Table tennis betting tips and strategy for the year ahead

Updated October 2026

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The promise of “tips” is the simplest sales pitch in gambling: someone tells you who will win, you stake, and you walk away with the profit. The promise does not survive contact with how a price is built. A bookmaker does not publish a probability and let you judge it; it publishes a number from which the probability has to be dug out, and underneath that number sits a margin that belongs to the house. This guide is built around that gap. It explains what a tip actually is once the marketing is stripped away, how a value bet is found by reading a price against the market rather than against a tipster, what staking discipline does for a bankroll that the next losing run will eat, and why no prediction — however confident — clears the margin on its own.

Table tennis is a useful place to work through all of this. The matches are short, the schedule is dense, and the markets are wide enough to give the reader choice. The WTT Tour runs almost year-round; the ITTF World Championships and the Olympic event give the calendar its peaks; lower-tier events run continuously on the Challenger and Futures streams. A reader who learns to read one match’s odds will find a hundred markets to apply the same reading to.

The ten reviewed bookmakers and what sets each one apart

The brands below are not a ranking. Each holds a Gambling Commission remote licence for fixed-odds betting on real events and appears on the Commission’s public register, which is the only test of who is licensed to take a real-money bet from a customer in Great Britain. Several of them also run other products — casino, lottery, spread betting, betting exchange — and those products sit under their own licences. What separates each brand from the next is the shape of its offer: the way it prices the same match, the tools it gives the customer around the price, and the conditions attached to whatever promotion it runs at the door.

The licence numbers above are quoted directly from the Commission’s register. The right-hand column records only what each operator’s own terms state on a stated subject; it does not record what any third party claims. Where a brand’s published offer concerns horse racing rather than table tennis, that is what its own terms state, and the table reflects that — a licence is not a table-tennis specialism.

Copybet

Copybet’s headline pitch is its Best Odds Guaranteed, which runs all day on UK and Irish racing, and its first-past-the-post rule that pays horse racing winners even when the result is later revised. For a table tennis reader the brand is best approached as a fixed-odds bookmaker with a racing-heavy offer; the Commission’s register records a remote general betting standard licence covering real events of any sport, so table tennis markets sit inside that licence. The brand’s value to a table tennis bettor rests on whether its prices on the WTT Tour and Challenger events sit inside the band other brands quote, and on how its Cash Out behaves on in-play table tennis — neither of which is visible from the licence card alone.

Bet600

Bet600’s published offer is similarly racing-focused: Best Odds Guaranteed pays at the starting price when the SP is larger than the price taken. The brand’s general betting licence is held by Tyche Tech Limited, and the app itself does not advertise a table tennis specialism. A reader who wants to bet on table tennis here is choosing a bookmaker whose published terms centre on another sport; the licence covers real events of any kind, but the price list on table tennis fixtures is the thing to check before staking.

Betfair

Betfair is two businesses under one parent. The sportsbook — the part covered by the licence card above — runs Bet Builder, in-play markets and free live streaming of UK and Irish racing and football, and offers a 90 Minute Payout market on football. The exchange runs under a separate betting intermediary licence and is not the subject of the card; on the exchange the customer is the price-maker, which is a different mechanic from a bookmaker’s price-taker model. For table tennis the sportsbook is the relevant entry; its in-play coverage and streaming are the tools most useful on the short turnaround of a WTT match.

London Bet

London Bet is published by Thistle Bet Limited, holds a remote general betting standard licence for Great Britain, and combines sports betting — football, tennis, horse racing, greyhounds, darts, golf, cricket, NFL, NBA, MLB, snooker — with Pragmatic Play casino slots and a live in-play product. Tennis is named in the operator’s own list, which is closer to table tennis than the racing-heavy cards above; a reader who wants tennis and table tennis on the same slip will find it here alongside a casino tab the same licence does not control. The app carries a 17+ rating on the App Store.

888sport

888sport’s offer stacks pre-match and in-play betting, Cash Out, Bet Builder, racing streams, BetFinder form tools, a live bet feed and daily boosted odds. That is a broader toolset than most of the brands above; the Boosted Odds in particular are how the brand puts a headline price in front of customers on selected events. Table tennis readers should look at what events the boosts cover on a given day — the boost is the headline, the underlying price is the thing to read.

