The penultimate piece in our series of articles on full cover bets is this, on the Super Heinz. As the Super Yankee is to the Yankee, so the Super Heinz is t the Heinz. By that, we mean that it simply includes one more leg, or selection. (Note that, to add more confusion, a Super Yankee is sometimes called a Canadian.)
So, as we detailed in our piece on the Heinz, it includes six selections and a total of 57 bets, gaining its name from the semi-mythical 57 varieties offered by the US food conglomerate. The Super Heinz, therefore, requires seven selections and from these it creates a massive 120 individual bets, giving full cover to every possible accumulator from doubles, right up to a huge sevenfold.
What Bets Make Up a Super Heinz?
120 bets is a lot of individual wagers, with a Super Heinz covering every possible combination you can make from the seven separate selections. So, in short, the 120 bets will be:
- Sevenfold – One simple acca that includes all legs
- Sixfolds – With seven selections, there are seven possible sixfolds
- Fivefolds – Get at least five picks right and you will land one or more of the 21 fivefolds that can be made
- Fourfolds – There are 35 fourfold accas
- Trebles – Likewise there are 35 possible trebles that can be made
- Doubles – With seven selections, you can land 21 doubles
This means that if you place a £1 Super Heinz, £120 will be taken from your betting account, with £1 going on each of the bets listed above using the seven legs you select for your wager. If you manage just two winners from your seven selections, you will end up winning just one of the 120 separate bets – the double that includes those two selections. Get three right and you will win the associated treble, plus three doubles. But really, you need to be winning at least four legs and, depending on the odds of your selections, probably more before you will see much, or even any net win.
With four winners from seven you will win the following wagers:
- One fourfold
- Four trebles
- Six doubles
Out of 120 bets you will win just 11, fewer than 10%, with 109 of your stakes being lost to the greedy hands of the bookmaker. However, each of these is an acca in its own right, so winnings can easily add up.
Let us examine the returns from a hypothetical £1 Super Heinz (total stake £120) that had four winners priced at odds of 2/9, 4/1, 6/1 and evens. The fourfold acca alone would return £85.86, recovering more than a third of your initial outlay. The treble containing the longest-priced picks would add a tidy £70, already ensuring a net win. In fact, such a Super Heinz would yield a total net win of £183.78 (total return £303.78).
That is a very solid return indeed given it includes only four out of seven bets winning and one of those is at odds of evens, with another a very short odds-on pick. However, it should be noted that if we swap the 6/1 winner for a successful bet at lower odds of 6/5, the picture is rather different. In such a scenario, that handsome net win of almost £200 vanishes and becomes a loss of £3.42.
Get Five Out of Seven for Big Wins
Whilst landing four of your seven picks can often yield a net win, this sort of bet tends to really deliver the goods when we get five or more winners. Do this, and even if all seven picks are favourites at even money, your net win is still a respectable £112. But throw in just one outsider, say at 4/1, and that net win jumps to £352. Change another winner from evens to 6/1 and your returns become a very tidy £1,277 (including stake). But if we increase the odds of all five winning picks to 3/1, your net win would be just a shade under £3,000.
What About the Magnificent 7?
If you have the luck or skill to land a perfect Super Heinz, clearly the rewards are going to be significant. With 120 winning bets, some of them sizeable accas, what did you expect? The only way to land all 120 bets is, of course, to get all seven winners. Six will yield a very nice net win too but you’ll miss out on the sevenfold acca and a number of the doubles, trebles and so on too.
Anyway, let us look at a hypothetical Super Heinz on the most famous magnificent seven of them all. No, not the 1960 Western or the not-quite-as-good 2016 remake, but Frankie Dettori’s incredible day at Ascot in 1996. It was on 28th September 1996 to be precise, a day that is seared into the memories of many a racing fan and certainly many bookmakers who took a huge hit when Frankie rode all seven winners at one of racing’s most famous courses.
The seven winners, along with their SPs, were:
- Wall Street @ 2/1
- Diffident @ 12/1
- Mark of Esteem @ 100/30
- Decorated Hero @ 7/1
- Fatefully @ 7/4
- Lochangel @ 5/4
- Fujiyama Crest @ 2/1
The sevenfold acca alone delivered a massive 25,051/1 and we should also note that the prices quoted here are the Starting Prices. Many would have backed the various horses at even longer odds, with Fujiyama Crest, in particular, having started the day much longer (at 12/1). It shortened significantly as bookies began to fear the worst and others among the seven were available at bigger prices at various times.
