A Super Yankee, also known as a Canadian (some sites use one term, some the other), does not relate to a native of North America, from either side of the border. Unsurprisingly, given the nature of this website, it is a betting term and refers to a multiples bet that includes five selections.
Our comprehensive guide to all the different betting options out there covers everything from the most basic double up to mammoth wagers like the Goliath and Lucky 63. A Super Yankee, as we shall now refer to this bet (sorry to the good folk of Canada), lies somewhere in the middle, towards the more complex end of things. But fear not, we shall explain all.
What Is a Super Yankee (Canadian) Bet?
A Super Yankee is a wager that consists of 26 separate bets in total and so requires 26 stakes. This means that a £1 Super Yankee will set you back £26 in total. Put another way, in order to calculate your stake, take the amount you want to bet in total and divide that by 26. So, for example, if you want to risk £20 in total your Super Yankee stake would be £20 divided by 26, i.e. 77p per bet (though note this would actually cost £20.02 or 26 bets of 76p would cost £19.76).
To create those 26 individual bets you must make five selections. Each selection (the terms selection, leg, bet and prediction may all be used interchangeably) can be on any sport, event or market you want and they come together to form the Super Yankee. We have already looked at the mechanics of this type of wager before when we looked at a Trixie (three selections and four bets in total) and a Yankee (four selections and 11 bets overall). As such, some of the information we provide here will be a little briefer, with more detailed analysis provided in those and other articles covering other broadly similar types of bet.
What Are the 26 Bets in a Super Yankee?
As with a Trixie and a Yankee, a Super Yankee is a type of full cover bet, meaning that it covers every possible acca that can be made from the relevant selections. It does not cover the five singles individually, a bet of that type being called a “full cover with singles” wager and the five-selection equivalent being a Lucky 31. It does, however, cover all possible doubles, trebles, fourfolds and the one possible fivefold accumulator. So, in other words:
- 1 Fivefold
- 5 Fourfolds
- 10 Trebles
- 10 Doubles
To get any return at all from the bet at least two of your five predictions must be correct. Get two winners and you will in just one of your 26 bets though, the associated double. However, unless your Super Yankee is at huge odds, or at least the two legs that won were, you are unlikely to make a net win from just two winners.
Should you get three winners, the number of your winning bets increases to four. You will have one winning treble involving the three winners and the three possible doubles that can be made up from them (for example, legs 1 and 2, legs 1 and 3, and legs 2 and 3). With four winners from 26 bets your chances of a positive return are much higher but once again will depend on the odds used.
Let us imagine an example of a Super Yankee with three winning selections at odds of evens, 2/1 and 3/1. A £1 bet, costing £26 in total, would deliver an overall net win of £24, with almost half of the overall returns coming from the successful treble. If the odds of the three winners were all evens, however, you would actually make a small loss (£6) from this bet, whilst had they all been 5/4 you would be sitting on a “handsome” net win of 58p!
Four Winners or More for Big Wins
Once you move into the realm of getting four of your five picks right though you can start to think about a really decent net win. If the odds are short enough it is still possible that you would lose overall but in reality you should be sat on a very nice net win. With four winners you would have: one winning fourfold, four trebles and six winning doubles.
To give you some idea of what winnings this might yield, we will take a look at four different odds, assuming each of the four winners were all backed at the same price (again based on a £1 Super Yankee):
- 4 Winners @ 4/5 = £27 Net Win
- 4 Winners @ 6/4 = £113 Net Win
- 4 Winners @ 3/1 = £582 Net Win
- 4 Winners @ 8/1 = £9,937 Net Win
As we can see, even at odds-on you are more than doubling your money. To land a really big win you do need to increase the odds a little but let us imagine you had one winner at each of the odds detailed above (4/5, 6/4, 3/1 and 8/1). Such a Super Yankee would earn you almost £446. This illustrates the value of the odd pick at longer odds as, despite two winners close to evens, this Super Yankee still comes close to matching one with four picks at 3/1.
Of course, should you get all five of your selections right then you will be successful with all 26 individual bets that form the Super Yankee. That means you’ll have a winning fivefold acca, five winning fourfolds and 10 each when it comes to successful doubles and trebles. Nice.
At odds of evens for all five picks, you would make a net win of £206, at 3/1 that jumps to £982 and at 5/1 you would be in the black to the tune of £16,750! With a mix of odds, say 4/5, 6/4, 2/1, 5/1 and 10/1, you would still be up by £2,968, so a Super Yankee, even with two relatively short-priced winners and just one at double-digit odds, can still deliver dazzling results from a relatively small stake.
What Can I Include in a Super Yankee?
