Betfred Double Delight & Hat-Trick Heaven: How Do They Work?

With Betfred's Double Delight Hat-Trick Heaven (DDHH) promotion, you can sit back and relax with a big fat smile on your face if you correctly pick the first goalscorer in any Premier League match (and some other selected matches).

Not only have you banked some guaranteed cash by winning your bet, you've also left the door open for your winnings to be:

1. Doubled if your player bags a brace
2. Tripled if he scores a hat-trick!

All without taking any additional risk!

Betfred DDHH - Key Points

• Sorry, you can't lump on a striker if he's torn a defence apart in the first 15 minutes and looks certain to score: The offer applies to pre-match bets only.
• All you shrewd little smarties who think picking Jonny Evans or Craig Dawson is a great shout - sorry to disappoint you: Own goals don't count.
• This offer applies to any Premier League match, but also to selected other games. In those other games, it's important to remember that extra time does not count.

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There have been just over 350 hat-tricks scored in the approximately 11,300 Premier League games to date, making your (very rough) chances of correctly calling a hat-trick at around 3%.

That approx. 3% probability of a hat-trick being scored in any given Premier League match translates to odds of 32/1 (33.0). When you take into account the probability that your selected player in your selected match must be the one to score that hat-trick, the odds are astronomical.

With strikers typically priced at between 33/1 and 100/1 in the 'player to score a hat-trick' market in any given match, it's clear from the above that this represents dreadful value from a betting perspective.

It's the same story if you're backing a player to score a brace. Obviously, these are far more common than hat-tricks but bookies know this and the typical odds offered on this market ('player to score 2+ goals) are poor value too.

Of course, to directly compare we've also got to add the caveat in this case that your selected player must also be the first goalscorer.

Even so, the odds offered by the bookies for 'first goal & brace' or 'first goal and hat-trick' would almost certainly not be worth taking.

Betfred DDHH as insurance

One way to view Betfred's DDHH promo, then, is as a kind of insurance against your selected player not scoring more than once.

If you've bet on a player to score 2 or 3 goals in a match and they only bag once, you're up the proverbial creek without a paddle.

With DDHH, you'll win whether that player scores 1, 2, or 3 goals (provided they score the first goal).

That sort of insurance makes a lot of sense to us.