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Virgin Bet New ID: Best Odds Guaranteed and the Starting Price
A request for a Virgin Bet new ID usually arrives from someone with family in Britain or a Saturday habit of watching UK racing on a stream. Virgin Bet is a UK-licensed sportsbook that uses the Virgin brand under licence, and it serves customers in that market. GameWinExch is not affiliated with Virgin Bet and cannot open an account there for anyone. The ID we provide is our own rupee ID, created on WhatsApp and topped up by UPI. What we can do here is explain a concession that British racing punters take for granted and Indian bettors have mostly never heard of: Best Odds Guaranteed.
Two Prices for Every Horse
In British and Irish racing a horse has an early price and a starting price. The early price is whatever the bookmaker shows when you place the bet, perhaps at ten in the morning. The starting price, always shortened to SP, is the official figure returned at the moment the race begins. It has traditionally been compiled from the prices offered by bookmakers standing at the racecourse, with off-course betting data playing a growing part in recent years.
Between morning and the off, a price can move a long way. Money for a well-backed horse forces it shorter. A horse nobody wants drifts. The punter who bets early faces a gamble inside the gamble: take the price now, or wait for SP and hope it is bigger?
What the Guarantee Does
Best Odds Guaranteed, or BOG, removes that second gamble. Take an early price, and if the SP turns out larger, the bookmaker pays at the SP. If the SP is smaller, you keep your early price. A simple example shows the value. You put ₹1,000 worth of pounds on a horse at 5.0 in the morning. It drifts and is returned at an SP of 7.0, then wins. Without BOG your return is ₹5,000. With it, ₹7,000. Had the horse been backed in to 3.5 instead, you would still be paid at 5.0.
It is a free option, and free options have a cost to whoever grants them. Drifters win less often than their morning price suggested, but they do win, and each one that does costs the bookmaker the difference. Studies by racing analysts have generally put the value of BOG at a few percentage points of turnover for a punter who always takes early prices. That is large. For many casual racing bettors it has been the difference between a slow loss and something close to break-even.
The Small Print That Shrinks It
Because it costs real money, the guarantee comes wrapped in conditions. The details vary by bookmaker and change often, so treat these as the usual pattern and not as any one firm’s terms.
- Time of day. Many books apply BOG only to bets struck on the day of the race, and some only after a set morning hour. A bet placed the night before may not qualify.
- Which races. The offer normally covers UK and Irish horse racing, sometimes greyhounds. Overseas meetings and ante-post bets are left out.
- A cap on the extra. The additional payout from the guarantee is often limited to a fixed sum per bet or per day.
- Channel. Online and shop bets may be treated differently.
Why It Vanishes for Winners
The quietest condition is the one that matters most. Bookmakers reserve the right to withdraw BOG from individual accounts, and they use it. A customer who regularly beats the SP, meaning they keep taking 6.0 about horses that start at 4.5, is showing the book that they have good information or good judgement. That customer is expensive. Long before such an account is closed or stake-limited, the guarantee tends to be removed, often with a short email and no explanation.
So the concession works as a filter. Recreational punters who take random early prices keep it for life. Sharp ones lose it within months. We covered the wider practice on the stake factoring and gubbing page, and BOG removal is usually the first step on that road.
Why Cricket Has Nothing Like It
People sometimes ask whether any cricket book guarantees the best price between the time of the bet and the toss. None does, and the reason is structural. Racing has an official, independently returned SP that every bookmaker agrees to settle on. Cricket has no such figure. There is no official closing price for India against Australia, only whatever each book or exchange happened to show when the first ball was bowled.
There is also the matter of who drives the price. Racing prices drift because of stable confidence and on-course money. Cricket prices jump on the toss, the pitch report and the team sheet, which are public events that every bettor sees at once. A guarantee across the toss would be a free bet on the coin. The nearest equivalent for an Indian bettor is an exchange, where you can ask for a price above the current one and wait to be matched. Our cricket betting exchanges guide explains how those orders work. For racing bet types in general, see the Racebets page, and for the on-course ring and Rule 4 deductions, the piece on Ostlers Racing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can GameWinExch register me with Virgin Bet?
No. We have no connection with Virgin Bet. We issue our own rupee ID for our own panel.
What is the starting price?
It is the official price of a horse at the moment the race starts, used to settle bets where no price was taken.
Does BOG ever pay less than my early price?
No. You receive whichever is larger, the price you took or the SP, subject to the offer’s caps.
Why would a bookmaker remove BOG from an account?
Because the account keeps beating the SP, which makes the guarantee costly to provide for that customer.
Is Indian horse racing covered by BOG?
Offers of this kind are normally restricted to UK and Irish racing. Indian racing is priced through course bookmakers and tote pools.
A generous concession is still an invitation to bet more often. Racing or cricket, keep it to adults aged 18 and above, set a weekly figure, and treat the last race of the day like any other, not as a rescue.