What is a Heinz bet and how does the 57-bet full cover work?

Updated October 2026

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A Heinz is a full-cover bet in which six selections are combined into 57 separate bets across every possible combination of two or more picks: 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and one six-fold. There are no singles in the structure, so a bettor who wants any stake on a single selection must place it as a separate bet. The “Heinz” label is a brand name borrowed from the 57 varieties of a famous British food product, and the arithmetical resemblance is the whole joke.

The Heinz is one of a family of full-cover bets that grow rapidly with each new selection. A Trixie on three picks is 4 bets, a Yankee on four is 11, a Heinz on six is 57, a Super Heinz on seven is 120 and a Goliath on eight is 247. The reason these structures exist is that bettors want exposure to the upside of several picks at once without losing the safety net that one or two losers simply knock the bet down to the next smallest multiple. Every penny the bettor puts on a Heinz is at risk across 57 bets, which is the central trade this page turns over. For the worked example that runs through this article, a stake of £2 on a Heinz costs £114 in total (£2 × 57); each individual bet returns its own result, and the eventual payout is the sum of the winning lines.

Data current as of 30 October 2026 and checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register.

The fundamentals of a Heinz

The Heinz is built from six selections, all priced independently and all combined into every possible multiple of two or more of them. Because the bet is the union of those multiples, every leg must win for the six-fold to pay, while only two of the six must win for a double to settle. The total return is whatever the winning lines land on, summed together.

There is no single bet in a Heinz, which is the line most newcomers miss. A Lucky 15 on four picks, by contrast, includes four singles among its 15 bets; a Heinz on six picks has no singles among its 57 bets. If a bettor wants singles action, they add it themselves as separate stakes.

A bettor who backs a Heinz pays a unit stake on every line. The standard worked example on this page uses a £2 unit, which gives a total stake of £114. Some betting slips offer a Heinz button and quietly set the unit at £1, others at 50p; the figure the bettor signs for is the unit multiplied by 57. Where a bookmaker prices a Heinz stake as a single figure on the slip, the bettor should check that figure against the unit and the 57 lines before confirming.

The Heinz is most often used on football, where bettors want exposure to several matches at once, and on horse racing, where six selections across an afternoon can be combined. It can in principle be built on any sport the bookmaker prices, including tennis, cricket and American sports. What changes between sports is not the structure but the odds on offer and the chance of all six winning on the same day.

Why the Heinz is called full-cover

“Full cover” is the industry label for a bet that covers every possible multiple of a given set of selections. A Trixie is full cover on three, a Yankee on four, a Lucky 15 on four-with-singles, a Heinz on six and a Goliath on eight. Each is the largest full-cover structure available at that size without adding singles. A Lucky 31 on three picks would also be full cover with singles and would total 31 bets; a Lucky 63 on six picks would total 63 bets by adding the singles. The Heinz sits in that family between the Yankee and the Super Heinz, and the practical difference between them is the number of lines and the size of the total stake required at the same unit.

A note on price and “each-way”

A Heinz can be placed each-way, in which case every one of the 57 bets becomes two bets — one for the win part, one for the place part — and the total stake doubles to 228 lines. The win and place parts settle independently. The place part returns whatever the bookmaker’s place terms pay on each individual line, which depend on the sport and the number of runners in a race. On a six-fold, the place part is rarely the point of the bet; on a single horse racing leg, place terms matter more.

Each-way pricing is also affected by Rule 4 deductions when a horse in the field is withdrawn, because the bookmaker adjusts the price of the remaining runners and reduces the value of bets that include the withdrawn runner. The deduction is taken from the gross return rather than from the stake. A Heinz bettor who has one leg affected by Rule 4 will see the deduction applied to every line that includes that leg.

What happens when a leg is void

When a selection in a multiple bet is void, the bet drops to the next lowest multiple. A treble becomes a double, a four-fold becomes a treble, and the six-fold settles as a five-fold on the remaining five picks. Void selections in a six-fold do not collapse the bet to nothing in the way some newcomers expect. The bet still has 56 lines and the bettor still has exposure to most of them. Where multiple selections are void the same logic applies, and a six-fold with three voids settles as a treble on the remaining three picks — though by that point the bettor is closer to a Lucky 15 than to a Heinz.

