What is a Heinz bet and how do its 57 lines work?

Updated October 2026

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A Heinz is a full-cover multiple built on six selections. Every possible combination of those six picks is wagered, from two-fold all the way up to a single six-fold, producing 57 bets in total. Because the wager is split across so many lines, even one winner returns something, and a confident six-legger can pay back many times the stake. The arithmetic below walks through how that is built and what it costs.

As of 27 October 2026 the licence claims below were checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register.

UK regulation of a Heinz bet in 2026

Great Britain has no statutory list of permitted bets. The Gambling Commission licenses operators in categories and leaves the actual market catalogue to each bookmaker under its own rules and the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice. A Heinz therefore lives or dies on whether the bookmaker accepts multiple-leg combinations in the first place, and every major licensed brand in the comparison below does.

Three things govern how the wager reaches the customer. First, the operator must hold a remote operating licence from the Gambling Commission — since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 a Commission licence is required wherever the operator is based if its remote facilities are used in Great Britain, and a Curaçao or Malta registration is not a substitute. Second, the customer must complete identity verification before depositing or gambling, a rule in force since 7 May 2019 that applies even to free bets and bonuses. Third, every licensed remote operator takes part in GAMSTOP, the national multi-operator self-exclusion scheme that has been a mandatory licence condition since 31 March 2020. None of this is unique to a Heinz; the same frame applies to any bet a licensed bookmaker offers in Britain.

Spread betting sits outside that frame. Financial spread betting is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority rather than the Commission, and a single operator can hold both licences. That matters for any Heinz-style product labelled as spread betting, because FCA-regulated losses on a spread position can exceed the original deposit, while a fixed-odds multiple cannot.

There is no statutory cap on stakes, no state-set deposit ceiling, and no list of permitted payment methods for betting. The bookmaker sets its own maximum stake per line and per slip, may restrict individual customers, and decides which payment rails it accepts. Credit cards have been banned for gambling since 14 April 2020, including credit-card-funded e-wallet top-ups, so a Heinz paid from a credit-funded balance is impossible at any licensed operator. Debit cards, bank transfers and most e-wallets remain available subject to the bookmaker’s own acceptance list.

Safer gambling around a 57-line bet

A Heinz is unusually demanding of bankroll discipline. Fifty-seven lines at any meaningful unit stake adds up fast: £1 a line is a £57 outlay before any selection has run, and a £2 unit — the level the arithmetic below uses — commits £114 to a single six-selection ticket. Most customers who lose on a Heinz do not lose on bad picks; they lose because the unit stake is too high for the bankroll they actually have. That is exactly the kind of decision the safer-gambling tools are built for.

Three protections come with every licence. GAMSTOP lets a customer self-exclude across all licensed remote operators for six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal, and after the minimum period the exclusion continues for a further seven years unless the customer asks for it to be lifted. Every licensed remote operator must offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame — the first changes have applied since 31 October 2025, with a second phase postponed to 30 September 2026. A financial vulnerability check has applied since 30 August 2024 on a rolling 30-day basis once a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150; it is a public-record check rather than an income or credit-reference check. None of these is automatic: the customer sets the deposit limit, registers with GAMSTOP, and the vulnerability check only fires once spend crosses the threshold.

Where the tools fall short, the support services listed on every licensed operator’s safer-gambling page pick up the slack. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline, GambleAware funds treatment and research, the NHS runs specialist gambling clinics, and Gamblers Anonymous runs peer-support meetings. A Heinz bettor who finds the structure itself — chasing six legs at once — is the trigger should reach for these names, not for a bigger stake.

Bonuses and free bets on a Heinz

A free bet is the offer most relevant to a Heinz. Two things decide whether it can be used across 57 lines at all: the offer’s stake-by-stake eligibility, and the minimum price the bookmaker sets for a qualifying wager. Both are stated in each operator’s own terms, and both vary enough that the comparison below treats them as the operator’s call rather than a market standard.

