Dutching Guide
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What is Dutching
Dutching is an Advanced Matched Betting method where you use multiple back bets to cover all of the outcomes for an event. Instead of using an Exchange to Lay the Outcome, you simply Back all other Outcomes.
Usually in matched betting you would Lay the Bet on an Exchange, but another option is to only use Back Bets. For example, you could bet on Liverpool to Win, Aston Villa to Win and Liverpool to Draw with Aston Villa.
For Dutching on a football match outcome you would need to place 3 Separate bets.
To know what stake to use for each bet, and how much you will profit, you need to use a Dutching Calculator. We have put one further down in this guide, but you should also check out Our Dutching Calculator Page where you can also find a full calculator tutorial.
Why would you do Dutching in Matched Betting
You might wonder why you would ever use Dutching when its much easier to place Lay Bets on Exchanges like Smarkets.
However, there are some situations where there is an opportunity to make a profit, but you can only do it using Dutching.
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Rule differences between the Bookmakers and the Exchange - This could cause you to lose both the Back Bet and the Lay Bet, an example would be different retirement rules in tennis.
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No Market at the Exchange - This means you actually can't Lay the Bet at all, and this may happen when you are doing a more obscure bet, typically from a Price Boost. Dutching may help you to cover the outcomes.
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Not enough Liquidity to Lay - Some Lay Bets may require a large amount of liquidity if the odds are high, meaning you would need a large bankroll, and a lot of money in your Smarkets/Exchange account. You could cover the outcomes using Dutching and this would require less bankroll all in one account.
How to Use Dutching in Matched Betting
1) Find a Dutching Opportunity
Find an event where the Arbitrage Percentage is Under 100%.
To Receive Alerts for Dutching opportunities you should Join Our Discord Community where members send in Alerts for all kinds of Matched Betting opportunities, including events that can be dutched.
If you are using Dutching to guarantee profit from a Free Bet, you probably won't need to check the Arbitrage Percentage, as you will already be making a good profit so it wouldn't be worth it.
If you are Dutching the Result of a football match, you will need to place 3 Bets:
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Back Bet on the Home Team to Win on one Bookmaker.
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Back Bet on the Away Team to Win on another Bookmaker.
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Back Bet on a Draw on a third Bookmaker.
You could also do other events such as Over/Under markets:
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Back Bet on Harry Kane Over 3.5 Shots on Target on one Bookmaker.
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Back Bet on Harry Kane Under 3.5 Shots on Target on another Bookmaker.
Or you could do a completely different sport, like tennis, there are many options for Dutching a Free Bet.
If you are Not Dutching with a Free Bet, and instead you are using a Price Boost or Arbitraging then you can Calculate the Arbitrage Percentage to see if it is profitable.
To Calculate the Arbitrage Percentage Manually you can find out about The Maths of Calculating the Arbitrage Percentage further down on this guide, but you can also just fill the Odds into Our Dutching Calculator below and see how much you stand to profit.
2) Use a Dutching Calculator
Choose the Target, which is either First Selection or Total Stake. This means you are either entering the Back Stake of the First Selection, or Entering the Total Stake that you are going to place on all bets.
You will usually be Targeting the First Selection, so you should select this, then enter the Stake for the First Selection, and then select the number of selections e.g. 3 for a Football Result, 2 for a Tennis Match.
If you are targeting the First Selection, you should choose either Standard Bet or Free Bet. Next, fill out all of the odds for each selection, alongside any possible Commissions.
Our Dutching Calculator then tells you What Stake to Place on Each Selection, your Total Stake, and of course how much you will Profit.
Dutching Info
First Selection
Second Selection
Third Selection
Fourth Selection
Fifth Selection
Profit
Log Your Bet
3) Place Your Bets
After typing everything in you should have the Details of your bet, including what Stake you need to place for each outcome, using this you should place all of your bets.
You should make sure all of the Odds are the same as in the Calculator and make sure each Back Bet for each outcome is on a different bookmaker.
4) Log Your Bet
Come back to the Calculator after placing all of your Bets and Click 'Log Bet'. All details of the Bet will be automatically saved to your Profit Tracker using the information in the Calculator.
