Online Formula 1 Betting in Great Britain for 2026: A Season-Long Read of the Bookmakers, the Rules and the Margin

Updated October 2026

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A British punter who opens a betting site on race morning is met by a market that has spent twenty-five years hardening into a recognisable shape: licensed bookmakers, fractional odds by default, in-running markets during the Grand Prix, a “Best Odds Guaranteed” headline on the racing page, and a free bet tucked behind a small “Promotions” tab. Formula 1 is one of the smaller sports on those menus compared to football and horse racing, but the season is long — 23 Grands Prix across 11 teams from Melbourne on 8 March 2026 to Abu Dhabi on 6 December 2026 — and the betting calendar runs in parallel with it. This page is a working read of that market as it stands: what a Gambling Commission licence means, what the new rules on bonuses and vulnerability checks cost the reader, what the 2026 calendar looks like in practice, and how the ten licensed bookmakers compared below stack up against each other on terms the operator itself publishes.

The data current as of 27 October 2026 was checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register. The season facts and the calendar were verified against the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship entry on Wikipedia. Odds, payment options and welcome terms reflect the named operator’s own pages as of the same date.

Apps, Handsets and the Browser — How F1 Markets Sit on a Phone

A punter who bets on Formula 1 is rarely in front of a desktop once the lights go out. The session starts on a bus to work on a Friday morning, looking at practice times to set a qualifying market, and ends on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon with the race in a small window and a bet builder open in another. Both moments matter, and both run through the same pipe: a phone, an app, sometimes a mobile browser. Whether that pipe is a native app downloaded from the App Store or a responsive website in Safari or Chrome is the difference between a tap-to-confirm bet and a finger-thick slider that wobbles while the safety car comes in.

The native app has the edge on three things that F1 punting actually uses. The first is push notification: a price boost on a fast-qualifier, a confirmed non-runner before lights out, a suspended market message — all of these arrive faster than a tab refresh. The second is biometric login: Face ID or a fingerprint at the bet slip is the difference between a one-handed bet on a moving train and a four-tap re-entry. The third is in-play latency: the bet builder on a wet race is a live bet on the next lap, and the time from “I see it” to “I have it” is the margin the punter keeps or loses. The trade-off is that an app needs a download, an update, and a 200-megabyte footprint on the phone for an event that is on screen for two hours a week.

The browser, by contrast, lives where the punter already is. A responsive F1 lobby should match the desktop’s race-weekend structure: practice markets early in the week, qualifying on Saturday, race and fastest-lap on Sunday, drivers’ and constructors’ championships running across the calendar. A punter who bets only on Sunday afternoons does not need a native app, and a browser carries nothing on the home screen that the family can see. What matters in the browser is whether the bet slip holds its state when the screen sleeps for thirty seconds in a meeting — a thing the better responsive sites handle, and a thing the worse ones do not.

In-running on the phone is its own sub-topic. F1 has never been a stop-start sport, so live betting is a small share of the menu at most shops: race winner at the next safety car, fastest lap at the chequered flag, head-to-head between the two front-runners on the next stint. The reader who wants to react to Verstappen pitting under the virtual safety car wants the price to update inside two seconds of the broadcast feed. Some apps quote a latency on the bet receipt; others do not, and the difference shows up as a rejected bet at the moment it mattered.

A practical checklist before locking the choice: a downloaded app means biometric login and push notifications, but eats storage and asks the punter to update it before every race weekend; the mobile browser means zero storage and no update, but accepts whatever latency the live feed carries; either is fine for Saturday-afternoon qualifying betting, neither is comfortable for in-play lap-by-lap punting without a test. The ten bookmakers reviewed further down cover both routes; the question is which one a reader uses on which day.

Forecast, Bankroll and Analytic — The Working Stance for F1 Predictions

A punter looking for “predictions” on Formula 1 is, in practice, looking for one of three things: a name to back in the race-winner market, a probability to compare against the price, or a system that produces picks automatically. None of these is what the marketing wants the word “predictions” to mean. The honest reading of the word is a probability — a number between 0 and 1 that the driver wins — and every other use of it is a marketing decoration around the same idea.

