Betting Odds, Read Three Ways: Decimal, Hong Kong, Malay and the Margin in Each Price

Betting odds are prices, and a price tells you two things: what a winning stake pays and how likely the book thinks that win is. Once you can read decimal, every other format is a small conversion away. Every figure below is an invented example with a ₱100 stake, and the arithmetic holds at any book. The sports betting hub covers where the 123Bet card fits on SUPERPH’s lobby.

How to read odds in three formats

Learn one conversion and you have them all.

Decimal odds in one line

Multiply stake by price to get the full return, including your stake. Decimal 1.90 on ₱100 returns ₱190.

Hong Kong removes the stake and shows only the profit, so subtract 1 from the decimal. Malay tracks Hong Kong up to 1.00. Past that point, take minus 1 divided by the Hong Kong number, which is why 1.50 becomes minus 0.67: the negative tells you how much you stake to win one unit.

Implied probability and the margin

Flip the decimal price (1 divided by it) and you have the chance it implies. A 1.90 price implies 52.6%, so you need to win more than that share of bets at 1.90 just to come out ahead.

That break-even share is the useful number. A 2.50 price implies 40%, so a selection you honestly rate at 45% has an average return of ₱112.50 per ₱100 staked at that price, and one you rate at 35% has ₱87.50. Whether your rating is any good is the hard part.

Add both sides of a two-way market to find the margin. Two sides at 1.90 add up to 105.3%, and the extra 5.3% is the book’s slice.

Put two books’ prices for one fixture side by side and these sums show which of them takes less. Props and long parlays often carry far larger margins than a plain two-way line, as the sums in how a parlay multiplies the margin show.

Over under betting, worked in pesos

An over/under is a two-way market on a combined total. Take over 221.5 at 1.90 on an NBA game with ₱100 staked: a final combined score of 222 or higher returns ₱190, and 221 or lower loses the stake.

Problem: a whole-number total such as 220 lands exactly and you are unsure what happens.

Fix: read the book’s rules; a push usually returns the stake on that market.

• A half point removes the tie entirely.
• Moving a line by a point usually moves the price as well.
• The same over/under logic drives NBA betting totals, boxing betting round lines and map totals in esports betting.

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