If you want to Record which bookmakers you used for Each Selection you can use the Description Box to record this.
5) Sit Back and Relax
When Dutching, you make the same profit no matter what outcome happens, meaning you can sit back and relax knowing how much Profit you have made from the event before it even starts.
You can go to your Profit Tracker and Click the Checkmark to confirm the Bet is finished, the profit will be automatically added to your Total Profit.
How to Calculate the Arbitrage Dutching Percentage
To know if you can profit by Dutching the event, you need to find the arbitrage percentage.
If the Arbitrage Percentage is Under 100% then you can profit by Dutching the Event.
Calculate the Arbitrage Percentage with Our Dutching Calculator or Follow the Maths Below.
1) Whether there are 2, 3 or More Outcomes Possible for an event, you take all of the Back Odds for ALL of the Outcomes and Calculate their inverse. This is 1 divided by the Decimal Odds.
2) Now you will have 2, 3 or More Decimal numbers, depending on how many Outcomes there are. The next step is to add them all together.
3) Once you have added it all together simply multiply this number by 100 and you have the Arbitrage percentage, and if this is Under 100% you can profit. The further below 100% the more you profit.
In the Example above, with Odds of 2.50 and 2.0 for the 2 outcomes, we get an Arbitrage Percentage of 90%. This means we can make a Guaranteed Profit by betting on both sides.
If Both Teams Score in the Match, We Win. If Both Teams Don't Score We Win. There are no other possible outcomes, even if the game is abandoned, this would count as Both Teams Not Scoring.
Dutching Bet Example
Imagine we find an opportunity to Dutch the outcome of the Man City Vs Bayern Munich game.
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The Odds for Man City to Win are 3.0 on Bet365.
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The Odds for A Draw Between Man City and Bayern Munich are 3.0 on Skybet.
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The Odds for Bayern Munich to Win are 4.0 on Paddy Power.
We decide to Dutch this event, and we start with a £50 Back Bet on Man City with Bet365 at 3.0 odds.
You can Click the Button Above to add these Details to the Dutching Calculator on this page. We Select 3 Legs since there are 3 different Outcomes, and we fill in the Odds for Each Outcome in order 3.0, 3.0, 4.0
Then, we make sure we are Targeting 'First Selection' and we select 'Standard Bet'.
We enter £50 into the First Selection Stake as this is the Stake we will place on Man City to Win (which is our first selection).
Now the calculator tells us to do the following:
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Place our initial £50 Bet on Man City with Bet365 at 3.0 Odds.
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Place a £50 Bet on A Draw Between Man City and Bayern Munich with Skybet at 3.0 Odds.
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Place a £37.50 Bet on Bayern Munich with Paddy Power at Odds of 4.0.
The Calculator Also tells us that we will Guarantee a £12.50 Profit no matter what happens. So if Man City Win, They Draw, or if Bayern Munich Win, we don't care (unless you're a fan) as we will definitely make £12.50.
The Game Ends and Bayern Munich Win, so we make £12.50 (obviously) but lets break down how.
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On Bet365 - We had £50 on Man City, so we Lose £50
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On Skybet - We had £50 on a Draw and they didn't Draw so we Lose £50
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On Paddy Power - We had £37.50 on Bayern Munich at 4.0, so they return £150 meaning we Profit £112.50
£112.50 - £50 - £50 = £12.50 Aggregate Profit.
This is an Example of Dutching a Football match, where there are 3 possible Outcomes. Hopefully you now understand how this process works, and how you might do it with other events.
How to Track your Dutching Bets
You can record everything on a spreadsheet, however, you might find this time consuming, so we added a 'Log Bet' Button to Our Dutching Calculator which allows you to automatically log the bet and save all of the details.
You can use the Bookmaker Dropdown to select the bookmaker involved, the Date box to record which date the event is on, and the Description Box to add details such as which event it actually is and any additional bookmakers.
You will then be able to find all of your Bets in Your Profit Tracker, where your overall profits are automatically recorded after ticking off each bet.