The bankroll frame is the most useful starting point, because it is the only one the punter controls. F1 has roughly twenty race weekends a year, and the temptation is to bet every one of them. A working bankroll rule is the opposite: bet no more than one to two per cent of the bank on a single race outcome, and no more than five to ten per cent across a race weekend’s accumulator. A punter who bets £10 of a £200 bank on every race has lost the bank by mid-season under any model that loses more often than it wins, and the model does not need to be wrong often. The arithmetic: a 5% margin over 23 races on a 1% bankroll stake is a £23 loss on a £200 bank, which is one bad Saturday and one bad Sunday away from wiped.

Where the prediction actually comes from is the harder question, and it is one the punter has to answer themselves. Three inputs are useful for F1 and rarely all present at once. Pace data from practice and qualifying carries signal when the circuit is stable and noise when it rains. Track history on circuits that have not been resurfaced carries signal at Monaco and Singapore, less at the new venues. The bookmaker’s own market, in the form of the prices it quotes, carries signal because the bookmaker has paid for a quant team and is paying for the closing line. A punter who lays an outsider at 80.0 once and the same driver at 1.2 the next race is being told something by the market; the trick is to listen to the closing line, not the opening one.

The analytic moves that pay in F1 specifically — and pay here means lose less than the margin, never beat the market outright — are: betting constructors’ championship match markets early when a team upgrade is pre-announced, holding off on race-winner markets until after qualifying when the grid is set, and treating the fastest-lap market as a separate event from the race result. The reason fastest-lap is separate is that the leader laps ten seconds clear and the trailing cars fight over a different metric; the price on it often carries less margin than the race-winner price and so loses the punter less per unit bet. None of these moves turns a losing bankroll into a winning one. What they do is slow the bleed.

A useful self-test before any F1 bet: what is the price I am laying in decimal, what probability does that imply (1 divided by the price), and what is my own probability? If the punter’s own probability is below the implied one, the bet is a price play; if it is above, the bet is a value play and the punter is betting against the market. Both are fine, but a punter who cannot name which one they are doing has not decided yet.

The Ten Licensed Bookmakers — A Side-by-Side Comparison

The table below is the operative comparison on this page. Every row is a brand whose remote licence is on the Gambling Commission’s public register for Great Britain; every cell carries what the operator’s own terms state, not what an affiliate site claims. The columns are licence number and holder, the F1-relevant product detail the operator publishes, and the welcome-offer shape that the operator’s site or app describes as of the same date. Where a brand does not publish a detail the column lists, the cell carries the no-data marker.

The spread of the table is itself a finding. Three of the ten brands — Tote, William Hill and LiveScore Bet — publish no welcome offer on the pages checked. Two of them — Spreadex and Hollywoodbets — publish a free-bet shape built around a losing bet, not a winning one, which is the marketing language for a stake-returned-as-free-bet and not a cash refund. QuinnBet publishes the most detailed restrictions of any brand in the table: a 7-day life, a 1/2 minimum odds, a 50/1 maximum, and an explicit ban on Trixies, Patents and Yankees. A punter who reads only the headline price on a QuinnBet free bet has missed the binding rule, which is the maximum-odds ceiling.

Betboro sits in a different shape: it is the only operator in the table whose published terms describe its own safer-gambling tools in the same breath as its product features. That is a small thing on paper but it tells the reader where the operator sees the responsibility sitting. The two operators whose licence holders are themselves Gibraltar-based — LiveScore Betting and Gaming (Gibraltar) Limited and QuinnBet (Gibraltar) Limited — point to the common pattern of GB-facing brands being run from a jurisdiction the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 was written to capture: a Commission licence wherever the operator is based.

What the Table Does Not Show

Three things the table does not carry are worth naming in prose because they are not visible in any one cell.

The first is the racing-product specialism. Tote and William Hill both publish Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing, which is a horse-racing promotion, not an F1 one. A punter betting only on Formula 1 does not benefit from it on a Sunday afternoon; a punter who bets on both sports benefits twice. The same brand-pair publishes no F1-specific promotion on the pages checked, which is a fair reflection of the wider market: F1 is rarely promoted directly, because the racing calendar does not lend itself to a price boost on a single race the way a Saturday afternoon Premier League game does.

