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  2. Super Bowl Squares: How Much Are Your Numbers Worth? - AOL

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    The folks at Minyanville did a comprehensive calculation and came up with the following chart. The numbers are based on a $50 a square game, with a $625 payout for the 1st and 3rd quarters, a ...

  3. Odds, lines, payouts: A guide to Super Bowl betting lingo - AOL

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    Here's a guide to the terms used by sports books and how to calculate payouts. ... both would typically have odds of -110, meaning they'd pay $9.09 plus $10 on a $10 bet.

  4. Mathematics of bookmaking - Wikipedia

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    Fractional odds are written a − b (a/b or a to b), meaning a winning bettor will receive their money back plus a units for every b units they bet. Decimal odds are a single value, greater than 1, representing the amount to be paid out for each unit bet. For example, a bet of £40 at 6 − 4 (fractional odds) will pay out £40 + £60 = £100.

  5. Odds - Wikipedia

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    To calculate decimal odds, you can use the equation Payout = Initial Wager × Decimal Value [12]. For example, if you bet €100 on Liverpool to beat Manchester City at 2.00 odds the payout, including your stake, would be €200 (€100 × 2.00).

  6. Parimutuel betting - Wikipedia

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    This leaves a remaining amount of $881.51. This remaining amount in the pool is now distributed to those who wagered on Outcome 4: $881.51 / $110.00 = 8.01 ≈ $8 payout per $1 wagered. This payout includes the $1 wagered plus an additional $7 profit. Thus, the odds on Outcome 4 are 7-to-1 (or, expressed as decimal odds, 8.01).

  7. Kelly criterion - Wikipedia

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    Example of the optimal Kelly betting fraction, versus expected return of other fractional bets. In probability theory, the Kelly criterion (or Kelly strategy or Kelly bet) is a formula for sizing a sequence of bets by maximizing the long-term expected value of the logarithm of wealth, which is equivalent to maximizing the long-term expected geometric growth rate.

  8. Parlay - Wikipedia

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    Parlay bets are paid out at odds higher than the typical single game bet, but still below the "true" odds. For instance, a common two-team NFL parlay based entirely on the spread generally has a payout of 2.64:1. In reality, however, if one assumes that each single game bet is 50/50, the true payout should instead be 3:1.

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