What happens if one leg of my parlay pushes?
ok so i put a 4 team parlay in on the weekend and one of the games landed exactly on the spread. like dead on. so im sitting here confused, does the whole bet just die? or does it still count somehow? never had a push happen in a parlay before so idk what to expect. someone explain pls
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nah you're fine, a push doesnt kill your parlay. what happens is that leg just gets removed and your parlay drops down to a 3 teamer. so the odds recalculate based on the remaining legs that still need to hit. its not a loss, its like that leg never existed. ive had this happen a bunch of times on Boomerang Bet and it always just adjusts the payout automatically, no drama. the only time it matters is your potential payout shrinks a bit since you got one less leg working for you
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yep can confirm. happened to me last month on a 3 leg, one pushed and it just became a 2 leg parlay. still won and got paid out the recalculated amount. no issues at all
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wait is this the same everywhere tho? i feel like ive seen some books that just void the whole ticket if a leg pushes. or am i making that up
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nah you're thinking of something else. standard practice at every legit book is the leg drops out and odds recalc. voiding the whole ticket would be insane lol, nobody would parlay anymore
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honestly the part that annoys me is how much the payout drops when a leg pushes. had a 5 leg that woulda paid like 40x, one pushed and suddenly im looking at way less. like yeah technically i still won but it stings seeing the number shrink
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i mean thats just math tho. you still won money on the legs that hit, the pushed one just gave you your stake back on that portion essentially. better than losing the whole thing imo
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fwiw the technical term is the leg gets "graded as a push" and removed from the calculation. your stake stays the same but it multiplies across fewer legs. its the same logic as a single bet push where you just get your money back, except here it folds into the rest of the parlay
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so does this work the same for moneyline parlays or just spreads? like can a moneyline even push
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moneyline cant push in most sports cuz theres always a winner. ties can happen in soccer tho if you didnt bet the draw, but thats counted as a loss not a push usually. spreads and totals are where pushes happen, when the result lands exactly on the number
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to add to this, totals push too. like if the line is 47.5 it cant push but if its a whole number like 47 and the game lands on exactly 47 combined points, thats a push and it drops out same as a spread
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one thing worth knowing is buying a half point can avoid the push entirely. if you take -3.5 instead of -3 you'll never push that leg but you pay slightly worse odds for it. trade off
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yeah and this is why a lot of people avoid whole number spreads on key numbers like 3 and 7 in football. those are the most common margins so the push risk is real. doesnt break your parlay but it can chop your payout
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ok dumb question but what if TWO legs push on a parlay? does it just keep dropping down each time?
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yep exactly that. each push gets removed and it keeps recalculating. so a 4 leg with 2 pushes becomes a 2 leg parlay. and if every single leg pushed you'd just get your full stake back like nothing happened
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can confirm all of this, had a push drop out of my parlay a few weeks back and was panicking for nothing. ticket just recalculated and i still got paid on the other legs. these threads woulda saved me the stress lol