Bwin has a pretty unique type of feature which allows you to bag yourself a little bit of insurance on your multi bets. This is their Protektor feature and it’s great for those occasions when you add those selections to your betting slip and you firmly believe that you are on your way to betting success. But it all falls down as you can’t allow for the unexpected.
Sometimes a dodgy penalty will be awarded by a referee. A marginal offside decision can flip a game, or a goalkeeper just makes a fluff of what should be an easy stop that on nine of the other ten occasions that he would have tried to have stopped it, he would have. Those unexpected moments are what adds brilliant drama to matches, but they can be a crushing blow for betting.
Protekt Yourself
The Protektor feature allows you to take insurance on a number of picks in your Multi bets and if one or more of those selections fail to win, then you will get your money back! You are in total control of which selections that you insure!
How to use the Protektor
Go to your Bwin account and start adding your selections to your betting slip. Once you have selected the picks that you want, along with the Multi-Bet option on the slip, then you will see the Protektor option appear. Chose which of the picks that you want to insure and then at that point the Protektor will tell you how much it costs. Then just strike the bet as normal and as long as you have insured as many picks (or more) that have failed, you will get your stake and your PROTEKTOR costs back.
The cost of Protektion
There is a price on the insurance and this will be determined by the combined odds, the stake and the number of selections that you have chosen to insure. You can insure up to a maximum of one less than the number of selections in your Multi. So if you have five selections, you can insure a maximum of four of them.
The possible outcomes of Protektor insurance
If you do apply the Protektor insurance and your Multi Bet is won, then you will get your full winnings as normal, but you won’t get the Protektor costs back. If your Multi bet loses and you have sufficient coverage on it, you will get the stake and the Protektor costs back as a refund. If your Multi loses and you haven’t sufficiently insured the bet (i.e. a losing selection wasn’t selected for insurance) then you receive no money back.