1X2 Betting Explained: Home, Draw, Away, Double Chance and Draw No Bet

1X2 is the simplest football bet there is: you pick one of the three ways a match can end — home win, draw or away win. It is also called the match result, full-time result or three-way market, and in Vietnam kèo châu Âu or kèo 1X2. This guide explains what 1, X and 2 mean, what time the bet is settled on, how to work out a return, and the two-outcome versions built from it: double chance (1X, 12, X2) and draw no bet.

What 1, X and 2 mean

“Home” simply means the team listed first. At a neutral venue the first-named team is still 1. There is no handicap and no refund in a 1X2 bet: exactly one of the three outcomes wins and the other two lose.

Does 1X2 include extra time?

No. A full-time 1X2 bet is settled on regular time: 90 minutes plus stoppage time. Extra time and penalty shoot-outs do not count. A cup tie that is 1-1 after 90 minutes and then decided on penalties is a draw (X) for 1X2 purposes. 22bet’s sports rules say this in so many words, and put markets such as “to qualify” and “winner” in a separate group that does include extra time and penalties. The same rules require at least 80 minutes to be played for a bet to stand, except for bets already decided when the match was stopped.

How to read the odds and work out a return

An illustrative match, Team A against Team B (the odds are an example, not a live price):

Decimal odds include your stake: return = stake × odds, profit = return − stake. A 100 bet on 1 at 2.10 returns 210 if A wins, a profit of 110. Add up the three implied probabilities and you get 105.6%; the 5.6% over 100 is the bookmaker’s margin built into the prices. The lower that total, the less the book keeps from each unit staked.

Double chance: 1X, 12 and X2

Double chance lets one bet cover two of the three outcomes. On a betting exchange the same position is a lay bet on the third outcome. As 22bet’s rules define them:

• 1X — wins if the home team wins or the match is drawn.
• 12 — wins if either team wins; a draw loses.
• X2 — wins if the away team wins or the match is drawn.

Because it covers two results, a double-chance price is much shorter than either single outcome. From the example above, 1X covers 47.6% + 29.4% = 77.0% of the implied probability, which puts it at around 1.30; X2 (29.4% + 28.6%) comes out around 1.72, and 12 around 1.31. Bookmakers price these markets separately, so the posted odds can sit a little below those figures.

Draw no bet

Draw no bet removes the draw: you back a team, win if it wins, lose if it loses, and get your stake back on a draw. It is the same bet as an Asian handicap on the 0 line — 22bet’s rules settle any handicap that ends level after the handicap is applied at odds of 1, which is a refund.

Draw no bet odds sit between the 1X2 price and the double-chance price. You can rebuild them from the 1X2 board: 1X2 odds × (1 − 1 ÷ draw odds). With the example prices, draw no bet on A is 2.10 × (1 − 1 ÷ 3.40) ≈ 1.48, and on B 3.50 × (1 − 1 ÷ 3.40) ≈ 2.47. That is the price of splitting the stake so the draw portion pays back the whole stake. If a bookmaker’s posted draw-no-bet price is lower than your own calculation, the 1X2 board is the better-priced way to get the same cover.

First-half 1X2 and other versions

• First-half 1X2 is settled on the score after the first 45 minutes plus first-half stoppage time. The half-time draw is usually priced shorter than the full-time draw, because fewer goals are scored in one half.
• Half time / full time asks you to call both results at once, for example the home team leading at the break and winning the match. There are nine combinations, so the odds are higher.
• In-play 1X2 is placed while the match is running; the odds move with the score and the time left.

1X2 and the moneyline

In American betting, the moneyline is simply the bet on who wins; the other main market, the point spread, is a bet on the winning margin. Whether it has two or three outcomes depends on the sport:

• Football: a match can be level after 90 minutes, so the full-time moneyline has three outcomes, which is 1X2. A two-way football moneyline that refunds your stake on a draw is draw no bet.
• Basketball: a level game goes to overtime until someone wins, so the moneyline has two outcomes. 22bet settles basketball match bets including overtime. In the 2025/26 NBA regular season, 54 of 1,231 games (4.4%) needed it.
• Tennis: there is no draw and a level set goes to a tie-break, so the moneyline has two outcomes; see tennis betting.
• Table tennis: a game has to be won by 2 points and a match is the best of an odd number of games, so the moneyline has two outcomes. The table tennis betting guide covers its other markets.
• Formula 1: a race has around 20 drivers, so the winner market is a list of prices rather than two or three sides; see F1 betting.
• Horse racing: the same is true of a race, which also has place, show and exotic bets on the finishing order; see horse racing betting.
• NASCAR: a Cup Series race has 36 to 40 cars, so the winner market is a long list, with top 3, top 5 and top 10 finishes and driver match-ups beside it; see NASCAR betting.

American sites quote moneylines in American odds. To convert to decimal odds: a plus price +X is 1 + X ÷ 100, so +150 is 2.50 (a 100 bet returns 250); a minus price −X is 1 + 100 ÷ X, so −200 is 1.50 (you stake 200 to win 100). The odds formats guide covers the Asian formats as well.

1X2 or Asian handicap?

When one team is far stronger, its 1X2 price gets very short, and that is why many bettors in Asia use the handicap instead: the line is set so that both sides are priced close to evens. For how the quarter lines split a stake, see Asian handicap explained; for bets on the number of goals rather than the result, see Asian total goals. Asian boards often quote prices in Malaysian or Hong Kong format — here is how to convert them.

Where to bet on 1X2

22bet lists 1X2, double chance and first-half 1X2 on football, and its sports rules, available in Vietnamese, define each market as set out above. 20Bet has its own sportsbook plus the SBO and Saba (IBC) lobbies inside its sports section. For welcome offers and markets side by side, see Vietnam betting sites.

Combining several selections on one slip? See how accumulator bets are priced and settled.

Bet responsibly

Knowing how a market settles does not tell you how a match will end, and the margin is built into every price. Only bet what you can afford to lose, set a limit before each round of fixtures and never bet more to win back losses. For adults 18 and over only.