Dutching - back the likely winners for a level proft

Arb Cruncher calculates the stakes that allow you to spread your stake around a few selections so as to win a level profit if either of them wins. Known as "dutching", this is a very efficient betting technique if you want to have your money riding on more than one selection. You can also use the Multilay calculator to dutch some likely losers.
Open the Multiback calculator

Example 1
This example comes from a golf tournament which you think will almost definitely be won by one of 3 golfers - Woods (4.00), Singh (7.00) and Mickelson (15.00). They are all best-priced on Betfair and there is plenty of liquidity available at these prices. You would like to spend £500 on all 3 bets.

If you follow the staking pattern recommended by Multiback, you would win £558.68 if either golfer wins. This represents a return of 111.74%, which means that you are effectively backing the trio for a combined price of 2.12.

Example 2
This example shows 6 long-priced horses being dutched at a combined price of 4.89 (yield = 389.06%). There is a max stake limit of £500 on one of the horses priced at 26, and one of the horses available at 34 is best-priced on Betfair.

You will notice a variation of 20p between the profit figures for the 6 horses. This is because the optimal stakes have been rounded up to 2 decimal places due to the impossibility of staking in units smaller than a penny or a cent.