Kabaddi betting odds: how the price is built and where to find it on a UK site

Updated October 2026

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The price on a kabaddi market looks like one number. It is two numbers pretending to be one: what the bettor gets back if the bet wins, and what the bookmaker keeps whether it does or not. Reading that second number out of the first is the only thing this page is about — for bettors in Great Britain, on bookmakers that hold a Gambling Commission remote licence, on a sport whose calendar is mostly Indian and whose UK coverage is a corner of the bigger book rather than its main event.

Kabaddi itself is fast. Seven players per side on court, three to five substitutes, two halves of twenty minutes for men and fifteen for women, with a five-minute interval. A raider crosses into the opposition half chanting the *kabaddi-kabaddi* breath and tries to tag an opponent or touch the bonus line; a tackle that puts all seven defenders out earns two extra points, the All Out. A tied game is settled by five raids per side and then a golden raid, first scorer wins. Matches at the top of the sport rarely end level. Bookmakers price the assumption that one side wins, and the rest of this page is the work that assumption does to the odds.

Last updated: October 30, 2026 · Licence claims verified against the Gambling Commission’s public register.

How a kabaddi betting market is built

A bookmaker’s odds on a Pro Kabaddi fixture list three numbers for the standard match-winner market: home, draw (where the competition rules allow it), away. A bettor backs one of them. Behind the three numbers sits a payout share — the slice of every pound staked that the book pays back as winnings, on average across all outcomes — and the rest is the margin, the slice the book keeps for itself. The price the bettor sees is the payout share dressed up as a return.

Take the simplest two-way case to feel the arithmetic. A book offers decimal odds of 1.90 on each side, a balanced match with no dead heat. The implied probabilities are 1 ÷ 1.90 and 1 ÷ 1.90, which are about 52.63 per cent each. Add them together and you get 105.26 per cent. The extra 5.26 per cent above 100 is the margin — five-and-a-bit pence in the book, every pound the bettor stakes on a fair box. Worked as a payout share, the same market pays back 100 ÷ 105.26, or about 95 per cent, of what the bettor wagers across both outcomes.

A margin around 5 per cent is the working band for a major football match winner. A niche sport on a thin week can carry twice that; a hot Pro Kabaddi card on the night of an India–Pakistan fixture can sit closer to the football number. The band matters because the bettor is paying for the privilege of having a price at all, on a sport whose liquidity is a fraction of Premier League liquidity. The price is honest in that sense. It is not a bargain.

The arithmetic in plain prose: at 1.90/1.90 on a two-way market the payout share is roughly 95 per cent and the margin roughly 5 per cent, and the band around that figure widens or narrows with how much the book has to hedge and how much it wants to. State it as a band, not as one number — the same event two hours apart can move more than the difference between a 4.5 per cent book and a 5.5 per cent book on a quiet market.

What the page actually covers

The shelves here follow the order of a first-time bettor’s reasoning. The first cluster sets out what kabaddi betting looks like in Great Britain — which competitions the bookmakers price, what kind of bookmakers list them, and what the standard match line is built from. The second reads the legal frame, because a UK punt on kabaddi sits inside the Gambling Act 2005 and the licence conditions that flow from it, and the same Act rules how the bookmaker has to behave even when no one reads the small print. The third pulls the same thread on the player-protection side, where GAMSTOP, the £150 vulnerability check and the new bonus cap live. The fourth looks at the app side of kabaddi, because almost every UK bet on a Pro Kabaddi fixture in 2026 is placed on a phone, and the app is the betting shop. The sixth reads live betting and the cash-out that follows it. The seventh treats predictions and the standard markets they ride on. The eighth describes the tournaments themselves — Pro Kabaddi League, the Kabaddi World Cup, the international calendar. The ninth is the comparison itself, the ten bookmakers the page has rated against the criteria that matter for kabaddi.

Each cluster carries a consequence angle. Where a clause or a fee or a market rule changes the bettor’s day, the page says so. Where the rule costs nothing the page leaves it out. The point of the angle is the bettor’s day, not the bookmaker’s catalogue.

What a kabaddi match offers for betting

Kabaddi betting in Great Britain runs through two channels: the international calendar (Kabaddi World Cup, Asian Games, the Asian Kabaddi Championships) and, for most of the year, the Pro Kabaddi League in India. PKL is the dominant price-setting event. UK-licensed bookmakers list PKL when the season is on, with a thinner card in the off-season and a heavier one around the World Cup.

The standard market is the match winner, priced on each team across two halves of regulation plus stoppage. Bookmakers that quote Pro Kabaddi also list totals (over/under on a points line), handicaps (one side starts the market with a points advantage or deficit), and the half-and-full-time combinations that follow from the structure of the game. A bet builder, where the site lets the bettor combine markets from one match into one price, covers raid points, tackle points, total points, top raider on each side, and the All Out market — two points to whichever side tackles all seven defenders, the market that turns a single defensive stand into a price.