The second is the licensing chain. Several of the ten brands run under a single parent. BetUK sits under LeoVegas Gaming PLC; William Hill sits under WHG (International) Limited; LiveScore Bet sits under a Gibraltar-based holding company; QuinnBet likewise. This matters at complaint time, because the address a dispute is sent to is the licence holder’s, not the brand’s. A punter who has never read the small print on the licence holder has never read the small print at all.

The third is the payment layer. The only brand in the table whose terms publish a payment-method list in detail is LiveScore Bet: debit cards (Visa and Mastercard), Apple Pay, PayPal, Pay by Bank (Open Banking) and Revolut Pay. The other nine do not publish that detail at the level a punter can check before signing up, which means the punter checks it on the deposit page itself. That is normal for the market, but it is the kind of thing that surprises a first-time punter who assumed every brand takes every method.

The Landscape, Plainly

The bookmaker that earns its place on this list is not the bookmaker that publishes the longest welcome offer. It is the bookmaker whose published terms match how the punter actually bets. The way the table sits: the racing-specialist pair (Tote, William Hill) suits a horse-racing-first punter who dabbles in F1; the Gibraltar pair (LiveScore Bet, QuinnBet) suits a punter who already has a wallet set up with one of them and is willing to use the other as a price-comparison shop; the wide product pair (Hollywoodbets, Betboro) suits a punter who wants the same app for football, racing and F1; the bundle pair (BetUK, NetBet) suits a punter who reads the bonus small print carefully before claiming; and the two specialists at the edges (Spreadex, Geoff Banks) suit the reader who already knows what they want from them. None of those pairings is a recommendation. They are groupings; the choice sits with the punter.

What Online Formula 1 Betting Is — The Fundamentals

The word “betting” covers a wider market on a Formula 1 weekend than the headline race-winner price suggests. The standard menu at a licensed bookmaker in Great Britain runs from Friday’s practice markets through to Sunday’s constructors’ championship outright, and the punter who treats F1 as a one-race Saturday-and-Sunday affair has missed the slow entries. Outright markets on the drivers’ and constructors’ championships open in pre-season and stay open until the title is mathematically settled, which on a competitive season is late October and on a runaway is September. The price on Max Verstappen in March is a different price from the price on Verstappen in October, and a punter who bets in March is betting on a season-long probability, not a race result.

Race-weekend markets sit in three layers. Pre-race markets open days ahead and include race winner, podium, points finish, fastest lap, retirement, and head-to-head match-ups between two named drivers. Qualifying markets open once the circuit goes green and run through Q1, Q2 and Q3 with prices tightening as the grid sets. In-race markets are the smallest slice, because F1 is hard to stop and the safety car is the only natural break: race winner at the next safety car, head-to-head on the next stint, fastest lap at the chequered flag. A bookmaker that prices all three layers is the bookmaker that has paid for a quant team; a bookmaker that prices only the pre-race layer is the bookmaker that resells a feed.

The bet types are the standard British set: single, double, treble and accumulator (the “acca”). Each-way bets apply to outrights and to markets with a place element, not to a Saturday qualifying market. The bet builder — a same-race combination the punter constructs themselves, such as Verstappen to win and fastest lap — is now standard on F1 race weekends, with instant dynamic odds on the slip. The price on a bet builder carries more margin than the price on each leg separately, and the punter who notices that has read the small print on the bet builder without reading the small print.

The 2026 season has its own characteristics that the betting market reflects. Six sprint events — China, Miami, Canada, Britain, Netherlands and Singapore — sit on the calendar and produce a separate sprint race-winner market and a separate sprint qualifying market. The technical regulations have been rewritten: the MGU-H has been removed, MGU-K output has risen from 160 bhp to 470 bhp (350 kW), and DRS has been replaced by active aerodynamics. The team cost cap has risen from $135M to $215M. None of these rules is a market in itself, but all three shape the prices: a regulatory reset is a moment when last season’s data is worth less and this season’s data has not yet accumulated, which is the moment the market is widest and the moment a value punter is most exposed to a noisy estimate.