Bet Ahoy

Bet Ahoy publishes an Acca Bonus up to £1,000 on accumulators, Sub-Cover for player substitutions, Best Odds Guaranteed up to £100 on UK and Irish horse and greyhound racing, and a Double Result payout on UK and Irish racing. The acca bonus is the most relevant piece of its offer to a reader looking at table tennis because acca bonuses are paid on accumulator settlements, and table tennis fixtures sit naturally into multiples. The 10% bonus is paid on the winnings of a winning acca, on top of the return from the bookmaker, and the cap is what limits how much of it the customer can collect in one go.

Fitzdares

Fitzdares positions itself as a premium bookmaker and lists cash out, accumulators, Lucky 15s, specials and antepost markets across horse racing, football, tennis, rugby, cricket, golf and American football, with in-play live odds. Tennis appears in its own list. For table tennis the relevant questions are the depth of its in-play offering and the size of its antepost markets on the World Championships and the Olympic event; specials on individual players are where a brand like Fitzdares tends to differentiate from the racing-led names above.

BetVictor

BetVictor offers Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing, enhanced live race streaming and a BetFinder feature for finding racing bets, alongside Smart Stats. The licence card above records a remote general betting standard licence for real events, which means table tennis markets can be offered under it; the published terms of the offer are racing-centred. A reader who finds a table tennis price at BetVictor is taking a price from a sportsbook whose published edge is on horse racing — useful background when reading what the price is doing relative to the rest of the market.

NetBet

NetBet runs Daily Boosts, Profit Boosts and free bet offers, a Bet Builder with instant dynamic odds and sports stats for major leagues. The Bet Builder with instant dynamic odds is the relevant piece for a table tennis reader: it lets the customer build a same-game multi on a single match and the odds update as the legs are added. That mechanic is where the same-game multi earns its keep on a short-format sport, because the legs of the multi all settle on the same match in front of the customer.

Spreadex

Spreadex is the only brand in this list that is also regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, because it runs spread betting on financial markets in addition to fixed-odds sports betting. The £60 in free bets for a £10 fixed-odds bet is the door into the sportsbook; the free bets are usable across fixed odds and spread betting, and the qualifying £10 bet must be placed within 28 days of opening the account. The fixed-odds sportsbook covers table tennis under its general betting licence. The FCA piece matters because spread betting losses can exceed the original deposit — a different risk profile from fixed-odds betting, where the loss is capped at the stake.

How table tennis betting actually works

A table tennis match is the best of any odd number of games; competition matches are typically best of five or best of seven. A game is won by the first player to reach 11 points, and once both players reach 10 the first player to lead by two points wins. Service alternates every two points, and once both players reach 10 each player serves one point in turn. Scoring changed from 21 points to 11 in 2001, and the ITTF was founded in 1926, with table tennis an Olympic sport since 1988.

Three of those rules shape the markets a bookmaker offers. First, the short game — five or seven games, each capped at 11 or by a two-point margin — produces a lot of swing states, which is why handicap markets and total-points markets are dense at every level. Second, service alternation means momentum in a game is observable: a player holding serve at 10–9 has won the next two points on their own serve, which is information a price can lean on. Third, the short match means the in-play product matters: a five-game match can be largely settled before a customer has finished making a cup of tea, and the price is moving all the way through.

The table itself is 2.74 m long, 1.525 m wide and 76 cm high, with a net 15.25 cm high; the ball is 40 mm in diameter and weighs 2.7 g. None of those numbers change the price, but they explain why reaction time and serve variation dominate the sport, and why a player’s recent form against a particular style of opponent is more informative than a head-to-head at any given ranking level.

What the bookmaker’s margin does to a price

A bookmaker’s price is not a probability. It is a number from which a probability has to be reconstructed, and underneath that number sits a margin that belongs to the house. The margin is what the bookmaker keeps of every unit staked across all outcomes of a market, before any individual customer wins or loses. The cleanest way to see it is on a two-way market with no draw — a match winner, for instance, at 1.90 / 1.90.

On a two-way market with no margin, the prices would be 2.00 / 2.00, because each outcome would be priced at its “true” probability of 50%. On a market priced at 1.90 / 1.90, the implied probabilities are 1 ÷ 1.90 on each side, which is 52.63% and 52.63%. Those add to 105.26%, not 100%, and the excess — 5.26% — is the bookmaker’s margin. Of every £100 staked across both outcomes, the bookmaker keeps £5.26 on average, and pays back £94.74 across all winning bets. That £94.74 is the payout share.

