What is Horse Racing? Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys over a set distance for competition.

Chess is a strategy board game for two players that involves moving pieces on a checkered board to capture your opponent's king.

Table tennis is a Sport played inside by two or four people. The players stand at each end of a table which has a low net across the middle and hit a small light ball over the net, using small bats. 

This article outlines the rules for Football Goalscorer, Assists & Scorecast markets. An example of a Goalscorer market would be who will score and when they will score (E.G first (1st) or second (2nd) in the match). 'Scorecast' is a single bet on who'll be the first goalscorer of the match and what the correct score will be.

This article details rules for Abandoned or Postponed Football matches

This article outlines the markets offered for football betting during play (in play), as opposed to pre match and attempts to answer some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) around statistics in-play and abandonment.

Darts is a throwing game in which small missiles are thrown at a target, which is called a dartboard.

This article details rules for Equestrian markets.

This article outlines the different types of bets you can place on Cricket. The different types are International and Domestic Ante Post Rules, Match Betting and In Play.

This article outlines the rules around football match betting markets. An example of match betting would be the result at full time or a team to win both halves etc

What is Gymnastics? Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. 

What is MMA? Mixed martial arts is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.

What is Rugby Union? Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport.

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

This article acts as a home page for all football rule articles. Under each heading is a link which expands upon the key points listed below, in the event that you want to find out more.

What is Water Polo? Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the most goals at the end of the game wins the match.

This article outlines details of our Football rules regarding match markets. Examples of match markets are an Opta (statistics) market, Under and Over goals, 1st Team to score or total corners etc

This article provides details on some of our betting rules that puts fairness front and centre so you know where you stand.

This article details FAQ's for Football related markets

This article outlines rules for Football Outright Markets. An example of an outright market would be a team to win X league or who will finish in the Top 4/6/10 etc.

This article outlines Horse Racing rules on special markets such as Request A Bets (RABs), accumulators (Accas), insurance bets & packaged multiples, amongst others.

This article details Fencing market rules

What is American football? American Football is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with the ball or passing it, while the defence, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves.

What is Boxing? Boxing is a combat sport and a martial art in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.

What Is Volleyball? Volleyball is a game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents' playing area before it can be returned.

Sky Bet Virtual Greyhound Racing brings you the fastest action 24/7 from two tracks; Wimbly Way and Moore Street.

Sky Bet Virtual Football brings you some of the most exciting football to bet on. All bets placed on Virtual Football will be subject to our standard Sky Betting & Gaming Football Rules.

This article outlines the betting rules for Virtual Sports: Speedway.

Sky Bet Virtual Motorsports brings you exciting Motorsports action 24/7 from Highway Park.

What is Tennis? Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles)

Sky Bet Virtual Racing brings you 24/7 horse racing action from four tracks; Sandunes Park, Dusty Field, Bishop Street and top class national hunt racing from Wellington Place.

What is Snooker? Snooker is a game played, by two people in which cues and a cue ball are used to hit 15 red balls and six balls of different colours into six holes around a table covered in soft cloth in a fixed order 

What is Pool? Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. 

What is Handball? Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team. 

This article details betting rules for Ice Hockey.

Sky Bet Virtual Racing brings you 24/7 horse racing action from four tracks; Sandunes Park, Dusty Field, Bishop Street and top class national hunt racing from Wellington Place.

This article outlines rules for Football Specials markets. Specials are so called because they are markets that only run at certain times of the year or when a specific event triggers them (E.G. Transfer Deadline Day, an international tournament or a manager to become the new coach of a club with a vacancy)

What are Esports? Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams.

This article details betting rules for the Olympic & Commonwealth Games.

Formula One or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The Formula One World Championship has been one of the premier forms of racing around the world since its inaugural running in 1950.

What is Australian Football (or Aussie Rules)? Aussie Rules is a sport played with an oval ball between two teams of eighteen players on a large oval-shaped field, with the aim of the game to kick the ball through the two tallest goal-posts which are set at either end of the ground. 

Athletics is a sport that includes a number of events involving running, jumping, throwing or walking.

This article details rules for Taekwondo markets

This article outlines the betting rules for three a side (3X3) Basketball match markets

This article details rules for Karate markets

This article details rules for Sailing markets

Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own goal ring.

What is Bandy? Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

All bets will be settled according to the official result at the time of podium presentation. Subsequent amendments do not count. Whilst we will endeavour to settle all markets as quickly as possible, this can sometimes be delayed due to official investigations over DQ's etc.

This article details information around Shooting Rules.

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.  

What is Greyhound Racing? Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track. 

What are Gaelic Games? Gaelic games are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling and camogie.

This article details rules on Softball.

What is Basketball? Basketball is a game played between two teams of five players each on a rectangular court, usually indoors. Each team tries to score by tossing the ball through the opponent's elevated horizontal hoop and net called a basket.

What is Field Hockey? Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 10 players in total. Teams must move a hockey ball around a pitch by hitting it with a hockey stick into the goal. The match is won by the team that scores the most goals. Matches are played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf, or indoor boarded surface.

What is Cycling? Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling sports include artistic cycling, cycle polo, freestyle BMX and mountain bike trials.

This article details betting rules for Diving.

This article answers some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) around first past the post in horse racing, where we will pay out for the horse that crosses the line first, even if they are later disqualified or downgraded in the race.

Bowls is a precision sport in which the aim is to roll bowls closest to a smaller white/yellow ball (the 'jack')

Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two (singles) or four (doubles) players hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball with paddles over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits an infraction.

This article details the betting rules for Rowing.

This article outlines the rules around our eSoccer events, currently played only on FIFA Soccer

What is Beach Volleyball? Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court. 

This article details the rules for Speedway.

This article details rules for Curling markets

This article details rules for Judo markets

This article outlines Motor Racing Rules and what sports apply.

This article details the betting rules for Rugby 7's

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

This article details Surfing rules

This article details the betting rules for Non Sporting Events.

This article details rules for I'm a Celebrity TV markets

This article details Squash rules

This article details rules for Strictly Come Dancing Rules markets

This articles explains the rules for Modern Pentathlon

This article details rules for Futsal markets

Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players.

This article details fishing rules and the bet types.

This article details rule for Skateboarding

This article details relevant information for Britain's Got Talent Rules.

This article details Triathlon rules

This article explains the betting rules for the Eurovision Song Contest.

This article outlines the rules for football booking points. It explains what a yellow and red card is worth and how you can keep track of these points during a match.

This article explains the rules around speciality and TV markets such as X Factor and Eurovision. It's a place for rules about some of the more obscure markets on our site that are non sport specific

This article details betting rules for International Horse Racing.

This article details the betting rules for winter sports such as Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Cross–Country Skiing, Luge, Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping

What is Politics? Politics is the way that people living in groups make decisions. Politics is about making agreements between people so that they can live together in groups such as tribes, cities, or countries. In large groups, such as countries, some people may spend a lot of their time making such agreements.

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" and "doubles". 

What is Wrestling?  the sport or activity of grappling with an opponent and trying to throw or hold them down on the ground, typically according to a code of rules.