The same logic applies in another way when a single leg loses rather than voids: the bet does not collapse, it simply does not pay on any line that included the loser. With one losing leg, only the doubles and trebles made up entirely of the other five picks pay out, which means the bettor is left with a fraction of the full Heinz return. With two losing legs, only doubles among the remaining four pay out.

The maths and what it costs

The Heinz is one of the simplest structures to calculate once the number of legs and the lines per leg are set. Six picks, every combination of two or more, gives 57 lines. There is no surprise in the count; the surprise is what happens to the total stake when each line carries a unit, and what happens to the payout when all six legs land.

The page treats the illustrative odds as 2.00 for evens, 1.50 for the favourite, and 2.50 for the outsider at 6/4. A stake of £10 on a six-fold accumulator at those prices returns £281.25, with a net profit of £271.25. For a Heinz at £2 per line on the same six picks, the six-fold leg pays £562.50, plus the returns on every other multiple.

The other lines settle independently. A five-fold or four-fold that drops legs does not pay out on the full six-fold lines. The doublets accumulate as they run. The exact return depends on the combination; the worked total is a sum rather than a single multiplication, and the maximum payout is bounded above by the six-fold’s return, with diminishing returns the moment a leg loses.

Why the total stake is the central cost

A bettor looking at a Heinz should ask one question first: what is the unit, and what is the total stake. With a £2 unit the total stake is £114; with a £1 unit it is £57; with a £5 unit it is £285. A six-fold accumulator at £10 carries the same maximum payout as a Heinz at £10 per line × the return on the six-fold, but a £10 Heinz is not a £10 bet — it is a £570 bet. That is the practical, easily missed arithmetic of the structure.

The return on a single line of a Heinz is the unit stake times the price of that line. The return on the whole bet is the sum of the lines that win, with losses on the rest. The bettor’s loss on a Heinz is bounded above by the total stake. If no leg lands, the bet returns nothing. If only one leg lands, the bet returns nothing, because every line in a Heinz has at least two legs.

A £114 Heinz that returns nothing is £114 down; the same bettor’s £10 single on the first leg would also be £10 down. The difference is the size of the hole. The Heinz is a larger exposure for a similar kind of pick; it is not a different kind of bet. The page returns to that point in the section on cost.

How the odds on each leg interact

The six-fold’s odds are the product of the six individual odds used in the example (28.125 decimal). The return on a £10 accumulator is the stake times that price, £281.25; the return on a £2 Heinz line on the same six-fold is £562.50. The other lines scale based on the specific combination.

Where the Heinz’s structure changes the bettor’s calculation is in the failure modes. A six-fold accumulator with one leg losing returns zero. A Heinz with one leg losing still pays on the 21 lines that exclude that leg, which include the fifteen doubles that combine the other five legs in pairs, the ten trebles that combine the other five in threes, the six four-folds that combine the other five in fours and the five-fold that uses the five remaining picks. The return on those lines is the sum of their individual returns at the unit stake. The bettor’s loss in the failure case is bounded by the lines that did not land.

What “minimum odds” means on a Heinz

When bookmakers run a free-bet offer with a “minimum odds” qualifier, the qualifier typically applies to each leg of the qualifying bet, not to the combined price of the multiple. A Heinz placed to qualify for an offer at 1/2 each leg is a bet on which every leg must be priced at 1/2 or greater. The qualifier does not look at the six-fold’s 28.125/1 price, it looks at each of the six legs. A bettor who reads the small print carefully can place a Heinz whose six-fold price is far above the qualifying threshold while every individual leg sits at or just above the minimum.

The same is true of acca insurance, acca boosts and similar offer features. Each leg’s eligibility is checked separately. A Heinz whose six-fold would otherwise be disqualified is not disqualified as a single structure.

Regulation and the law in Great Britain

A Heinz bet is not a regulated structure. There is no statutory list of permitted bet types, and there is no statutory list of prohibited bet types either. What the Gambling Commission licenses is the operator, under categories of remote betting licence, and the operator then offers the structures it wants to offer under its own house rules and the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice.

For an operator serving customers in Great Britain, the requirement is a Gambling Commission licence at the point of consumption. Since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, an operator whose remote facilities are used in Great Britain needs a Commission licence wherever it is based; a Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute. Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005, as amended, is the offence provision aimed at operators providing gambling facilities in Great Britain without the licence the Act requires; on summary conviction the penalty is up to 51 weeks’ imprisonment, a fine up to level 5, or both, with six months in Scotland. No criminal offence targets the customer who merely bets on an unlicensed site.