Each of these markets prices differently. The match winner carries a margin near the football norm. The handicap and totals markets usually carry a slightly tighter margin because the bookmaker is hedging against a small number of outcomes with a known distribution; on niche nights they can be the worst-priced market on the card, because the book has thinner trading and is willing to charge more for the cover. The bet builder sits inside a margin envelope of its own, often wider than the singles it is built from, and the site usually states that the builder’s margin applies inside the bet, not as a separate disclosure.

The market the bookmaker is most reluctant to price is the toss — which side wins the coin toss and which half it chooses. The toss is a 50/50 event with no skill input, and it is the market where the book’s margin is closest to the punter’s edge; some books price it as an upsell, some drop it between seasons. Read the site’s small print before staking real money on a market that is mostly theatre.

Legal frame for kabaddi betting in Great Britain

A bookmaker serving customers in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission remote licence. That requirement sits in sections 33 and 36 of the Gambling Act 2005 as amended by the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, and it applies to every operator whose remote facilities are used in Great Britain, regardless of where the operator itself is based. A Curaçao or Malta licence is not enough; the Gambling Act is a point-of-consumption law, and the licence follows the customer, not the company.

There is no state monopoly and no statutory cap on the number of licences. There is also no statutory list of permitted sports or markets — the Gambling Commission licences categories (remote general betting standard for real events is the relevant one for kabaddi), and the operator decides which sports under that category to list and which markets on each. A licensed bookmaker can refuse a market, can withdraw a market mid-card, and can restrict a customer whose betting pattern it does not like. The bookmaker cannot take bets from a customer who has not passed the verification gate, and that gate sits ahead of the first deposit.

The Commission’s public register is the test of who holds a licence. The register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number, and it lists the licence category, the licence holder, the trading names and the registered domains. A licence number on a bookmaker’s “about” page is not, on its own, evidence of a licence — the number has to match a number on the register, and the trading name on the register has to match the name on the page. The list of operators the page rates below is built the same way: licence claims verified against the register, not against the operator’s own marketing.

The general statement of legality is simple: a UK resident over 18, on a site licensed by the Gambling Commission, betting on a Pro Kabaddi match, is acting inside the law. The exceptions are not on the bettor’s side of the line — they are on the operator’s, and they concern who may be licensed, not who may bet. No offence aimed at the customer who places a bet on an unlicensed site was found in the statute; the consequences of doing so are practical, not criminal, and they sit in the next section.

Player protection, and what it costs the operator who breaks it

A licensed bookmaker in Great Britain is bound by the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice, and the LCCP is the bit of the rulebook that touches the bettor’s day directly. Four pieces of it matter for kabaddi.

Identity verification runs before the first deposit, since 7 May 2019. Name, address and date of birth have to be confirmed, and the confirmation has to hold before any money moves — deposit, free bet, bonus, withdrawal. There is no anonymous play at a licensed site. That has not always been true; before the rule the verification was free of charge at the front door, and a customer could deposit, lose and withdraw without ever proving who they were. The change makes account creation a five-minute job rather than a one-minute one, and it is the price the industry pays for the rest of the protections below.

GAMSTOP is the national multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme. It is a condition of every remote betting licence, online, since 31 March 2020. Self-exclusion is offered for six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal; after the minimum period the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to remove it. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps only; a betting shop uses a separate in-shop service.

The £150 vulnerability check came in on 28 February 2025. It is a public-record check — bankruptcy, county court judgments, similar — not an income check and not a credit reference check, and it triggers when a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in any rolling 30-day window. It is not the same as the more intrusive financial risk assessments the Commission has announced in a staged plan, with no start date yet. The headline rule the press has called “affordability checks” is not in force; the £150 check is.

The bonus cap came in on 19 January 2026. Wagering requirements on bonuses are capped at 10x; a £10 bonus at the cap can require no more than £100 of qualifying bets. The cap applies to bonuses, not to free bets with no wagering condition; the boundary between the two is the operator’s own definition. Mixed-product promotions — an offer that asks the bettor to gamble on two or more product types (betting and casino, betting and bingo, betting and lottery) to clear it — are banned. The bettor who sees a kabaddi-bonus-with-free-spins landing page is looking at an offer that no licensed bookmaker can lawfully run.

The four rules, taken together, are the price of admission to a licensed market. They slow down the first deposit, they cap the bonus, they stop mixed-product promos, and they put a record check on a customer whose spend crosses £150 in a month. None of it is aimed at the casual £5 punter. All of it is aimed at the small number of accounts that cost the rest of the market its reputation. They are not, and the page does not pretend they are, a substitute for a customer’s own decision about what they can afford to lose. That decision sits with the bettor.

An unlicensed site carries none of those protections. No GAMSTOP coverage on the offshore site. No Commission complaints route. No approved dispute-resolution service. No British consumer redress if funds are withheld. The bettor is also not bound by the £150 check or the bonus cap, because those are LCCP conditions the site is not subject to. What the bettor loses is the safety net the British regime provides. None of this is “legal to use”; it is also not a criminal offence for the customer. The honest framing is that licensed means checks, limits, GAMSTOP and the bonus cap, while unlicensed means none of those and a meaningful risk that funds are not returned.

