What is a Super Yankee Bet?

The Super Yankee bet is one of the most popular system bets used by sports bettors, and in particular horse racing punters today. A Super Yankee bet covers five selections and consists of 26 bets. It’s a step up from a Yankee bet, which covers four selections. This page will outline all you need to know about the Super Yankee bet, including how to place it and how to calculate potential winnings.

The Super Yankee Bet Explained

To place a Super Yankee bet, you need five selections. When you place your bet, you will be covering all potential combination bets, requiring a total of 26 bets. The Super Yankee, like its cousin, the Yankee, does not contain any singles.

The total collection of combination bets is as follows (calling our selections A, B, C, D and E for ease of reference):

When you place a Super Yankee bet you will be setting a bet-per-selection stake. For this reason, if you are placing a £1 Super Yankee, your total wager will be £26, as you are placing 26 x £1 bets.

It is also possible to place an each-way Super Yankee. This will double the number of bets you place to 52, as you will be placing 26 ‘to win’ bets and 26 each-way bets. So a £1 each way Super Yankee will mean an overall stake of £52.

What Sports Can It Be Used For?

You can use the Super Yankee on any sport, but it is most commonly associated with horse racing in particular, and greyhounds. There is nothing to stop you from placing a Super Yankee bet on football, boxing, cricket or even pesapallo! You can mix sports, too, in your Super Yankee, so you are covering a multitude of markets. As long as any market has a definite resolution (such as a football team winning, a cricket player reaching 50 in an innings or an American Football player scoring a touchdown) then you can include it in a Super Yankee.

Horse racing is the most common sport for which Super Yankees are used. At most of the best betting sites in the UK, you can simply select five horses, add them to your betting slip and then select the Super Yankee option from multiple bets.

Some horse racing betting sites may not automatically offer Super Yankees. If this is the case at the betting site that you wish to use, then you will have to place each element of your overall Super Yankee bet as a separate wager. This is time-consuming, so it’s perhaps better to find a site that allows you to automatically place Super Yankee bets.

Super Yankee Bet Real World Example

Enough of us explaining what a Super Yankee bet is, here is a real-world Super Yankee bet example of placing such a bet at our favourite best UK betting site, bet365.

We’ve gone down the traditional route for our Super Yankee bet by selecting five horses all running on the same day. The horses and (prices) are Kagenno Tsuki (1.40), Blessed Thunder (3.80), Cyrenaica (3.50), Fortunate Star (6.00) and Keen Interest (5.00). We have chosen decimal prices as it is far, far easier to work out potential returns using decimal prices than it is fractional.

We have added all five selections, one by one, to our bet slip. Bet365 provides several automatic multiple bets, including the Super Yankee. We have chosen £1 per bet as our stake, and as our bet involves 26 selections, the overall cost of the bet is £26. All we now need to do to place our Super Yankee is hit ‘Place Bet’.

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A Few Potential Drawbacks

Sadly, not all is hunky dory with the Super Yankee, and using it has a few disadvantages, which we look at below:

Picking Five Winners Isn’t Easy

The main draw of the Super Yankee is the five-winner dream. However, picking five winners is a tough ask. , though, that four winners will still return a decent amount, and three will at least cover your bet and then some.

No Singles

The Super Yankee has no singles, so if just one of your runners comes in, the whole wager will fail. However, there is nothing stopping you from placing the five singles along with your Super Yankee for extra protection.

Stake Uniformity

All 26 bets when you set up your Super Yankee will have the same stake. This can be an annoyance, although (again) there is nothing preventing you from setting up each bet in a Super Yankee separately, allowing you to vary your stake per bet precisely as you see fit.

You’ll Need to Hit Three to Remain Profitable

The Super Yankee only remains profitable if you hit three or more winners comfortably more times than you don’t. If you cannot pick a minimum of three winners on a regular basis, then the Super Yankee is perhaps not for you.

How to Work Out Super Yankee Bet Returns

If you love crunching numbers, then the Super Yankee will surely add spice to your day! If, like any normal person, you’d prefer technology to do the work for you, then you can use a Super Yankee bet calculator to do the hard work for you.

For pen-and-paper enthusiasts, we highly recommend using decimal odds, just because it is so much easier.

