Laying accas in shops

What do you mean? Laying an accumulator refund offer?

AFAIK only Ladbrokes do them (on the Grid card) in shop, and their in shop football odds are loads worse than online. I’ve never bothered checking myself but I’d be very surprised if you found anything worth doing.

I know paddy definitley do acca insurance in shops. no min odds unlike online. something i will also have to be exploring as lost hills and mcbookie this week. im sure hills do it too, i think maybe coral u need the connect card. not sure on betfred.

I’ve just had a quick look at a Hill’s shop coupon that I’ve had lying around for a bit. The book is about 112% on every game, compared to ~104/105% online.

I make that this would change a 5-fold accumulator that had an EV of +10% (with the offer) to something like -20%…

Need to remember that the edge compounds over accumulators. So a 112% book means that a 5-fold has (assuming odds are set fairly minus the edge equally on each of home/draw/away) an EV of -43% and a 6-fold has an EV of -49%. You’d need a hell of an offer to overcome that.

Obviously there are some games where shops (particularly Hill’s) hold odds at higher than are available online, which would mean that the edge isn’t distributed evenly across 1/2/X. In these cases, if the accumulator offer was on, it may have a better EV, but the chances are that (even if you got 5/6 matches were this was the case) the odds would be so long that the chance of a refund was very low, and it may be better just placing the bets as e.g. doubles…