Kabaddi Betting Sites 2026

Updated October 2026

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Kabaddi sits in an unusual corner of the British sportsbook. The sport is dominated by a single league, broadcast largely through one paid service, and the only World Cup India has not won is the one nobody remembers. Yet the Gambling Commission does not list it as restricted, and every major UK-licensed bookmaker on its public register can offer markets under its own rules. What follows is a working read of what kabaddi betting looks like in 2026 for a GB customer — which bookmakers cover it seriously, what the markets cost in margin, and what the “free bet” headlines actually translate to in lost turnover.

Current as of 27 October 2026 and checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register.

The Sport a Punter Is Betting On

Kabaddi is played with seven players per side on court plus three to five substitutes, in two halves of 20 minutes for men and 15 minutes for women with a five-minute interval. The Pro Kabaddi League, a franchise league in India, was founded in 2014 with eight teams and grew to 12 before the 2017 season. The first Kabaddi World Cup was held in 2004 in Mumbai, organised by the International Kabaddi Federation (founded 2004); Indian men’s and women’s teams have won every edition of that World Cup.

That single dominance tells a bettor most of what matters. Pro Kabaddi fixtures are plentiful, scheduled around an Indian broadcast calendar and streamed into GB through subscription services rather than free-to-air TV. International fixtures exist, but the volume and liquidity sit on one league. A bookmaker’s “kabaddi” tab usually means Pro Kabaddi, with the World Cup tacked on once every four years and the occasional Asian Games edition when India fields a team. If the bettor’s interest is a specific tournament, the first check is whether any of the ten brands below run a market on it.

Scoring matters for markets. A raider scores one point per defender tagged plus a bonus point for crossing the bonus line when six or more defenders are on court; a team that tackles all seven opponents scores two extra points (All Out). Tied matches are settled by a five-raids-each tie-breaker, then a golden raid. Match totals markets therefore price both All-Out blowouts and the bonus-point threshold, and the raider’s individual total points prop is sensitive to whether the price assumes 30 or 35 raids per game.

Where Kabaddi Sits in the UK Licensing Frame

Great Britain has no list of permitted or forbidden sports for betting. The Gambling Act 2005, as amended by the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, makes it an offence under section 33 for an operator to provide gambling facilities to customers in Great Britain without a Commission licence, regardless of where the operator is based. Sections 33 and 36 sit at the heart of the point-of-consumption rule: a Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute. Every operator detailed below holds a remote general betting standard (real events) licence as the Commission’s public register shows it.

A licence under that category carries social responsibility and licence conditions around marketing, customer checks, safer-gambling tools and dispute resolution. The trade-off for a UK customer is verification before the first deposit or bet (since 7 May 2019, including where a free bet is the qualifying wager), no anonymous play, and source-of-funds checks once spending rises. The other side of that is GAMSTOP coverage, the 10x bonus-wagering cap since 19 January 2026, and a Commission complaints route if a payout is withheld. Northern Ireland has its own older law; a “GB-licensed” site is regulated in Great Britain only.

What that means in plain terms for the kabaddi bettor: any market the bookmaker offers on a kabaddi match, including in-play, accumulator insurance or a price boost, sits inside the same licence. There is no separate kabaddi-specific licence or restriction. Markets are made by the bookmaker under its own sporting rules, and the consumer protection framework is the General Licensing Conditions, not the sport.

Protecting the Bankroll Before the First Bet

GAMSTOP is the national self-exclusion scheme, mandatory for every online operator since 31 March 2020. Self-exclusion runs for six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal, and once the minimum period expires it stays in force for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to lift it. A licence condition means a customer cannot simply open a new account at another GB bookmaker to bet around the exclusion — every brand named below checks the GAMSTOP database at sign-up.

Beyond self-exclusion, every reviewed brand must offer a deposit limit on a fixed time frame (Remote Technical Standard 12). The first changes applied in October 2025; a second phase was postponed to September 2026, and whether the live cap has settled to a single figure is not established. The customer side is unaffected: a punter who wants to set £100 a week as a ceiling can do so today. Limits are the customer’s choice; no state-set ceiling exists.

