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Double Result Betting
If you strongly fancy a team to win outright, the odds may not be quite what you want i.e. the price is too short. For example, Brazil were long odds-on to beat Croatia in this year's World Cup and they duly won (albeit not very convincingly). The bookmakers and betting exchanges such as offered pretty skinny odds on Brazil winning the game in 90 minutes.
In an attempt to negate the shortness of the price punters are offered the opportunity to get involved in another market. Commonly known as half-time / full-time betting or double result betting. If you do fancy a team to win convincingly, it is fair to assume you expect them to be winning at half-time and also to be winning at full time –hence the name of the bet. This explains the term double result as well because in effect you are betting a double on two results – your fancied team to be leading at the interval and still to be leading at the end of the game.
In World Cup football it is quite rare for a team to be leading at half time and not to be winning at full time due to tactically defensive coaching. England were a prime example of this against Paraguay. Once they had the lead going into the break, they took their foot off the gas and played keep ball. It worked against the South Americans and there was no real threat on the English goal. Doing a half-time/full-time bet has turned a 4/7 chance into a 6/4 chance – now that is more appealing surely?
For those who like more spice to their gambling the double result bet can produce some amazing odds. A bet on Togo leading at half-time and South Korea to be victorious at the final whistle would have paid out around 33/1 at the bookmakers odds or on the betting exchanges. This event only happened once in the 16 matches in the first raft of games but doing the maths a handsome profit would have been accrued if anybody had backed all games blind.
This type of World Cup betting. though is not for faint hearted.
