SECTION 3
UP AND DOWN -- DOS (or DSA)
What is meant by -- DOS or DSA ?
DOS means -- DOUBLE OUT STAKES
DSA means -- DOUBLE STAKES ABOUT
They mean exactly the same thing. Some people prefer to write DOS, and some prefer to use DSA. They give the same instruction to the settler. The difference in terminology is probably a regional thing. I will use the term 'DOS' in the description of bets, as I am more familiar with it.
Now what is meant by Up and Down DOS ?
If we go back to our basic IF CASH bet -- £10 Win A -- If Cash -- £10 Win B, we have the same stake for the 1st selection as well as the 2nd selection (£10). In other words the IF CASH part of the bet on 'B' is equal in value to the original stake on 'A'. This is an -- equal SINGLE STAKE of £10 on each.
So if an equal Single Stake is instructing the settler to put the same amount on each selection, it must follow that a DOUBLE STAKE in the IF CASH part of a bet instructs the settler to put DOUBLE the amount of the original stake unit on the If Cash selection. Therefore, if we wanted double stakes in our original basic bet, it would have to be written as :-
£10 Win 'A'
- IF CASH -
£20 Win 'B'
Remember, the cost of this bet (Stake) is only £10, and if both win it could be a decent return for a small initial outlay.
Now let us extend this to UP AND DOWN bets.We saw in our UP AND DOWN bet in Section 2, that the bet is written :-
This bet had a total stake of £20 to be paid, and it instructed the settler to do the bet as an If Cash bet, at SINGLE STAKES -- ie. put the same stake unit on the 'if cash' part of the bet as the the stake unit on the 1st part.---- As this bet is an UP AND DOWN bet, of course the settler follows these instructions both ways.:-(A if cash B) and (B if cash A).
So how does this 'Up and Down' work with DOS (Double out stakes):-
These are two seperate 'If Cash' bets (£10 stake on each), with DOS instructions on the 'If Cash' part.
Now see below how they are written together as one bet :-
£10 Up & Down DOS
'A'
'B'
The total stake money for this Up and Down DOS is £20. Yet the resulting returns if both selections win are much better than an Up and Down bet at Single stakes about. The only disadvantage is that if only 1 selection wins, then twice the amount of stake money for the If Cash part is deducted from the returns on the winning selection.
This is the basic principle behind If Cash bets, Up and Down bets and Up and Down DOS bets. These particular types of bet and the terminology used to describe them will form parts of all the 'If Cash Multiple Bets' in the following Sections.
In this If Cash section, we have only looked at WIN bets. Details of EACH WAY - IF CASH betting will be covered later.