The bookmaker’s margin sits inside every one of these prices. For the F1 race-winner market at twenty drivers the margin is typically four to six per cent of turnover, higher than a two-way football result, and that margin is what the punter loses on average for every unit staked. It does not matter which driver wins; the four-to-six per cent is what the bookmaker keeps. The calculation further down the page works through a worked example on a two-way market at 1.90 / 1.90 to show the arithmetic on a simpler shape.

On the 2026 Calendar

The Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park, Melbourne opened the season on 8 March 2026. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit is scheduled to close it on 6 December 2026. Twenty-three Grands Prix sit between them across 11 teams; the original schedule named 24 races before the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was cancelled. Six of the 23 are sprint weekends. Lando Norris enters the season as the reigning Drivers’ Champion. A punter betting on a drivers’ championship outright is betting on a season-long probability, not a race result, and the price reflects that: a championship leader at the front of the field is a shorter price than a driver who leads the championship after three rounds, and a driver who leads after ten rounds is shorter still.

Statute, Jurisdiction and Enforcement — The Licence, the Cap, the Identity Check

A bookmaker taking bets from a customer in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence wherever the operator is based. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 closed the loophole that had let overseas-licensed operators serve British customers without a British licence, and sections 33 and 36 of the Gambling Act 2005 (as amended) now make providing gambling facilities in Great Britain without the licence the Act requires a criminal offence — aimed at the operator. A Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute; a Gibraltar-registered company is welcome to apply for a Commission licence, and most of the larger ones have done so, but the licence it holds at the British end is the Commission licence, not the Gibraltar one. Northern Ireland sits outside the Gambling Act 2005 and is governed by older legislation, so a GB licence does not regulate Northern Ireland.

The Commission’s public register is the whole test of who holds a licence. It can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number. Every brand in the comparison table above has been checked against that register; every licence number, holder and category named in the table is taken from a register entry as of the same date. A punter who wants to re-check the licence a brand holds searches the register by the domain or by the licence holder’s name and reads the categories the register lists.

The categories on a remote betting licence are specific. A brand that holds “remote general betting standard (real events)” can offer markets on real sporting events, including Formula 1. A brand that holds only “remote general betting standard (virtual events)” cannot, because virtual events are a separate category. A brand that holds a “betting intermediary” licence runs an exchange, not a traditional book. A punter who wants F1 markets needs to read the categories on the licence, not just confirm the licence exists.

The minimum age is 18. Identity is verified before the first deposit or first bet — name, address and date of birth, with a credit-card-funded payment through an e-wallet also caught by the credit-card ban. The verification rule has been in force since 7 May 2019, and a free bet or a bonus triggers it too. There is no anonymous play at a licensed site.

GAMSTOP is a mandatory licence condition for online operators and has been 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. Every GB-licensed online operator takes part in GAMSTOP.

A financial vulnerability check applies to licensed remote betting when a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days. The check is a public-record check (for example bankruptcy or county court judgments), not an income check and not a credit reference check. It is in force from 30 August 2024 and the £150 trigger has been in force from 28 February 2025. A punter whose net deposits cross that threshold should expect a check.

Financial risk assessments (the “affordability checks” of the press) were announced by the Commission in a staged plan published on 7 July 2026. No start date has been set. The rule to write is “announced, staged, no start date”, not “in force”. A punter betting in Great Britain today has not yet been asked for a payslip at a licensed shop, and writing that they have would be a false claim about the market as of this date.

Deposit limits are an obligation on the operator. Operators must offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame; the first changes have applied since 31 October 2025, and a second phase was postponed to 30 September 2026. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling for betting; the limits are the customer’s choice within the menu the operator offers.

Bonuses and promotions are capped. Wagering requirements on bonuses are capped at 10x: a £10 bonus at 50x needed £500 of qualifying stakes; under the cap no more than £100 is required. Mixed-product promotions — an offer that requires gambling on two or more product types, for example “bet on football to get free spins” — are banned. The rule has been in force since 19 January 2026. Whether the cap applies to free bets with no wagering condition, and any cap on the money value of a bonus, are not established and are not claimed here.

Advertising is not licensed by the Commission. The CAP Code (non-broadcast) and BCAP Code (broadcast) are enforced by the ASA. The CAP Code section 16 rule on who may appear in a gambling advertisement — no one who is or seems to be under 25 may feature or play a significant role — concerns who may appear in the advertisement, not who may bet.