Northern Ireland is outside the Gambling Act 2005 and has its own older law; a “Great Britain licence” or “GB-licensed” framing is correct, and a GB licence does not regulate Northern Ireland. The Commission’s public register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number and is the whole test of whether a brand holds a licence. Several brands can run under one licensee, for example Ladbrokes and Coral, or Paddy Power and Betfair, and that fact is invisible to the customer at the betting slip. Brands within a group share the licence but compete on offer, market depth and slip features.

The licence categories that matter for a Heinz

The relevant licence categories are remote general betting standard (real events), remote general betting standard (virtual events), remote general betting limited, remote pool betting and remote betting intermediary. A Heinz bet is a fixed-odds structure, so the relevant category is remote general betting standard (real events) for sports and pool betting for pool products. A Heinz built on real sporting events is offered under remote general betting standard (real events); a Heinz built on virtual events would sit under a separate virtual licence category. The licence type does not constrain the bet structure, only the event category.

Betting exchanges sit under remote betting intermediary and offer back and lay markets rather than fixed-odds Heinz structures. A Heinz is not a betting-exchange product in the ordinary sense; it is a fixed-odds structure that the bettor builds themselves against a sportsbook. Some exchanges offer similar functionality through “system bets” or “multiples” markets, but the legal category is different.

What the regulator does not do

The Gambling Commission does not approve or vet individual bet types. A bookmaker’s decision to offer a Heinz, a Lucky 15 or a Goliath is a commercial decision governed by the LCCP and the bookmaker’s own house rules. A new bet type can be launched without prior approval, and a bookmaker can withdraw an existing bet type at any time, with settled bets unaffected.

The Commission also does not approve prices, margins or specific offers. The margin on a Heinz’s six-fold is the product of six margins at the leg level, and the Commission’s role is to ensure the operator has the systems and controls to manage the risk of large payouts, not to set a price ceiling. A bookmaker paying out a 100,000/1 six-fold that landed for a £2 unit is paying the customer the booked price; there is no regulator-call on whether the price was correct.

Verification at the first deposit

Since 7 May 2019, name, address and date of birth are verified before a customer can deposit or gamble at a licensed site, including with a free bet or bonus. The verification is run against public-record databases and, where needed, document uploads. A Heinz bettor placing their first bet is not anonymous; the operator knows who is on the other side of the trade before a penny moves.

Safer gambling and what surrounds a Heinz

A Heinz is not a safer or riskier bet than an accumulator of the same size. It is the same six picks, with the same six-fold at the top and the same exposure to the chance all six land. The relevant facts for safer gambling are the structural ones: the bettor is putting 57 bets on at once, and each of those bets has its own minimum stake set by the betting slip. A bettor who does not want a £114 exposure should not be on a £2 Heinz.

GAMSTOP is the national multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme and a mandatory licence condition for online operators since 31 March 2020. Periods are six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal, and after the minimum period the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to remove it. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps; betting shops use a separate service. A bettor who has self-excluded through GAMSTOP cannot place a Heinz at any licensed operator.

A financial vulnerability check has applied to licensed remote betting since 30 August 2024 when a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days, with the deposits minus withdrawals rule in force since 28 February 2025. The check is a public-record check (bankruptcy or county court judgments, for example), not an income check and not a credit reference check. Financial risk assessments, the “affordability checks” of the press, are announced in a staged plan in a Commission article of 7 July 2026 with no confirmed start date. A bettor whose deposits exceed the trigger should expect a public-record check, not a request for payslips.

Deposit limits are an RTS requirement: operators must offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame, with the first changes applied since 31 October 2025 and a second phase postponed to 30 September 2026. Whether the second phase is live has not been confirmed. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling for betting; limits are the customer’s choice. A bettor on a Heinz is not subject to a regulator-set cap on the bet itself, only the customer’s own chosen limit on deposits.

Help is available outside the operators. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline; GambleAware funds treatment and education; the NHS runs gambling clinics; Gamblers Anonymous runs peer-support meetings. None of these is an operator or a regulator; they are the support infrastructure around licensed betting.