Even so, based on the odds above, a £1 (£120) Super Heinz would have landed anyone crazy enough to back it more than £131k! As it happens, however, we don’t even need to consider a hypothetical Super Heinz because Darren Yates, a joiner from Lancashire, backed Frankie’s feat back in 1996. As detailed at the link above, he won a cool £550k from William Hill! Cheers, lads!
Huge Wins from Super Heinz Bets
Over the years, countless huge Super Heinz bets have been landed by punters all around the world. One such win didn’t even need all seven legs to come home first, with a win of €355,807 reported by everyone’s favourite Irish bookie by a punter who got six out of seven at Leopardstown in 2017.
Had Imperial Way managed to come home first in the 17.00 he would have been looking at a seven-figure win but let’s not get greedy, we’d take a €355,807 any day of the week! The punter landed a 50 cent each way Super Heinz (for more on each way betting in relation to accas and multiples see our article on doubles or on Trixies). The horses that fateful day, and their odds, were as follows:
- Whos That, 9/2
- Grand Partner, 14/1
- Mega Fortune, 9/2
- Bacardys, 12/1
- Disko, 6/1
- Sizing John, 10/3
- Imperial Way, 9/1 (finished third)
Whilst not in the same bracket as that Leopardstown banger, another highly notable Super Heinz win came at one of racing’s other spiritual homes, Cheltenham. What makes it especially noteworthy is that the person landing it was golfing star Lee Westwood. The Worksop man may never have won a major tournament but he has, at the time of writing, scooped a staggering £33m in prize money from his day job. We suspect, then, that he was rather less excited with his £48k Super Heinz win than the two aforementioned punters.
Even so, it was an impressive win from the keen racing fan and again, it only took six out of seven winners to land it. The Ryder Cup legend staked £2 per bet on his Cheltenham wager, for a total outlay of £240. On the second day of the 2020 Cheltenham Festival, he landed six wins with the likes of legends such as Altior and Tiger Roll obliging.
Sadly for him, Killultagh Vic couldn’t quite do the business at big odds of 16/1 or he would have been looking at a really whopping win. Even so, once again, let’s not get greedy, almost 50 grand would do nicely for us.
What Can I Bet on & How Do I Place a Super Heinz?
Whilst the examples we have looked at thus far have been from horse racing, this type of wager can be made on just about any sport or market you want. It does tend to be hugely popular in the racing community but it is also much-loved by football fans too. You could opt for seven home bankers, seven upsets or a mix of both. Equally, you could back both teams to score, over 2.5 goals or, indeed, anything else.
We explain more about this in our article on Trixie betting and also tell you how you go about placing such a bet but really you can get as creative – or go as boring – as you like. Play it safe and opt for a Super Heinz of odds-on shots like over 1.5 goals, go for glory with a correct score mega-bet that could leave you looking at a seven-figure win from a small stake, or mix and match, in terms of odds, markets and even sports.
You can construct a Super Heinz using just about any bets you want. So, if the final of your favourite reality TV show is coming up, you could include that, along with a couple of football picks, a horse for the weekend’s big race, the winner of the weekend’s Grand Prix and a couple of handicap bets on tennis matches. The world really is your oyster and if you pick wisely, it could be oysters and caviar all the way!
The only things that you cannot include in a Super Heinz, or indeed any accumulator or multiples bet, are what are called related contingencies. This is something we cover in more depth in our doubles article and also in the other full cover bet features. In short though, this often applies to markets or bets on the same game where the outcomes, and probabilities of them occurring, are linked.
So, for example, you cannot have an acca of Lewis Hamilton to win the British Grand Prix and the Stevenage man to bag a podium. Obviously, if he wins, he will be on the podium, so these cannot be combined like a normal double to improve the odds of him simply winning the race. Should you try and add these as a double or as part of a Super Heinz online you will, or certainly should, get an error message and find yourself unable to place the bet. Other than such related bets though, you really can include almost anything. Just add seven selections to your betting slip and away you go!