Football Pools - How to Bet and Play
Football pools, often referred to by people just as ‘the pools’ are football betting pools based on predicting the outcome of football matches between top level teams that are going to take place in the coming week. Before computers and the internet, you filled out your predictions in a betting shop and then looked in your paper to see the results and find out how well you did. Today, with the internet, there’s no need to visit a betting shop, or ever buy a paper as all the information you need is here at your fingertips online.
If you’ve never played the football pools before then a good site to begin with is footballpools.com where you can choose to play a classic game of football pools.
After you’ve registered on the site, and selected to play ‘classic pools’ choose which game option you want to play – either 10, 11 or 12 fixtures. You are then marked for your top 8 fixtures. (This basically means if you play more fixtures then you’ve got a greater chance of winning). Next, you select the fixtures that you think will end in a score draw by ticking the box next to the fixture you want to choose. Once you’ve got 10, 11 or 12 fixtures chosen, you save your entries. You can choose just to play one competition round, or you can choose to play several in a row using the same fixture details. Once you’ve decided this, you click to ‘play now’ which will confirm your bet and take you to the section where you pay for it.
Scoring is worked out this way… for each fixture you will receive 3 points for a score draw and 2 points for a no score draw, and 1 point for a win regardless of whether it’s home or away.
Each a points score of 21 or more will normally quality for a prize. If you’ve been clever or lucky enough to select 8 high score draws of 2-2 or more, then the £2.5millon jackpot will be paid out.
Obviously these rules apply to this particular website, and other sites who also run football pools may have slightly different ways of doing things, however this guide will still serve you well when you begin playing.
There is a little bit more to playing ‘the pools’ online at different websites these days however. For example with this particular site, if you play regularly you could be in with a chance of winning a prize in their monthly leader board game. This works by every game point you receive on Classic Pools, you get 10 leader board points. If you are one of the top 20 on the leader board at the end of the month, you win a prize.
There are also other games to play on the site, predicting the results of the top 15 fixtures for a chance to win a weekly jackpot, forecasting this weeks premier league clashes, Goal predictor where you predict the score of a particular game, and there’s even a spot the ball competition.