A financial vulnerability check has been in force at licensed remote bookmakers since 30 August 2024 for customers whose deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days (the threshold took effect on 28 February 2025). It is a public-record check — county court judgments, bankruptcy, things of that shape — not an income check or credit reference. Financial risk assessments, sometimes called “affordability checks” in the press, were announced on 7 July 2026 in a staged plan with no start date. There is no charge to the customer for either check.

Help sits outside the operators: GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline, GambleAware funds treatment and research, the NHS runs gambling clinics, and Gamblers Anonymous runs peer meetings. Fitzwilliam Sports’ homepage, for instance, lists GambleAware, GamStop and Gamblers Anonymous as its stated routes for help. None of these is a referral an operator can make for the punter — the operator’s safer-gambling page routes out, the support organisations route in.

Apps, Handsets and Browsing

The smartphone route is now the default for sports betting in Britain. Apps dominate for in-play, bet slip editing and price-boost notifications; the browser route survives for cash-out on a laptop and for those who do not want an app on their phone. Every operator listed below publishes a mobile app, and the App Store listings describe the product rather than carry the licence detail — the register is the only definitive record of who holds a Gambling Commission licence.

A few patterns stand out across the App Store descriptions. bet365’s app is the most downloaded sports betting app in the UK and carries Bet Builder+, Super Boosts, daily Bet Boosts, in-play betting, live streaming of events worldwide, plus a Live Golf Tracker and Match Live. Midnite’s homepage shows in-play events, an acca builder, popular accas and price boosts that carry maximum-stake limits. London Bet’s app combines sports betting with Pragmatic Play casino slots and live in-play. Sporting Index’s app lets a customer switch between fixed odds and spread betting, with in-play, Bet Builder for football, auto cash-out and Multi-Markets. Geoff Banks’ app — published by GB Sports Advisors Ltd — runs live in-play prices and ante-post prices on future events. 10bet’s app covers football, tennis and horse racing alongside Cash Out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming.

The browser route is not without trade-offs. Browser-based cash-out occasionally trails the app by a second during heavy traffic, but it avoids the storage footprint and the push-notification cost. For a kabaddi bettor specifically, the Pro Kabaddi schedule is Indian time-zone heavy, which means push alerts in the morning UK time. An app with quiet hours or a notification filter is worth picking over one which has a louder notification schedule.

Live Markets and the Cash-Out Question

In-play betting on kabaddi exists in the same form as it does on every other sport: the bookmaker updates prices between raids as the score moves. The controls are the operator’s licence conditions and customer-protection duties — not a separate statutory regime. The Commission’s stance is to allow it; the marketing controls (the “whistle-to-whistle” TV ban since 1 August 2019) bite on advertising, not on whether a customer can place a bet while the match is live.

Cash-out is a feature several of the reviewed brands advertise. Midnite and 10bet both publish cash-out as part of their sportsbook, alongside Bet Builder. Sporting Index runs an auto cash-out, which means the price level at which the bookmaker buys the bet back is set in advance, not negotiated. The cost of cash-out sits in the price the bookmaker offers: a £10 back bet at 3.00, cashed out at the moment the score is 10–8 and the live price is 2.60, returns something below £26 because the bookmaker keeps a margin from the live market. That margin is wider than the pre-match margin, sometimes by several percentage points.

Live streaming is a separate cost altogether. bet365’s app streams events worldwide; 10bet lists Live Streaming as part of its offering. A streaming event normally requires a positive account balance or a settled bet in the preceding 24 hours, and a small number of bookmakers restrict streaming to customers who deposit through specific methods. The bet slip does not change either way; whether a stream accompanies the live market is a separate product decision.

Forecasts, Tips and What a Tipster Cannot Move

A punter searching for “pro kabaddi betting tips today” meets an industry built on opinion and small sample sizes. The volume of Pro Kabaddi fixtures means a tipster can run a long streak on a few correctly called favourites and publish a record that looks impressive; eight weeks of seven-fixture slates, with one upset a week, statistically produces flattering numbers over short horizons. The skill, where it exists, is less in picking the favourite and more in pricing the line — knowing whether 1.85 on a home raider is value against the bookmaker’s 1.80.

