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Asian handicap explained: lines, half units and refunds
Whole, half and quarter lines: what they mean, when a bet is refunded, and why a −0.75 splits your stake in two. With the caveat that this market isn't in our listing.
Pubblicato il 14 settembre 2026
The Asian handicap removes the draw from the board by giving one side a goal advantage or disadvantage. At −1, the favourite «wins» the bet only if it wins by two goals or more; at +1, the underdog «wins» even when losing by one.
The difference from the European handicap is that here a tie, when it occurs, isn't an outcome: it is a refund. Everything else follows from that.
Whole lines: the bet can be refunded
On a whole line — 0, −1, −2 — the result can land exactly on the line. Back the favourite at −1 and the match finishes 2-1, and the corrected score is 1-1: neither side won the bet, and the stake comes back.
The 0 line, also called Draw No Bet, is the simplest case: you pick a side, you collect if it wins, you don't if it loses, and your stake returns if they draw. It is the only Asian handicap our listing carries, under that name.
Half lines: no refund
At −0.5, −1.5, −2.5 the refund disappears, for the same reason it disappears on Under/Over 2.5: goals are whole numbers and cannot land on a half unit. The favourite at −1.5 wins the bet by two goals, loses it by one or none. No third possibility.
So a −0.5 handicap coincides with a straight win, and a +0.5 handicap with the «doesn't lose» double chance.
Quarter lines: the stake splits in two
This is the confusing part. A line like −0.75 — also written «−0.5, −1» — means the stake is split in half: half at −0.5 and half at −1.
An example with 100 euros on the favourite at −0.75. Win by two goals or more and both halves win. Win by exactly one: the −0.5 half wins, the −1 half lands on the line and is refunded — you collect on 50 euros and the other 50 come back. Don't win, and you lose the lot.
The mirror image applies at +0.75: half at +0.5 and half at +1. Lose by exactly one goal and the +1 half lands on the line and returns.
| Line | What wins it outright | When there's a refund |
|---|---|---|
| 0 (Draw No Bet) | the side wins | draw: full refund |
| −0.5 | the side wins | never |
| −0.75 | wins by 2 or more | wins by 1: half refunded |
| −1 | wins by 2 or more | wins by 1: full refund |
| −1.5 | wins by 2 or more | never |
| +0.5 | the side doesn't lose | never |
| +0.75 | doesn't lose | loses by 1: half refunded |
| +1 | doesn't lose | loses by 1: full refund |
⚠ What we can't tell you
The Asian handicap isn't among the markets our feeds publish. The listing carries full-time result, Under/Over 2.5, Both Teams to Score, Draw No Bet, Odd/Even and first half: so we can't compare operators on this market, and we don't pretend to.
Draw No Bet, which is the zero-line handicap, we do measure. It is the closest relative, and a useful reference for how much an operator holds back on a market with refunds.
From the feed, right now
How much each operator holds back on Draw No Bet, right now:
The feeds are unreachable right now. We'd rather not show you a number that isn't the current one.
How our log treats it
A refunded bet isn't a draw: it is a bet that didn't happen. In the log it leaves the count rather than counting as zero, and inside an accumulator the total odds are recalculated by dividing out the refunded selection's odds.
It is the same rule we settle Draw No Bet by, and worth knowing because it changes your yield: counting refunds as zero inflates the denominator and makes the return look lower than it is.