is outside the Act and runs under older law. Since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 an operator whose remote facilities are used in Great Britain needs a Commission licence wherever it is incorporated, and a Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute. The Commission’s public register is the whole test of who holds a licence; a brand that is not on it is not licensed for Great Britain, however many foreign seals it carries on its homepage.

The licence categories matter. Remote general betting standard (real events) is the category the operators reviewed above hold; remote general betting standard (virtual events) is a separate category; remote general betting limited is a smaller-perimeter category; remote pool betting is for pool products on horse and dog racing; remote betting intermediary is the licence for a betting exchange. The licence number on a brand’s site is the licence number the punter searches for on the register, and the register tells the punter the licensee and the trading names covered.

Financial spread betting is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, not the Commission. The punter checks which body regulates which product before staking on a spread bet, and the register is the source for both.

There is no statutory list of permitted bets or markets. An operator offers markets under its licence conditions and codes of practice; in-play betting is offered and the controls are the operator’s licence conditions and customer-protection duties; esports are treated like any other event; virtual events are a separate licence category. No statutory cap on stakes was found; the operator sets its own maximum stakes and may restrict customers.

A British punter who uses an unlicensed site loses the protections the licence brings. There is no GAMSTOP coverage on an unlicensed site, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution body, and no British consumer redress if funds are withheld. The 10x bonus cap that came into force on 19 January 2026 does not apply; the £150 financial vulnerability check does not apply; the safer-gambling tools are the operator’s choice, not a duty. The honest framing is that licensed means checks, limits, GAMSTOP and the bonus cap, but also verification before the first bet; unlicensed means none of those protections and the risk of losing funds.

Bonuses and offers under the 19 January 2026 rules

The promotion rules in force since 19 January 2026 cap wagering requirements on bonuses at 10x — a £10 bonus at 50x wagering needs £500 of qualifying bets; under the cap no more than £100 of qualifying bets is needed for a £10 bonus. Mixed-product promotions — an offer that requires gambling on two or more product types such as betting, casino, bingo and lottery — are banned. The cap and the ban apply to licensed operators; an unlicensed site is not bound by them. Whether the cap applies to free bets with no wagering condition, and any cap on the money value of a bonus, are not established. A punter who sees a free bet should read the small print for the expiry, the minimum odds, the markets it can be used on and the cap on winnings; the cap on winnings is the practical constraint that decides whether the free bet is worth the qualifying bet that unlocked it.

Tax and what the punter pays

The punter pays no tax on betting winnings in Great Britain. General Betting Duty is the operator’s tax on gross profits, currently 15%; from 1 April 2027 a new remote betting rate of 25% applies within it, while remote bets on UK horse racing, bets on self-service betting terminals in licensed premises, pool betting and in-person betting stay at 15%. Until 1 April 2027 the remote rate stays at 15%. Whether operators pass the duty on through the odds is not established, and the punter is never charged duty directly. Spread betting has its own rates (3% financial, 10% other). A professional gambler should ask HMRC or an adviser; this page is general information, not tax advice.

Payments at a licensed operator

Credit cards are banned for gambling in Great Britain, including credit-card-funded payments through an e-wallet. Debit cards and bank-based payments are not covered by the ban. Identity verification happens before the first deposit. The minimum deposit is the operator’s choice and varies by method — DAZN Bet, for example, takes £5 by debit card and £20 by PayPal. There is no British named-account rule, no state list of permitted payment methods and no rule for or against cryptocurrency deposits at licensed operators.

The arithmetic of a kabaddi bet, worked once

The worked example used earlier in the guide — a two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90 — carries an overround of roughly 5.3%, on the assumption that the prices on both sides are as stated. The implied probability is 1 ÷ 1.90 on each side, or about 52.6%; two sides add to 105.3%; the margin — the actual slice of every pound staked the bookmaker keeps — is about 5.0%. That is the average slice of every pound staked the bookmaker keeps on this market, before the event is decided.

The same arithmetic, run on a market at 1.85 / 1.85, gives an overround of about 8.1% (a margin of about 7.5%). The same arithmetic on a market at 2.00 / 2.00 gives an overround of exactly 0%, which is what a fair market would look like and is not what the punter sees on a licensed book. The band of the overround on a two-way market at the prices most often seen on a Pro Kabaddi headline is roughly 5% to 10%, with the headline market at the thinner end and the deeper markets at the wider end. That band is what the punter’s edge has to beat to come out ahead over many bets.

The return on a winning bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 3.50 returns £35; the net profit is £25, the stake is included. On an accumulator the legs multiply into one combined price and the stake is multiplied by that combined price; a £5 accumulator with two legs at 2.00 and 3.00 returns £30 on a win. The arithmetic is the punter’s, run on the betting slip before they press confirm, and the result is what the slip shows when the bet is settled.

The free-bet value of a free bet whose stake is not paid back with a win is the free-bet amount multiplied by the difference between the price and one, divided by the price, multiplied by the payout share of the market the free bet is used on. A £10 free bet at a price of 3.00 on a market with a payout share of 95% is worth about £6.33 on average, before the punter reads the small print for the expiry, the minimum odds and the cap on winnings. The free bet is not a credit; it is a chance to place a bet whose stake is the bookmaker’s and whose winnings are the punter’s, and the practical value depends on the price the punter takes.

Frequently asked questions

How is kabaddi played?

Kabaddi is played with seven players per side on court plus three to five substitutes, in two halves of twenty minutes for the men and fifteen for the women with a five-minute interval. A raider crosses into the opposition half and either tags a defender or retreats; one point per defender tagged, plus a bonus for crossing the bonus line when six or more defenders are on court. A team that tackles all seven opponents in one move scores two extra points, the All Out; a tie goes to five raids per side and then a golden raid, first to score wins.

How does a bet on kabaddi actually work?

A bet is a stake on a market at a price set by the bookmaker. If the selection wins, the return is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds (or, in fractional form, the stake multiplied by the fraction plus one). If the selection loses, the stake is gone. On an accumulator, two or more selections are combined and the prices multiply, but the stake is lost if any one leg fails. The market’s most common forms are the match winner, the total points and a handicap on the points.

What is a value bet, and why is no tip ever certain?

A value bet is a price that is higher than the punter’s estimate of the true probability. The translation from price to probability is the bookmaker’s own arithmetic: a decimal price of 2.00 implies 50%, a price of 4.00 implies 25%. A tip is one person’s view of the price, not a forecast of the result; even a 60% probability is a 40% probability of being wrong, and no one can know an outcome before it is played.

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

The margin is the slice of every pound staked that the bookmaker keeps on average, before the event is decided. It shows up in the odds: a market at 1.90 / 1.90 implies a probability of about 52.6% on each side, two of which add to 105.3%, and the missing 5.3% is the margin. The wider the margin, the more the punter pays for the privilege of betting; the headline match winner tends to carry a thinner margin, the deeper markets a wider one.

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

The return is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 3.50 returns £35, of which the net profit is £25 and the stake is included. On an accumulator, the legs multiply into one combined price and the stake is multiplied by that combined price. The same arithmetic holds whether the odds are quoted in decimal or fractional form; the conversion is the fraction plus one.

How can a punter check that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

The Commission’s public register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number, and the result shows the licence number, the licensee, the trading names covered and the licence categories held. A licensed brand is on the register; an unlicensed brand is not. A brand with a Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence only is not licensed for Great Britain, however many foreign seals it carries on its homepage. The register is the whole test.

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