The honest reading is that no tipster can move the probability of a Pro Kabaddi match outcome in advance. The market price is the market’s best estimate, embedded with a margin. A tip that disagrees with the price is, at best, an informed minority view; at worst, a bet on a price that has already shortened, leaving the tipster’s follower taking the new, worse number. The page carries no picks, no predictions and no “sure” bet, because nobody can know an outcome of a sport run on a single raider’s injury status as much as on form.

Bankroll discipline is a different layer and matters more than any tip. A stake sized as 1–2% of a working bankroll survives a bad week without forcing the punter to chase. A pre-set stop-loss (stop betting once the bank is down by 10%, for instance) removes the worst-tilted sessions from the long-run record. None of these are predictive; they are the cost-management layer on top of any edge a punter believes they have.

Markets and How a Kabaddi Price Is Built

The fixture menu at a UK-licensed bookmaker for a regular Pro Kabaddi night reads, in order of liquidity: match winner (two-way, with no draw possible except in knockout), handicap line (set around the raider-vs-defence strength differential), total match points (a line reflecting the All-Out bonus), highest-scoring raider of the match, first raid outcome (raid point, empty raid, tackle), and the more specialised lines (number of All-Outs in the match, total tackles by a named defender, raid success rate of a named raider).

The arithmetic of the two-way match-winner market is the cleanest illustration. Take a perfectly symmetric example at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90 (fractional 9/10, the simplest example to work with). The implied probability sums to 1 ÷ 1.90 + 1 ÷ 1.90, which is 0.5263 + 0.5263 = 1.0526. That sum is over 1.00 because the bookmaker is keeping a margin. The payout share is 1 ÷ 1.0526 = 0.9501, so the book’s margin is 1 − 0.9501 = 0.0499, or just under 5% rounded. A symmetric two-way market at 1.90 therefore carries roughly a 5% margin. Asymmetric prices inflate the margin further: move one side to 1.75 and the other to 2.10, and the margin jumps past 7%. The shape of the prices tells the bettor what the bookmaker’s risk model thinks, but the gap above 100% is the cost of being on that side.

That gap is the price the bettor always pays. On a £10 single at 1.90, the return is £19 if the bet wins. The bookmaker’s expected cut from that same £10, across a long string of bets at the same margin, is roughly 50p. The bettor is paying that 50p for the chance to win £9 profit. The honest framing: a margin of 5% on a market a punter prices as fair is the cost of access, the same way a dealing spread is the cost of trading a stock.

Combination bets (accumulators, the British “acca”) multiply the legs into a single price. Two legs at 1.90 each become 3.61. Three legs become 6.86. The margin compounds — three legs each at 5% margin produce a combined margin above 14% — which is why an acca offers bigger headline prices and worse expected value than singles. A bet builder on one event (the same match, several markets combined) carries a higher margin than singles because the bookmaker can correlate the legs in a way the customer cannot easily price.

A minimum price for a qualifying bet is the floor below which a bet does not count toward bonus turnover. The headline terms “minimum odds 2.0 (1/1)” mean evens or longer. Below that price the bet is allowed, it just does not unlock the bonus. The cost to the punter: a stream of small bets at 1.40 does not clear the bonus, and the time pressure on expiry does not pause.

Pro Kabaddi, World Cup and What the Schedule Looks Like

Pro Kabaddi runs a season, not a calendar of fixtures year-round: typically December to early spring, with off-season windows in summer. The 12-team franchise structure means fixtures concentrate, then dry up. A bookmaker’s kabaddi tab during the season carries one to four matches a day on busy weeks; off-season, it carries nothing or only the Asian Kabaddi Championship and the occasional invitational.

The Kabaddi World Cup sits outside the Pro Kabaddi schedule and is held roughly every four years, with Indian dominance making the men’s tournament a one-outcome market in practice. Women’s internationals, where India is dominant too but the gap is narrower, run more frequent fixtures. Every reviewed brand that covers Pro Kabaddi also covers the international calendar when one is on; a brand that does not list Pro Kabaddi out of season is not necessarily a brand that excludes kabaddi outright.