Three rules of thumb travel across brands. First, free bet stakes are usually not returned with a winning free bet, so a successful line on a £10 free bet at 5.00 returns £40 of profit, not £50. Second, minimum qualifying prices for welcome offers cluster around evens (2.00) decimal — anything shorter is excluded. Third, free bets come with a deadline; seven days from issue is common, fourteen days from account opening is the outer limit on most welcome packages. Beyond those common features the offers differ, and the table below carries each operator’s own position rather than a market-wide rule.

Wagering requirements on bonuses are capped at 10x by the CAP Code rules in force since 19 January 2026, so a £10 bonus can require no more than £100 of qualifying stakes. Mixed-product promotions — a sports-bonus that unlocks only after casino play, for instance — are banned under the same rule. Both rules apply to the marketing a licensed bookmaker runs; they do not change how a Heinz is built or paid.

Heinz system betting, staking and bankroll

System betting is the family a Heinz belongs to. A system bet splits the stake across a defined set of combinations rather than rolling it all into one accumulator, so a customer can win on a Heinz with two or three winners and still come out ahead, where a single six-fold accumulator would already be dead. The cost is the sheer number of lines: 57 for a Heinz, climbing to 120 for a Super Heinz and 247 for a Goliath, each line carrying its own unit stake.

The staking question is where most Heinz bankrolls break. A flat £1 per line is the lightest meaningful stake and commits £57 to a single ticket; £2 per line doubles that to £114. For a customer who places a Heinz every weekend of a four-month football season at £2 per line, the cumulative outlay lands in the high hundreds before a single return has cleared. That is the kind of commitment that quietly outpaces the bankroll set aside for it, and it is the reason the bankroll guidance in the next section matters more for a Heinz than for a treble.

The realistic ceiling on Heinz tipsters and tip sheets is the law of large numbers. Six independent football matches at 1.83 (10/11) chance of winning each leg compound to roughly a 1-in-3.5 chance of all six landing. Add the bookmaker’s margin inside each price and the probability falls further; the section on margin below shows how that cuts in. No tipster, system or staking plan reverses that arithmetic, and any service claiming it does is selling certainty that does not exist.

What is a Heinz bet, how it is built and how it settles

A Heinz is a full-cover bet on six selections made up of 57 bets: 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and 1 six-fold. The 57 lines cover every multiple combination that can be made from the six picks, and every line is bet as a separate wager at the unit stake. There are no singles in a Heinz, which is the structural difference from a Lucky 15: a Lucky 15 on four selections includes four singles among its 15 bets, so a single winner returns something on a Lucky 15 in a way a Heinz cannot.

The size ladder below puts the Heinz in context. A Trixie uses three selections across 4 bets, a Yankee uses four across 11 bets, a Lucky 15 uses four across 15 bets, a Super Yankee or Canadian uses five across 26 bets, a Heinz uses six across 57 bets, a Super Heinz uses seven across 120 bets, and a Goliath uses eight across 247 bets. Each step doubles or near-doubles the line count and the outlay, and the payout ceiling climbs with it.

Settlement follows a single rule. When a selection in a multiple bet is void, the bet drops to the next lowest multiple — a treble becomes a double, a five-fold becomes a four-fold, an accumulator settles on the remaining selections. A Heinz with one void selection still has 31 active lines across the remaining five picks; the voids simply disappear from the count. The rule applies to non-runners in horse racing, to selections in outright markets that pull out, and to any leg the bookmaker rules void under its own house rules.

The image below shows the empty fixture a Heinz asks a customer to fill.

Payout mechanics on three illustrative legs

The arithmetic below uses three illustrative selections at odds of 1/2 (1.50), evens (2.00) and 6/4 (2.50), with a £10 stake on a single accumulator and £2 per line on the equivalent Heinz. These are example prices, not quoted odds; the band of returns below shows what the structure produces at these inputs, and the same arithmetic scales to any price set.

A £10 accumulator on the three legs multiplies the prices into one. Combined odds are 1.50 × 2.00 × 2.50 = 7.50, so a winning accumulator returns £10 × 7.50 = £75, comprising the £10 stake and £65 of profit. The return on a £10 treble is fixed at that figure whenever all three legs win at the prices stated, because accumulator payout is stake × combined odds and nothing else enters the calculation.

