Asian handicap
Asian handicap — a handicap market that removes the draw by refunding stakes when the adjusted score is level.
An Asian handicap gives one side a head start in goals or points. Whole-number lines can push and return the stake; half lines cannot push; quarter lines split the stake across the two neighbouring lines, producing half-win and half-loss outcomes.
a bet at −0.75 = half the stake at −0.5 + half the stake at −1.0Why it matters: removing the draw turns a three-way market into a two-way one, and two-way markets carry less bookmaker margin. On the same fixture a book may run 5% on 1X2 and 2.5% on the Asian line.
Common mistake: weighting half-win and half-loss states at full value in expected-value arithmetic. They pay half, so they must count half — otherwise both sides of the same quarter line can appear to be losing bets, which is impossible.
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