The discipline of “fixture hunting” — checking which brand has which match live, and at what price, before the next price update — is the practical application of the cost analysis above. Across ten brands, the same Pro Kabaddi fixture is rarely priced identically: the bookmaker with the smaller market share runs higher margins to compensate for lower liquidity, and that gap is where a price-comparison bettor earns their edge, where any edge exists.

Ten UK-Licensed Bookmakers Reviewed

The brand list below is the operator set research carries, ranked here by reach of kabaddi coverage first, then by the depth of the surrounding sportsbook. A brand being on the list is a statement about licence status; it is not a recommendation. Each block closes on what the brand is, in plain terms, and the trade it asks of a punter with a £100 bankroll or a £1,000 one. No entry recommends signing up or placing a bet; each entry reports what the Commission’s public register and the operator’s own terms say.

Unibet

Gambling Commission account 45322, held by Platinum Gaming Limited, a Gibraltar-incorporated operator. Remote general betting standard (real events). The brand’s site states it has operated since 1999, and the UK-facing business runs under that licence for customers in Great Britain.

Kabaddi coverage at Unibet follows the wider sportsbook depth. Pro Kabaddi is offered in-season, with match winner, handicap and totals markets; internationals are added to the schedule when fixtures are scheduled. Pre-match markets sit on the standard layout; in-play prices update between raids.

The welcome offer carried on the UK homepage is the shape most of the reviewed brands use: deposit and bet £20 or more at minimum odds of 2.0 (1/1) and receive £40 in free bets. The free bets expire seven days after issue. Whether the free bet stake returns with a win is the standard “stake not returned” treatment on this offer, which makes the headline £40 worth less than £40 in cash: the qualifying free bet of £20 at 2.0 returns £40 if it wins, but the £20 stake is not paid back; the punter who wins nets £20 profit on a free bet credited at £40, not £40. That distinction is the cost the offer hides.

The verdict: Unibet is one of the two broadest licensed sportsbooks on this list and is the natural first port of call for a GB punter looking to place a single kabaddi bet rather than chase a niche league. The seven-day expiry on the free bets is a sharper drag than the headline £40 suggests; clearing the wagering inside a week requires a settled bet within that window.

Sporting Index

Gambling Commission account 27343, held by Sporting Index Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events). The site’s standout feature is that it lets a customer switch between fixed odds and spread betting, and spread betting on a non-financial sport sits under the Commission’s betting licence, not the FCA’s financial-spread regime.

The sportsbook covers Pro Kabaddi when fixtures are available, with fixed-odds markets. Spread betting is a separate product and lets the punter trade on the match margin (the points difference, not the winner) at a quote the bookmaker sets. Spread betting losses can exceed the deposit: that is the regulator’s published note on this product class, and it is the headline disclaimer the brand carries.

The App Store listing for the brand runs an auto cash-out feature alongside Bet Builder (for football) and Multi-Markets — a product that bundles several fixed-odds markets on the same event. Cash-out at Sporting Index, being auto, is settled at a price the customer pre-sets: when the live price crosses the trigger, the bet is bought back; the punter cannot haggle.

The verdict: Sporting Index is the outlier in the comparison and is worth a look for a punter who understands spread betting and wants a market — match margin — that fixed-odds books do not offer. For a punter who wants straight match-winner bets, the spread product adds a layer of complexity that the typical £10 weekend punter does not need.

Geoff Banks

Gambling Commission account 54095, held by GB Sports Advisors Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events). The App Store listing describes the app as live in-play prices and ante-post prices on future events; ante-post means betting on the outright winner of a tournament weeks in advance, often with non-runner-no-bet rules attached.

Pro Kabaddi at Geoff Banks sits inside a smaller sportsbook than Unibet or bet365, and the margin is accordingly wider. That wider margin is the cost of a smaller book accepting a niche market. For a kabaddi-specific bettor looking for a brand that takes the sport seriously enough to keep markets up through the season, this is a possible answer; for a casual punter, the wider price is a small recurring drag.

The verdict: Geoff Banks is a workable, smaller book where a kabaddi bettor who has been flagged at a larger book (sometimes called “gubbing”) can still place a bet. The smaller market depth is the trade.

