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Originally Posted by evajb001

It's just the big odds that make it appealing shaun. I place multi's myself quite a bit on saturdays if I find a couple of ones i like in the $2 to $5 range, but thats just my recreational punting. Doubt you'd find many professionals using multi's.

They are pretty handy for sports as well, often place multi's on a few AFL games across a round or NBA games in a day when there are a big card of games. But at the end of the day its just the big odds for small outlay on events you think will win that make it appealing. It's not like there are any bonuses available or anything that make it more or less viable.

Hi Josh,

Thought I might add something to the discussion. From a professional punters standpoint, we love using multi s (all-up win bets) as they allow us to get set for a lot more than we could otherwise, especially at the provincials. The type of situation where we might consider a multi would be say we assess something $2.00 that is the price in the market and another horse in a different race we assess $5 that you can get $11 about. Obviously with the betting limits imposed by corporate bookmakers we might only get an even $1,000 on the $2.00 chance or $1000 to $100 the 10's chance. However if we want to have $2000 on the 10's chance we can invest half that $1,000 using bowler accounts and taking the two horses in a multi to get the same result that we could trying to get the $20,000 to $2,000 that in reality we wouldn't be able to get on in the win markets.

Another strategy worth using is taking the $5.00 chance that is 10's into one of the favoured runners in one of the bigger races on a Saturday even though we have no intention of backing the 2nd horse, in fact we often have not even rated the race. That way by linking one of the fancies in say a group race we can load up on the multi and if the first leg is successful we can then cash out. Obviously when cashing out you pay a fine, but the value odds of the first selection and the amount we have been able to effectively bet on the first leg winner makes it more than worthwhile.

Hope you find this useful.