Different Types of Yankee Bets

 

Instead of taking one bet as a multiple for example with just 4 teams (or 4 different numbers for Lucky Numbers), you can take all the combinations of those teams in combination bets.

A yankee bet will give you all the combination bets for those 4 teams, and it works out to 11 bets.

So for example if you had the following 4 teams:
Chelsea
Arsenal
Stoke
Everton

A normal multiple bet will just give you those 4 teams as one bet.

With a yankee bet, you get all the combinations with those 4 teams.

The combinations are:
1 quad, 4 trebles, 6 doubles

1. Chelsea-Arsenal
2. Chelsea-Stoke
3. Chelsea-Everton
4. Arsenal-Stoke
5. Arsenal-Everton
6. Stoke-Everton
7. Chelsea-Arsenal-Stoke
8. Chelsea-Arsenal-Everton
9. Chelsea-Stoke-Everton
10. Arsenal-Stoke-Everton
11. Chelsea-Arsenal-Stoke-Everton

Now it will cost you to bet for all 11 bets. So if you bet R1 per bet, it will cost you R11. If you put R10 per bet, it will cost you R110.

Now as the chart explains below, if one team loses, then a number of your bets in your yankee will be losing.

So if Chelsea loses, then your 11 bets goes down to 4 bets that still have a chance of winning:

4. Arsenal-Stoke
5. Arsenal-Everton
6. Stoke-Everton
10. Arsenal-Stoke-Everton

If two teams lose, say Chelsea and Arsenal, you are only left with one bet that can be winning:

6. Stoke-Everton

Then if three teams lose, then all your bets are losing. There are no single bets included in the yankee.

Yankees are nice bets to take if you are confident with 4 selections because it saves you taking all the combination bets individually. How ever you have to pay for each of the bets, and if one team loses, then quite a few of your combinations get knocked out.

Below is an explanation of the 3 leg, 4 leg, and 5 leg yankees:


Different Yankee Types:

PATENT (aka Trixie) – 3 LEGS
A wager on three selections and consisting of four separate bets: 3 doubles and a treble. A minimum two selections must win to gain a return.
Minimum cost = R4 (R1 per bet)

YANKEE – 4 LEGS
A wager on four selections and consisting of 11 separate bets: 6 doubles, 4 trebles and a fourfold accumulator. A minimum two selections must win to gain a return.
Minimum cost = R11 (R1 per bet)

CANADIAN (aka Super Yankee) – 5 LEGS
A wager on five selections and consisting of 26 separate bets: 10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 fourfolds and a fivefold accumulator. A minimum two selections must win to gain a return.
Minimum cost = R26 (R1 per bet)

Below is a table showing how many combinations you get for your bet.  The right hand side, shows what combinations will be left if one bet loses.  As you see, you need two legs to win for any yankee to show some form of return.

YANKEE TYPE		IF X BET LOSES, BETS LEFT
PATENT	COMBINATIONS	1	2	3	4
1	1×2	2×3	X	X	X
2	1×3
3	2×3
4	1x2x3
		IF X BET LOSES, BETS LEFT
YANKEE	COMBINATIONS	1	2	3	4
1	1×2	2×3	3×4	X	X
2	1×3	2×4
3	1×4	3×4
4	2×3	2x3x4
5	2×4
6	3×4
7	1x2x3
8	1x2x4
9	1x3x4
10	2x3x4
11	1x2x3x4
		IF X BET LOSES, BETS LEFT
CANADIAN	COMBINATIONS	1	2	3	4
1	1×2	2×3	3×4	4×5	X
2	1×3	2×4	3×5
3	1×4	2×5	4×5
4	1×5	3×4	3x4x5
5	2×3	3×5
6	2×4	4×5
7	2×5	2x3x4
8	3×4	2x3x5
9	3×5	2x4x5
10	4×5	3x4x5
11	1x2x3	2x3x4x5
12	1x2x4
13	1x2x5
14	1x3x4
15	1x3x5
16	1x4x5
17	2x3x4
18	2x3x5
19	2x4x5
20	3x4x5
21	1x2x3x4
22	1x2x3x5
23	1x2x4x5
24	1x3x4x5
25	2x3x4x5
26	1x2x3x4x5