Win Both Halves and HT/FT are both types of sports betting options, typically offered in football betting. They involve predicting the outcome of a match based on its two halves (first half and second half). However, there is a difference between these two betting options:

Win Both Halves: In "Win Both Halves" betting, you are predicting that a particular team will be the winner of both the first half and the second half of the match. To win this bet, the team you've chosen must outscore their opponents in both halves of the game. It doesn't matter if the opposing team scores in one or both halves; as long as your chosen team has a higher total score across both halves, you win the bet.

Example: Let's say you bet on Team A to "Win Both Halves." If Team A scores more goals than Team B in both the first half and the second half of the match, your bet is successful.

HT/FT (Half Time/Full Time): HT/FT, on the other hand, involves predicting two different outcomes within a single bet. You must correctly predict both the result at half-time (HT) and the result at full-time (FT) of the match. There are nine possible HT/FT outcomes: Home/Home, Home/Draw, Home/Away, Draw/Home, Draw/Draw, Draw/Away, Away/Home, Away/Draw, and Away/Away.

Example: If you bet on the HT/FT outcome "Home/Draw," it means you predict that the home team will be leading at half-time, but the match will end in a draw after the full-time whistle.

In summary, "Win Both Halves" focuses on predicting a team's success in both the first and second halves of the match, while "HT/FT" requires predicting two different outcomes for the half-time and full-time results of the game. The HT/FT option offers more possibilities to bet on, making it a bit more complex but potentially more rewarding if you accurately predict both halves' outcomes.

Let's take a bet on Liverpool to win both halves as an example here to show why it is different to HT/FT.

HT/FT is who was winning between 0-45 and 0-90 minutes, whereas To Win Both Halves is between 0-45 and 46-90 minutes.
If the score was 2-1 (to Liverpool) in the first half, and there were no goals in the second half, your lay on HT/FT would lose as Liverpool were winning at HT and also won in FT, whilst your back on To Win Both Halves would also lose as your team drew 0-0 in the second half.

You can find lay markets at Betfair and Smarkets for these bets usually, so if you back Win Both Halves, make sure that you lay Win Both Halves. Likewise, if you back HT/FT make sure that you lay the HT/FT market too.