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Goliath Bet Explained
A Goliath is 247 bets on eight selections: 28 doubles, 56 trebles, 70 fourfolds, 56 fivefolds, 28 sixfolds, eight sevenfolds and one eightfold accumulator. It contains no singles, so nothing pays until at least two of the eight win. The stake you pick is per bet, which makes a £1 Goliath £247 in all. Fortune Games is an online casino and takes no sports bets, so this guide sets out how the bet works.
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The 247 bets inside a Goliath
| Bet type | How many | Winners needed |
|---|---|---|
| Doubles | 28 | 2 |
| Trebles | 56 | 3 |
| Fourfolds | 70 | 4 |
| Fivefolds | 56 | 5 |
| Sixfolds | 28 | 6 |
| Sevenfolds | 8 | 7 |
| Eightfold | 1 | 8 |
The Goliath is the eight-selection member of the full-cover family: bets that take every possible double, treble and accumulator across their selections and leave singles out. On three selections that idea gives a Trixie of four bets, on four a Yankee of 11, on five a Canadian, or Super Yankee, of 26, on six a Heinz of 57 and on seven a Super Heinz of 120. Put a single on each of four selections and a Yankee becomes a Lucky 15.
What a Goliath costs
All 247 bets carry the same unit stake, so the outlay is 247 times whatever you put on each line: 10p a bet comes to £24.70, 50p to £123.50 and £1 to £247.
Placing it each way doubles the outlay, because every bet then has a win part and a place part of the same size. The place part is settled at a fraction of the odds, so a selection that is placed without winning still counts towards the place bets, and each-way multiples are settled win to win and place to place.
A worked example
Say you place a £1 Goliath with a bookmaker, £247 in total, on eight selections that are all at evens. At evens a winner returns twice its stake, and inside every double, treble or bigger bet the whole return from one winning selection rolls on to the next, so a winning double returns £4.
Two winners land a single double, which returns £4. Four winners land six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold, worth £72 together. Five winners bring back £232, which is still £15 less than the outlay, and six bring back £716. Longer odds change the picture quickly: at 3/1, where a winner returns four times its stake, four winners from eight would return £608.
Frequently asked questions
How does a Goliath bet work?
The bookmaker settles the 247 bets one by one. A double, treble or accumulator pays only when every selection in it has won, and any bet that contains a loser is lost. With three winners, for example, the three doubles and the one treble made from those three selections pay, and the remaining 243 bets lose.
How many bets are in a Goliath placed each way?
494: the 247 win bets plus 247 place bets at the same unit stake. That makes a 10p each-way Goliath cost £49.40. Each win bet needs its selections to win, and each place bet needs its selections to finish in the places, paid at the bookmaker’s place terms.
What is the difference between a Goliath and a Super Heinz?
One selection. A Super Heinz uses seven: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 fourfolds, 21 fivefolds, seven sixfolds and a sevenfold, which is 120 bets. Adding an eighth selection turns it into a Goliath, so at the same unit stake it costs 247 times that stake rather than 120.
Related guides
Checked on 2 November 2026 against Wikipedia’s glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers and its article on fixed-odds betting, OLBG’s guide to horse racing bet types, the Racing Post’s guide to types of bets, Oddschecker’s Goliath and Heinz guides, Great British Racing’s guide to the odds, the Gambling Commission’s public register and time-out rules, our terms and conditions, FAQ and responsible gaming pages, and the lobby feed. How we research and check our guides: our editorial policy.