Accumulators have been popular for decades, particularly in football betting circles, and there are plenty of online betting tools around that can help you determine your options. In recent years, multi sport accumulators have become popular with punters preparing the bets for the weekend and using the accumulator a little like a lottery ticket.

There are two types of accumulators – the multi bet and the single bet. The single bet accumulator takes each of the selections and their odds and determines the final odds if all selections win. This is the lottery bet. You can make as many selections as you want in different events and most online bookmakers will take you one. In this bet, every selection has to win.

The multi bet accumulator can be quite expensive since it is made of a series of bets. If you have four events with one selection in each, you will be backing six doubles, four trebles and the single four bet accumulator. You win if any two of your selections win, however, you are paying for eleven bets with four selections and exponentially more with each additional selection.

With a multi sport accumulator, you are not backing just a single sport like football. Over the weekend you could have had an accumulator that included French Open games, the Turkish Grand Prix, Cricket, Golf along with the hundreds of other events available. The returns can be huge if you’re lucky enough to bag all the winners – hence the lottery type nature of an accumulator. Online betting tools can tell you how much you are going to win with any bet combination, they just can’t help you pick the winners – you’re on your own there!