Four shelves: Bets (what the play is) · Prices (what the number owes you) · Labels (the stamps we print) · Results (how the ledger works). One rule sits above all of them: the price check rules the bet.
Bets
Over 2.5 goals UNIVERSAL
The bet wins if the match finishes with three or more goals, no matter who scores them. Two or fewer and it loses.Example: the total-goal count determines whether this line wins.
Over 1.5 goals UNIVERSAL
The bet wins if the match finishes with two or more goals. A lower bar than Over 2.5, so the price is shorter.Example: this line requires two or more total goals.
BTTS (both teams to score) UNIVERSAL
The bet wins if both teams score at least once. Who wins the match does not matter, only goals at both ends.Example: each team must score at least once.
ML (match result) UNIVERSAL
A straight pick on who wins the game: 1 for the home team, X for the draw, 2 for the away team.Example: 1, X and 2 mean home win, draw and away win.
Double chance (1X / X2 / 12)
One ticket covering two of the three results. “Celta or draw (X2)” cashes on a Celta win or a draw; only a Rayo win beats it. You buy safety and pay in price — the safety carries extra vig. Neutral example (hypothetical): Home team or draw (1X) covers two of the three possible match results.
The double-chance illustration above is hypothetical and does not describe the current card.
AH −1.5 (Asian handicap) UNIVERSAL
Your team starts with a paper handicap: −1.5 means it must win by two clear goals or more. Quarter lines like −0.75 split the stake between two lines, so a bet can half-win or half-push.Desk habit: AH lines often price a favourite fairer than the headline win market.
Prices
Price (the odds) UNIVERSAL
The number the book pays. A price of 1.70 means a 10 stake returns 17: your 10 back plus 7 profit. If you lose, you lose the 10.Never judge a pick without its price; the good team at a bad number is still a bad bet.
Fair price DESK
Our read of the true chance, written as a price: 60% true makes a fair price of 1.67 (1 ÷ 0.60). Any price under fair pays you less than the risk deserves.Example: the models rate City near 62%, so fair is about 1.62; boards paying 1.70 pay above the truth.
Corridor DESK
The lowest price we take for a play, printed before we stamp it. If the screen meets or beats the corridor, the play counts; under it, we skip and say so. The threshold is law.Example: Sunderland ≥2.40 means the play does not exist at 2.35.
Steam UNIVERSAL
A price shortening fast because money is arriving on it. Buying after the steam means paying yesterday’s price after new information has reached the market.Desk habit: post-steam prices get refused as a class; conviction is bought before the move or not at all.
Shave DESK
The small slice between the world’s price and the number on the local screen, a point or two at a time. One shave is noise; a pattern of shaves eats an edge whole.Example: a 1.55 world price printed at 1.45 on the screen is the shave in action.
Toll / booth DESK
A famous name priced too short, and the booth is the desk’s refusal counter for it: refused on the record, with the reason printed.Example: compare the available price with the stated corridor before deciding.
Kill-band DESK
The drift line written beside a stamp. If the price slides past it before kick-off, the stamp dies automatically: graded void, never quietly edited.The price check rules the bet, and the kill-band is where that rule becomes automatic.
Labels
⚡⚡ Flagship DESK
The day’s strongest doors: the deepest file, the widest gap between model fair and the price paid, the desk’s full name behind it. Two per board on the biggest days, never more.Example: the label identifies the desk’s strongest files, not a guaranteed result.
⚡ and ⚡-lite DESK
⚡ marks a value price: the board pays above the model’s fair. ⚡-lite marks the small honest floor: a near-fair banker played humbly, the kind that keeps a ledger green enough to afford the swings.Example: ⚡ denotes a value price; ⚡-lite denotes a modest near-fair floor.
⭐⭐ and ⭐ DESK
Corridor grades: value that only counts at the printed price or better. Under the printed number the stamp is void, whether it wins or not.Example: a corridor counts only when the available price meets its threshold.
🚩 Refused DESK
A refusal printed with its reason. Refusals are graded like bets afterwards: proven when the side fails, burned when it wins at a fair number. Both colours go up.Example: a refusal is recorded with its reason and graded afterward.
Results
Settled UNIVERSAL
Graded against the official full-time score. Every settled pick stays on the results page, win or loss, in the same size.Receipts never move: the ledger is the whole point of the shop.
Void DESK
A stamp cancelled by its own law before kick-off, usually the drift past a kill-band. Counted as void, never retro-fitted into a win or a loss.A void costs nothing; betting against your own law costs everything.
Win rate UNIVERSAL
A summary of graded outcomes. The current calculation and exclusions are stated once beside the public record record on the results page.Historical totals are labelled by their date range and status.
Receipts UNIVERSAL
The row-by-row record of a board day on the results page: prices taken, scores, verdicts, the burns beside the cashes.Receipts are why the desk can refuse in public: everything is already on record.
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