Smarkets Live Betting: Highly Detailed In-Play Bets

Get stuck into spread betting as it happens, mid-game.

Live betting is increasingly becoming an integral part of every betting site, but this steps up a notch at sites like Smarkets which offer spread betting.

Smarkets handles this complicated feature excellently, with a sensible layout which is easy to understand – even if you’re not much of a spread better.

Neat and colourful animations sit alongside stats to show you how the game is going as it happens, and you can even see how much is being bet on each event. Buttons on the live betting page briefly flash amber to indicate a change in price, and the prices are often more competitive than regular bookies.

Interested? Here’s what you need to know about live betting at Smarkets.

Want to try live betting at Smarkets? Here’s how to do it:

• Sign up to Smarkets or log into your account
• Choose ‘In-Play’ from the menu
• Select a sport such as football or horse racing from the sub-menu
• Tap on an event
• Tap the odds of a market to add it to your bet slip, as you would at a regular betting site
• Input your stake, double check the price, and tap ‘Buy’

Like all sites which offer live betting, it can be paused at any time – like when a key event is about to take place.

One thing you have to be extra careful with is the price of your bet. At standard betting sites, odds update automatically based on in-game events. But at Smarkets, a misclick could result in you locking in your bet at unfavourable odds.