Mobile and app: where the bet actually lands

A bet on Pro Kabaddi placed from a UK postcode in 2026 almost always sits inside an app or a mobile site. The betting shop counts for football, horse racing and greyhounds, and for little else. The app carries the rest of the calendar, and a bettor’s first touch with a kabaddi market is the app’s homepage search box.

The major UK-licensed apps follow the same pattern on kabaddi. Pro Kabaddi is listed at the top of the A-Z sports menu during the Indian season. World Cup fixtures sit in a separate tournament block in tournament weeks. Pre-match cards show the standard market line — match winner, totals, handicap, half-time/full-time combinations — with the more exotic markets under a deeper tap. In-play appears when the match goes live, with a margin the site describes in its own terms and that the bettor sees in the price rather than in the disclosure.

Two practical differences matter for kabaddi. The first is event coverage: some apps price every Pro Kabaddi fixture of the week, others price only the headline matches. The second is data feed: kabaddi scores update inside an app faster than they do on most desktop sites, because the score data is sourced from the same live feed that runs the in-play markets, and an app that uses it can update faster than a desktop page that re-renders on a polling cycle.

The app is also where bet builder, cash out and price boosts live. Bet Builder is the multi-selection tool — combine a match winner, a total and a handicap into one price — and the page’s interest in it is the margin inside the combined price, which is wider than the singles it is built from and which the operator’s own small print usually describes as a “synthetic margin” applied to the combination rather than to each leg. Cash out is the exit tool — settle the bet before the final whistle — and its price is the book’s own quote, not a market price, so the spread is the book’s to set. Price boost is the marketing tool — a heightened price on a selected market — and it carries the same margin as the underlying price, plus or minus the boost, and the rule on staking and settlement is the standard market rule.

Live betting and the cash-out that follows it

Live betting on a Pro Kabaddi match is a thin-margin market with thick data needs. The bookmaker has to price the match at every raid, and a raider who scores, is tackled or steps back to his half changes the picture by a point or two in under thirty seconds. The bookmaker’s pricing lag is the bettor’s edge, and the lag is shorter on Pro Kabaddi than on most niche sports because the betting volumes, while lower, are concentrated on a small number of events where the book has the resources to keep the price right. Live markets on PKL typically include the match winner, the next point, the next raid outcome, the total at the next break, and an All Out market that pays out the moment a team tackles all seven. The All Out market is the cleanest example of live pricing on the sport, because the moment a defender steps out is the moment the bet settles, and the price on the All Out at the moment of the All Out is a pure reflection of the moment the market closes.

Cash out is the bettor’s exit before the final whistle. The book quotes a price — a value of the open bet at that instant — and the bettor takes it or holds the position. The price is the book’s, not the market’s, so the spread between the cash-out price and the underlying position’s “fair” value is the book’s. The spread widens in the last minute of a tight match, because that is when the book is most exposed. The bettor’s decision is whether the certainty of locking in a known return is worth more than the upside of holding through the final raid.

The bet builder and cash out interact in a particular way. A cash-out price on a four-leg bet builder is the book’s aggregated view of the four legs at that moment, and the aggregation carries an additional margin over the four legs individually. The bettor who built the position with the legs separately and is considering a cash out is being asked to take a price that is wider than the sum of its parts. The honest choice is to consider laying the position on a betting exchange, where the price is the market’s and where the spread is the publisher’s. The exchanges are licensed in their own right, under a remote betting intermediary licence, and the licence shows up on the register as a different category from a fixed-odds bookmaker.

Live streaming of kabaddi is rare on UK-licensed apps. The major bookmakers carry live streams of UK and Irish racing, greyhounds, tennis and selected football; kabaddi is not in that set. The bettor who wants to watch a PKL match while betting on it has to bring their own feed.

Predictions, tips and the analyst’s view

Pro Kabaddi is a heavily analysed sport at the top of the table, and the surface area of free predictions is enormous. The pattern is worth describing because the pattern is the same on every other sport that gets the same volume of free analysis.

A free tip is a one-line prediction with a price attached. The line is built from team form, head-to-head record, player availability and the structure of the fixture. The price is the bookmaker’s, not the tipster’s. The bet is the bettor’s. The tip is not actionable on its own: the tipster has not staked on it (or, if they have, has not disclosed that they have), the bookmaker has not moved on the tip alone (or, if it has, has done so by one tick), and the bettor has no way to verify that the tip was given before the price was set rather than after.

The honest framing is: tips are reading material, not a betting system. A reader who follows tips on Pro Kabaddi should expect the tipster’s record to be roughly in line with the book’s margin — that is, slightly worse than 50/50 on a two-way market — because the tipster and the bookmaker are drawing on the same data, and the tipster has no information the bookmaker does not have.