If you are logging a bet directly from a calculator, the bet will have a 'Show in Calculator' Button next to it. If you click this button it will bring you back to the calculator, with all of the details already typed in. If the odds have changed slightly, you can change them in the calculator and then click 'Update Bet' where 'Log Bet' used to be.
Do You Have to Use Different Bookmakers for Each Bet when Dutching
Yes, you must use different bookmakers for each Back Bet that you place on an event.
This is extremely important because if you are consistently betting on multiple sides of the same event, on the same bookmaker, they will eventually ban your account as they will know that you are a matched bettor.
It might be tempting to just place all bets on one bookmaker if you are trying to extract profit as quickly as possible from a free bet, but this is definitely not worth it, since it is obvious to the bookmaker that you are a calculated bettor.
Being Banned or 'Gubbed' From your Account, particularly if it is with one of the large bookmakers above, will limit your matched betting profitability significantly.
We suggest you only do Arbitrage Dutching with smaller bookmakers.
Can You Do Dutching on a Horse Race
Yes, you can Dutch a Horse Race, but it will be quite difficult. If you are doing a Race of 8 or More Runners you will need a lot of bookmakers to Back each horse on, and a lot of bankroll for the Bet.
Even Dutching a Race of 6 Runners will need a lot of Bankroll and organisation, so we certainly don't recommend it, unless it is the only way possible to cover all of the outcomes.
This might occur because you have a free bet to use on a race, but no possible way of laying your selection on that race. It might be easier to just 'punt' the free bet, where you simply place the bet and hope the selection wins. This is obviously just gambling the free bet, as you don't guarantee a profit, but in the long run it shouldn't matter.
If your free bet can only be used on a particular race, and you can't lay any market on the race, instead of betting on every horse, you could find other markets on that race with less possible outcomes to have to bet on.
Will The Bookmaker Ban You For Dutching Bets?
Bookmakers often pay close attention to betting patterns, and will pick up on unusual activity, including betting on multiple outcomes in the same event.
But, as we have explained, you can get around this by making sure you bet on each outcome with a different bookmaker. However, this might not save you when Arbitrage Dutching.
This is because when you are Arbitraging you are taking value from at least one of the bookmakers, and they may notice this, hence why we warn against arbitraging on your best bookmaker accounts, unless you are already gubbed.
You can learn more about this in our Arbitrage Betting Guide, where we explain how to Arbitrage Bet, but also that you should avoid it until you have bookmaker accounts that you don't value anymore.
Should you face restrictions or bans, known as 'gubbing', there's the option of multi-accounting using a different identity.
Premium Members in Our Discord Group get additional help and guidance to make this as easy as possible, helping to multiply your profits and make Matched Betting sustainable.
Do you Need Money to Start Dutching?
People often ask how much Bankroll they need for Dutching.
We recommend you have around £250 bankroll to start, as there can be a relatively low profit margin when Dutching, unless you are using Free Bets.
If you have not signed up to any UK Bookmakers yet, you can very easily build up a bankroll of £500+ just from Sign Up Offers, so you won't have to put any of your own investment into Dutching. This only requires around £30 Bankroll to start with, then you build it up to £500 with each offer.
If you have already signed up to all UK Bookmakers, or you have exhausted all of the Sign Up Offers, you can build up a good bankroll through using Reload Offers, Weekly Bet Club Offers, making the most of Price Boosts, and other methods before you start Dutching.
Do You Pay Taxes on Matched Betting Dutching Profits
This is why matched betting is so great. It is absolutely tax free, as, despite the fact that it isn't actually gambling (since we guarantee a profit), it's actually categorised as gambling winnings, which are tax free.
The UK government will never see 1 penny of your matched betting profits.
From Sign-up Offers to Dutching and all of the other great ways to make money from bookmakers, absolutely none of it is taxable, making matched betting one of the best side hustles around right now.
You do not need to declare any winnings to HMRC since they stopped taxing gambling gains in 2002.
We can keep you updated if they ever do change this, but it is highly unlikely as it would be an unreasonable tax law, where it would be incredibly hard to differentiate between matched betting profits and real gambling profits.