Tax on winnings: the British player pays no tax on betting winnings in Great Britain. General Betting Duty is the operator’s tax on gross profits, currently 15%; from 1 April 2027 a new remote betting rate of 25% applies within it, while remote bets on UK horse racing, bets on self-service betting terminals in licensed premises, pool betting and in-person betting stay at 15%. Whether operators pass duty on through odds is not established. Spread betting has its own rates (3% financial, 10% other).

Payment rules at a licensed site are mostly operator-led, with two state rules. Credit cards are banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020 — a credit-card-funded payment through an e-wallet is also caught. Debit cards and bank-based payments are not. Whether cryptocurrency deposits are accepted is set by each operator’s own terms.

The honest framing of the offshore market: a GB licence is compulsory at the point of consumption. A customer betting on an unlicensed site is not committing an offence aimed at the customer that was found in the law reviewed; what the customer loses is the protection — no GAMSTOP coverage, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution body, no British consumer redress if funds are withheld, no binding by the 10x bonus cap, no binding by the £150 vulnerability check. Enforcement is disruption, not blocking: cease-and-desist notices, search-engine referrals, work with registrars, hosts and payment providers; the Commission has been given, or is about to receive, court-order DNS blocking powers. ISP blocking is not in operation as a general rule.

The Margin, Worked Through

The bookmaker’s margin is what the bookmaker keeps of every unit bet on a market. A worked example on a two-way market at decimal odds of 1.90 / 1.90 — not a quoted price, an example — illustrates the shape. The payout share of the market is 1 divided by the sum of the reciprocals of the prices: 1 ÷ (1 ÷ 1.90 + 1 ÷ 1.90), which is 1 ÷ (0.5263 + 0.5263), or 1 ÷ 1.0526, which is 0.95. The margin is 1 minus the payout share, or 5%. On every £100 staked across both outcomes at these prices the bookmaker keeps £5 on average; the rest is paid back as winnings.

A two-way market at 1.90 / 1.90 is a tight market by F1 standards; a tighter market is rare, and a looser one is normal. The F1 race-winner market at twenty drivers carries a margin of around four to six per cent as a typical figure for a major bookmaker, with the looser end on smaller shops and the tighter end on the closing market at the front of the grid. The honest framing: the margin is what the punter pays for the service, it is the same number on every bet on the market, and it is what the punter loses on average for every unit staked regardless of which outcome wins.

The point of the calculation is the relationship between price and probability. A decimal price of 1.90 implies a probability of 1 ÷ 1.90, or about 52.6%. The implied probabilities on both sides of a 1.90 / 1.90 market sum to 105.3%; the gap to 100% is the margin. A punter who lays a 1.90 bet needs a true probability above 52.6% to make the bet a value play; a punter who lays a 1.50 bet needs a true probability above 66.7%. The implication is the starting point of every value judgement on the slip, and the margin is what makes the starting point higher than the true probability needs to be.

Safeguards, Counselling and the Help That Is There

A licensed bookmaker in Great Britain is required to offer the safer-gambling tools below, and most of them publish their toolset in the footer or in a “Responsible Gambling” link at the bottom of the site. A punter who has not seen the menu has not looked. The menu at a typical licensed shop: deposit limits (daily, weekly or monthly), time-out (a short self-exclusion of twenty-four hours to six weeks), product restrictions (block casino while keeping sports betting open), self-exclusion (six months to five years), and reality checks (a popup after a chosen duration on the site).

The national scheme is GAMSTOP, free and a single registration. The punter registers with name, address and date of birth, and every GB-licensed online operator is bound by the exclusion. Betting shops use a separate service. The punter who has self-excluded through GAMSTOP cannot open a new account at any licensed online shop during the period, which is the point of the scheme.

Help is free and confidential. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline (0808 8020 133, daily, 8 AM to midnight); the website offers live chat, online support groups and a self-help toolkit. GambleAware funds treatment and research across Great Britain. NHS gambling clinics run in several regions. Gamblers Anonymous runs peer-support meetings in person and online. A punter who has read this far and is asking whether to seek help is the punter who should. The number is above; the call is free.

