ten UK bookmakers ranked on live streaming, in-play and cash out

Updated October 2026

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Data current as of 27 October 2026 and checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register of remote operating licences.

A football match kicks off at Old Trafford. The bettor watches the stream inside the bookmaker’s app, lays a stake on the next goal at 3.10, then watches it drift as the home side presses. The picture is two or three seconds ahead of the broadcaster’s feed — never quite level with it — and the price the bettor takes is a price the bookmaker set two seconds ago, not a price the betting exchange would have shown in the same breath. That gap between the picture and the price is what the rest of this page is about. A live stream at a bookmaker is not a free pass to the broadcast; it is a feed paid for by a margin baked into every in-running price. The size of that margin, the markets it covers and the moments when the stream is allowed to lag are the real subject of any ranking on the best betting sites with live streaming.

Every brand reviewed here holds a remote operating licence from the Gambling Commission. The licence is not a badge of quality; it is the condition under which the brand is allowed to take a bet from someone in Great Britain at all. A GB-licensed bookmaker must run identity checks before the first deposit, must take part in GAMSTOP, must offer a deposit limit, and since the middle of last year must run a financial vulnerability check on customers whose deposits, net of withdrawals, exceed £150 in any rolling 30 days. None of those obligations falls on an unlicensed brand. The choice between licensed and unlicensed is the choice between those rules applying and those rules not applying — that is the whole frame, and it is worth holding while reading the operator reviews further down.

The rankings that follow are based on what each operator’s own terms say it offers for live streaming, in-play betting and cash out, against what its licence category lets it do. The “best” brand for one kind of punter is not the best for another. A bettor who wants a single app with football from the Welsh Premier League, greyhound streaming and a Bet Builder across every fixture will find that bookmaker near the top of the list; a bettor who wants to lay horses on an exchange has no business on a fixed-odds bookmaker at all and should look at Matchbook’s card instead. The page is built around that trade-off, and the operator reviews say plainly which reader each brand suits.

How the legal frame shapes every stream in this comparison

Great Britain has no statute on sports streaming or on in-play betting. The Gambling Act 2005, as amended by the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, makes it a licence condition to take remote bets from customers in Great Britain — sections 33 and 36 are the ones that put the obligation on the operator. The Commission grants licences in five categories relevant here: remote general betting standard (real events), the same for virtual events, remote general betting limited, remote pool betting, and remote betting intermediary (the licence held by exchanges such as Matchbook). Each brand reviewed below holds the first category, real events; Matchbook also holds the intermediary one. No further rule separates one stream from another, which is why the same fixture can be streamed by three or four bookmakers at the same time under their own commercial arrangements with the rights holders.

What an operator may NOT do is take bets from Great Britain without that licence. Section 33 of the Act, on summary conviction, carries up to 51 weeks’ imprisonment, a fine up to level 5, or both (six months in Scotland) and aims at the operator. The Commission enforces by cease-and-desist, by working with payment providers and hosts, and by court-ordered DNS blocking powers it has been given or is about to receive — not by ISP blocking in general and not by chasing the customer. A bettor who uses an unlicensed site commits no criminal offence that research turned up, but loses every protection a licence brings: no GAMSTOP, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution service, and no British redress if the operator refuses to pay out. The 10x cap on bonus wagering, the £150 vulnerability-check threshold, the deposit-limit duty — none of those follow the punter to an offshore site. None of that makes offshore “illegal to use” in the colloquial sense; it makes it unprotected.

What this means for the comparison: every brand in the ranking below is licensed, every stream is being offered under a real-events licence, and every in-play market is the operator’s own decision within that frame. Where the law and the operator’s own terms overlap, the stricter rule binds. The cleanest example is identity verification — the Commission required it from 7 May 2019, and it applies even when the customer has only a free bet or a small bonus. The bettor cannot skip it by skipping a deposit.

Player protection that affects how a stream is watched

The Commission’s safer-gambling rules bite at the live-streamed match in three ways the reader needs to hold in mind.

GAMSTOP has been a mandatory condition for online operators since 31 March 2020. A customer who has self-excluded cannot deposit, cannot place a bet, and cannot open a live stream — the operator is required to block all three. The minimum exclusion is six months, with one year, five years and a five-year auto-renewing period above that, and after the minimum period the exclusion holds for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to remove it. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps; a betting shop runs under a separate scheme.