Bankroll discipline is the only tool the bettor controls. A flat stake per bet, a stop-loss per session, a target for the session and a rule that the session ends when the rule says so. None of that is a prediction. All of it is a process, and a process is the only thing a tipster’s analysis changes into a positive edge, if it ever does.

The bookmaker’s own predictions — “our traders fancy X” — are marketing. They are a price boost in narrative form. The reader is the editor of this page; the page’s view is that “our traders fancy” is a synonym for “the book has priced the market and we want your action on one side of it”.

Bet types and how they settle

A single is one selection, one price. The bet wins if the selection wins; the bet loses otherwise. A stake on a single at decimal odds of 2.50 returns stake × 2.50, so a £10 stake returns £25 with a profit of £15.

A double is two selections, both to win, at a combined price that is the product of the two single prices. A treble is three; an accumulator, or “acca”, is four or more. The combined price carries the combined margin, and the combined margin is wider than any of the singles it is built from. A two-leg acca at 2.00/2.00 (50/50 implied each leg, 100/100 implied the pair, 90.9 per cent payout share on each leg) has an implied 110 per cent on the combination, which is a margin around 9 per cent — wider than the singles.

An each-way bet is two bets of equal stake: a win bet and a place bet, with the place paying out at a fraction of the win price (typically a quarter or a fifth, depending on the field size and the operator’s terms). Each-way is a horse-racing convention that has spread to other sports where the place conditions make sense. Kabaddi does not have a “place” market in the racing sense; each-way on a Pro Kabaddi match winner is a thin offer that most books will price on request.

A handicap on a Pro Kabaddi match is a points advantage given to the underdog before the match starts. A handicap of +3.5 means the underdog starts the market 3.5 points up; the bet wins if the underdog wins by any amount, and the bet loses if the underdog loses by 4 points or more. A -3.5 handicap on the favourite is the same market seen from the other side.

A bet builder is the operator’s tool for combining markets from one event into one price. The price is set by the operator, not the market; the bettor chooses the markets and the operator’s pricing engine returns a combined price. The margin inside the combination is wider than the singles.

A free bet is a stake the operator gives the bettor, where the stake is usually not paid back with a win. A £10 free bet at 2.50 returns £25 in profit (the stake is gone); a £10 cash bet at 2.50 returns £25 stake plus £15 profit, total £25. The free bet’s economic value is the profit on a winning bet, multiplied by the book’s payout share on the same market. A free bet’s headline (“£30 in free bets!”) is half the story. The other half is the wagering condition, where there is one — read the terms before staking.

A price boost is a heightened price on a selected market. The boost applies to the price, not the settlement rules. A boosted 3/1 that settles as a winner pays out at 3/1, not at the original 1/1.

Best odds guaranteed. On UK and Irish horse racing, several bookmakers pay the bigger of the early price and the starting price — the BOG concession. Some books extend BOG to greyhounds. BOG is a horse-racing convention; it does not apply to Pro Kabaddi.

A betting exchange is a different kind of bookmaker. Back and lay, with the exchange taking a commission on net winnings. The exchange’s prices are set by its users, not by a trading floor; the bookmaker’s margin is the commission rather than the price. Smarkets is the only exchange in the page’s reviewed set, and the licence type is a remote betting intermediary, not a remote general betting standard.

The tournaments and where the price sits

Pro Kabaddi League is the dominant tournament on the calendar. Founded in 2014 with eight teams, it grew to twelve by 2017 and has stayed at twelve since. The season runs late summer through winter, with a two-month playoff window. The bookmaker’s coverage of PKL is wide during the season, thin between seasons. The price on a PKL fixture during the playoff weeks is the best-priced kabaddi market the UK bookmaker offers all year.

The Kabaddi World Cup has been held since 2004 in cycles; the men’s and women’s World Cups are separate events. The first was in Mumbai, and Indian men’s and women’s teams have won every edition. The men’s World Cup is the highest-profile international fixture the sport produces, and the bookmaker’s coverage of a World Cup week is the widest kabaddi card on the UK calendar.

The Asian Games carry kabaddi as a medal sport. India’s men and women have historically dominated the tournament. The Asian Games are the third pillar of the international calendar, after PKL and the World Cup.

The Asian Kabaddi Championships is the regional competition between Asian national sides. Coverage on UK-licensed sites is thinner than for the World Cup and the Asian Games; the championship is a useful price source for the bettor willing to look.

Outside the international calendar, national leagues in Iran, South Korea and a handful of other countries run on a smaller scale and are rarely priced by UK-licensed bookmakers. The bettor who wants to bet on those leagues is looking at an offshore site, with the protections and absences that come with one.

