What is a lucky 15 bet

Many punters looking for big and quick returns often like to turn to accas or multiple bets as opposed to big-priced single bets and chief among those is the popular Lucky 15 bet.

Available to place at the best sports betting sites, it’s a bet made up of 15 different bets and getting a few of those 15 right could lead to some seriously big profits.  

How Does a Lucky 15 Work

So, what’s a Lucky 15 in betting and how does a Lucky 15 work? Here’s a Lucky 15 bet explained so you can go and place one yourself.

As stated already, it’s a bet made up of 15 different bets within it.

It begins with choosing four selections and those selections are then used to form:

•    4 singles.
•    6 doubles.
•    4 trebles.
•    1 four-fold accumulator.

Because there are 15 bets making up the bet, you need to remember that each one of those has to be paid for separately. For instance, while a Lucky 15 is structured to include multiple combinations, single bets, also known as straight bets, are the simplest form of wagering where you bet on just one outcome.

Or to put it another way, when choosing the stake you wish to place on one of those selections, you’ll then need to multiply that stake by 15; and that’s how much it will cost you to place the Lucky 15 bet as a whole.

As is the case with all of these types of bets, such as a Trixie or a patent bet, the more of those four selections that win, the better for you.  That’s because the more of those four that are winners, the  more of those 15 bets made up of them become winners.

Lucky 15 explained in terms of payouts 

Here’s how to work a Lucky 15 bet out in terms of payouts.

If none of the four selections wins, you will have lost on all 15 bets.  If only one of them wins, let’s say it’s B, you will only have won on B as a single because it’s impossible to combine B with another winning bet, because there weren’t any more. So, you will have won at odds of 2.0 but lost on all other 14 bets.

Let’s say B and C won. In that case, you will have won on the following bets:

•    Single: B – 2.0
•    Single: C- 3.0 
•    Double B/C- 6.0

In this case, you will still have lost more across the 15 bets that didn’t win than what you won across those three.

Now, let’s say that A, B and C all won.

You will have won on:

•    Single: A – 2.0 
•    Single: B – 2.0
•    Single: C- 3.0 
•    Double: A/B- 4.0
•    Double: A/C- 6.0
•    Double B/C- 6.0
•    Treble A/B/C- 12.0

Here you will have won 35 units across those seven winning bets, including your stake, or 28 units profit. If you were to deduct the 8 units lost on the other bets, it would still be a profit of 20 units.

Of course, if all of A, B,, C and D won, you will have won on all 15 bets and turned over a seriously huge profit. 

Where Lucky 15 bets are commonly used

So, on what sports does Lucky 15 betting normally take place on?

The simple answer is that you can combine four selections from any sports you like. You could have a football team, a tennis player, a snooker player and a team from the NBA, all to win, making up your Lucky 15 bet.

However, normally punters prefer to just stick to one sport when putting together a Lucky 15 bet.

We saw in the example above how that could be on four horse racing selections and that’s a common one but so is football.

The selections don’t necessarily have to be on a team to win. They could be on any betting market you like.

For example, the four selections could be:

•    Liverpool to beat Everton @ 2.5
•    Over 2.5 goals in Barcelona v Getafe @ 1.8 
•    Over 10.5 corners in AC Milan v Napoli @ 2.2
•    Under 3,5 cards in Arsenal v West Ham @ 3.2

Once you've pucked your selections, they'll then just be settled as winners or losers the same way as they were for the four horses.