Most 1xBet promotions reward a deposit or a specific bet. 1xBet's Advancebet is different in kind — it's a short-term credit line extended against bets a customer has already placed but that haven't settled yet, letting them keep betting on live or near-term events without waiting for those earlier bets to resolve. The mechanic works cleanly when it's repaid, but the voiding rules that kick in when it isn't are where the real detail lives.
How Advancebet Actually Works
When a customer has unsettled bets sitting in their account, 1xBet evaluates the potential returns on those bets and may offer a portion of that value as usable Advancebet credit — visible on the Bet Slip by pressing "Find out" opposite "Available Advancebet." Whether an Advancebet is offered at all, and how much, is entirely at 1xBet's discretion; the terms state plainly that the company can offer or refuse this credit to any customer without providing an explanation.
Two restrictions apply to where an Advancebet can actually be spent: it can only fund bets on live events, or events due to start within 48 hours. A customer can't use Advancebet credit to fund a bet on a match kicking off next week, regardless of how much unsettled potential return is backing the offer.
The credit offered is conservative, not a full match. In 1xBet's own example, a customer holding two unsettled bets with a combined 450 USD in potential returns (150 USD from one bet, 300 USD from the other) was offered just 100 USD in Advancebet credit — well under a quarter of the total exposure those bets represented. This suggests 1xBet extends Advancebet as a fraction of potential returns rather than anything close to a 1:1 credit line against them.
The Covering Mechanism: How Repayment Actually Works
The core rule is this: whichever bets were placed before the Advancebet are the ones responsible for covering it, provided they settle within 48 hours of the Advancebet being placed. If those original bets' returns don't add up to enough to cover the Advancebet amount used, the bets funded by that Advancebet are voided — regardless of whether those Advancebet-funded bets would otherwise have won. Money deposited after an Advancebet has already been used cannot be applied toward covering it; only the returns from the specific bets that existed before the Advancebet counts.
Walking Through the Official Example in Full
1xBet's own worked example is the clearest way to see how the pieces fit together. A customer starts with a 260 USD balance and places two bets: 100 USD at odds of 1.5 (potential return 150 USD) and 150 USD at odds of 2.0 (potential return 300 USD) — combined stakes of 250 USD, leaving 10 USD in the main balance. 1xBet offers a 100 USD Advancebet based on those two unsettled bets, bringing total available betting funds to 110 USD (10 USD own + 100 USD credit).
The customer then places two new bets using that combined pool: a 30 USD bet at odds 1.5 (10 USD of it from the main balance, 20 USD from the Advancebet — potential winnings 45 USD) and a 50 USD bet at odds 2.0 funded entirely from the Advancebet (potential return 100 USD). That leaves 30 USD of the 100 USD Advancebet still unused and available for further bets if the customer chose to place them.
Outcome 1 — new bets win, original bets lose. The new Advancebet-funded bets would pay out 45 USD and 100 USD, but because the original two bets lost, there are no returns to cover the 20 + 50 = 70 USD in Advancebet funds used. Both new bets are voided entirely — their potential winnings are forfeited, not paid. The one silver lining: the 10 USD of the customer's own money mixed into the 30 USD bet is refunded, since that portion was never Advancebet credit to begin with.
Outcome 2 — new bets lose, original bets win. The original bets pay out 150 + 300 = 450 USD combined. From that payout, the 70 USD in Advancebet funds actually used (50 + 20 USD) is deducted before crediting the customer: 450 − 50 − 20 = 380 USD. The 10 USD of genuine own money used in the losing new bet is simply lost, the same as any ordinary losing stake — there's no special protection for it here, since nothing needs voiding when the new bet already lost on its own terms.
Outcome 3 — both new bets and original bets lose. With no returns from the original bets to cover the Advancebet, the new bets are voided just as in Outcome 1. But because the new bet lost on its own merits this time rather than being denied a win it would have collected, the 10 USD of the customer's own money mixed into that stake is treated as an ordinary betting loss and isn't refunded.
| Original Bets | Advancebet-Funded Bets | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Lose | Win | Advancebet bets voided; own-money portion (10 USD) refunded |
| Win | Lose | Original payout credited minus Advancebet funds used; own-money portion lost normally |
| Lose | Lose | Advancebet bets voided; own-money portion (10 USD) lost normally |
The pattern across all three: whether the customer's own small stake survives depends entirely on whether the original bets covered the Advancebet, not on whether the new bet itself won or lost.
Stacking and Other Rules
A customer doesn't need to wait for an existing Advancebet to settle before receiving another one — the terms explicitly allow additional Advancebets to be offered and placed even while earlier ones remain unsettled, provided 1xBet's own evaluation still supports it. As with every other 1xBet bonus mechanism, cryptocurrency-related activity is excluded from Advancebet without exception.