Terms of Service

By accessing or using FakeBet (the "Service", located at https://fakebet.fun) you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

FakeBet is a simulator. Every bet on the Service is placed with virtual currency — a ranked $1,000 starter balance and a casual $100,000 starter balance. The currency has no monetary value, cannot be withdrawn, cannot be purchased, and is not redeemable for goods or services. That applies to prizes as well: everything the Service can pay you is the same virtual currency (see section 10).

FakeBet is not a sportsbook. We do not accept deposits, hold funds, process withdrawals, conduct KYC, or operate any licensed gambling activity. Odds shown on the Service are sourced from third-party data providers for educational realism only and may have delays or errors.

The Service is intended for users aged 18 years or older (or the local age of majority where higher). By creating an account you represent that you meet this requirement. We may terminate any account we reasonably believe to be operated by a minor.

• You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for all activity that takes place on your account.
• One account per person. Creating multiple accounts to manipulate the leaderboard or achievements is a violation of these Terms.
• No automation, bots, scrapers, or scripted bet placement. The Service is built for human use.
• Choose a username that is not impersonating another person, brand, or public figure. We may force-rename or remove usernames we reasonably consider impersonating or offensive.

• Do not exploit bugs (settlement gaps, double-credit scenarios, cascading void edge cases) for unfair leaderboard advantage. Report them via the feedback widget instead.
• Do not reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from the Service beyond what is necessary for interoperability permitted by law.
• Do not harass other users, post links to malicious content, or use the Service to facilitate any illegal activity.
• Do not stress-test, DoS, or load-test the Service without prior written permission. We may rate-limit, suspend, or terminate accounts that abuse infrastructure.

The Service runs two sport wallets, and a mode switch decides which of them a bet is funded from:

• Ranked — starts at $1,000. This is the only wallet that feeds the public leaderboards, the weekly prize, tournaments, and the figures on your public profile.
• Casual — starts at $100,000. It feeds no leaderboard, no prize and no public profile figure. Nothing you do in casual mode can help or hurt your standing.

Prediction-market positions are funded from whichever of those two wallets your mode switch has lit at the moment you place them, and they settle back into that same wallet — read from the bet itself, not from whichever mode you happen to be in when the market resolves.

Your ranked profit and loss is your ranked balance minus the total you are counted as having been staked over the life of the account. You can wipe an account back to its starting balances from Settings; that action voids open positions and is rate-limited.

A sports bet is settled from the final result our odds provider publishes for that match — not from the match itself. Those are almost always the same thing. This section is about what happens when they are not.

If no final result reaches us within 24 hours of the scheduled start, the bet is voided and your stake is refunded — even if the match was played, and even if your selection would have won or lost it. A void is not a ruling on the match. It is what we do when we cannot read a result we are willing to move money on. The same applies, on a shorter clock, to competitions whose results never reach our feed at all, and to any match our provider reports as cancelled or postponed.

A voided bet is not reopened if a result turns up afterwards. We do not claw a refund back, and we do not pay out a bet that has already been refunded.

Voided bets return the stake and count toward no leaderboard, no weekly prize and no tournament (see section 10). Nothing about a void reflects on your selection.

A pending sports bet can be ended early for a payout derived from current market odds instead of waiting for the result. Cash-out is offered only while a fresh price exists for every unsettled selection, and only up to five minutes before kick-off.

The Service retains a 3% margin on every cash-out. For a single bet the value is your stake scaled by the ratio of the odds you took to the odds now available, less that margin. For a parlay the same applies to the product of the legs: a leg already won is locked in at the odds you took, a voided leg counts as no change, and a parlay containing a lost leg cannot be cashed out at all.

On cash-out the bet is closed, any still-pending legs of a parlay are voided so they cannot pay a second time, and the value is credited to the wallet the bet was funded from. A cashed-out bet counts on the all-time leaderboard, where its profit is the cash-out value minus the stake. It does not count toward the weekly prize ranking, which reads only bets that finished won or lost.

Cash-out is a convenience, not an entitlement. Odds are polled periodically; where a current price is missing or stale, no offer is made.

A wallet that has fallen below its starting balance can be topped back up to exactly that starting balance — $1,000 for ranked, $100,000 for casual. Each wallet allows three top-ups per UTC day, counted separately per wallet and resetting at midnight UTC. Every top-up is written to a ledger.

A top-up is a restart, not a refund, and it is not free:

• Every open position funded by that wallet is forfeited, with no refund of the stake. This covers sports bets and prediction-market positions alike. Forfeited bets are recorded as lost — not voided — so they count against your record, your win rate and your leaderboard profit exactly as a losing bet would.
• On the ranked wallet, the amount granted is also added to the total you are counted as having been staked. Your profit and loss is therefore identical before and after the top-up: taking one never forgives the losses that earned it.
• A ranked top-up taken inside a prize window disqualifies you from that window's prize — both the weekly prize and any tournament whose scoring period covers it. You keep your rank and your row in the results; the payout is zero and the finish is recorded as ineligible. Nobody is promoted into your place, so the pool pays out less rather than paying it to somebody else.
• A casual top-up carries none of these prize consequences, because casual play feeds no ranking.

Every prize described here is paid in the same virtual currency as the rest of the Service. Prizes are credited to your ranked balance. They have no monetary value, cannot be withdrawn, cannot be exchanged, and are not redeemable for anything. There is no entry fee and nothing to buy.

