Acca Catcher Guide
The Acca Catcher is an advanced Matched Betting tool that helps members maximise profits from sports accumulators.
The Acca Catcher helps users quickly find selections for accumulators for various bookies and calculates the lay stakes required in order to maximise profit or to minimise qualifying losses.
Take a look through the video above for a detailed guide on the Acca Catcher software and then continue to this guide below for examples of the different methods and bet placements you can use:
Sports accumulators are a great source of ongoing profit for matched bettors. In this training section, and series of videos, we are going to be taking a look at accumulator bets, the Outplayed Acca Catcher software and various methods that you can utilise to profit from accumulator offers.
This guide will focus mainly on sequentially laying accumulators with the Acca Catcher. There is an alternative more simple method for laying accumulators with the Smarkets acca laying feature which you can learn about here.
What is an Accumulator Bet?
An accumulator bet, or "acca", involves betting on multiple selections, 2 or more, at once in a single bet.
Terms used for accumulator bet selections:
- If you have 2 selections this is called a double
- 3 selections is a treble
- 4 selections is a fourfold accumulator
- 5 selection is a fivefold accumulator
- 6 selections is a sixfold accumulator
The individual odds for each selection accumulate to give you much higher odds than just a single selection, hence the name accumulator.
The main difference, between an accumulator and other bet types, is that all of your selections must win in order for your accumulator bet to win. If one or more of your selections fail to win then your accumulator bet will lose. The majority of the time, when matched betting and using the Acca Catcher software, you will be looking for 5 fold and 6 fold accumulators.
In this example betslip, where 5 selections have been added, you will see the following options:
Doubles/Trebles/Fourfolds/Fivefold Accumulator and some other bet types.
One of the most common mistakes that people make when placing an accumulator, in this case a 5 fold, is that they choose one of the other bet types.
A couple of ways to check that you have selected the correct accumulator option is that you will see in brackets, alongside the bet type, a multiplication figure. The majority of bookies will have this displayed in their betslip, albeit the bet types might be in a different order. You need to choose the multiple option that has “x 1” next to it, as an accumulator is a single bet. The other bet types will have higher multiplied figures next to them signifying that there are multiple bets here.
The other way is that when you enter your stake in the accumulator stake box your total stake should be equal to this:
In the above example you can see £25 in the accumulator stake box and that the total stake is also £25.
How do we Profit from Accumulators?
Bookmakers will sometimes require a qualifying bet or a free bet to be on an accumulator bet. There are loads of "Bet & Get" style offers on accas that are very profitable when you know how to lay them. Bookies may also offer Price boosts on an accumulator bet (Eg. Chelsea/Liverpool both to win boosted from odds of 3.0 to 4.0).
We can also profit by taking advantage of the many acca insurance promotions offered by bookmakers. The majority of these involve placing 5 fold or 6 fold accumulators and if one team loses you will be refunded your back stake up to a certain amount. This free bet refund is how we make our money, through either extracting the value of the free bet or by using it as a safety net when placing accas.
There are a variety of different methods that we can use when placing accumulators which we will look at, with practical examples, further down in this guide.