A £2-per-line Heinz needs six selections, not three, so the comparison is not perfectly symmetric. Extending the example to six illustrative legs at the same average price produces a much wider return range, because the band of possible outcomes runs from a partial payout on two winners all the way up to a full six-fold payout. The calculation below uses six legs to match the actual Heinz structure.

With six illustrative legs at decimal odds of 1.50, 1.80, 2.00, 2.20, 2.50 and 3.00, a £2 unit stake commits £114 across the 57 lines. If all six win, the six-fold line alone returns £2 × 1.50 × 1.80 × 2.00 × 2.20 × 2.50 × 3.00 = £356.40, and the remaining 56 lines add further lines, so the full Heinz returns in the high single-thousands of pounds on a six-fold winner. If five of the six win, the six-fold disappears but the six five-folds return their combined stake × price products, in the order of a few hundred pounds. If only two of the six win, the 15 doubles cover most of the stake, and a small profit is plausible. If none win, the £114 is gone.

The honest way to read those numbers is as a band rather than a single figure: a Heinz that catches five of six returns a small-to-modest profit at these prices; a Heinz that lands all six returns several times the total outlay; a Heinz that lands only one or zero returns nothing. The wider the band, the more a Heinz punishes a bad day and rewards a great one, which is exactly the trade-off a customer is buying into.

Heinz bet variations and how they differ

A Super Heinz is the same structure scaled up. Seven selections produce 120 bets: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 7 six-folds and 1 seven-fold. A Goliath is the largest of the standard full-cover bets. Eight selections produce 247 bets: 28 doubles, 56 trebles, 70 four-folds, 56 five-folds, 28 six-folds, 8 seven-folds and 1 eight-fold. Each step costs more in unit stake and pays back more on a full house of winners.

A Lucky 63 sits beside a Heinz on six selections but adds singles and the consolation bets, totalling 63 bets — the 57 Heinz lines plus 6 singles. Each leg, winning alone, returns its single line, so a Lucky 63 cushions a bad day in a way a Heinz cannot. The cost is proportionally higher: at £1 per line a Lucky 63 commits £63 against a Heinz’s £57. For a customer who values the singles cushion, a Lucky 63 is the better fit; for a customer who wants the full-cover structure at the lowest possible outlay, the Heinz itself is the answer.

A flag bet is the same structure with an additional nominated banker selection, treated as winning in every combination. The Heinz flag has six selections and a banker — the banker is treated as winning on every line, so the effective structure becomes 57 lines against five picks plus the banker. That is closer to a Super Heinz on six effective picks than to a plain Heinz, and the line count rises correspondingly.

Void selections and how a Heinz shrinks under them

When one of the six legs is void, the Heinz drops from 57 lines to 31 active lines against the remaining five picks. The structure of those 31 lines is identical to a Super Heinz on five selections — six against five is the standard structure, with no singles — so a Heinz with one void is functionally a Super Heinz on five picks. The bookmaker’s terms determine whether a void selection reduces the line count or simply returns the stake on the affected lines; the standard settled practice is the reduction.

Two voids leave a Yankee’s worth of structure against four picks, three voids leave a Lucky 15’s worth against four picks (because the singles reappear), and so on. A Heinz that loses three legs to voids is structurally close to the original wager with fewer runners and a much lower expected payout.

Margin, odds format and what the price actually means

A bookmaker’s margin is the share of every pound staked that the bookmaker keeps on average across a market. It is built into every price on the slip, and it is the reason a Heinz that “should have landed” by some simple probability estimate sometimes comes up short. Two ways to express the same thing appear in betting copy: payout share is the fraction of stakes returned to customers on average, and margin is one minus that fraction. A market with a 95% payout share carries a 5% margin; a market with a 90% payout share carries a 10% margin.