The Service keeps two rankings — one for sports, one for prediction markets — and both read ranked-wallet play only. Banned accounts are excluded from both.

Weekly prize. The scoring window is the ISO week, Monday 00:00 UTC to the following Monday 00:00 UTC, measured by when a bet was placed. It counts settled ranked sports bets that finished won or lost; pending, voided and cashed-out bets do not count, and prediction-market positions do not count. Ranks 1 to 10 are paid automatically shortly after the window closes, currently on this schedule:

• 1st $25,000 · 2nd $12,500 · 3rd $7,500 · 4th $5,000 · 5th $3,750
• 6th $2,500 · 7th $1,500 · 8th $1,000 · 9th $750 · 10th $500

That is $60,000 of virtual currency per week. The schedule has changed before and may change again; a change applies to future weeks only and never rewrites a week already awarded. We may pause, alter or discontinue the weekly competition at any time.

Ties. From the week beginning 21 September 2026: places are ordered by profit, and then by how many settled bets produced it. Players level on both are tied: they are shown the same position, and the prizes attached to the places their tie covers are added together and split equally between them. Three players tied for 9th, for example, cover 9th, 10th and 11th — $750 plus $500 plus nothing — and take $416.67, $416.67 and $416.66 each. The weekly total is unchanged; any odd cent goes to the tied account whose internal identifier sorts first. If a tied player is disqualified from the window under section 8, their share is not paid and is not shared out to the others, who receive their own share and nothing more. Tournament ties are resolved differently: there, the player who joined the tournament earlier is placed ahead.

Tournaments. A tournament is optional and opt-in: you join it, and your ranked profit and loss across its published window is your score. When one runs, the top ten finishers are paid from its pool and the top three also receive a one-time medal. There is no guaranteed tournament schedule — a tournament exists only when we announce one.

Prize credits do not increase the total you are counted as having been staked, so a prize registers as profit and the following week starts from the larger bankroll.

Manipulating a ranking — running more than one account, colluding, automating play, or exploiting a settlement or pricing defect — forfeits any prize and may end the account. We may withhold or reverse a prize where we reasonably believe a ranking was manipulated.

The prediction-market mode quotes questions priced from public order-book data published by Polymarket. FakeBet is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Polymarket. We are not a party to those markets and hold no position in them. The prices are reference data; the bet you place is with the simulator, in virtual currency, exactly like a sports bet.

Those prices carry no bookmaker margin, which is why this mode has its own ranking rather than sharing the sports one. The prediction-market ranking pays no prizes, and cash-out is not available in this mode.

Not every market published upstream is offered here. We quote only markets that clear liquidity, volume, price and spread floors and that resolve within 30 days. Stakes are limited to between $1 and $10,000.

A bet is refused if the price shown to you has gone stale, or has moved materially between the moment the page rendered and the moment you confirmed. Settlement waits for two agreeing readings of the outcome and for the upstream dispute window to pass, so a payout can lag behind a result you already know. A market that has not resolved within fourteen days of its stated end date is voided and stakes are refunded.

The FakeBet name, branding, code, design tokens, and content (other than user-generated content) are owned by the operator and protected by copyright. You receive a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to access the Service for personal, non-commercial use.

User-generated content — namely your chosen username and (if you submit one) feedback messages — remains yours; by submitting it you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to display and process it as necessary to operate the Service.

Sports schedules, team names, league logos, scores and odds are sourced from third-party data providers — currently Highlightly, previously The Odds API, which still supplies the historical part of the catalogue. Prediction-market questions and prices come from public Polymarket data (see section 11). We may change data provider at any time. We do not endorse any sportsbook, team, or league, and none of these providers endorses us.

The Service contains one outbound affiliate link to Rainbet (a real, real-money sportsbook). Clicking that link is entirely optional and subject to that operator's own Terms and licensing. See our Affiliate Disclosure for the full arrangement.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that the data (odds, scores, settlement outcomes) will always be accurate. Sports-data delays or third-party outages may affect the simulation.

Nothing on the Service constitutes financial, gambling, or professional advice. The Service is for entertainment only.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service. Because the Service is provided free of charge, our aggregate liability for any direct damages is limited to €100 or the local equivalent.

FakeBet is built precisely so the financial pain of real-money sports betting can be removed from the learning curve. If you find yourself struggling with gambling — whether on this Service or elsewhere — please reach out for free help:

• Gamblers Anonymous (international)
• BeGambleAware (UK)
• Uzależnienia behawioralne (Poland)

You may stop using the Service at any time and request account deletion via the feedback widget. We may suspend or terminate any account that violates these Terms, with or without notice. On termination, your right to use the Service ends; provisions about intellectual property, disclaimers, and limitations of liability survive.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the European Union and, to the extent applicable, Poland — the operator's home jurisdiction. Any dispute that cannot be resolved through the feedback widget will be brought before the competent courts of Poland.

Consumers based in the EU retain the protections granted by their local consumer-law statutes; nothing in these Terms displaces those rights.

We may update these Terms when the Service or the law changes. Material changes will be flagged in a banner on the home page; the "Last updated" date at the top of this page always reflects the most recent revision. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.

For any question about these Terms, use the feedback widget on the home page. Submissions are routed through Web3Forms to a private inbox the operator monitors.