For the Super Yankee, you are going to need to calculate all 26 bets. We will go through the process for the 5-fold bet, so to calculate full (potential) returns just repeat the process for all doubles, trebles and four-folds.

Decimal Odds

With decimal odds, you just need to multiply the odds together (you can check out here how odds work). For our real-world Super Yankee bet example above, this would be as follows:

1.4 x 3.8 x 3.5 x 6 x 5 = 558.6 x £1 = £558.6.

If we’d bet each way, we would halve the total for the win part of the each-way bet (£279.43) and halve and divide by five for the place part (£55.86) for a total of £335.29. This assumes that all each-way are one-fifth the win odds. If you had runners in races with small fields, then calculating the place returns is done on a runner-by-runner basis, not overall.

Fractional Odds

Here’s where things take a complicated turn for the worse, as you need to calculate every step of all 26 bets individually. Here is the process for our real-world five-fold:

• £1 x 2/5 = £0.40 + £1 = £1.40
• £1.40 x 14/5 = £3.92 + £1.40 = £5.32
• £5.32 x 5/2 = £13.30 + £5.32 = £18.62
• £18.62 x 5/1 = £93.10 + £18.62 = £111.72
• £111.72 x 4/1 = £46.88 + £111.72 = £558.6

Now that you have your total, you can work out each-way winnings, too, in the same way as with decimal odds.

Next, do the same for the 25 other bets … or just save yourself time and headaches by using a Super Yankee calculator!

How to Place the Bet Online

Placing your Super Yankee bet online is super simple, but we’re going to take you through the process anyhow, step by step.

1. Log on to your favourite betting site, preferably one that allows you to place Super Yankee bets automatically.
2. Go through all the markets, and click on the odds of any outcome (such as a horse winning a race) you want to include in your Super Yankee. This will add the selection to your bet slip.
3. Repeat step two four times.
4. Head to your bet slip, drill down to the ‘multiples’ section, and check the box for ‘Super Yankee’
5. If you want to bet each way (if available), then check the ‘E/W’ box.
6. Set your stake-per-bet. This will be multiplied 26 times for a win Super Yankee, and 52 times for an each-way Super Yankee. Fund your if you don’t currently have enough money in it.
7. Hit ‘Place Bet’ to place your bet.

What Happens with Non-Runners?

If you are placing a horse racing Super Yankee, you may wonder what happens if one of your selections is declared a non-runner. Do all parts of your Super Yankee involving that selection lose?

The pleasing answer is no, they don’t. All parts of your Super Yankee involving the non-runner are cleared void, and your stake per part is returned to you. For the Super Yankee, all selections are involved in 15 bets, so for a £1 Super Yankee, £15 would be returned to you.

Your Super Yankee would then become a Yankee bet with four selections and eleven bets (one four-fold, four trebles and six doubles).

Alternatives to the Super Yankee bet

If you find the idea of selecting five winners and placing 26 bets a tough ask, then there are plenty of alternatives. Here, we take a look at a trio of associated alternatives.

Conclusion

Are you the king of the winners? The betting V.I.P.? Then the Super Yankee could just be the combination or system bet that you are looking for. If you are skilled at selecting the correct selections, you can really max out your winnings with the Super Yankee, just as long as you are willing to accept the associated risk. But then, all wagering carries risk, doesn’t it?

We hope this page has helped you decide where the Super Yankee bet is the bet for you.

FAQs

How many bets in a Super Yankee?

26 in total – one 5 fold bet, five 4 fold bets, 10 trebles and 10 doubles,

What is the 5 horse Super Yankee?

It’s a combined or system bet on five horses that includes one five-fold, five four-folds, ten trebles and ten doubles. You can place a Super Yankee bet on most sports, and can even combine sports across the same Super Yankee wager.

How many horses do you need to win in a Super Yankee?

As many as possible! You need at least two horses to we when Super Yankee horse racing betting to generate a return, and at least three to see you win more than your state, depending on the combined odds.

How much is a 50p Yankee bet?

As a Yankee has eleven selections, it would be £5.50. A Super Yankee has 26 selections, so that would cost £13. The each-way version of both these bets would cost £11 and £26 respectively.

What is an example of a Yankee bet?

A Yankee bet has four selections and consists of one four-fold, four trebles and six doubles. A Super Yankee bet has five selections and consists of one 5 fold bet, five four-folds, one treble and six doubles.