MTK Budapest vs. Puskas Akademia FC Felcsut - More Markets

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Market context

MTK Budapest and Puskás Akadémia meet in Hungary’s NB I, with the “more markets” window tied to the 7 August fixture. The crowd’s 0% YES implies the market is currently pricing the add-on question as effectively dead unless a late rules change, settlement clarification, or feed correction appears before the window closes.

For read-through, the useful comparison is the head-to-head profile rather than raw league position. Across recent H2H datasets, the fixture has been close overall, but the latest run has skewed towards low-variance results: multiple 1-1 and 2-2 draws in 2025–26, alongside a 0-1 and 1-0 earlier in the sequence.[17][18] Over a longer sample, the teams are separated by only one win or so in either direction depending on the source, with 21-24 meetings and roughly even scoring totals, which is consistent with a market that can flip quickly on a single extra card, goal, or substitution-related stat.[1][2][3]

A programmatic trader would watch the match feed, official line-ups, and any competition-specific stat definitions before the market cutoff, because “more markets” products often settle on discrete events such as corners, bookings, shots, or first-team milestones rather than the result itself. LiveScore and Flashscore both list the fixture as live for 7 August, so the main dependency is whether the relevant stat provider publishes the event in time and under the expected naming convention.[12][15] Late team news, postponed kick-off, or a revised official match sheet are the practical catalysts that can move a 0% market away from zero, especially when bots are using conditional orders keyed to line-up confirmation or early in-play volatility.

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to Polymarket Bot UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

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