Asian Handicaps Betting Guide

Asian handicaps are somewhat of a mystery to a lot of people, but in fact are very straightforward, it just gets its mystique from the name and the name comes from the fact that most Asians bet on soccer in this format.

Asian Handicap Explained

In a lot of games there tends to be a hot favourite say Chelsea to beat West Brom, people would think that Chelsea will probably win easily and so the bookmaker will make a market at say +2. What the bookmaker is saying is that Chelsea must beat West Brom by at least 3 goals for you collect on backing Chelsea at say 2.1 or you can back West Brom at say 1.8 to win, draw or lose by just one goal. If Chelsea wins by two goals the stakes are refunded.

There is also a slight variation to the above called a double handicap and simply put the wager in this case is split in two an example of a double bet handicap would be: Leeds Utd. (-½,-1) v West Ham (+½,+1) in this case you are simply betting on two events so do not be put off by this type Asian Handicap.

If you are interested in a full tutorial VCBet provide an excellent one and is recommended.

A number of the major bookmakers offer Asian Handicaps such as Ladbrokes, VCBet and Bet365. Bookmakers who have international customers usually cover this type of bet and these sites all offer this market.

Sportingbet Asian Handicap Betting

Sporting Bet offer a handicap market on all big games. They offer a handicap market no matter how close the teams are in the betting and they do this market very well as they make it very clear as to what you are betting so you can't get confused by this bet if you are not doing it all the time.

Online Asian Handicaps with Sportingbet
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Bet365 Asian Handicaps

As the Asian Handicap is not provided by all the online betting sites and if this is a bet you particularly like to have then it would be useful to sign up with Bet365 as this will provide you with an opportunity to shop around to get the best price on offer.

Asian Handicap Betting with Bet365
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