# What does "draw no bet" mean? *For anyone who has seen "draw no bet" or a handicap of 0 on a match page and wondered what happens if the game is drawn. A plain guide, with this week's Nations League prices and Saturday's game at Leeds as examples.* Features · Published 07:50 CET, 9 Nov 2026 · Match News (https://matchnews.news/features/what-draw-no-bet-means/) By Features desk · Reviewed by Fredrik Jurek "Draw no bet" is a bet on one team to win a match in which your stake is returned if the match ends in a draw. There are only two things you can back, the home team or the away team. If your team wins, you are paid at the price. If the other team wins, you lose your stake. If the game is drawn, the bet is cancelled and the money comes back. That is the whole idea, and the name says it: if it is a draw, there was no bet. On this site the same bet appears under another name. The match card shows a handicap line, and when that line is 0 it is draw no bet in all but name. The sections below explain why, what it costs, and how to read the two prices, using the prices in BettingBeast's feed on Monday morning and one of Saturday's results. ## Why is the price lower than the normal win price? Take Moldova v Kazakhstan in the Nations League on Friday 13 November, kick-off 18:00 CET. At 06:22 CET on Monday BettingBeast's feed priced Moldova to win at 2.77, the draw at 3.05 and Kazakhstan at 3.02. That is the normal three-way market, which the trade calls 1X2: 1 for the home win, X for the draw, 2 for the away win. In the same capture the handicap line for the match was 0, with Moldova at 1.88 and Kazakhstan at 2.04. Those are the draw no bet prices. Moldova at 1.88 means a stake of 10 returns 18.80 if Moldova win, 10 back if it is a draw, and nothing if Kazakhstan win. So Moldova are 2.77 to win in the three-way market and 1.88 to win draw no bet. The gap is the price of the protection. In the three-way market the bookmaker keeps your stake on two of the three results, a draw and a Kazakhstan win. In draw no bet it keeps your stake on one. It gives something up, and it charges for that by shortening the price. A 2.77 price is a 36% chance by the price, because 100 divided by 2.77 is about 36. The 1.88 price is a 53% chance. The second number is higher because the draw, a 33% chance here, has been taken out of the reckoning and your bet is only measured against the outcomes that count. ## How does it relate to the handicap? A handicap gives one team a goal start before kick-off, and the bet is on the result after the start is added. A start of 0 is no start at all, so the handicap result is the real result. If the match is drawn, the handicap is drawn too, and under the rules of the Asian handicap a drawn handicap returns every stake. That is exactly what draw no bet does. The two names describe one bet. On BettingBeast's feed, which is what this site shows, the bet is listed as the handicap line 0; other places call it draw no bet, DNB, or "level". Our guide to the Asian handicap explains the other lines, such as +0.5 and -1, and what happens when the line is a quarter of a goal. ## What did it pay on Saturday? Leeds United v Tottenham on Saturday 7 November is a good test because the two sides were priced close together. The closing line, the last price captured before kick-off at 13:23 CET, had the handicap at 0 with Leeds at 2.08 and Tottenham at 1.90. In the three-way market at the same time Leeds were 2.93, the draw 3.45 and Tottenham 2.69. Leeds won 1-0 with a late goal from Noah Okafor, according to the club's own report. A stake of 10 on Leeds draw no bet returned 20.80; the same 10 on Leeds in the three-way market returned 29.30. A stake on Tottenham lost in both markets. Had the game finished 0-0, the draw no bet stakes would have come back and the three-way stakes on either team would have been lost. That is the trade in one match: a lower return when your team wins, in exchange for your money back when nobody does. ## When does the draw no bet price make sense to look at? It is most often looked at in matches where the two teams are close, because the draw is then a large part of the picture. In Georgia v Hungary on Saturday 14 November, kick-off 18:00 CET, the feed at 06:22 CET on Monday had Georgia at 3.32, the draw at 3.18 and Hungary at 2.49, with the handicap at 0 priced Georgia 2.25 and Hungary 1.70. All three results are between a 30% and 40% chance by the price, so a draw is as likely as either win. In a match where one side is a strong favourite the draw matters less, and the handicap line moves away from 0 to -1 or -2, as it did for Arsenal against Hull on Saturday, where the line was -2. None of this says which team to back. It explains what the two numbers on the card are and what each of them pays. ## Does extra time count? Draw no bet is settled on the match result after 90 minutes plus stoppage time, unless the bookmaker says otherwise for a particular competition. A cup tie that is level after 90 minutes and decided in extra time or on penalties is a draw for this bet, and the stakes come back. The Nations League group games this week cannot go to extra time, so the question does not arise for them. ## In short Draw no bet is a bet on one team to win, with your stake returned if the match is drawn. The price is lower than the plain win price because the bookmaker gives up the draw. On this site it appears as the handicap line 0, which is the same bet under a different name. On Saturday it paid 2.08 for Leeds, against 2.93 in the three-way market, and would have returned the stake had the game been drawn. ## Sources 1. BettingBeast football prices, captured by this site's odds job (data/odds-latest.json, capture 2026-11-09T05:22Z) (BettingBeast via Match News) https://matchnews.news/data/odds-latest.json - Read 07:05 CET, 9 Nov 2026 2. Closing prices of matches that have kicked off (data/closing-lines/2026-11.json, written by this site's odds job) (BettingBeast via Match News) https://matchnews.news/data/odds-series.json - Read 07:05 CET, 9 Nov 2026 3. Full-time report as Leeds United second-half dominance pays off in win over Tottenham Hotspur (Leeds United) https://www.leedsunited.com/en/news/full-time-report-as-leeds-united-second-half-dominance-pays-off-in-win-over-tottenham-hotspur - Read 06:50 CET, 8 Nov 2026 --- 18+. Gambling involves risk and can be addictive. Please gamble responsibly. Odds links go to BettingBeast. Match News is a football news site published by Checkraise Ltd. Every odds link on this site goes to BettingBeast. 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