Deposit limits came into force under the Remote Technical Standards (RTS 12) in a first phase since 31 October 2025, with a second phase postponed to 30 September 2026 — at the time of writing, whether that second phase is live is not established. The rule obliges operators to offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame; it does not set a number. No state-set ceiling on deposits or losses exists in Great Britain, and the limit is the customer’s choice to set or to leave alone.

Financial vulnerability checks (LCCP condition 3.4.4) have applied since 30 August 2024 and take hold at the spend threshold since 28 February 2025: once a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in any rolling 30 days, the operator must run a public-record check — bankruptcy, county court judgments, the kind of data that lives on the public file. It is not an income check and not a credit-reference check, and the threshold is deliberately low so it kicks in well before a problem has to develop. Financial risk assessments, the heavier checks the press has called affordability, were announced on 7 July 2026 in a staged plan with no start date; the language to use is “announced, staged, no start date” — never “in force”.

Help lines sit behind the regulator. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline; GambleAware funds treatment and education; the NHS runs gambling clinics; Gamblers Anonymous runs groups. Every brand reviewed here lists those names somewhere on its safer-gambling pages. The point of the list is not to advertise the names; it is to say what a customer is meant to do when the stream stops being entertainment.

What a bonus at a live-streaming bookmaker actually costs

The bonus landscape changed on 19 January 2026, and it changed in two ways that bear on every review below.

First, wagering requirements on bonuses are capped at 10x. A £10 bonus that used to carry a 50x requirement — £500 of qualifying bets before withdrawal — now cannot carry more than a 10x requirement, so no more than £100 of qualifying bets. The cap is on the requirement, not on the bonus amount. Second, mixed-product promotions are banned: an offer that requires gambling on two or more product types — betting plus casino, betting plus bingo, betting plus lottery — is no longer permitted. The classic “bet £10 on football to get 50 free spins” offer is the shape that is gone.

What research did not establish is whether the cap applies to free bets that carry no wagering condition at all, and whether there is a cap on the pound value of any bonus. The page treats those as unsettled rather than as facts. The two settled rules are what change the shape of an offer; the unsettled questions are noted where they bite on a specific brand.

What has not changed is the arithmetic a bonus still costs the customer. A free bet whose stake is not returned with a win is worth, on average, the free-bet amount multiplied by (odds − 1) ÷ odds, then multiplied by the payout share of the market the free bet is spent on — the markets with the smallest margin pay out the most of the free bet, which is why the cheap-margin bookmakers also tend to be the ones where a free bet is most useful. The expected cost of clearing a deposit bonus is the required turnover multiplied by the margin of the market the bonus is cleared on, which is why clearing a bonus on football and clearing the same bonus on basketball are not the same impulse close. None of this is on the offer page; it is what the offer page is worth once the marketing has been pushed aside.

The advertised word “free” is doing less work in 2026 than it did in 2023. The 10x cap, the end of mixed-product offers and the licence conditions around marketing have all taken a layer off the headline. The cost of the bonus has not changed; the wording has.

What a betting app adds to a live stream

A bookmaker’s app is where the stream, the in-play market and the cash-out button sit in the same frame. The hardware matters less than the API the app exposes.

The best apps on this list put a stream above the in-play ladder, let the bettor pin a market to the top and keep the slip visible while watching. The worse ones stream in a tab the bettor must swipe back from to place a bet, losing two or three seconds and the price the bettor was looking at. The difference is not aesthetic; it is whether the live stream is a viewing product or a betting product. A bookmaker that has built the in-play ladder with the stream as the headline is selling a betting product; one that has licensed a feed and embedded it as an afterthought is selling a viewing product with a price board.

Three app features recur and are worth naming on their own. Bet Builder lets a bettor combine markets from one event — first goalscorer, total goals, both teams to score, corners — into a single bet, and a bet builder that works in-play as well as pre-match is a step up from one that does not. A price boost / enhanced odds token improves a price for a stake limit, often £5 or £10, and is the cheapest way a bookmaker pays for attention. Acca insurance refunds a stake as a free bet if one leg of an accumulator lets the bettor down, and is a hedge the operator prices into the margins elsewhere. None of these are unique to live-streaming bookmakers, and the operator reviews note which ones each brand actually runs.

