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What Is a Dead Heat?
Most ties (also known as pushes) in sports betting are straightforward as they merely result in a refund to the bettor. For example, if you bet on an NFL team to win outright and the game ends in a tie, you get your money back. Pushes happen in betting on the moneyline, totals betting, bets against the spread, as well as parlays.

However, dead heats are when two or more selections have tied, and this is where things get tricky. What typically happens with your bet is the payout is divided by the number of people tied for the position. For example, a two-way tie means that you’d win half of the amount you were originally expecting to win.

Although this may seem confusing for team sports, but think of individual player sports like golf or horse racing. A dead heat in golf or horse racing occurs when multiple options tie for the same position. When multiple options are in a dead heat, how much you stand to win or whether you win at all comes into question.