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Asian handicap

RoadWars2013 · 2014-01-15 20:07:15

Ok I understand the normal -1.-2 But what is -1.5 -0.5 ect

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15-01-2014 9:07pm

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RoadWars2013

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Ok I understand the normal -1.-2
But what is -1.5 -0.5 ect

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#2 16-01-2014 4:12pm
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RoadWars2013 wrote: »

Ok I understand the normal -1.-2
But what is -1.5 -0.5 ect

Its essentially a means of turning a market into one that can only ever have two possible outcomes rather than three - if a soccer match has a handicap of -1 on the fav, you can have a win/loss/draw outconme but with -1.5 it will either be a win or a loss.

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