The ten bookmakers reviewed against kabaddi

The ten brands below are the operators the page has reviewed against the criteria that matter for kabaddi betting on a UK-licensed site. The order is not a ranking of profitability and not an invitation to sign up — it is the order in which the page chose to discuss them, and the page’s reasoning is on the criteria block, not on this list. Every brand listed holds a Gambling Commission remote licence, verified against the public register. A licence is a licence to operate, not a recommendation to bet; the page’s judgement on each brand sits in the verdict at the end of each block.

The criteria the comparison uses are the same across the ten brands: licence status, with the register-validated licence number and licence holder named; kabaddi coverage, where the operator’s own terms state it; in-play and cash out on the markets the operator offers on kabaddi; the app’s surface for kabaddi, including bet builder, price boosts and live data feed; and the headline market margin where research carries a figure for a specific match. A brand that does not list Pro Kabaddi is not a worse bookmaker on football or racing; it is a bookmaker whose kabaddi offering the page has not rated, and that the page describes as such.

Octobet

Octobet is a licensed operator under the Gambling Commission’s remote general betting category, and its licence details are available on the operator’s own terms page. The licence check is the first criterion and Octobet clears it. The welcome offer on Octobet is described as 50 per cent back as a free bet up to £50, with a £10 casino bonus alongside. That headline is a bonus, not a stake; the cash value of the free bet is the headline number times the half, on a matched first deposit, and the rest of the offer sits in the operator’s small print.

Octobet is a smaller bookmaker by UK-market share, which means the bettor looking for kabaddi coverage should check the site for Pro Kabaddi during the Indian season before staking. The site carries in-play markets on the sports it lists. The headline feature is the welcome offer rather than the depth of the sportsbook.

Verdict. Octobet is a licensed bookmaker with a welcome offer weighted toward the first deposit. The bettor who wants a generous bonus and is willing to check the site for Pro Kabaddi coverage during the season gets value. For those prioritizing kabaddi depth, alternative sites offer more comprehensive coverage.

Bet Ahoy

Bet Ahoy is a licensed betting operator with the Gambling Commission, with the relevant licence number and holder listed on its own terms page. The welcome offer is a £5 sports free bet and a £5 acca free bet, for a £10 qualifying sports bet at the headline rate. Like every welcome offer on the page, the headline is the gross figure and the small print sits below.

Bet Ahoy is a newer name on the UK-licensed list, and the sportsbook coverage is built around football and racing. Pro Kabaddi coverage is thinner than at the bigger books and is the kind of offering the bettor should confirm on the site before relying on it. The £5 + £5 split — a sports bet and an acca — is a fairly narrow welcome offer by UK standards.

Verdict. Bet Ahoy is a licensed bookmaker with a small, well-defined welcome offer. The bettor looking for a thin welcome on a licensed site, and who will read the small print on the bonus, gets value. The bettor who wants a wide kabaddi offering gets a narrower one here.

Betfair

Betfair holds a valid remote general betting licence from the Gambling Commission, and its details appear on the operator’s terms page. The sportsbook carries in-play betting, Bet Builder, free live streaming of UK and Irish racing and football, and a 90 Minute Payout market on selected football fixtures. Betfair also runs a betting exchange under a separate remote betting intermediary licence, with the exchange and the sportsbook priced from the same trading engine.

The sportsbook carries Pro Kabaddi during the season, with the standard market line. Bet Builder on the sportsbook covers the standard markets, with kabaddi-specific combinations available during the season. The 90 Minute Payout is a football feature; the equivalent on a kabaddi fixture is the standard match winner settlement, and the bettor should not expect an equivalent concession on the kabaddi card.

Verdict. Betfair is the bigger bookmaker on the list in terms of name recognition, with a sportsbook and an exchange that price off each other. The bettor who wants a betting exchange in the same account as a sportsbook, and who is comfortable with the sportsbook’s standard price, gets value. Those seeking extensive kabaddi markets might prefer specialized bookmakers.

NetBet

NetBet is an operator with a standard remote general betting licence from the Gambling Commission; information regarding its licence holder can be found on its terms page. The sportsbook carries Daily Boosts, Profit Boosts, free bet offers, a Bet Builder with instant dynamic odds, and sports stats for major leagues. Daily Boosts and Profit Boosts are the headline features; the bet builder is built into the sportsbook.

NetBet’s kabaddi coverage is moderate. The sportsbook carries Pro Kabaddi during the Indian season, with the standard match line and the bet builder available on selected fixtures. The bet builder’s “instant dynamic odds” describes the pricing engine’s behaviour rather than the margin inside the bet; the margin inside the builder is wider than the singles it is built from, in line with the rest of the market.

Verdict. NetBet is a licensed bookmaker with daily and profit boosts as the headline offer, and a bet builder across the sportsbook. The bettor who wants a steady diet of boosted prices, and who reads the small print on the boost’s stake and settlement, gets value. If kabaddi coverage is the main priority, other bookmakers may provide a superior experience.

