Results for Wed 19 August 2026

4 picks. Two won, one returned the stake, one lost. Up 0.22 units.

Magni is the one worth explaining, because the game was drawn and it still paid more than half a unit. Dalvík/Reynir and Magni finished 1-1. On a plus 0.25 the Draw No Bet half came back and the Double Chance half won at 2.16, which returns 0.55 units on a drawn game.

I want to be precise about something here, because I have been quoting these bridges at their winning price and that is only half the picture. When you build a quarter line from two legs, the headline number — 2.857 on Magni — is what it pays if the team wins. On a draw it settles on the Double Chance leg alone, and that is a smaller number. Both outcomes were set out in the slip before kick-off, so nothing was hidden, but the single figure at the top of a bridge is a win-branch price and I will label it that way from now on rather than let it stand as though it applied to every result.

Ottawa won 4-0 and both halves paid. That was the pick where building it beat taking the posted quarter by six per cent — 1.6745 against 1.57 — and on a win that difference is straightforwardly yours. Best evidenced pick on that card and it did not need the margin.

Reynir Sandgerði drew 2-2 and the stake came back. I had flagged that the money was arriving on our side — they had come in from 1.81 to 1.74 while the away side drifted from 3.18 to 3.60 — and the drift was right about the direction without being right about the result. A Draw No Bet on a drawn game costs nothing, which is the entire point of the line.

Corpus Christi lost 2-0 at home. Shortest price on the slip at 1.30 and the one where I said shopping properly mattered most, with the board running from 1.30 down to 1.20. It made no difference in the end.

1. Dalvík/Reynir 1-1 Magni (Iceland 2. deild) — Away AH +0.25 Magni, bridged @ 2.857 — part-win on the draw
2. Atlético Ottawa 4-0 Vancouver FC (Canadian Premier League) — Home AH +0.25 Ottawa, bridged @ 1.6745 — won
3. Reynir Sandgerði 2-2 KH Hlíðarendi (Iceland 3. deild) — Home AH 0.00 Reynir @ 1.43 — push
4. Corpus Christi 0-2 New York Cosmos (USL League One) — Home AH 0.00 Corpus Christi @ 1.30 — lost

Day close: +0.22u (2 won, 1 pushed, 1 lost from 4).

Two drawn games on the card and neither cost anything. One paid better than half a unit and the other returned the stake. That is the shape of a book built on quarter lines and Draw No Bets, and it is why the strike rate reads higher than the returns suggest.