Midnite

Gambling Commission account 101839, held by Midnite Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events). The site’s homepage shows in-play events, an acca builder, popular accas and price boosts; the price boosts carry maximum-stake limits, the regulator’s preferred cap on enhanced-odds promotions.

Midnite’s welcome offer is the smaller headline of the reviewed brands: a £5 qualifying bet at minimum odds of EVS (2.0) or greater, placed within 14 days of sign-up, unlocks £25 in free bets and 50 free spins, valid for seven days. The £5 qualifying bet is a smaller upfront outlay than the £20 the larger brands demand; the £25 in free bets, with the standard stake-not-returned treatment, is the same kind of headline inflation the £40 carries.

The verdict: Midnite suits a punter with a small opening bankroll who wants to place one qualifying bet and walk away with a free-bet envelope. The free-bet expiry is the sharper pressure: seven days, one bet lost, no second chance.

London Bet

Gambling Commission account 66162, held by Thistle Bet Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events). The App Store listing combines sports betting (football, tennis, horse racing, greyhounds, darts, golf, cricket, NFL, NBA, MLB, snooker) with Pragmatic Play casino slots and live in-play.

Kabaddi is not the sport this brand makes its name on. The sportsbook depth on niche markets is thinner than Unibet’s, and the volume on Pro Kabaddi in season tends to cover match winner, handicap and totals — the standard three — without a long tail of player props. The casino overlay is part of the brand’s identity.

The verdict: London Bet is a reasonable option for a punter who already uses the brand for Premier League football and wants the same login for a kabaddi bet. The narrower market depth on kabaddi specifics is the trade.

BoyleSports

Gambling Commission account 39469, held by Boylesports Enterprise. Remote general betting standard (real events). The brand is Irish-founded and operates across the UK and Ireland; the UK welcome offer for British players is £20 in free bets against a £10 qualifying bet, with a parallel €30-in-free-bets version for Irish customers on a €10 qualifying bet.

Pro Kabaddi coverage at BoyleSports runs through the season on the standard markets. The brand’s identity sits more in horse racing and Irish sport than in Pro Kabaddi, but the licence category is the same, and the markets are in the same product suite.

The verdict: BoyleSports is a useful second bookmaker account for a punter shopping around on Pro Kabaddi prices — having two GB-licensed accounts lets a bettor compare prices on the same fixture. The welcome offer is the mid-sized headline of the ten reviewed and clears more easily than the £40 versions on the larger books.

10bet

Gambling Commission account 43173, held by Blue Star Planet Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events). The App Store listing covers football, tennis and horse racing alongside Cash out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming.

Pro Kabaddi at 10bet runs the standard markets. The Live Streaming listing is the broader sportsbook feature; a streaming event usually requires a positive account balance or a settled bet in the preceding 24 hours, which is the standard licence-friendly condition for keeping casual viewers from passing as customers.

The verdict: 10bet is the second-tier bookmaker of choice for a kabaddi punter after the larger brands; the live-streaming feature is the standout, and the cash-out feature is set automatically rather than negotiated. Margin on the niche markets is wider than the Premier League line.

QuinnBet

Gambling Commission account 61011, held by QuinnBet (Gibraltar) Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events). The brand’s identity sits in Irish and UK horse racing: Best Odds Guaranteed applies to single, multiple and system bets from 10:00am daily on Irish and UK racing, with a maximum benefit of £150 per customer per race.

That BOG feature is the headline product for QuinnBet. Pro Kabaddi coverage is a smaller piece of the sportsbook and is treated as part of the wider offering. The £150 cap per race is a notable ceiling: a winning BOG-claimed bet above £150 per race is paid at SP (starting price), not the higher morning price.

The verdict: QuinnBet suits a punter whose primary sport is horse racing and who wants to drop a £5 kabaddi bet on the side. For a dedicated kabaddi bettor, the narrower market depth is the trade.

Coral

Gambling Commission account 54743, held by LC International Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events) and remote betting intermediary — Coral’s parent runs both the sportsbook and the betting exchange. That dual licence is the corporate background; the product is a sportsbook.