Spreadex

Spreadex is fully licensed by the Gambling Commission for remote general betting, and its specific licence details are available on its terms page. Spreadex is also regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for spread betting, and the operator’s own homepage notes that spread betting losses can exceed deposits. That note is on every page of Spreadex that offers financial spread betting, and it is the only thing on this list that needs to be said plainly: spread betting is a different product from fixed-odds betting, with different risk, and a Spreadex account that spreads on indices is not the same as a Spreadex account that bets on Pro Kabaddi.

The sportsbook carries fixed-odds and spread betting on the same app, with one-click, auto and partial cash out, a Bet Builder across fixed odds and spreads, and live streaming of UK and Irish horse racing, greyhounds, tennis, NFL and selected football. Kabaddi is not in the live streaming list, in line with the rest of the market.

Verdict. Spreadex is the only bookmaker on the page that offers fixed-odds and spread betting in one account, with a single app carrying both. The bettor who wants both products in one place, and who reads the spread-betting risk disclosure before opening a spread position, gets value. The bettor looking for fixed-odds-only kabaddi betting has several other providers that might suit them better.

Fafabet

Fafabet operates under a standard remote general betting licence from the Gambling Commission, which can be verified on the operator’s terms page. The sportsbook pays Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing win and each-way bets from 9am on race days — the BOG concession that pays the bigger of the early price and the starting price. BOG is a horse-racing convention and does not apply to Pro Kabaddi; the bettor looking for a BOG-style concession on a niche sport is looking for something the market does not offer.

Fafabet’s kabaddi coverage is moderate. The sportsbook lists Pro Kabaddi during the season and the standard match line is available. The bettor looking for the deepest kabaddi-specific offering is not at Fafabet; the bettor who wants a BOG concession on the racing side of the book, with a moderate sportsbook alongside, is.

Verdict. Fafabet is a licensed bookmaker with a strong racing product. The bettor who bets on UK and Irish racing and wants the BOG guarantee, with a moderate sportsbook for the rest of the calendar, gets value. Fans focused purely on Pro Kabaddi might find the offering here too limited compared to dedicated kabaddi sites.

Bet600

Bet600 holds a Gambling Commission remote general betting licence, and its registration information is available on its terms page. The sportsbook pays Best Odds Guaranteed on horse racing — the same BOG concession as Fafabet, with the bigger of the early price and the starting price. Bet600 is a smaller bookmaker by name recognition on the UK-licensed list.

The sportsbook’s kabaddi coverage is moderate. Pro Kabaddi is listed during the Indian season and the standard match line is available. The bettor looking for the deepest kabaddi card is at a different bookmaker; the bettor who wants a smaller sportsbook with a BOG concession on the racing side gets a thinner version of the Fafabet offer.

Verdict. Bet600 is a licensed bookmaker with a BOG concession on horse racing and a moderate sportsbook. The bettor who bets on racing with a moderate sportsbook alongside gets value. Those betting exclusively on Pro Kabaddi could find a more extensive selection at larger, more specialized bookmakers.

LiveScore Bet

LiveScore Bet is authorised by the Gambling Commission to operate as a remote general betting business, with licence details accessible on its terms page. LiveScore Bet’s bet builder allows up to ten selections and covers match result, both teams to score, corners, total goals, player scoring and card markets — a deep builder on football, the sport it is built for. The builder’s coverage of Pro Kabaddi is thinner than its football coverage, with the standard match line available during the season.

LiveScore Bet’s wider app carries the LiveScore scores service, with the sportsbook pricing off the same data feed. The bettor looking for a scores-and-betting app in one account is at LiveScore Bet; the bettor looking for a deeper kabaddi-specific offering is at a different bookmaker.

Verdict. LiveScore Bet is a licensed bookmaker with a deep football bet builder and a scores service inside the same app. The bettor who bets on football with the scores service alongside, and who checks the site for Pro Kabaddi coverage during the season, gets value. Individuals betting solely on Pro Kabaddi might find more comprehensive markets elsewhere.

bet365

bet365 is a remote general betting standard licence holder, with the licence number and licence holder on the operator’s own terms page. bet365 is the official global betting partner of the UEFA Champions League, and its app is described in its own marketing as the most downloaded sports betting app in the UK. The sportsbook carries Bet Builder+, Super Boosts, Winnings Boosts on Bet Builders and selected singles, daily Bet Boosts, in-play betting, live streaming of events worldwide, Bet Track, Match Live and a Live Golf Tracker. The depth of the sportsbook is the depth of the major bookmakers.

The sportsbook’s Pro Kabaddi coverage is the widest on the page during the season, with the standard match line, the in-play offering, the bet builder and the price boosts all available. Live streaming of kabaddi is not in the in-app streaming list, in line with the rest of the market.

Verdict. bet365 is the largest bookmaker on the page by name recognition, app downloads and kabaddi coverage. The bettor who wants the deepest Pro Kabaddi offering on a UK-licensed site, with the in-play and bet builder tools, gets value. The bettor who wants a smaller bookmaker with a more curated offering is at a different bookmaker.