The risk shape of a Heinz in plain terms

The risk shape is dominated by the probability that all six legs land. With three legs at 1.50, two at 2.00 and one at 2.50 — to take the illustrative prices — the implied probability of each leg at those decimal prices is 66.7%, 50% and 40%, with the 1.50/1.50 pair at 66.7%/66.7%, the 2.00/2.00 pair at 50%/50%, and the single 2.50 leg at 40%. The implied probability of the six-fold is the product, which is 66.7%³ × 50%² × 40% = 4.4%. The actual probability is higher because the bookmaker’s margin is included in the implied probability, but the order of magnitude is the right one: a six-fold is a long-odds event even when the legs look short.

That is the central fact for anyone considering a Heinz. The structure is not a way to make a Heinz safer than an accumulator; it is a way to spread the bet across 57 lines so that the bettor gets some return on the days when five of the six land. A Heinz with one losing leg pays on 21 lines; an accumulator with one losing leg pays on nothing. The Heinz is a kinder failure mode, at the price of a much larger total stake for the same unit.

What a Heinz does not do for the bettor

A Heinz does not reduce the margin the bookmaker charges; it adds 56 more margin lines on top of the six-fold. A bookmaker’s margin on a six-fold is the product of six margins at the leg level; a Heinz’s effective margin over all 57 lines is a weighted average that pulls in more margin from the lower-priced multiples and less from the six-fold. The point is not that a Heinz is cheaper, it is that the bettor pays margin on 57 lines rather than one. The return structure is the bettor’s trade for the cost structure.

A Heinz does not improve the chance any individual pick lands. The bookmaker sets the price on each leg and that price stands whether the bettor backs the leg as a single, as part of a Heinz or as part of a Lucky 15. The structure is a way of combining bets that have already been priced; it is not a way of re-pricing them.

A Heinz does not insulate the bettor from bookmaker rules on void selections, Rule 4 deductions or non-runners. The bettor gets the same voids and the same deductions they would get on any other structure. The section on void selections earlier in the page sets out the collapse-to-next-multiple rule.

Bonuses, free bets and the Heinz

A Heinz is a natural fit for several common bookmaker offers, and a poor fit for others. The fit is set by the offer’s qualifying bet, the offer’s minimum odds, and the offer’s payout structure.

The Midnite sports welcome offer, for example, gives £25 in free bets and 50 free spins to new customers who bet £5 or more on pre-match odds of EVS (2.0) or greater within 14 days of sign-up, with the free bets valid for 7 days. A Heinz whose six-fold is at EVS or greater does not qualify on its own, because the offer’s minimum-odds rule applies to each leg rather than the combined price; each leg must be at EVS or greater. A Heinz whose legs are all at 1.50 would not qualify at the standard Midnite offer. A bettor who reads the small print can build a qualifying Heinz with five short-priced legs and one at 2/1 to lift the six-fold; the qualifier is per-leg.

The 888sport welcome structure and similar packages at other bookmakers use the same per-leg minimum-odds pattern. Where the offer’s qualifying bet is a £5 single at 1/2, a bettor who wants the offer’s free bets can build a £5 single as the qualifying bet and place the Heinz as a separate stake with the free bets later.

Free bets that pay only the winnings, not the stake

Free bets at licensed operators typically pay the winnings only, not the stake. A £10 free bet on a six-fold at 28.125 returns £10 × 28.125 = £281.25 in winnings, with no return of the £10 stake. The net profit on that single free bet line is £281.25, not £291.25. The stake is consumed by the bet. The same is true of free bets used on doubles, trebles and four-folds. The bettor should treat the stake as gone the moment the free bet is placed.

A Heinz built entirely from free bets is a 57-line bet where every line’s stake is the free bet unit, and the bettor never sees a stake return. The total expected return is the sum across the 57 lines, with the stake consumed on each. The “free” in “free bet” is a label rather than a description; the bettor is paying with the stake.

Acca insurance and acca boosts

Acca insurance refunds the stake as a free bet if one leg of a multiple lets the bet down, subject to the operator’s terms. BoyleSports Acca Insurance, for example, requires opt-in, a minimum stake of £5, minimum odds of 1/2 per leg and pays a maximum refund of £20 as a free bet that expires in 7 days; the qualifying bets must be placed and settled on the same day. The refund applies to the loss on the line, not the loss on the whole structure.

A Heinz that loses one leg does not pay out the acca-insurance refund on every other leg; the insurance applies to the bet as a whole, and the operator settles it as a single event. A bettor whose Heinz loses one leg gets a refund of the stake on the line affected by the loss, capped at the operator’s maximum refund, not a refund on every line in the structure.