Latency is the technical limit nobody talks about on the offer page. The stream lags the broadcast feed by a couple of seconds — long enough that a goal is on the screen before the in-running market has priced it in, which means a bettor who reacts to the picture is reacting to old information. The bookmaker’s in-play traders sit between the feed and the price, and the price moves before the picture catches up. A live stream is therefore not a faster way to bet; it is a more pleasant way to watch the bets that have already been taken.

In-play, cash out, and the price the stream is paying for

In-play betting is what the bettor does during an event — prices are repriced as the action unfolds, and markets open and close as the picture changes. Cash out is what the bettor does with a bet that is already on: take the profit early, or cut the loss, before the event settles. Both are settled by the same trading desk and priced off the same in-running margin, and the size of that margin is the lever every other feature on this page pushes on.

Cash out has three settings worth knowing. Full cash out closes the bet at the offered price and stops there. Partial cash out lets the bettor take a fraction of the profit and leave the rest running, and is the setting that suits a bettor who has a stake on something they want to hedge rather than close. Auto cash out closes the bet automatically when the offered price reaches a level the bettor sets, and is the setting that suits a bettor who cannot watch the whole event. None of these are guaranteed to be there in every market, and one UK-facing sportsbook’s terms make the point sharply — cash out is unavailable during a market suspension and may fail if odds change or the market is suspended during the cash-out delay. A request to cash out is a request to take a price the operator is offering right now; if the operator pulls the price between the request and the acceptance, the cash out does not happen.

The cost of the in-play product is the margin the bookmaker runs on the live ladder, and the margin is the spread between what the backer pays and what the layer receives. The narrower the spread, the more of every pound the bettor keeps. On a pre-match 1X2 football market a margin of 5% is ordinary; on an in-play Asian handicap the same bookmaker can be at 9% or higher, because the price is being moved every second and the trader is paid for the risk. The reviews below note which brands publish live margins where they can be checked; where they cannot, the page says so.

The best betting sites with live streaming in 2026: ten UK-licensed bookmakers reviewed

Ten brands hold a remote general betting standard (real events) licence — and, in Matchbook’s case, a remote betting intermediary licence as well — and offer live streaming to at least some of their customers. The ranking is built around what each brand does with a stream: which sports it covers, which markets it prices live, whether cash out is full or partial or auto, and how the safer-gambling features sit beside the stream. The order is not a licence ranking — every brand here is licensed — and it is not a “best for everyone” sport. Different readers want different things, and the table that follows is built to make that trade-off explicit.

The same ten brands, in the same order, are the subject of the ten reviews that follow. Each review names what the operator’s own terms say it offers, where the offer page is silent, and which reader the brand is built for.

Star Sports

Star Sports runs a remote general betting standard (real events) licence under Star Racing Limited (account 9177) and offers in-play markets on football, horse racing, golf and US sports alongside its pre-event card. The Bet Boosts, Daily Specials and Weekend Enhanced Boosts are the visible marketing layer; the in-running ladders on football and US sports are the part the live-stream comparison cares about. The bookmaker’s racing roots show in the depth of its US sports coverage — NBA, NFL and MLB lines run deep and price up early, which is the rare combination a US-focused punter will pay attention to. The stream catalogue on the GB App Store listing is not specified in detail, and the safest thing a reader can do is check the in-play tab on the day to see which fixtures carry a video icon.

The verdict: a brand built for the racing and US-sports punter who wants in-play alongside a long pre-event card, less obviously the first choice for a stream-first football bettor.

DragonBet

DragonBet runs under DragonBet Ltd (account 64908) and concentrates on Welsh football and rugby alongside racing and American football. The bet builder is in the app, in-play betting is in the app, and the Welsh coverage is the point of the brand — fixtures from the JD Cymru Premier and the United Rugby Championship get lines that broader bookmakers do not always run. A reader who wants the Welsh game priced live, with a stream to watch it on, has a clear reason to be here; a reader who does not care about the Welsh game has less.

The verdict: a focused product for a focused reader, and the focus is the selling point rather than a marketing layer.

