What happens to a Patent bet if one horse is a non-runner?
A £1 Patent with one non-runner, settled in pounds: the missing horse's single is refunded, six stakes run on, and one 2/1 winner returns the £7.
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What happens to a Yankee if one horse is a non-runner?
A £1 Yankee with one non-runner, settled in pounds: all 11 bets stand, each drops a level, nothing is refunded, and one winner now returns money.
Lucky 31 vs Lucky 15: the same runners, settled in pounds
A £1 Lucky 31 costs £31, a Lucky 15 £15. Five runners settled through both at 0-5 winners, showing when the extra £16 pays and when it only costs.
Lucky 15 or Yankee: which is better value? Settled in pounds
One set of four runners settled through a £1 Yankee and a £1 Lucky 15 at one, two, three and four winners, with the price at which the extra £4 pays.
What happens to a Trixie if one horse is a non-runner?
One non-runner in a £1 Trixie: two doubles become singles, the treble a double, nothing refunded. Sky Bet's rule quoted, then settled in pounds.
Lucky 15 with a void horse: how it settles, and the bonus
One void horse turns a Lucky 15 into two Patents plus a stake back: settled in pounds, with the rule as Sky Bet, William Hill and Paddy Power state it.
Blocking tools, audited: GAMSTOP, BetBlocker, Gamban and the bank switch
Four products at three different layers — the operator's account check, the device, and the payment — priced from free to £29.99 a year. What each covers, and where each one stops.
Early price or SP: what Rule 4 actually costs
Another runner's withdrawal does not void your bet — it shrinks the layer's liability by a scale published in advance. The Tattersalls Rule 4(C) deductions, read against the choice between taking a price and taking Starting Price.
Price boosts, audited
A bigger number replaces a smaller one and the offer sells itself. What the maximum stake, the selection and the unverifiable 'boosted from' price do to that value — read against the promotional code that governs the advert.
The each-way bet, audited
Two bets stapled together, one of them priced at a fraction of the other. When the place half is an overlay, when it is a tax, and why extra-place offers deserve a colder read than they get.