Acca boosts, which increase the price of a multiple if all legs win, are paid on the winning line as a one-off enhancement, not as a structural change to the rest of the structure. A Heinz with an acca boost on the six-fold gets the boosted price on the six-fold line and the standard prices on the other 56 lines.

The bonus cap

Wagering requirements on bonuses are capped at 10x in Great Britain under the promotion rules in force since 19 January 2026. A £10 bonus at 50x wagering, which would require £500 of bets to clear, is no longer legal at licensed operators. The cap does not apply to free bets that carry no wagering condition, and the question of how it applies to free bets at all remains unsettled. A bettor who reads a bonus offer should check whether the wagering requirement is over the bonus only or over the bonus plus deposit, and whether the qualifying bets are restricted by minimum odds.

Mixed-product promotions, such as “bet on football to get free spins”, are banned. A bookmaker cannot run a Heinz that triggers a casino bonus at a licensed site. The bonus side of the offer is decoupled from the betting side.

What the bonus cap means for a Heinz bettor

The cap matters less for a Heinz than for a casino bonus because Heinz bets settle quickly and there is no wagering requirement on the winnings. The bettor’s exposure on a Heinz is the total stake, and the operator’s exposure is the maximum payout on the winning lines. There is no rollover on the win itself. A Heinz bettor who clears a sports bonus has cleared it in the same bet.

What does matter is the size of the bet. A Heinz at £2 per line is £114, which is a substantial stake for a £10 free-bet offer. A bettor with a £10 free bet who places a £2 Heinz from it is using the free bet on one line of 57; the other 56 lines are paid from real money. The structure does not match the offer’s product very well, and the bettor who wants to use the free bet on the Heinz as a single trade should use the free bet on one leg of the structure and the real money on the others.

Predictions, tips and what is sold as “system” betting

The honest reading of those terms is that “system” in “system bet” refers to the structure (Heinz, Yankee, Lucky 15 etc.), not to a betting system that wins. There is no betting system that turns a bookmaker’s margin into long-term profit, because every price carries the margin and the margin is the bookmaker’s edge. A Heinz is a structure, not a system. The structure offers a kinder failure mode than an accumulator at the cost of a much larger total stake; it is not a way to win.

Tipsters and prediction sites sell Heinz tips as sets of six picks they expect to land. The picks are typically priced as a package, and the bettor pays for the package and places the structure themselves. The picks are usually short-priced favourites on football, because the structure’s exposure to multiple-leg failures makes long-priced outsiders unattractive. The returns on a six-fold of short-priced favourites are modest in absolute terms, and the margin on each leg is the bookmaker’s margin, not the tipster’s.

A Heinz betting strategy, in the honest sense, is a staking strategy: the bettor chooses a unit, chooses a sport, chooses a market and chooses a selection of six picks. The strategy is the choice of unit relative to bankroll, the choice of sport relative to the bettor’s knowledge, and the choice of markets relative to the bookmaker’s depth. The strategy is not a way to predict outcomes more accurately.

What a Heinz does for a bettor’s bankroll

A Heinz bettor’s bankroll is exposed to the total stake on every bet, and the unit on a Heinz is the bettor’s lever on that exposure. A bettor who wants to keep the total stake at 1% of bankroll should set the unit at 1% of bankroll divided by 57. A bettor with a £1,000 bankroll who wants 1% exposure should place a Heinz at 17p per line, which costs £9.96 in total. A bettor who wants 2% exposure should set the unit at 35p per line, costing £19.95. The Heinz is a structure that rewards small units, because the total stake compounds fast.

The expected loss on a Heinz at the bookmaker’s margin is the margin times the total stake. With a 5% margin on each leg, the six-fold’s margin is roughly 26.5% over the round (1.05⁶ − 1 = 34%, but the calculation depends on the bookmaker’s pricing), and the bettor’s expected loss across the 57 lines is a weighted average. The page does not put a single figure on it; the calculation belongs to the bettor’s chosen legs.

