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# Placing a Sports Bet

Creators set the odds, you decide if they're worth taking. Find a line (or lines) you like, put money on it, and collect if you're right. Find odds you like, enter a stake, confirm. Here's how it works.

### Step 1. Find a match

Browse from the dashboard or search by team or league. Open a match page to see all available odds.

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### Step 2. Choose how to view odds

Three views are available on the match page:

By Type – odds grouped by market and outcome. Good when you know what market you want.

By Liquidity – creators ranked by open liquidity, highest first.

By Bookmaker – creators with express bets enabled, showing their full line. Use this view to build express bets.

### Step 3. Add to betslip

Click any odds to add them to the betslip. Enter your stake – it can't exceed the current max bet or your available balance. The betslip shows total odds and potential payout.

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### Step 4. Confirm

Hit ‘Place a Bet’. The stake is deducted from your balance immediately.

### Express Bets

An express combines multiple outcomes into one bet. Every selection must win, one loss and the whole bet is lost.

Two rules define what you can combine:

* Outcomes must come from a single creator who enabled express betting
* They must sit within that creator's single liquidity pool — you can't mix matches funded by different liquidity

Use the 'By Bookmaker' view to build one. It shows each creator's full line, so you see exactly what's combinable.

*Total odds = product of all selected odds.*

> Example: odds 1.4 × 2.2 = 3.08. Stake $300 → potential payout $924.

### Max bet

Max bet updates in real time as other players place bets.

The formula:

> Max Bet = Open Liquidity / (Odds - 1)

Every accepted bet reduces the shared liquidity pool, which lowers max bet across all outcomes in that prediction.

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