A Heinz stacks six margins because every leg carries its own. With each leg priced at a 5% margin independently, the compounded margin across the full six-fold leg is closer to 27% — the multiplication of underround cushions does not stay flat at 5%. The arithmetic matters because it explains why the headline probability on a six-fold is more generous to the bookmaker than six single bets look.

The British market writes prices in fractional form (5/1, 11/4, evens) and decimal form (6.00, 3.75), and a Heinz is settled in whichever format the slip is taken in. A bet priced at 5/1 fractional converts to 6.00 decimal by dividing 5 by 1 and adding 1; 11/4 converts to 3.75; evens (1/1) converts to 2.00. Decimal is the easier format for working out Heinz returns by hand, because the return on a winning line is unit stake × decimal odds × the unit stake, and the profit is unit stake × (decimal odds − 1) per line.

Each operator in the comparison below sets its own margin per market per event, so a Heinz on Premier League football at one bookmaker may carry a different compounded margin than the same six picks at another. The bookmakers’ own markets pages carry the live prices at the moment of betting, and the compounded margin across the six picks is the relevant figure for a Heinz.

Top 10 bookmakers offering a Heinz bet in Great Britain

The list below covers ten operators that hold a Gambling Commission remote operating licence and accept Heinz bets on their sportsbook. Each card carries the licence position, what the operator’s own terms state about the Heinz or related features, and what the operator is best suited to. The list is a comparison, not a ranking: the right pick depends on which leg structure, which bonus structure and which settlement speed a customer actually needs.

Midnite

Midnite’s sportsbook operates under Gambling Commission account 101839, held by Midnite Limited, which covers remote general betting standard (real events). The bookmaker offers in-play events, an acca builder, popular accas and price boosts with maximum-stake limits, and the welcome offer is a £25 free-bet package plus 50 free spins on a £5+ qualifying bet at minimum odds of EVS (2.00) settled within 14 days of sign-up, with the free bets valid for 7 days. The acca builder and popular accas are the obvious surface for a Heinz-style combination, because each combines same-event or cross-event legs into a single slip.

For a customer who already bets in-play and wants a Heinz to sit alongside accumulator-builder work, Midnite’s product set is a strong match. For those requiring deep each-way coverage on horse racing or a broader multiples catalogue beyond football, a more established sportsbook is often preferred.

Smarkets

Smarkets runs on a betting intermediary licence, Gambling Commission account 39173 held by Smarkets (Malta) Limited. The exchange applies a standard commission of 2% on eligible bets, with a 0% commission window for new customers for 60 days on a minimum first deposit of £10. An exchange is structurally different from a sportsbook: a Heinz on an exchange is a back bet on each leg with a separate stake per line, and the absence of a traditional bookmaker margin on the exchange means the compounded price on a Heinz is lower-margin than at a sportsbook.

For a customer who wants the lowest compounded margin on a Heinz and is comfortable laying their own bets leg by leg, Smarkets is an excellent choice. If you prefer a single-slip Heinz with bundled bonus terms, other sportsbooks offer a more direct experience.

888sport

888sport runs under Gambling Commission account 39028, held by 888 UK Limited, licensed for remote general betting standard (real events). The sportsbook offers pre-match and in-play betting, Cash Out, Bet Builder, racing streams, BetFinder form tools, a live bet feed and daily boosted odds, and the Heinz sits inside the multiple-bet slip alongside the Bet Builder work. Cash Out is particularly relevant on a Heinz because it lets the customer settle a Heinz mid-event once a sufficient number of legs have won.

For a customer who values Cash Out on a live Heinz and wants racing form tools in the same product, 888sport stands out. If your priority is the deepest Premier League football catalogue, consider other specialist alternatives.

BoyleSports

BoyleSports runs under Gambling Commission account 39469, held by Boylesports Enterprise, licensed for remote general betting standard (real events). BoyleSports Acca Insurance is the relevant product feature for a Heinz-style accumulator: it requires opt-in, a £5 minimum stake, a minimum price of 1/2 per leg, and pays a maximum refund of £20 as a free bet that expires in 7 days, with the qualifying bets placed and settled on the same day. A Heinz is structurally a set of accumulators, and acca insurance on the same-day accumulator leg — a five-fold, a six-fold — pays back a stake-matched free bet on a one-leg loss.