BetGoodwin

BetGoodwin runs under Goodwin Racing Limited (account 2927) and publishes the largest event count in the table: more than 200,000 live events each month across 11 sports, with Bet Builder available pre-match and in-play and the full trio of cash out settings — Early, Partial and Auto. The combination is unusual: most bookmakers offer two of those three. A bettor who wants a single app with a deep in-play schedule and a cash-out button that lets them take a fraction of the profit and let the rest run has a clean case for this brand; the bet builder is the second reason to be here, and the racing roots of the licensee explain why the horse-racing side of the live card is fuller than the football side.

The verdict: the strongest live-event count in the table and the most flexible cash-out settings, which together make it the bookmaker to watch in 2026 for an in-play-heavy reader.

Lottoland

Lottoland runs under EU Lotto Limited (account 38991) and combines sports betting with casino, lottery betting and scratchcards inside one app. The licence covers customers in Great Britain. The brand is best known for lottery products — lotto betting on the draws of other jurisdictions — and the sportsbook is a smaller, newer part of the offer. A bettor who wants a single account for a lottery ticket and a Saturday football acca can do both here; a bettor who wants a deep sportsbook with a strong live stream catalogue has better options in the table. The mixed-product promotion ban introduced in January does not affect an account that plays each product separately — it affects the marketing, which used to bundle them.

The verdict: a sportsbook on top of a lottery product, useful for the cross-product reader and not the first choice for the stream-first reader.

Betfred

Betfred runs under Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited (account 39544) and lists Bet Builder, Sub Switch, Racing Post data, Extra Places, live casino and bingo inside its app. The brand is one of the bigger high-street names in British betting and the app is built around the same retail strengths — horse racing, greyhounds and football — with the casino and bingo products sitting alongside rather than inside the sportsbook. Sub Switch is the feature most worth flagging: it lets a bettor replace one player in a bet builder with another, which is a rare and useful tool when an injury is announced close to kick-off. The live stream coverage is broad and the in-play product is solid, and the brand is a safe default for the reader who wants a familiar bookmaker with a deep in-play card.

The verdict: a default pick for the reader who wants a familiar British brand with a strong racing and football in-play card, with Sub Switch as the feature that earns the bet builder crowd.

Kalooki Sportsbook

Kalooki Sportsbook runs under Kalooki Sportsbook Limited (account 57730) and advertises instant withdrawals by bank transfer within minutes, Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing, in-play betting and daily boosts. The withdrawal line is the standout: most bookmakers clear withdrawals in hours, and “within minutes” is the kind of claim that bears watching in practice. Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish racing is the standard retail concession and is welcome; the in-play card is built around football and racing with daily boosts on top. A bettor who values fast withdrawals and a Best Odds Guaranteed concession has a reason to be here, and the licence is GAMSTOP-participating in the usual way.

The verdict: a racing-led product with a withdrawal line worth stress-testing, well suited to the bettor who wants Best Odds Guaranteed and a fast payout.

Sky Bet

Sky Bet runs under SBG Sports Limited (account 67370) and lists Matchday Assist, BuildABet, Acca Freeze, Bet & Watch, Request A Bet, in-play betting, My Bets with cash out and Price Boosts on more than 250 markets a week, restricted to UK and Ireland customers. Acca Freeze is the feature worth flagging — it freezes one winning leg of a five-leg accumulator if the other legs let the bettor down, which is the kind of hedge an accumulator punter can build a strategy around. The brand sits inside the Sky media ecosystem and the streaming arrangement runs along the same lines; the app is the deepest Sky Bet has ever been. Restricted to UK and Ireland is worth noting — a customer outside that geography cannot open an account.

The verdict: a strong accumulator-led product with the broadest price-boost catalogue in the table, well suited to the reader who builds accas and wants a stream alongside them.

bet365

bet365 runs under Hillside (UK Sports) ENC (account 55148) and lists in-play betting and live streaming of events worldwide, Bet Track, Match Live, a Live Golf Tracker, Super Boosts, Winnings Boosts on Bet Builders and selected singles, daily Bet Boosts and Bet Builder+ available pre-match and in-play. The brand is the reference point for live streaming in Great Britain and the in-play catalogue is the widest of the ten. Bet Builder+ is the version of the bet builder that lets the bettor combine markets from one event into a single bet, and the same product is available pre-match and in-play — a small detail that is not actually small. The golf tracker is the kind of feature no other bookmaker ships at the same depth, and a golf punter who wants to follow a tournament shot by shot has no real alternative.

The verdict: the in-play and live-streaming reference of the table, with Bet Builder+ and the Live Golf Tracker as the features that earn the rest of the list a place.