Smarkets

Smarkets is a remote betting intermediary licence holder — a betting exchange — with the licence number and licence holder on the operator’s own terms page. The exchange runs on a back-and-lay model, with the exchange taking a commission on net winnings rather than a margin in the price. UK deposits by open bank transfer are instant from £10 up to £10,000; withdrawals are processed within 6 hours from £10 up to £100,000; UK debit card deposits are instant from £10 up to £15,000. The payment limits are the operator’s own; they sit beside the standard bank transfer and debit card offerings on the rest of the page.

Smarkets is a betting exchange, not a sportsbook. Pro Kabaddi coverage on the exchange is set by Smarkets’ users, not by a trading floor. The exchange’s prices are market prices, with the spread between back and lay being the user’s own and the commission being the exchange’s. The bettor who wants a betting exchange on kabaddi, with the price set by other bettors rather than by the book, gets a different kind of product at Smarkets.

Verdict. Smarkets is a licensed betting exchange with a back-and-lay model and a commission rather than a margin in the price. The bettor who wants an exchange, with the price set by other users and a commission on net winnings, gets value. The bettor looking for a sportsbook with a margin in the price is at a different bookmaker.

The numbers in context: margin, payout and price

The same arithmetic that opens this page applies to every market on the page. A two-way market at 1.90/1.90 has a margin of about 5 per cent and a payout share of about 95 per cent. A three-way market (home, draw, away) at 2.10/3.40/3.40 has an implied probability sum of about 105 per cent — the same headline, with the extra leg redistributing the implied probability across three outcomes.

The wider the margin, the worse the price for the bettor. A market at 1.70/1.70 has a margin of about 17.6 per cent, a payout share of about 82.4 per cent. A market at 2.50/2.50 has a margin of about 25 per cent, a payout share of 75 per cent. A market at 5.00/5.00 has a margin of about 80 per cent, a payout share of 20 per cent. The bettor’s expected loss on a market is the margin itself: a £100 stake across both outcomes at 1.90/1.90 returns about £95, a £5 expected loss. A £100 stake at 2.50/2.50 returns about £75, a £25 expected loss.

The point of the arithmetic is to give the bettor a way to read the price. A market at 1.90/1.90 is a reasonable price for a balanced two-way event. A market at 2.50/2.50 on the same event is a poor price — the book is keeping a quarter of every pound staked. The bettor who looks at the price sees a return; the bettor who reads the price sees a margin. They are the same number seen from two sides.

A note on the difference between a margin and a free-bet value. A free bet’s stake is not usually paid back with a win; a £10 free bet at 2.50 returns £25 in profit, not £25 stake plus profit. The economic value of a free bet is the profit on a winning bet, multiplied by the book’s payout share on the same market: a £10 free bet at 2.50 on a market with a 95 per cent payout share is worth £10 × 1.50 × 0.95 = £14.25 in expected value. The free bet is worth £14.25 on average across many bets; it is not worth £25, and the bettor who values the free bet at £25 is overpaying for it.

Tax, fees and the spread the book keeps

The bettor in Great Britain pays no tax on betting winnings. That is the general information; a professional gambler should ask HMRC or an adviser. General Betting Duty is the operator’s tax on gross profits, currently 15 per cent, and from 1 April 2027 a new remote betting rate of 25 per cent applies within it, while remote bets on UK horse racing, bets on self-service betting terminals in licensed premises, pool betting and in-person betting stay at 15 per cent. Until 1 April 2027 the remote rate stays at 15 per cent. Whether operators pass duty on through odds is not established, and the page does not claim they do.

The exchange’s commission is a different fee. Smarkets takes a commission on net winnings rather than a margin in the price. The bettor’s expected loss on a bet placed at the exchange’s price is the commission rate times the expected profit on a winning bet; on a market with a 2 per cent commission, a £10 stake at 2.50 returns £10 + £15 × 0.98 = £24.70, an expected loss of about 30p per £25 stake.

The betting intermediary’s commission is the closest the UK market comes to a transparent fee, and the spread on the rest of the page is the fee the bettor is paying without seeing it called a fee. A 5 per cent margin is a 5p fee in every pound staked; a 25 per cent margin is a 25p fee. The fee is the price of the bet, and the bettor who reads the price as a fee is reading it correctly.

The criteria the page has not covered

The page has not covered the spread-betting side of Spreadex in any detail. A bettor looking at Spreadex for spread betting should read the operator’s risk disclosure, which says plainly that spread betting losses can exceed deposits, and should treat the spread-betting product as a separate kind of bet from the fixed-odds product.

The page has not covered the betting exchange’s specific rate card in detail. Smarkets’ commission rate sits on the exchange’s own terms page and changes with the customer’s monthly volume. The bettor who wants to lay a position on Pro Kabaddi is reading the exchange’s terms, not the page’s number.

The page has not covered every operator’s welcome offer in detail. The welcome offers are stated as the operators’ own terms describe them, with the bonus nature of the offer (free bet, bonus, cash) carried into the page’s text and the small-print conditions described in qualitative terms. The bettor who is about to claim an offer reads the operator’s small print, not the page’s summary.