The risk the marketing does not mention

The marketing that promotes Heinz tips usually focuses on the upside: the £2 bet that returns £2,000 on the six-fold. The downside is the £114 bet that returns nothing. The bookmaker’s marketing does not dwell on the second outcome, and the tipster’s marketing cannot afford to. A bettor who reads the marketing carefully should ask what the Heinz returns when one leg loses, when two legs lose, and when no legs land. The structure pays on partial wins; the question is whether the partial wins are large enough, given the total stake, to make the bet a positive expected value trade.

The honest answer is that no bet has positive expected value at a fixed-odds bookmaker, because the bookmaker’s margin is in every price. The expected loss is the margin times the stake. The bettor’s edge is the variance, which is the chance of a much larger payout than the average. The Heinz is a variance trade: the bettor is paying margin to get exposure to the upside of a six-fold.

Related bet types and where the Heinz sits

The full-cover family runs from the Trixie at 4 bets on 3 selections up to the Goliath at 247 bets on 8 selections. The Heinz at 57 bets on 6 selections sits in the middle of that family. Each structure is the same idea at a larger size: every possible multiple, no singles, one unit per line.

The Trixie on three picks gives 3 doubles and 1 treble. The Yankee on four picks gives 6 doubles, 4 trebles and 1 four-fold. The Lucky 15 on four picks is a Yankee with 4 singles added. The Lucky 31 on five picks is a Super Yankee with 5 singles added. The Lucky 63 on six picks is a Heinz with 6 singles added. The Super Heinz on seven picks gives 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 7 six-folds and 1 seven-fold. The Goliath on eight picks gives 28 doubles, 56 trebles, 70 four-folds, 56 five-folds, 28 six-folds, 8 seven-folds and 1 eight-fold.

The choice between them is the trade-off between total stake and exposure to a six-fold or higher. A Lucky 63 on six picks costs 63 units and includes six singles; a Heinz on six picks costs 57 units and excludes singles. The Lucky 63 is more expensive; it returns on the singles that the Heinz does not.

Full-cover bets with singles

Lucky 15, Lucky 31 and Lucky 63 add singles to the full-cover structure at the same number of selections. The singles pay on every individual selection that lands, regardless of the others, which adds a stable return component to a structure that is otherwise multiple-only. A Lucky 15 on four picks at £1 per unit costs £15, of which £4 are singles; a Yankee on four picks at £1 per unit costs £11. The £4 difference is the singles, which return on every winning leg.

The Lucky variants are useful when the bettor wants some return on a day when only one or two picks land. The full-cover variants without singles (Trixie, Yankee, Heinz, Super Heinz, Goliath) are useful when the bettor wants every line to require at least two winning legs.

The Canadian and Super Yankee

The Super Yankee, also called the Canadian, is a full-cover bet on five picks: 10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 four-folds and 1 five-fold, totalling 26 bets. It is between the Yankee and the Heinz, and some bookmakers price it under either name. A Super Yankee at £1 per unit costs £26.

The Super Yankee does not have the cultural resonance of the Heinz or the Yankee, and most bettors do not name it by name. It sits in the family between the two, and a bettor who wants five picks in a full-cover structure will use it.

The patent and the each-way variants

The Patent is a Trixie plus three singles: 7 bets on 3 selections. The each-way variants double every line into a win part and a place part. A Lucky 15 each-way at £1 per unit costs £30; a Yankee each-way at £1 per unit costs £22. The each-way variant is most often used in horse racing, where place terms pay out on selections that finish in the placings rather than win.

How a Heinz is placed and settled on a betting slip

A Heinz is built by selecting six kicks on the betting slip and pressing the Heinz button, which the slip uses to confirm that every combination of two or more kicks is included. The slip then displays the unit stake, the total stake (unit × 57), the maximum payout if all six win and the bonus line for free bets. The bettor confirms, the bet is placed, and the slip moves to “open bets” with the running return updating as each leg settles.

The slip may also offer a Lucky 63 button, which is the same six picks plus six singles, at the same unit. The slip may offer a Heinz each-way button, which doubles the total stake to 114 lines by adding the place part. The slip may offer a Super Heinz button, which is the same six picks plus a seventh, at the same unit. The slip is the bettor’s interface to the structure, and the structure is whatever the slip button says it is.

When a leg settles, the slip updates. When a leg voids, the slip updates to drop that leg from every line it appears in. When a leg loses, the slip returns zero on those lines. The final return is the sum across all 57 lines when all are settled; partial returns are visible at any point during the settling process. The slip is the bettor’s primary source of truth on the bet’s status.