Matchbook

Matchbook runs under Triplebet Limited (account 39504) and holds both a remote general betting standard (real events) licence and a remote betting intermediary licence — the licence type for a betting exchange. The brand offers Bet Builder, multiples, in-play betting and live streaming of horse racing and greyhounds. The exchange mechanics mean the bettor is betting against other users rather than against the house, with the operator taking a commission on net winnings. The commission structure is the headline cost and the price the bettor pays for the better odds; a commission in the low single digits is the kind of number to look for. The live streaming catalogue is narrower than bet365’s but covers racing and greyhounds in depth, and the Bet Builder + multiples combination is unusual on an exchange.

The verdict: the only exchange in the table, with a commission-based pricing model and a racing-led live stream catalogue, well suited to the bettor who wants to lay bets as well as back them.

Kwiff

Kwiff runs under Eaton Gate Gaming Limited (account 44448) and is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission, with the app carrying a 17+ App Store age rating. The brand’s headline feature is “supercharged” odds — random price boosts on selected markets — which is the kind of marketing line the page has warned the reader about elsewhere. The licence is the standard real-events licence and the brand takes part in GAMSTOP; the in-play catalogue is built around football and racing. A bettor who enjoys random boosts and is happy to wait for them has a reason to look here; a bettor who wants a predictable price ladder has better options elsewhere.

The verdict: a sportsbook with a random-boost product on top, best suited to the reader who likes the surprise of an enhanced price rather than the predictability of a steady margin.

What the streams actually cost: a worked payout

The arithmetic a payout answers is the simplest one on the page. Place a stake at a set of odds, win the bet, take the return. There is no margin to deduct from this side of the bet — the margin is already inside the price the bookmaker offered. The whole question is what the bettor walks away with if the bet wins, and what the bettor has spent if it does not.

Consider a £10 single at odds of 5/2, which in decimal form is 3.50. The return, if the bet wins, is the stake multiplied by the odds, so £10 × 3.50 = £35. The net profit, which is the bit the bettor keeps, is the stake multiplied by (odds − 1), so £10 × 2.50 = £25. If the bet loses, the bettor has spent £10 and has nothing to show for it; if the bet wins, the bettor has £35 in the account, of which £10 is the returned stake and £25 is profit. That is the whole arithmetic of a single bet.

The same arithmetic on a combination bet works the same way, with the odds of the legs multiplied into a single price before the stake is applied. A £10 double at 2.00 and 3.50 pays 10 × (2.00 × 3.50) = £70 if both legs win, with the same £10 stake returned inside the return. The arithmetic does not change because the bet has more legs; only the price does, and the price compounds in the bettor’s favour when both legs win and against the bettor when either leg lets the side down. A treble at 2.00, 3.50 and 1.80 pays £10 × (2.00 × 3.50 × 1.80) = £126; one losing leg, and the whole bet loses.

The condition that holds this all together is that the bettor is taking a price the operator offered, at the moment the operator offered it. The price the operator offers already carries the margin — the cut the operator keeps of every pound bet on this market — and that margin is what makes the operator’s livelihood and what makes the bettor’s edge harder to find. A bookmaker’s margin of 5% on a market means the operator keeps 5p of every £1 bet on that market across all outcomes, and the payout share is 95%. The arithmetic of a payout does not change because of the margin; the arithmetic of an edge does. A payout answers what a winning bet returns; it does not answer how likely the bet is to win.

The band, then, is the band of returns between losing and winning. A £10 single at 3.50 returns £0 on a loss and £35 on a win — a band of £35 — and the band of a combination bet widens with the price. The condition is that the bettor takes the price offered, at the time offered, on the same single bet. A different price, a different stake, a different bet type and the band moves; the formula does not.

What the page has not promised

The page has not predicted a winner of any event, has not named a “sure” bet and has not offered a system that wins. Nobody can know an outcome, and a reader who acts on a predicted one loses real money on the page’s word. The page has also not promised that any of the ten brands reviewed above will suit every reader — the rankings are based on what each operator’s own terms say it offers, and what suits one punter is not what suits another. The page has said plainly where the data ends and the operator’s own terms begin, and the bettor who wants the latest price is reading the operator’s site, not this one.

