Yankee calculator
Work out what a yankee returns: four selections, 11 bets, win only or each way.
- Total stake
- £0.00
- Profit
- £0.00
Every bet, line by line
Bookmaker bonuses and consolation payouts are not included. Returns are rounded down to the penny.
How a yankee settles
A yankee is 11 bets on four selections: six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold accumulator. There are no singles, so you need at least two winners for any return. A £1 yankee costs £11; £1 each way costs £22.
Worked example: £1 yankee with winners at 2/1, 3/1 and 4/1 and a loser at 5/1. The 6 doubles return £47.00, 4 trebles return £60.00, the four-fold returns £0.00. Total return £107.00 from £11.00.
If the fourth horse had been a non-runner instead, it would count as odds of 1.0 in every bet it is part of: the doubles with it become singles, the trebles become doubles, and the four-fold becomes a treble. The same yankee would then return £226.00.
The worked examples on this page are settled by the same calculator you can use above, so the figures match it to the penny.
The rules we use
These are the standard UK settlement rules. Where bookmakers differ, we use the commonest rule and say so. Your bookmaker's own rules decide your bet.
- Each way
- An each-way bet is two bets of the same stake: one to win at the full odds, one to place at the place fraction of the odds. A winner pays both. A horse that only places pays the place bet.
- Each-way multiples
- The win part needs every horse to win. The place part needs every horse to win or place, and a winner counts at its place odds there.
- Non-runners and voids
- A non-runner or void leg counts as odds of 1.0: in a single you get your stake back, and in a multiple that leg drops out, so a double becomes a single, a treble a double, and so on.
- Rule 4
- The deduction comes off the winnings only, never the stake, and only on the leg it applies to. The place part is worked from the reduced win odds. Deductions above 90p in the pound are refused, because the rule caps them there.
- Dead heats
- The stake on that leg is divided by the number of horses tied, then multiplied by the number of tied places that are still paid. A dead heat for 1st halves the win part. Two tied for the last place paid halves the place part.
- Rounding
- Everything is worked out exactly and only the total return is rounded, down to the penny, as most bookmakers do. Each line in the breakdown is rounded down on its own, so the lines can come to a penny more than the total.
- Bonuses
- Bonuses and consolation payouts on lucky 15s, lucky 31s and similar bets vary from bookmaker to bookmaker, so none are included. Check your own bookmaker's rules.
- Total stake
- If you enter a total stake, it is shared equally across every bet in the bet (and across both halves of an each-way bet).
Questions
How many bets are in a yankee?
Eleven: six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold on four selections. A £1 yankee costs £11.
How many winners do I need?
At least two, because the smallest bets in a yankee are doubles. Two winners give you one winning double, three winners three doubles and a treble.
What is the difference between a yankee and a lucky 15?
A lucky 15 is a yankee plus four singles, so it is 15 bets instead of 11 and pays something with one winner.
What happens with a non-runner?
It counts as odds of 1.0 in every bet it is in, so those bets carry on one leg shorter. Nothing is refunded unless every other leg of a bet is also a non-runner.
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