The page has not covered Pro Kabaddi’s team-by-team form. That is the tipster’s work, and the page’s view on tipsters is on the predictions cluster above. The bettor who wants team form reads the Pro Kabaddi League’s official site or one of the specialist Indian sports sites; the page is the comparison, not the form book.

How to read the table

The table below sets each reviewed bookmaker beside the criteria the comparison uses: the Gambling Commission remote licence number and the licence holder named on the register, and what the operator’s own terms state on the key. The cells are short because the operators’ own terms are short. The cells are accurate because the cells say what the operator’s own terms say.

A licence cell tells the reader the licence category and the licence holder. A licence number is not, on its own, evidence of a licence — the number has to match a number on the Commission’s register, and the trading name on the register has to match the name on the page. The cells on the table match both. A reader who wants to check the licence takes the number to the Commission’s public register and runs it through the search box; the match is the verification, and the page has done that work already.

A “what the operator’s terms state” cell is a quote of the operator’s own headline, not a description of the operator’s full offering. The bettor who is about to open an account reads the operator’s own terms page, not the cell on the table.

What to do with this page

A reader who has read this page to the end is not the same reader who started it. The starting reader wanted to know where kabaddi can be bet on in Great Britain and what the odds look like. The finishing reader knows that the odds are a margin dressed up as a return, that the licence is the entry ticket and the LCCP is the ride, that the app is where the bet lands and the bet builder is the most expensive tool the bettor uses.

The next step is the bettor’s, not the page’s. Where to bet is the operator’s call; how much to stake is the bettor’s call; when to stop is the bettor’s call, and the LCCP is the floor under that decision, not the ceiling. The page’s job is the comparison and the criteria; the bettor’s job is the stake and the discipline.

GAMSTOP is the door the bettor can shut. GamCare is the phone the bettor can call. GambleAware and the NHS gambling clinics are the routes the bettor can take. The page does not advertise them, and it does not apologise for mentioning them. They are the practical structure beneath every other clause on the page.

Frequently asked questions

How to play kabaddi betting?

Kabaddi betting is a stake on a kabaddi market at a bookmaker licensed by the Gambling Commission. The bettor chooses a market — match winner, handicap, totals, All Out, a bet builder combination — and a stake. The stake is the bettor’s; the price is the book’s. A winning bet returns stake × decimal odds, with the profit being stake × (decimal odds − 1). The bettor who reads the price as a return is reading it one way; the bettor who reads the price as a margin is reading it the other way.

How to bet on kabaddi?

Open an account at a Gambling Commission licensed bookmaker, pass the verification gate (name, address, date of birth), deposit by debit card or bank transfer (credit cards are banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020), find the Pro Kabaddi fixture in the sports menu, choose a market and a stake, place the bet. The settlement is automatic on settlement of the underlying event; in-play bets settle at the end of the match or at the moment the market closes, whichever the operator’s terms describe.

How can it be checked that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

The Commission’s public register can be searched by business name, trading name, domain or account number. The licence number on the operator’s “about” page is not, on its own, evidence of a licence. The number has to match a number on the register, and the trading name on the register has to match the name on the page. The register lists the licence category, the licence holder and the registered domains. A bookmaker licensed under a remote general betting standard licence for real events is licensed to offer kabaddi in Great Britain.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

Return = stake × decimal odds. Net profit = stake × (decimal odds − 1). For a combination bet the odds of the legs multiply into one price, and the same formula applies. A £10 stake at 2.50 returns £25; net profit is £15. The decimal odds are the working total of preference in Great Britain; fractional odds (a/b) convert to decimal by a ÷ b + 1, so 5/1 is 6.00 and 11/4 is 3.75. The conversion is exact and the two forms always agree.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?

The margin is the slice of every pound staked that the book keeps, on average across all outcomes of a market. For a two-way market at decimal odds o₁ and o₂, the implied probabilities are 1/o₁ and 1/o₂. Their sum is the bookmaker’s “overround”; the margin is the overround minus 100 per cent. At 1.90/1.90 the implied probabilities sum to 105.26 per cent and the margin is 5.26 per cent. The margin is the same number as the book’s expected profit per pound staked across all outcomes.

How do fractional odds such as 5/1 convert to decimal odds such as 6.00?

Fractional odds a/b mean a profit of a for every b staked, plus the stake returned on a win. Decimal odds are 1 plus the fractional odds expressed as a decimal, so a/b → a ÷ b + 1. 5/1 → 5 ÷ 1 + 1 = 6.00. 11/4 → 11 ÷ 4 + 1 = 2.75 + 1 = 3.75. Evens (1/1) → 2.00. Odds-on prices (shorter than evens, e.g. 4/6) → 4 ÷ 6 + 1 = 1.67. The two forms always agree, and the bookmaker shows one form on the betting slip and the other on the site.

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