A margin does not stay fixed at 5%. The exact value depends on the prices the bookmaker publishes. On a market priced at 1.85 / 1.95 the implied probabilities are 54.05% and 51.28%, which sum to 105.33% — an overround of 5.33%. On a market priced at 1.91 / 1.91 the implied probabilities are 52.36% and 52.36%, which sum to 104.71% — an overround of 4.71%. The tighter the overround, the more of every pound staked is returned to customers across all winning bets; the looser the overround, the more the bookmaker keeps.

A margin is also a moving target. It changes between events, between markets within the same event, and over time as competition pushes prices closer to fair value. This calculation shows a range: a two-way market at 1.90 / 1.90 carries a margin of around 5%, and the marginal difference between 1.90 and 1.91 on each side is small but cumulative across a season’s staking. The margin is a cost the customer pays on every bet, and a reader who treats it as a constant overlooks the place where most of the edge goes.

The payout and the return on a single bet

A winning single bet pays back the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 1.90 returns £19.00, which is £10 stake plus £9.00 profit. A £10 stake at 3.75 returns £37.50, which is £10 stake plus £27.50 profit. The arithmetic is the same on every price; what changes is the relationship between the price and the probability of winning.

That relationship is where value lives. A bet is “value” if the price offered is higher than the true probability of the outcome justifies — that is, if 1 ÷ decimal odds is lower than the customer’s estimate of the chance of winning. A price of 3.75 implies a 26.67% chance; if the customer’s model says the chance is 30%, the bet is value; if it says 22%, the bet is not. The point is not whether the bet wins — most value bets lose, because they are priced as long shots — but whether, over many bets, the price was larger than the outcome justified.

Accumulator bets and the multiplication of odds

An accumulator — an “acca” — is a single bet whose odds are the product of the odds of its legs. A four-fold at 1.90 / 1.85 / 2.10 / 1.95 has combined odds of 1.90 × 1.85 × 2.10 × 1.95, or 14.36. A £10 stake returns £143.60 on a win, of which £133.60 is profit.

The multiplication is what makes the acca attractive to a customer and what makes it expensive to the bookmaker’s margin. Every leg of the acca carries its own margin, and those margins multiply. A market with a 5% margin contributes 1.05 to the combined odds denominator; four such legs produce a combined payout share of around 0.83, or a margin of around 17% across the bet as a whole. The longer the acca, the more the margin compounds. A £10 acca at 14.36 on a 17%-margin market pays back an average of around £83 across all outcomes, not the £143.60 the headline suggests — because most of those combinations lose, and the bookmaker’s edge compounds across every leg.

This is also why an Acca Bonus — a percentage paid on top of the acca winnings — looks generous and is in fact a small fraction of the margin the customer has already paid to enter the bet. A 10% Acca Bonus on a winning £143.60 return adds £13.36, against an expected cost of around £60 on the same bet across all outcomes.

Handicap and total-points markets

A handicap market gives one player a fictional points head start, settled against the actual result. A -2.5 games handicap on the favourite means the favourite must win by three games or more for the bet to win. A total-points market sets a line on the number of points in a match or game — over 95.5 points, for instance — and settles on whether the actual total is over or under.

Both markets are dense on this sport. Five-game matches produce a wide spread of possible total-points lines; seven-game matches produce a wider one still. The bookmaker’s margin on these markets is typically tighter than on the match winner — sometimes under 4% — because the bookmaker has less information advantage on a market that depends on a continuous variable than on a market that depends on a binary outcome. A reader who reads margin carefully will find that the cheapest price on a match is often on a handicap or total-points line, not on the match winner.

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

A value bet is a bet whose price is higher than the true probability of the outcome justifies. The price is given; the probability has to be estimated by the customer. The estimate is built from form, statistics, line-ups, head-to-heads, surface or venue effects, fatigue, and the way the market has moved since the price was first published.

Form is the starting point: the customer’s own model of recent results, weighted for the strength of opposition. Statistics are the next layer: serve points won, return points won, break points converted, points won on first serve versus second serve — table tennis publishes these on the ITTF and WTT feeds. Line-ups matter because doubles pairs change, and because a player’s choice of rubber can change their effectiveness on a given surface. Head-to-heads are useful only at sufficient sample size; a 2-1 record in favour of one player over another is not a trend. Surface and venue effects matter most when the venue changes, and when the ball specification changes between events. Fatigue matters because the schedule is dense: a player through a deep run at one event and into the qualifying rounds of the next is a different proposition from the same player fresh.

