This slip is useful because it demonstrates two features at once, and both confuse people. Three of the twenty-five selections were cancelled, and the player cashed out before the remaining fixtures finished. The final return was ₦10,296,983.44 from a ₦700 stake.

The coupon

Stake: ₦700

Combined Odds: 32,774.74

Return: ₦10,296,983.44

Selections: 25, including three cancelled legs

Markets: Goal/No Goal, Over/Under, Double Chance and 1X2

Bet ID: B9VP746517556AR-24710448

What a cancelled leg actually does

A cancelled selection is one where the match did not take place as scheduled. The leg is removed from the calculation and its odds are set to 1.00.

Three fixtures on this coupon were cancelled. All three sat in the Double Chance market, and all three were removed from the slip. One further selection was excluded from the coupon entirely.

The important effect is on your potential return, not on whether you win. Removing four legs priced between 1.23 and 1.56 cut the multiplier significantly.

Then came the cash out

The player did not wait for the remaining legs to finish. The blog reports that results in those fixtures would have ended the run. The combination of voided legs and an early cash-out produced a payout of just over ₦10.2 million.

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The 25 selections

What to take from this

Know the difference between cancelled and lost. Nothing you can do prevents this, and it happens most often with international fixtures and friendlies.

The more fixtures you include, the more likely one gets pulled. Nine countries and a set of international fixtures across one coupon.

Know what each leg needs. This ticket used Goal/No Goal, Over/Under, Double Chance and 1X2, each requiring a different outcome.

Details Worth Noting

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2. Four of the twenty-five legs never counted toward the result.
   
3. The voided legs were Brazil, Mexico and Colombia positions, all Double Chance.
   
4. Goal/No Goal carried the coupon, on fourteen separate legs.
   
5. At 32,774.74, only the ₦205 slip carried a larger multiplier.
   
6. Five selections came from Chinese football.
   
7. The highest-scoring result was Rovaniemi 4-3 Keski-Uusimaa, seven goals.
   
8. Two Moroccan domestic fixtures closed out the slip.
   

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