What a Licensed Site Stops You From Doing — And What It Does Not

The licensed-shop menu is broader than the marketing makes it sound. A licensed bookmaker is required to verify identity before the first deposit, which means no anonymous play. A licensed bookmaker is required to take part in GAMSTOP, which means a self-excluded punter cannot open a new account. A licensed bookmaker is required to apply a financial vulnerability check at £150 net deposits in 30 days, which means a heavier punter should expect a public-record check. A licensed bookmaker is required to cap bonus wagering at 10x, which means a 50x bonus cannot be offered. A licensed bookmaker is required to ban credit cards, which means a punter cannot fund a bet with a credit card or credit-card-funded e-wallet.

What a licensed bookmaker does not do: set a state deposit or loss ceiling; verify a payslip before the first bet; offer a guaranteed win. The licensed product is the regulated product, not the safe product; the offshore product is the unregulated product, not the unsafe product by definition. The licensed product is the product that comes with the protections and the restrictions above.

The One Trade-Off the Reader Should Make Explicit

The trade-off is the shape of the British market. A licensed shop verifies identity before the first deposit — which is the inconvenient verification for a punter who values anonymity. A licensed shop caps bonus wagering at 10x — which is the smaller bonus for a punter who values a bigger headline. A licensed shop applies a financial vulnerability check at £150 net deposits — which is the additional check for a punter who values lighter onboarding. The trade-off in reverse: an offshore shop takes a punt without any of these checks, accepts a credit card, offers a 50x bonus, and pays no tax. What an offshore shop does not offer is the protection if the operator withholds funds. The reader who weighs the trade-off without dismissing either side is the reader who has read the small print.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you place a Formula 1 bet online?

Open an account at a bookmaker licensed by the Gambling Commission for customers in Great Britain. Verify your name, address and date of birth before the first deposit (a licence condition). Browse the F1 lobby for the race-weekend or championship market, add a selection to the bet slip, enter the stake and confirm. A free bet or a bonus triggers the same verification. The minimum age is 18; the deposit is from a debit card or bank-based payment because credit cards are banned for gambling.

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. Every brand in the comparison table above has been checked against that register; every licence number, holder and category named in the table is taken from a register entry as of the same date. A punter who wants to re-check searches by the domain and reads the categories the register lists. A brand whose domain does not appear on the register, or whose categories on the register do not include remote general betting standard (real events), is not licensed to take F1 bets in Great Britain.

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

For a single bet, the return is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds; the net profit is the stake multiplied by (odds minus 1). A £10 stake at decimal odds of 6.00 returns £60 and pays £50 in profit. For a combination bet (a double, treble or accumulator) the odds of the legs multiply into one price, and the same formula applies. The stake is not returned with a free bet unless the operator’s own terms state it, and most free-bet stakes are not.

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

The margin is what the bookmaker keeps of every unit bet on a market. The implied probability of a decimal price is 1 divided by the price; the sum of the implied probabilities across all outcomes of a market is greater than 100% and the gap is the margin. On a two-way market at decimal odds of 1.90 / 1.90 the implied probabilities sum to 105.3%, the payout share is 95.0%, and the margin is 5.0%. The margin is what the punter pays for the service on average.

How do fractional odds such as 5/1 convert to decimal odds such as 6.00?

A fractional price a/b in decimal form is a divided by b plus 1. Fractional 5/1 is 5 divided by 1 plus 1, which is 6.00; fractional 11/4 is 11 divided by 4 plus 1, which is 3.75; “evens” or 1/1 is 1 divided by 1 plus 1, which is 2.00. The return on a bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal price; the profit is the stake multiplied by the fractional first number divided by the fractional second number. A £10 stake at 5/1 returns £60 and yields £50 in profit.

Which tools for controlling play does a licensed bookmaker have to offer?

A licensed remote bookmaker must offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame, time-out, product restrictions, self-exclusion and reality checks; it must take part in GAMSTOP for periods of six months to five years with auto-renewal; and it must apply a public-record financial vulnerability check at £150 net deposits in a rolling 30 days. The punter can also self-exclude through GAMSTOP across every licensed online operator at once. Help is free through GamCare (National Gambling Helpline 0808 8020 133), GambleAware, NHS gambling clinics and Gamblers Anonymous.

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