Advanced Dutching Calculator

Dutching is a straightforward concept in betting where you back multiple selections to cover various outcomes and secure a guaranteed profit, regardless of the winner.

Unlike traditional betting, where you’re aiming to pick a single winner, Dutching flips the approach. You decide how much profit you want, spread your bets across several outcomes, and win the same amount, no matter which selection comes out on top.

Bet Angels’ Advanced Ducthing takes the concept to whole new level!

Key concept

Bet Angel’s Advanced Dutching is an enhanced version of the traditional Dutching strategy, giving users more control and flexibility in how they structure their bets. The key concept is that it allows you to target a specific profit, not just across multiple selections, but with more customisation options, including:

Targeting a Specific Profit or Liability: You can define exactly how much profit you want or set a specific liability (the maximum amount you’re willing to lose), and Bet Angel calculates the stakes required across all selections accordingly.
Variable Profit Distribution: Unlike traditional Dutching, which aims for an equal profit on all selections, Advanced Dutching lets you adjust how much you want to win on each outcome. You can increase the potential profit on certain runners while reducing it on others.
Automation and Fast Calculation: Bet Angel’s software allows for real-time adjustments and quick calculations, saving time and ensuring precision, especially in fast-moving markets.
Margin Maker: You can modify your Dutching strategy to get matched at odds inplay, creating whole new betting strategies.

Overall, Bet Angel’s Advanced Dutching takes the simplicity of Dutching and elevates it, providing traders with tools to optimise their betting strategy according to market dynamics and personal risk preferences.

How would you use Dutching?

Imagine in horse racing your looking at a competitive handicap race with twenty-plus runners, all roughly similarly weighted and with many at the front of the betting all priced at similar odds. Trying to pick a winner is almost an impossible puzzle to solve from a betting perspective.

By Dutching you can simplify the problem, instead of worrying about picking a single runner to win, you can now say ‘I expect any one of these four, five or six selections to win’, making your task of profiting so much easier and far likelier than trying to find a winner by picking a single selection.

It is also a very popular method among Soccer traders with many opting to Dutch the correct score market for the same reasons as above it allows you to cover multiple selections or in this case score lines. For example, you may feel the away side will sneak a win but don’t have any idea what the actual score might be so may opt to cover a few and dutch the 0-1, 0-2 and 1-2 scores, this again increases the chances you winning as any of these scores will now return and equal profit. Much easier than trying to pick a specific score.

Bet Angel Dutching Calculator

The first thing you’re probably thinking now is that’s all fine and good but how do I work out what stakes to place so that I get an equal profit on the selections I choose and how long will this take?

The Bet Angel Dutching calculator is intuitive and easy to use.

The process could not be made simpler, all you need do is set your stake then tick the selections/runners you wish to Dutch, you can take the current back price at the current available decimal odds or ask for your own price and wait to see if someone is willing to take it or do a mixture of both, then click ‘Place Bet’ and job done. Bet Angel will work out all the total stakes required for the prices asked for to return an equal profit on the selections chosen.

In the image below I’ve chosen to use a £100 stake and dutched the front 4 runners in this race taking the current back price for each. In the stake column (2nd from right) you can see the stakes which have been calculated by Bet Angel for each runner. If any of the 4 runners I have dutched win I will make a profit of £62.17

If none of the 4 runners win then I will lose my £100 stake, you can see this by looking at the figures in the predicted profit column.

Bet Angel’s Advanced Dutching

What I’ve covered here is just the bare basics of what’s possible with the Bet Angel Dutching tool. For starters, as you can see in the image there are three different staking methods to choose from and each of these open up additional options like the ability to set margin percentages on selection.

Or if you opt to dutch to a target potential profit it’s also possible to go even further and override the profits of individual selections, this is known as advanced Dutching or variable Dutching. It works by carefully varying the stake on each selection. Check out our feature on the Advanced dutching tool on this blog post. It’s only since betting exchanges came about that you could do these sort of advanced calculations at the touch of a button. You just need to keep an eye on the amount staked and whether you feel that represents a value bet.

This is one of my favourite ways of using the Bet Angel Dutching tool and is worth reading up on that if you want to take your Dutching betting strategy to a much higher level.

Learn more

For additional help with the Advanced Dutching calculator, visit the user guide