What the slip does not show

The slip does not show the bookmaker’s margin on each leg. The price is the price; the margin is implicit. The bettor who wants to see the margin has to calculate it from the prices of the bets that face each other (a back-and-lay market on an exchange gives the cleanest margin estimate). A fixed-odds sportsbook slip does not.

The slip does not show the probability of each leg landing. The price is the price; the probability is implicit. The bettor who wants to see the probability has to invert the price (1 / decimal price, or implied probability), and that probability is the bookmaker’s implied probability, which includes the margin.

The slip does not show the expected return across the structure. The expected return is the sum of the prices times the probability of each line landing. The calculation belongs to the bettor, not to the slip.

When the slip is wrong

The slip can be wrong on a void selection, on a Rule 4 deduction, on a non-runner and on an abandoned event. The bookmaker’s house rules set out how each is handled. A Heinz bettor who spots a slip error should query it with the operator’s customer service, ideally before the bet is fully settled, because the operator’s adjustment is more readily applied to an open bet than to a settled one.

The slip is also wrong when the bookmaker has withdrawn a market mid-event, which happens occasionally in-play. The bet settles at the price at the time of withdrawal, or voids, depending on the house rule. A Heinz that includes a withdrawn market is settled as if the market had voided, which collapses the affected lines to the next lowest multiple.

The ten bookmakers reviewed

The table below summarizes the key details for the featured operators.

The ten brands below are holders of a Gambling Commission remote licence for fixed-odds betting in Great Britain. The reviews are written from the brands’ own published terms and from their apps and sites. None of the brands is described as “the only” licensed operator, and the order is editorial rather than regulatory. The Heinz bet is offered as a structure at all ten.

Midnite

Midnite holds Gambling Commission account 101839 and lists in-play events, an acca builder, popular accas and price boosts with maximum-stake limits. The site’s sports welcome offer gives £25 in free bets and 50 free spins to new customers who bet £5 or more on pre-match odds of EVS (2.0) or greater within 14 days of sign-up, with the free bets valid for 7 days. This brand’s Heinz layout includes the acca builder as a same-game-multi option. The bettor gets the structure, the in-play depth, the acca-builder option and the welcome offer, with the standard per-leg minimum-odds rule on the offer. This setup suits modern app users.

Smarkets

Smarkets holds Gambling Commission account 39173 and operates as a betting exchange under remote betting intermediary. The exchange applies a standard commission of 2% on eligible exchange bets, and new customers have been offered 0% commission for 60 days with a minimum first deposit of £10. The Heinz structure is not a fixed-odds exchange product in the ordinary sense; a bettor who wants a Heinz on Smarkets uses the exchange’s “system” or “multiple” markets where available, or uses a fixed-odds sportsbook. The exchange’s edge is the commission rather than the margin, and the bettor’s edge is the ability to lay as well as back. The Heinz bettor at Smarkets is using the exchange for the legs, not for the structure.

888sport

888sport offers pre-match and in-play betting, Cash Out, Bet Builder, racing streams, BetFinder form tools, a live bet feed and daily boosted odds. The Heinz structure is available alongside the Bet Builder and the boosted odds. The bettor gets the depth of in-play, the racing streams for horse racing Heinz selections and the boosted odds on the singles they might want to add. It is a comprehensive sportsbook choice.

BoyleSports

BoyleSports offers Acca Insurance that requires opt-in, a minimum stake of £5, minimum odds of 1/2 and pays a maximum refund of £20 as a free bet that expires in 7 days; bets must be placed and settled on the same day. The Heinz structure is available, and the acca insurance applies to multiples that meet the terms. The bettor who wants acca insurance on a Heinz should check the per-leg minimum odds and the per-day settlement rule; the offer is generous but strictly capped. BoyleSports provides a solid platform for this structure if the terms are met.

William Hill

William Hill pays Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing from 8 AM on the day of the race, on both single and multiple bets; it does not apply to ante-post, tote or pari-mutuel bets. The Heinz structure is available, and the BOG applies to the horse racing legs of the Heinz where they qualify. The bettor who wants BOG on a horse racing Heinz gets it on each qualifying leg, with the BOG replacing the price at settlement if the starting price is higher. It remains a reliable choice for racing bettors who favour Heinz combinations.