For a customer who places Heinz-style accumulators and wants acca insurance on the longest leg, BoyleSports is a top contender. Those seeking price boosts on singles rather than accumulator insurance might find other bookmakers better aligned with their goals.

William Hill

William Hill runs under Gambling Commission account 39225, held by WHG (International) Limited, which is licensed for remote general betting standard (real events). The bookmaker pays Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing from 8 AM on the day of the race, on both single and multiple bets, and it does not apply to ante-post, tote or pari-mutuel bets. A Heinz whose legs include a UK or Irish horse racing selection benefits from BOG on the racing leg, because any winner-takes a payout at the higher of the taken price and the starting price.

For a customer who builds Heinz-style bets around horse racing and wants Best Odds Guaranteed on the racing legs, William Hill is an excellent choice. Those focusing entirely on football may find the Best Odds Guaranteed feature surplus to their requirements.

LiveScore Bet

LiveScore Bet runs under Gambling Commission account 56859, held by LiveScore Betting and Gaming (Gibraltar) Limited, and it holds a licence for remote general betting standard (real events). The bookmaker’s Bet Builder allows up to 10 selections and covers match result, both teams to score, corners, total goals, player scoring and card markets, and a Heinz built around a Bet Builder leg slots into the multiples catalogue on the slip. The Bet Builder’s 10-selection ceiling is higher than the Heinz’s six, so a customer who wants larger multiple combinations would combine LiveScore Bet’s Bet Builder with a Lucky 63 or a Goliath on the same picks.

For a customer who wants deep same-game multi coverage as a Heinz leg, LiveScore Bet is an ideal home. Bettors requiring a more established horse racing product or a broader sport catalogue may be better served elsewhere.

Betboro

Betboro runs under Gambling Commission account 44181, held by Webmedia Development N.V. for remote general betting standard (real events). The bookmaker offers in-play markets and cash-out on football, racing and tennis, boosted odds on selected singles from £10 stakes, and safer-gambling tools including deposit limits, reality checks and self-exclusion. A Heinz that combines racing singles and football legs slots into the multiples catalogue alongside the in-play cash-out option.

For a customer who mixes racing and football in a Heinz and wants in-play cash-out on the active legs, Betboro is a viable option. Those whose strategies are built around a single sport might find more tailored specialist platforms elsewhere.

Spreadex

Spreadex runs under Gambling Commission account 8835, held by Spreadex Limited for remote general betting standard (real events), and is regulated by the FCA for spread betting. The new customer offer is £60 in free bets for a £10 fixed-odds bet, with the free bets usable across fixed odds and spread betting, and the qualifying bet must be placed within 28 days of opening the account. The split licence matters: a Heinz-style fixed-odds multiple is settled under the Commission licence, while a spread position is settled under the FCA licence, and a customer who confuses the two is exposed to FCA-style loss-beyond-deposit risk on the spread side.

For a customer who wants a fixed-odds Heinz alongside a spread-betting product under the same account, Spreadex provides a unique service. If you prefer a platform dedicated solely to fixed-odds multiples, a pure sportsbook is the better option.

Lottoland

Lottoland runs under Gambling Commission account 38991, held by EU Lotto Limited, which operates under a licence for remote general betting standard (real events). The product combines casino, lottery betting, sports betting and scratchcards, with the sportsbook accepting multiples in the usual way. A Heinz on the sportsbook sits inside a product that also offers lottery betting, so a customer who already plays the lottery on the same account can add a Heinz-style sports multiple without opening a second one.

For a customer who wants a sportsbook alongside a lottery product under a single account and a single safer-gambling framework, Lottoland provides a convenient interface. If the Heinz is your main focus and you need deep sporting stats, a dedicated sportsbook is likely the better choice.

