An exchange, not a bookmaker
Prices come from other customers backing and laying, and we take a commission on net winnings rather than building a margin into every price.
An exchange, built for India
About FairPlay
We are an exchange, which means we do not take the other side of your bet. We match you with other customers and charge commission on winnings — so we can afford to tell you when a bet is bad value, and we do.
- Players
- 10 Lakh+
- Sports
- 30+
- Casino games
- 1,000+
- Support
- 24x7
How We Write
Six rules, and where to check them
Every row below is verifiable. Open the page named in the last column and the claim is either there or it is not.
| The rule | What it means in practice | Where to check |
|---|---|---|
| We publish the house edge | Every casino game states what it costs you, in a table | See the casino, roulette and blackjack pages |
| We show the working | Figures are derived and the derivation is written out, not asserted | Each-way break-even on racing, pot odds on poker |
| We name the bad bets | Insurance, the tie bet and 6:5 blackjack are called what they are | Blackjack and baccarat |
| We do not hype jackpots | Progressives are described as a trade, not a free extra | Slots |
| We say when another game is better | If a game suits you less, the page says so and points elsewhere | Blackjack sends non-strategy players to Andar Bahar |
| We never ask for an OTP | Support cannot and will not request a password, OTP or screen access | Customer support |
A gambling site that tells you the odds is unusual, and it should not be. Every one of those numbers exists whether or not we print it. Printing them means a customer who takes an expensive bet has actually chosen it. We would rather have customers who know what things cost than customers who find out afterwards — the first kind stays, and the second kind should not have to.
What We Are
Six things worth knowing
The model, the rails it runs on, and the parts we deliberately made harder to undo.
Built on Indian rails
UPI deposits that clear in seconds, withdrawals to Indian bank accounts, and fixture times in IST rather than converted from somewhere else.
Eight languages on chat
English and Hindi everywhere, with Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Gujarati on live chat and WhatsApp.
Cricket first, genuinely
The board is ordered the way an Indian sports page is ordered, with domestic and international cricket ahead of everything else.
Sport and casino together
A single FairPlay ID and one balance across every market and table, with no transfer step between them.
Tools that are hard to undo
Deposit and session limits apply immediately and take a cooling-off period to raise. The delay is deliberate and we will not waive it.
Why the model changes the writing
A traditional bookmaker profits when customers lose. That is not a criticism, it is simply how the arrangement works — the operator takes the other side of the bet, and the margin is built into every price offered. An exchange is structured differently, and the difference runs further than most people expect.
Commission instead of margin
Here, prices are made by customers. One person wants to back an outcome, another is willing to lay it, and the platform matches them and charges commission on net winnings. Nobody at FairPlay needs your selection to lose in order for the business to work.
That is why this site can publish a table showing that insurance at blackjack costs 6.80%, or that a 6:5 table roughly quadruples the house edge, without arguing itself out of a living. A bookmaker writing the same page would be talking customers out of its own margin. We are not, so we can simply write what is true. How backing and laying actually work is on the sports betting page.
What we mean by showing the working
Plenty of gambling sites quote a house edge. Rather fewer show where it came from. Across these pages the figures are derived and the derivation is printed — the reason every European roulette bet lands on exactly 2.70%, the arithmetic that makes an each-way bet lose on a placed horse below a certain price, the formula behind a pot-odds call.
This has a practical consequence we are happy to live with: when a number could not be verified, it does not appear. During the writing of this site an entire table was cut because the sample prices in it produced an impossible margin, which proved they had been invented rather than sourced. A missing table is a small cost. A plausible-looking wrong one is not.
Built for India, not translated for it
A great many international products arrive in India with the serial numbers filed off — European fixtures at the top of the board, times converted from somewhere else, card payments that do not work here, and support in one language.