LiveScore Bet

LiveScore Bet’s Bet Builder allows up to 10 selections and covers match result, both teams to score, corners, total goals, player scoring and card markets. The Heinz structure is available, and the Bet Builder is a separate structure that sits alongside it rather than as part of it. A Heinz that includes a Bet Builder leg uses the Bet Builder price for that leg, which is a single price rather than a combination of legs. This operator offers distinct variety for such bets.

Betboro

Betboro offers in-play markets and cash-out on football, racing and tennis, boosted odds on selected singles from £10 stakes, and responsible gambling tools (deposit limits, reality checks, self-exclusion). The Heinz structure is available, and the cash-out applies to the structure as a whole where the operator’s cash-out model supports it. It provides good in-play flexibility for this bet type.

Spreadex

Spreadex is regulated by the FCA for spread betting and by the Gambling Commission for fixed-odds betting, and states that spread betting losses can exceed the deposit. The brand’s new customer offer is £60 in free bets for a £10 fixed-odds bet, with the free bets usable across fixed odds and spread betting; the qualifying bet must be placed within 28 days of opening the account. The Heinz structure is available on the fixed-odds side of the slip; the spread betting side does not offer a Heinz in the same form. It is a unique hybrid experience.

Lottoland

Lottoland’s UK app combines casino, lottery betting, sports betting and scratchcards, and states it is licensed by the Gambling Commission for customers in Great Britain. The Heinz structure is offered on the sportsbook side of the app, and the other products sit alongside it. The bettor who wants a Heinz at Lottoland uses the sportsbook and gets the other products as separate features. The mixed-product promotions that bundle betting with casino are banned under the January 2026 rules, so a Heinz bettor cannot trigger a casino bonus through a sports bet.

Paddy Power

Paddy Power offers Bet Builder+, Popular Bet Builders, Super Sub (a bet rolls over to the replacement if a selected player is substituted), expanded Win More markets and player and ACCA stats. The Heinz structure is available, and the Bet Builder+ and Super Sub are separate structures. The Super Sub feature is a useful add-on for a Heinz bettor who backs football, because the substitution rule means a Heinz with a player-prop leg does not lose the leg if the player is substituted. This feature significantly enhances player-prop depth.

Frequently asked questions

What is a super heinz bet?

A Super Heinz is a full-cover bet on seven selections with no singles, totalling 120 bets: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 6 six-folds and 1 seven-fold. It is the next structure up from the Heinz at 57 bets on six selections. The total stake at a £1 unit is £120; at a £2 unit it is £240. The structure settles the same way a Heinz does, with each leg required to land on its multiple and the bet dropping to the next lowest multiple on voids.

What is a heinz bet?

A Heinz is a full-cover bet on six selections with no singles, totalling 57 bets: 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and 1 six-fold. A natural fit for bettors who want several picks at once with some return when only a subset lands. The total stake is the unit times 57. The structure is offered at licensed fixed-odds sportsbooks in Great Britain and is part of a family that runs from the Trixie at 4 bets up to the Goliath at 247.

How many bets in a super heinz?

A Super Heinz has 120 bets: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 four-folds, 21 five-folds, 6 six-folds and 1 seven-fold. The seven selections are combined in every possible multiple of two or more, with no singles in the structure. The total stake at any unit is the unit times 120. The seven-fold at the top is the long-odds line that pays out if all seven land, and the lower multiples give partial returns when some legs do not.

How can it be checked that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

The Commission’s public register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number. The register lists the licence category, the account number and the trading name; the Commission’s register is the whole test of whether a brand holds a licence. A bettor who wants to confirm a brand holds a remote general betting standard (real events) licence should search the brand’s domain on the register and confirm the licence category matches the bet type. Several brands can run under one licensee, so the licensee and the trading brand may not be the same name.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

The return on a winning bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. Net profit is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds minus 1. For a combination bet, the leg odds multiply into a single price. A Heinz on the same six picks returns the sum of the winning lines at the unit stake.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?

The bookmaker’s margin is the slice of every pound staked that the bookmaker keeps on average across a market. The margin is built into every price, so a fair coin toss at 2.00 each side would have a 100% payout share and a 0% margin; a bookmaker’s coin-toss market at 1.91 each side has a 95% payout share and a 5% margin. The margin is the bettor’s expected loss over many bets at those prices. For a six-fold with three legs at 1.50, two at 2.00 and one at 2.50, the margin compounds across the six legs and is the bettor’s cost of the structure.

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