The market’s own odds are the final layer. The bookmaker’s price is itself an estimate, but it is an estimate that absorbs the views of every other customer in the market, and a price that has drifted significantly against the customer’s model is information the customer should weigh against the model. A bet is value when the customer’s estimate of the probability is materially higher than 1 ÷ decimal odds; it is not value when the customer’s estimate lines up with the price, and it is a negative-value bet when the customer’s estimate is below the implied probability.

The point of all of this is not to predict the outcome of any single match. No published form, no model, no tipster and no bookmaker knows who will win a given match, and any service that claims otherwise is selling certainty it does not have. The point is to find a long-run edge: a structural reason why the customer’s estimate is, on average, more accurate than the price. The edge is small, and it shows up over hundreds of bets, not over the next one.

Staking and bankroll discipline

A bankroll is the stake money set aside for betting, separated from rent money, bill money and any other commitment. Staking discipline is the rule that decides how much of the bankroll is risked on a single bet.

The most common staking plan is flat staking: the same unit on every bet, where the unit is a fixed percentage of the bankroll — usually 1% to 5%. A reader with a £1,000 bankroll and a 2% unit stakes £20 on every bet. Flat staking does not maximise returns on a winning streak and does not protect the bankroll on a losing streak, but it does both badly enough that the long-run picture stays readable: the bankroll moves with the edge, not with the variance.

A proportional staking plan adjusts the unit with the bankroll — 2% of whatever the bankroll currently is. That adapts to winning and losing runs, but it can chase losses if the bankroll falls faster than the edge recovers.

A Kelly-style staking plan sizes each bet as a fraction of the edge divided by the odds, which maximises the long-run growth rate of the bankroll under the assumption that the customer’s estimate of probability is accurate. In practice the Kelly plan is aggressive, and most readers who use it stake a half-Kelly or quarter-Kelly to dampen the variance.

The right plan is the one the reader will stick to. A staking plan on paper that the reader abandons after a losing run is worse than a less optimal plan the reader follows through. The discipline is the edge; the formula is the easy part.

Live betting and the cash-out mechanic

Live betting on table tennis is the in-play product: prices that update as the match is played. WTT matches run from first serve to final point in well under an hour, which is the right length for an in-play market — long enough that the score moves meaningfully, short enough that the customer is watching the whole match rather than catching a price update on an app.

A cash-out is a bookmaker’s offer to settle a bet before the match has finished, at a price the bookmaker sets. The price reflects the current state of the match and the bookmaker’s own view of how the remaining games will go. A cash-out is useful when the bet is winning and the customer wants to lock in a profit rather than risk a comeback; it is also useful when the bet is losing and the customer wants to cut the loss short. It is expensive in margin — the bookmaker’s offer price sits inside its own edge, so a customer who cashes out routinely pays for the convenience — and it is not a substitute for picking the right bet in the first place.

The 90 Minute Payout market published by one of the reviewed brands operates on a similar mechanic on football, paying out if the backed side is ahead at the 90-minute mark regardless of later events. The same mechanic, applied to a different sport, illustrates how cash-out and payout markets work: the bookmaker pays early, at a price that already prices in the remaining uncertainty.

A bet builder on table tennis is the same-game multi: a single bet combining two or more outcomes from the same match — match winner plus total games over a line, for instance, or handicap winner plus correct score in a given game. The combined odds are the product of the leg odds, and the bookmaker’s edge compounds across the legs as on any acca. The instant-dynamic odds version updates the combined odds as each leg is added, which gives the customer a running picture of what the bet is costing in margin.

Bonuses, free bets and what they actually cost

A bonus is a credit from the bookmaker to the customer, on conditions. A free bet is a credit that works like a stake but is not paid back with a win — a £10 free bet at 1.90 returns £9.00 of profit, not £19.00. A deposit-gated bonus credits the customer after a qualifying deposit. A “risk-free” bet that is refunded as a free bet is a free bet, not a refund in money, and the distinction matters at settlement.

The bonus cap that has applied since 19 January 2026 limits wagering requirements on bonuses to 10x, and bans mixed-product promotions — offers that require gambling on two or more product types. Whether the cap applies to a free bet with no wagering condition is not established; the rule states what the cap covers and what it does not.