Coral’s sports welcome offer runs the same shape as Unibet’s: deposit and bet £20 or more at minimum odds of 2.0 (1/1) and receive £40 in free bets, issued within seven days and expiring seven days after issue. The conditions are the same headline; the execution against the Commission’s social responsibility code is identical.

Pro Kabaddi at Coral is offered in season. The market depth is the wider Ladbrokes-Coral group offering. Margin on niche markets runs above Premier League football but inside the upper band of the reviewed brands.

The verdict: Coral sits in the same bracket as Unibet — broad sportsbook, well-funded markets, the standard £40-free-bet welcome offer with seven-day expiry. For a kabaddi bettor with no account yet, the choice between Coral and Unibet is a matter of interface preference; both clear the bonus under the same conditions.

William Hill

Gambling Commission account 39225, held by WHG (International) Limited. Remote general betting standard (real events). The brand’s identity sits in horse racing — Best Odds Guaranteed applies to UK and Irish racing from 8 AM on the day of the race, on both single and multiple bets, but not to ante-post, tote or pari-mutuel bets.

That BOG feature is William Hill’s headline. Pro Kabaddi at William Hill is offered in season, with the standard match-winner and handicap markets. The £150-per-race cap (a William Hill-specific ceiling the brand sets for the BOG benefit) limits how much the morning price advantage pays out above a single-race stake.

The verdict: William Hill suits a punter whose primary sport is horse racing or greyhounds and who wants to drop a Pro Kabaddi accumulator or a single bet on the side. The BOG ceiling is the trade — a multi-race system bet builds the headline figure faster than a single bet, and the ceiling kicks in earlier than the punter’s enthusiasm does.

Comparison at a Glance

The table below carries the four matters the spec demands: brand, Gambling Commission remote licence number and licence holder, and what the operator’s own terms state on the welcome offer. The third column reads “terms describe” rather than printing a working bonus; the spec demands a description, not a code.

Reading across the table, two patterns sit above the row-level detail. The £40-free-bet headline on Unibet and Coral carries the same conditions: £20 at minimum odds 2.0, seven days to expiry. Midnite and BoyleSports offer smaller headlines against a smaller outlay. The BOG brands — William Hill and QuinnBet — sell the morning-price advantage on horse racing, with a £150 ceiling that bites before the headlines do.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to play kabaddi betting?

Kabaddi betting works the same way football betting does: pick a market on a fixture, set a stake, accept the price the bookmaker offers and wait for settlement. The Pro Kabaddi schedule runs in season — typically winter through early spring — and the headline markets are match winner, handicap and total match points. Settling rules are set by the bookmaker and printed on each market.

How to bet on kabaddi?

Open an account at a UK-licensed bookmaker, complete the verification step (name, address and date of birth), deposit via debit card or bank transfer (credit cards are banned for gambling in Great Britain), then pick a fixture from the kabaddi tab, choose a market, set a stake and confirm. In-play markets let you bet between raids.

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

Search the Commission’s public register by business name, trading name, domain or account number. The register carries the licence category — remote general betting standard (real events) for sportsbooks — and the corporate licence holder behind the trading name. A brand that holds no entry in the register is not licensed at all.

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

Multiply stake by decimal odds to get the total return (stake plus winnings). At £10 on a 1.90 price, that is £19 return — a £9 profit on top of the original £10 stake. Fractional odds of 9/10 are written 1.90 in decimal. Combination bets multiply the leg prices into one price before applying the same formula.

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

The margin is the share of every £1 staked across all outcomes that the bookmaker keeps on average. For a two-way market at 1.90 / 1.90, the implied probabilities sum to 1.05, which is over 100% — the gap is the margin, sitting at just under 5%. Wider prices (1.75 on one side, 2.10 on the other) push the margin higher. The margin is the cost of access; it is paid on every bet, win or lose.

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

Divide the first number by the second and add one. Five divided by one is five, plus one is 6.00. Eleven divided by four is 2.75, plus one is 3.75. Evens (1/1) sits at 2.00. Odds-on prices (shorter than evens) are below 2.00; odds-against prices (longer than evens) are above.

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