This is built the other way round. Cricket leads because cricket leads. Fixtures are listed in IST because that is the clock people actually live on, which is also why our pages point out that European kick-off times shift twice a year while IST never does. Deposits run on UPI and Indian rails because that is what people use. Support is staffed in eight languages because explaining a payment problem in a second language is a difficulty nobody should have to add to a bad day.
The limits we will not remove for you
Deposit limits, loss limits, session reminders and self-exclusion are all in your account settings. Reducing a limit takes effect straight away. Raising one takes a cooling-off period, and support genuinely cannot shorten it — not as policy theatre, but because a limit that can be lifted at the exact moment you most want it lifted is not doing anything at all.
We would rather be occasionally frustrating than useless. The full set of tools, and how each behaves, is on responsible gaming.
What we cannot do
Some limits are worth stating plainly. We cannot reverse a settled bet because the result was disappointing. We cannot speed up a bank once a payment has left our side. We cannot lift a self-exclusion early. And we cannot tell you whether betting is permitted where you are — that depends on the law in your state and on where you are physically located, it has changed more than once, and the India page is a map of the position rather than permission to act on it.
If something has gone wrong, the fastest route to a fix is live chat with the right reference number in the first message — customer support lists exactly what to send for each kind of problem.
FAQ
About FairPlay
The model, the money, the languages and the limits.
What is a betting exchange, and how is it different?
A traditional bookmaker sets a price, takes the other side of your bet and profits when you lose. An exchange does neither. It matches customers who want to back an outcome with customers willing to lay it, and charges a commission on net winnings. That difference is structural rather than cosmetic — it is why you can lay a selection here as easily as back one, and why the price you see comes from other people's opinions rather than from a margin built in against you.
So how does FairPlay make money?
Commission on net winnings in the exchange, and the published house edge in the casino. Both are stated rather than hidden, which is deliberate. A customer who understands what a product costs makes better decisions and stays longer than one who is surprised later, and we would rather have the second kind of relationship than the first.
Why do your pages tell me when a bet is bad?
Because it is true, and because the alternative is worse for everyone. Insurance at blackjack carries a 6.80% house edge, the tie bet at baccarat 14.36%, and a 6:5 blackjack table quietly costs about four times a 3:2 one. Those numbers exist whether or not we print them. Printing them means a customer who takes the bet anyway has chosen it, and a customer who avoids it keeps money they would otherwise have lost — which is a better outcome for them and a perfectly sustainable one for us.
Where do the numbers on this site come from?
They are calculated, not collected. The house edge on every European roulette bet, the break-even price on an each-way bet, the pot odds tables on poker, the data cost of an hour of streaming — each is derived from first principles and the derivation is written out on the page so you can check it. Where a figure could not be verified, it is not published; where a rule of thumb stops being accurate, we say where.
What languages and payment methods do you support?
Live chat and WhatsApp are staffed in English and Hindi at all hours, with Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Gujarati also available. Deposits run on UPI through any app, along with net banking and the wallets Indian customers actually use, and withdrawals go back to the bank account matching your verified details.
What will support never ask me for?
Your password, an OTP, or permission to view or control your screen. Agents can see your account without any of those, so there is no legitimate reason to request them. Anyone who does is not from FairPlay regardless of what number they called from, and the safest habit is to start every support conversation from inside the app rather than from a number found in search results.
Can I set limits on my own account?
Yes, and they are designed to be difficult to reverse. Deposit limits, loss limits, session reminders and self-exclusion are all in your account settings. Lowering a limit takes effect immediately; raising one takes a cooling-off period, and support cannot shorten it. That is not an inconvenience we have failed to fix — it is the entire mechanism, because a limit you can remove in the moment you most want to remove it is not a limit.
Is betting legal where I live?
India regulates online real-money gaming state by state rather than through one national law, and several states take a notably more restrictive position than others. What applies to you depends on the rules currently in force where you are physically located, and that position has changed more than once. Our India page sets out the picture state by state, but it is a map rather than a permission — confirm your own position before betting. Accounts are for adults aged 18 and over.
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