Dutching is a method of betting where you stake different amounts on two or more selections to lock in a profit or trigger free bets.
The Dutching software can be found here.
You can use the Outplayed Dutching Calculator to manually "Dutch" your bets instead of backing and laying. Dutching is a method of Matched Betting wherein, instead of backing with a bookmaker and laying with a betting exchange, you place a back bet with one bookmaker and an opposing back bet with another bookmaker.
An example would be betting on Over 2.5 goals with one bookmaker, and under 2.5 goals with another bookmaker. If the odds were in the right place and you got your stake amount correct, you could place bets on both of these outcomes to cover yourself against either event. Similarly, you can also have Dutching on outcomes with more than two events (for example, betting on the result of a football match). In this instance, you would end up with three bets - one on each of the outcomes.
When searching for matches, simply compare the odds on the two bookie websites and input the data into the calculator, to determine if the qualifying loss is acceptable to you.
Here is a Tennis example:
For this bet, we would need to place a back bet on Over 22.5 Games at odds of 2.04 with Fun88, and another back bet on Under 22.5 Games at odds of 2.0 with William Hill. We will do this by using the Two Way mode on the Dutching Calculator. Once the calculator is open, enter your desired stake into the stake box. For example, if I was doing a £100 offer with Fun88, I would enter my stake as £100 into the Back Stake box. The other stakes will be auto-calculated for you. You only ever input one stake yourself. Next, we fill out the odds, so in this example our Bookmaker A odds are 2.04 and our Bookmaker B odds are 2.0.
In the above example, the calculator tells us that we need to place a bet of £100 with Fun88 on Over 22.5 Games at odds of 2.04, and a £102 bet on Under 22.5 Games at odds of 2.0. It tells us that, no matter what happens, the bet will make a profit of £2.
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As an added note, be careful when using the software to dutch on Tennis outcomes as the retirement rules will not always match, potentially leaving you with a large loss. Please review the Tennis Retirement Rules post for more information.