Yankee Calculator

Eleven bets across four selections

A Yankee is six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold. At £1 a bet that is £11, or £22 each way. There are no singles, so you need at least two winners before anything comes back.

It is the same four selections as a Lucky 15, minus the four singles and minus the bonuses. That makes it £4 cheaper per unit stake and considerably less forgiving.

Worked example

Four selections at decimal odds of 3.00, 4.00, 5.00 and 6.00, £1 per bet, so £11 staked.

• All four win: £821 back. A Lucky 15 on the same odds returns £839 for £15 — more money back, but £4 more staked to get it.
• Two win (the 3.00 and the 5.00): £15 back, a £4 profit. The single double that landed carries the whole bet.
• One wins: nothing at all.

Two winners scraping a £4 profit is the shape of this bet. A Yankee is close to all-or-nothing: its value is concentrated in the trebles and the four-fold, and those need three or four selections to come in.

Yankee or Lucky 15?

The four singles in a Lucky 15 cost you £4 and buy two things: a return when only one selection wins, and eligibility for the consolation and all-winners bonuses. If your four selections are short-priced and you expect two or three winners, the Yankee puts more of your money on the bets that will actually pay. If they are longer prices where one winner is the likely outcome, the Lucky 15’s floor is worth having.

Switch between the two in the bet type dropdown with your odds already entered to compare directly.

Bigger versions of the same bet

Add a fifth selection and a Yankee becomes a Canadian (also called a Super Yankee): 26 bets. Add a sixth and it is a Heinz: 57 bets. Both follow the same rule — every combination from doubles upwards, no singles. Both are in the dropdown above.

Eleven bets means eleven applications of the bookmaker’s margin. 18+ only. Please gamble responsibly.