Banker: What Is It? How Can You Use It for Betting Success?

If you have been researching a little bit before placing your bets, you have probably heard the term “banker” used frequently. So what is a banker? A banker is a red hot favorite that is expected to produce a win in a football match. For example, when an on-form Chelsea is playing Hull City at Stamford Bridge, they are expected to win easily. In this case Chelsea is a banker.

How a banker is used by punters

Banker teams usually have very short odds because of their high likelihood to win their matches. Because of this, they are often not used in single bets as they would return very little profit. However, when you are building a multiple bet, such as an accumulator, a banker team can be used as the foundation or cornerstone for the bet. In the multibet, the banker team acts as the security blanket, the sure stone upon which multiple bets can rely on. And since it is more likely to win than lose; it can multiply your profit when used in a multiple bet.

When creating a multibet using a banker, you will need to first pick a team that you have absolute confidence in. Let us say Chelsea is playing Hull City at home. If Chelsea is on form, then a match against Hull City at Stamford Bridge is easy and Chelsea is expected to win. Now, once you have picked Chelsea, you can select other teams you predict to win though the wins are not likely to be straightforward. 


For example, you may pick Leicester at home against Watford, Manchester City at home against Southampton, Manchester United away at Sunderland, and West Brom at home against Middlesbrough.

So your bet slip will look like:

Chelsea win……………..1.30

Manchester City win……..1.75

Leicester win……………...2.00

Manchester United win……..1.65

But since you think Chelsea is a straight and easy win, you can use it as a banker to create doubles such as:

Chelsea win and Manchester city win: 1.3 x 1.75 x 100, which gives Ksh 227.50

Chelsea win and Leicester win: 1.30 x 2.00 x 100, which gives Ksh 260

Chelsea win and Manchester united win: 1.30 x 1.65 x 100, which gives Ksh 214.50

You may also use your banker to create a treble, a Trixie, Lucky 15, a Goliath and more bets.

Risk with the banker

A banker is a team you have utmost confidence in. Ordinarily, the team will win easily, even by a huge margin. But don’t get carried away and start picking and throwing in bankers here and there. In a game of football, any result is possible. The underdog may just surprise you and beat your banker team. If this happens, all your bets will go down and you will incur a huge loss. Because of this, you must research the banker team carefully, particularly its head-to-head results against the underdog. Don’t choose a team if it is playing a derby or a cup game because in such games the results may be quite unpredictable.

So a banker is a team you are confident will win and one you can use to boost your profit by combining with other teams. If the banker loses, your bet bombs even if all the other teams in the bet (s) win. But if as expected the banker wins, then you can smile all the way to the bank.