Can You Parlay Prop Bets in Sports Betting?

All the best sports betting sites will allow you to place parlay bets. All the best Sportsbooks will also allow you to place prop bets across numerous sports. But can you include the latter when betting on the former? Yes, of course you can. Here’s all you need to know on the subject. 

 What is a parlay bet? 

Also known as an acca or a multiple, a parlay bet is a wager made up of two or more selections; there generally isn’t a limit on how many selections your parlay bet can have. 

The good news is that each of those selections are multiplied by each other to get the odds of the parlay bet as a whole. For example, a parlay bet could be made up of selections at odds of 2,0, 1.5 and 2.5. Multiply them by each other and you get odds of 7.5. 

The bad news is that you need all the selections to win for the parlay bet to win. One mistake and it will be a loser. 

What is a prop bet? 

A prop bet is a bet on a side market. Whether that prop bet wins or not may well be completely separate to the overall outcome of the match. 

For example:

•    Kylian Mbappe might be 2.0 to score against Barcelona. He might score but Real Madrid might still lose the match.  
•    Ben Stokes to be England first innings top run scorer at 6.0 against Australia is another prop bet. Stokes could top score, but it could end in a draw. 

In football, other prop bets could involve corners, cards, the number of goals or a player to have an assist. In basketball they could include a player scoring a certain number of points or another getting above or below a certain number of rebounds. 

Can you include a prop bet in a parlay bet? 

Traditionally, you couldn’t. In the likes of the UK, parlay bets were made up of home win, away win or draw selections only. 

For example: 

• Everton to beat Fulham @ 3.0
• Arsenal and Tottenham to draw @ 3.5. 
• Inter Milan to beat AC Milan @ 2.2.

Over in the US, parlay bets were often made up of moneyline (match winner) selections, points spreads, or a combination of both. 

But over the past few years online Sportsbooks and the more advanced software that powers them have allowed customers to mix and match their parlay bets as they please. 

Just prop bets, same sport

A parlay bet can be made up of prop bets only, in one sport, in this case football. For example: 

• Bruno Fernandes to score @ 3.0.
• Over 10.5 corners in Arsenal v Everton @ 2.1 

At odds of 6.3. 

Just prop bets, different sports

Or it can be made up just of prop bets, across different sports. For example: 

• Harry Maguire to be shown a card @ 3.0 (football) 
• Harry Brook to score a 50 @ 3.5 (cricket). 
• Lebron James to score over 35.5 points @ 1.9 (basketball). 

At odds of 19.95. 

Mixing it up

A parlay bet can also be made up of a mixture of win/points spread bets and prop bets, within the same sport, but from different matches. Or a mix of win/spread and prop bets from different matches, in different sports.