The cost of a bonus is the cost of clearing it. A £10 bonus with a 10x wagering requirement asks the customer to place £100 of qualifying bets before the bonus and any winnings are available. A £100 turnover at 5% mean margin costs the customer an expected £5 of edge across all outcomes. The £10 bonus is, on average, worth £5 — the rest goes to the bookmaker’s margin over the clearing period. Deadlines, minimum prices on qualifying bets, eligible markets and maximum-stake limits all chip away at the headline value; the headline number is real, and the headline is not the same as the value.

The honest framing of any bonus is that the offer costs the bookmaker margin over the clearing period, and the customer pays for that margin on every qualifying bet. A reader who reads the terms before claiming — wagering factor, eligible markets, minimum price, deadline, cap on winnings — sees the offer for what it is. A reader who reads only the headline sees a number that the calculation above does not bear out.

Cryptocurrency and the question of anonymity

Cryptocurrency deposits are an open question at UK-licensed operators. A British named-account rule, a state list of permitted payment methods and any rule for or against cryptocurrency deposits at licensed operators are not established. What is established is that licensed remote operators verify name, address and date of birth before a customer can deposit or gamble, which closes off anonymous play at any licensed site. A customer who wants pseudonymity through crypto deposits is choosing to leave the licensed market; the cost of that choice is the loss of GAMSTOP coverage, the Commission’s complaints route, an approved dispute-resolution body and British consumer redress if funds are withheld, and the loss of the 10x bonus cap and the £150 vulnerability check that apply inside the licensed market.

A reader considering a crypto-funded bet on table tennis is therefore choosing between two markets with different rules, and the choice is not labelled as such by the operators on either side. The licensed market takes a pound, verifies the customer and applies the LCCP. The unlicensed offshore market takes a coin and applies its own house rules. Neither is the safe choice by default, and neither is the unsafe one: the choice is what protections the customer wants, at what cost.

Responsible gambling under a Great Britain licence

GAMSTOP is the national multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme and a mandatory licence condition for online operators since 31 March 2020. Exclusion periods are 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. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps; betting shops use a separate service. A reader who wants to step away from table tennis betting for a stretch can self-exclude across every GB-licensed online operator with a single registration.

A financial vulnerability check applies to licensed remote betting when a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days. It is a public-record check — bankruptcy, county court judgments — not an income check and not a credit reference check. Financial risk assessments, sometimes called affordability checks in the press, are announced in a staged plan with no start date; the reader is told the rule exists, not that it has come into force.

Deposit limits are the customer’s own choice. There is no state ceiling on deposits or losses in sports betting; the limit is what the customer sets in their account, and the operator must offer a fixed-time-frame gross deposit limit. The minimum age is 18, and verification happens before the first deposit or bet, including with a free bet or bonus.

Help is at GamCare (the National Gambling Helpline), GambleAware, the NHS gambling clinics, and Gamblers Anonymous. The licensed brands reviewed here all run their own safer-gambling tools — deposit limits, product restrictions, self-exclusion, Player Profile tests — and link to those services from their sites.

Betting on table tennis: tournaments, leagues and the calendar

Table tennis has a year-round professional calendar. The WTT Tour is the top tier: WTT Contender events, WTT Star Contender events and the WTT Finals at the top of the structure. Below that sit WTT Feeder events and the ITTF World Championships, held biennially for individuals and for teams. The Olympic event runs once every four years; the Paralympic event alongside it. National leagues — the Chinese Super League, the German Bundesliga, the Russian Premier Liga (suspended for some national federations since 2022), the Japanese T.League — run on a domestic schedule and overlap with the international tour. Challenger and Futures events fill the gaps and give the in-play product its density.

The Challenger and Futures events are also where the bookmaker’s depth is most variable. The headline events — the WTT Finals, the World Championships, the Olympic event — are priced by every reviewed brand with reasonable depth on handicap, total and match winner. Lower-tier events are priced by some brands and not by others, and the price list is worth checking before staking. A reader who has a model on a Challenger event should look at which brands carry the match at all, because the deepest price on a market the bookmaker does not price is no price at all.

The men’s and women’s tours run on separate schedules and produce separate rankings, and a bookmaker’s match list for one may run deeper than for the other. Doubles events run on a separate feed and are priced less consistently than singles. A reader who wants to bet on a specific format — men’s singles on the WTT Tour, women’s doubles on the Olympic event — should check the brand’s match list for that format before opening an account.