Paddy Power

Paddy Power runs under Gambling Commission account 39439, held by PPB Counterparty Services Limited, licensed for remote general betting standard (real events). The sportsbook offers Bet Builder+, Popular Bet Builders, Super Sub (a bet that rolls over to the replacement player if the originally selected player is substituted), expanded Win More markets, and player and ACCA stats. A Heinz that uses a Bet Builder+ leg benefits from the Super Sub feature if a selected player is substituted mid-match.

For a customer who builds Heinz-style bets around player-props markets and wants Super Sub coverage on substituted players, Paddy Power is the better fit. For a customer whose Heinz is built around match-result markets with no player-props involvement, a more basic bookmaker is the better fit.

The picture below places the Heinz in the wider family of full-cover bets and the line counts each carries.

The Heinz bet in context

A Heinz is a useful tool when the customer has six picks it makes sense to combine. It is an expensive tool when the six picks are not strong enough to justify the line count. The arithmetic in the section above shows why: a Heinz catches two-leg winners, three-leg winners, four-leg winners, all the way up to six-leg winners, and the cost is the £114 committed at £2 per line before any return comes in.

Three things decide whether a Heinz is the right shape. The first is the strength of the six picks relative to their prices. With each leg priced around 1.83 (10/11) and the compounded six-fold probability in the order of one in thirty-five, the customer needs six picks each genuinely stronger than the market-implied probability. The second is the bankroll. A customer who places a Heinz every weekend at £2 per line commits close to £600 a month, and that figure has to fit the customer’s actual disposable budget before bonuses and free bets enter the picture. The third is the safer-gambling framework. A Heinz is a higher-commitment wager than a single or a double, and the deposit limit, GAMSTOP registration and vulnerability-check threshold that apply to any licensed operator apply with extra force to a customer running a regular Heinz.

The book’s role is to keep all of this honest. The arithmetic in the payout section shows what the structure returns under specific inputs; the section on margin shows what the bookmaker keeps on average across the prices; the safer-gambling section names the protection that runs underneath every Heinz placed at a licensed bookmaker in Great Britain.

The image below shows the gap between a betting slip and a Heinz — what gets filled in, and what the 57 lines cost.

Frequently asked questions about Heinz bets

What is a Heinz bet?

A Heinz is a full-cover multiple on six selections made up of 57 bets: 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and 1 six-fold. There are no singles, so a Heinz pays out only when at least two selections win. The total stake is the unit stake multiplied by 57, so a £1 unit is a £57 outlay before any leg has run.

What is a Super Heinz bet?

A Super Heinz is the same structure scaled to seven selections. It carries 120 bets: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 7 six-folds and 1 seven-fold, with no singles. The total stake is the unit stake multiplied by 120, so a £1 unit is a £120 outlay. The Super Heinz keeps the same no-singles rule as the Heinz and adds a seventh leg’s worth of combinations on top.

How many bets in a Super Heinz?

A Super Heinz contains 120 bets. The breakdown is 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 7 six-folds and 1 seven-fold. There are no singles in the structure, so a Super Heinz only returns when at least two of the seven selections win. The total stake is the unit stake multiplied by 120.

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

The Gambling Commission’s public register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number. The register lists the licence categories each operator holds — remote general betting standard (real events) covers a Heinz-style sportsbook — and the trading name and licence holder behind each brand. Two operators can run under one licence holder (Ladbrokes and Coral, or Paddy Power and Betfair), so the licence alone does not prove a brand is independent.

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

The return on a winning single bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds, and the profit is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds minus one. For a combination bet the odds of the legs multiply into one combined price, and the return on a winning combination is the stake multiplied by that combined price. A £10 treble at decimal odds of 1.50, 2.00 and 2.50 returns £10 × 7.50 = £75, comprising the £10 stake and £65 of profit.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?

The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every pound staked that the bookmaker keeps on average across a market. It is built into the prices on the slip, and it shows up most clearly on a three-way market like 1X2 football. Adding the implied probabilities of home, draw and away and converting the sum to a percentage gives the margin; a three-way football market with a 105% implied-probability sum carries a 5% margin, which means 95% payout share to customers on average.

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