The arithmetic a payout runs through is statistical, not predictive. A £10 single at 3.50 has a one-in-3.50 chance of winning if the price is a fair one — the kind of price a betting exchange would offer before commission — and a smaller chance if the price carries a margin. The page has not said what that chance is; it has said what the bet returns if the chance comes in. The two are different questions, and the second is the only one the formula on this page answers.

Reading an offer without signing up for it

A bookmaker’s offer page is built around the headline number. A “bet £10, get £30 in free bets” offer reads well at a glance and reads less well when the small print is applied. The free bets are usually stake-not-returned, which means a winning £30 free bet at 3.00 returns £60 — £30 of winnings, with the £30 stake absorbed — rather than the £90 a stake-returned free bet would have returned. The free bet has a wagering requirement, usually 1x, on a minimum price, usually evens (2.00) — and any bet below that minimum does not count. The free bet has an expiry, usually seven days from issue, and a stake limit, usually £10 or £20 per boost. None of this is on the offer page’s headline; all of it is in the terms the offer page links to.

A reader who reads the offer page without reading the terms has not read the offer. The 10x cap on wagering, since 1 January 2026, has taken a layer of small print off the worst of these deals — a £10 bonus at 50x, which used to need £500 of qualifying bets, now cannot need more than £100 — but the cap is on the requirement, not on the value, and a £100 free bet at stake-not-returned on a market with a 9% margin is not the same value as a £30 free bet at stake-not-returned on a market with a 5% margin. The arithmetic is the page’s, not the operator’s, and the page has walked through it.

What the rest of the comparison comes down to

A reader who wants the brand with the deepest live stream catalogue and the deepest in-play product has a clear case for bet365, and the operator review above is the place to start. A reader who wants an exchange has a clear case for Matchbook and no other brand in the table. A reader who wants the broadest accumulator-led product has a clear case for Sky Bet, and a reader who wants the strongest racing-led product has a clear case for Betfred or Kalooki Sportsbook. A reader who wants a focused Welsh and British racing bookmaker has a clear case for DragonBet, and a reader who wants the largest in-play event count with the most flexible cash-out settings has a clear case for BetGoodwin. A reader who wants a familiar British high-street brand with a deep in-play card has a clear case for Betfred; a reader who wants random boosted odds has a clear case for Kwiff. A reader who wants a single account for sports and lottery has a clear case for Lottoland, and a reader who wants US sports and racing with a long in-play card has a clear case for Star Sports.

The trade-off the page has not made for the reader is the trade-off the reader has to make for themselves. The licensed pages for UK gambling have set the floor; the rest of the choice is the bettor’s.

Frequently asked questions about live streaming at UK bookmakers

How does live streaming at a bookmaker work?

A bookmaker’s live stream is a video feed of an event the bookmaker has licensed from the rights holder, embedded inside the app or website alongside the in-play price ladder. The stream usually needs a funded account or a qualifying bet in the last 24 hours, often runs a few seconds behind the broadcast feed, and is offered under the operator’s own terms rather than any statutory rule.

Which NBA betting apps offer live streaming?

Several of the bookmakers reviewed on this page — bet365, Sky Bet, Betfred and Star Sports in particular — stream selected NBA games for customers with funded accounts or qualifying bets. The catalogue varies by operator and by season, and the safest way to check is the in-play tab on the day.

Which betting sites have live streaming?

Every bookmaker reviewed here offers live streaming of at least some events, with bet365, Betfair, William Hill, Coral and Sky Bet publishing the deepest catalogues in the wider UK market. The page above reviews ten brands in detail, with the operator’s own terms on what each stream covers.

How do in-play betting and cash out differ from a pre-match bet?

A pre-match bet is placed before the event starts and settles on the result. An in-play bet is placed while the event is in progress, with prices repriced as the action unfolds. Cash out is a feature on a bet that is already on: it lets the bettor close the bet early at a price the operator offers, take a profit on a winner or recover part of the stake on a loser.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

Return is stake multiplied by odds; net profit is stake multiplied by (odds − 1). A £10 single at decimal odds of 3.50 returns £35 on a win, of which £10 is the returned stake and £25 is profit; on a loss the bettor has spent £10 and has nothing to show for it.

How can it be checked that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

The Commission’s public register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number. Every brand reviewed on this page holds a remote general betting standard (real events) licence, and the licence number is in the operator review above.

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