You can include more or less anything you like in your five selections with the only real exception being related contingencies, a concept that applies to all accumulator bets. We have explained this in more detail elsewhere, most thoroughly in our feature on doubles. In short, related contingencies are bets that are related, most typically on the same game, match or event. An oft-cited example is that you cannot create a double using the standard odds for a given player to score first and their side to win by a particular score.
The probabilities of the two events are linked, so whilst the first might be 8/1 and the second 8/1, this is not a double with two legs at 8/1, effectively paying out at 80/1. If your player scores first, then automatically the second part of the equation is more likely and so such a bet is a single wager, called a scorecast in this instance, with odds that are calculated by the bookmaker.
Most betting sites will not allow such related wagers to be added to a betting slip and so the issue is probably not one that will crop up. That said, if you place a bet in a shop, it is possible that such a wager may be accepted in error. It is even possible that the bookie’s technology may not register selections as related and so you could have the same scenario happen online. In either case, the bookmaker reserves the right to settle such bets according to what the odds should have been, rather than at the acca (or Super Yankee) odds you hoped for.
All Sports & Events Welcome
As said, you can use any sports or bets for your five selections of a Super Yankee, so long as they are not related from a probabilistic point of view. These types of bets are quite traditional, for want of a better word, and have historically been linked with horse racing. So, for example, one very common type of Super Yankee would be to try and back all five winners of the main five races of a particular card.
Such a bet might also be popular as an each way Super Yankee, due to the difficulty of picking five winners at racing. We look at each way bets of this nature in more detail in our doubles piece but in brief, they essentially work just like any other each way bet but with the each way terms applied to each of the 26 wagers within the Super Yankee.
As such, you would need 52 stakes in total, with a £1 each way Super Yankee costing £52. If just one leg won and one placed, your only winning bet would be the place part of a single each way double. If one leg won and four placed you would land all 26 of your place bets but none of the win bets, whilst unsurprisingly you would need five winners to land all 52 of the wagers that you have effectively made.
These types of bets are not limited to horse racing though and are popular in football too. You might try and combine five bankers from the weekend’s football, be it from the Premier League, the EFL or some combination of more than one league. Alternatively, you might place a Super Yankee on five both teams to score picks, first goalscorers or anything else. You can also combine markets and sports, making this type of bet a great option if you have a day, or weekend of sport planned. Such a Super Yankee might look like this:
- Friday Night Football – Arsenal to beat Spurs 2-1 at 8/1
- Saturday Football – Crystal Palace to beat Burnley at 6/4
- Saturday Boxing – Tyson Fury to beat Anthony Joshua at 1/3
- Sunday Rugby Union – England to beat New Zealand by 1-5 points at 2/1
- Sunday F1 – Lewis Hamilton for podium finish at 1/5
The point we are really trying to make is that a Super Yankee, as with other such full cover bets, can combine different sports, markets and odds, the only restriction being with regards to related contingencies. You should also note that you cannot back only some of the selections each way: either the whole Super Yankee bet is each way, or it is to win.
How to Place the Bet
One might assume that placing this type of bet would be complicated but that really isn’t the case. Yet again, this is an issue we have explained in greater detail with regards to one of the other similar bets (in this case you can find a more detailed explanation in our articles on either Trixies or Yankees). However, as said, making such a bet is surprisingly simple and that is largely down to the technological wizardry of the best betting sites that we work with.
Just pick the five bets you want to include in your Super Yankee and then as long as they are valid, unrelated selections, the betting slip should include an option for the wager. It will indicate that such a stake will involve 26 stakes and when you input the amount you want to bet on each the total stake will be indicated towards the bottom of the betting slip. With the best online betting sites, it really is that easy.
However, if your bookie does not have a smart slip that offers a Super Yankee as standard, you can effectively make your own by backing the relevant bets. Some bookmakers may not have the option to back a Super Yankee but will show all five selections available to back as singles, as well as showing an option to back the doubles, trebles, fourfolds and all-encompassing acca.
The option to back these Super Yankee building blocks can be seen at one example bookmaker in the screenshot below. As you can see, by adding a £1 stake to each relevant box you come up with a £1 Super Yankee covering the 26 component bets and costing £26 in total.
By “building” your own Super Yankee this way you also have the option to finesse this wager even further by adjusting your stakes for each of the bet options. You might, for example, decide that you are happy only to have 50p on the main, fivefold accumulator, given the higher odds this would deliver and the reduced probability of it winning.
Alternatively, you may decide you want to wager a little more on the trebles or doubles. By placing your Super Yankee in this way you have total control over the stakes and whilst this is not technically a Super Yankee or Canadian, it ultimately does a very similar job but just with a little more subtlety and nuance in your stake options.