How to pick the right reviewed bookmaker for table tennis

The ten brands above are not a ranking. They are ten GB-licensed operators, each with a different shape, and the choice between them is the choice between those shapes rather than a hierarchy of quality. Three questions narrow the field.

The first is the depth of the in-play offering on table tennis specifically. Betfair Sportsbook’s published in-play product and Bet Builder, 888sport’s in-play product with Cash Out, and NetBet’s Bet Builder with instant dynamic odds are the more detailed published in-play products on this list. A reader who plans to bet live should look at the brand’s in-play page for a current WTT match before opening an account, because the published list and the live list are not always the same.

The second is whether the brand’s headline offer carries over to table tennis at all. Bet Ahoy’s Acca Bonus, NetBet’s Profit Boosts and 888sport’s daily boosted odds are the headline offers most relevant to a table tennis acca builder. Copybet, Bet600, BetVictor and Spreadex centre their headline offers on horse racing; a reader who wants a racing-side benefit and a table tennis slip in the same account will find that combination on those brands, and a reader who wants a table tennis-specific offer will look elsewhere.

The third is the licence card. Every brand on this list is GB-licensed for fixed-odds betting on real events. Betfair’s sportsbook sits alongside a separate betting exchange that runs under a different licence. Spreadex is regulated by the FCA for financial spread betting in addition to the Commission for fixed-odds sports, which is a different regulatory pair from any other brand on the list. London Bet and 888sport run casino products alongside the sportsbook under separate licences. The licence card is the place to read the regulatory shape, and the regulatory shape is the place where most product failures and land.

The bottom line on table tennis betting in 2026

A tip is somebody’s prediction. A value bet is a price that beats the customer’s own estimate of the probability. The two are different acts, and they need different reading. A reader who treats them as the same act pays the bookmaker’s margin on every bet and never sees where it went.

The licensed market in Great Britain gives the customer certain protections — GAMSTOP, a financial vulnerability check at the £150 rolling-30-days threshold, a 10x bonus cap, a complaints route — and takes others away — credit cards are banned, identity is verified before the first deposit, in-play markets are priced by the operator under its own licence conditions. The unlicensed market gives the customer none of those protections and takes none of them away. The honest framing is that one is regulated and the other is not, and the rest is the reader’s call.

The reviewed brands above are ten licensed operators, each with a different shape. The choice between them is the choice of shape, and the right shape is the one that fits the reader’s staking plan, in-play habit and acca preference. A reader who has read the calculation above and the rules behind it knows the price on the slip and the cost behind the price, which is the only place this guide was ever trying to get to.

Frequently asked questions about table tennis betting

How do you actually win at table tennis betting?

You do not, in the sense of winning every bet. A value bet is a price that, over many bets, returns more than it loses, and the long-run edge comes from the customer’s estimate of probability being more accurate than the price’s implied probability. Most value bets lose. The point is the long run.

How do you place a table tennis bet?

Choose a GB-licensed operator from the comparison above, register an account, verify your identity before the first deposit (the operator is required to check name, address and date of birth), deposit by debit card or another non-credit payment method, then choose a match and a market and stake. The decimal odds on the slip are what the bookmaker pays back per £1 staked if the bet wins.

How is table tennis betting different from other sports betting?

The matches are short — best of five or seven games, each capped at 11 points — which makes the in-play product tighter than on football or tennis and the handicap and total-points markets denser. The schedule is year-round, with the WTT Tour, ITTF World Championships, the Olympic event and a deep Challenger and Futures calendar underneath.

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

A value bet is a bet whose price is higher than the customer’s own estimate of the probability justifies. No tip is certain because every prediction is an estimate, and every estimate is wrong sometimes. The bookmaker’s margin sits inside the price, and the customer’s edge, if any, sits between the price and the customer’s model.

What is the bookmaker’s margin, and how does it show in the odds?

The margin is the share of every pound staked that the bookmaker keeps across all outcomes of a market. On a two-way market at 1.90 / 1.90 the implied probabilities add to 105.26%, and the excess — 5.26% — is the margin. The tighter the prices sum to 100%, the smaller the margin.

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

Return equals stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A £10 stake at 1.90 returns £19.00, which is £10 stake plus £9.00 profit. On an accumulator the odds of the legs multiply into one combined price, and the same rule applies to the combined stake.

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