A permed Yankee bet consists of five or six selections in different events. This means that five individual bets can be placed on different sports. It brings the number of bets to 55.

For example, Bet365 was taken to court for refusing to pay over 1 million in winnings to a horse bettor in Northern Ireland in 2024. The company refused a payout of 54,000 to a customer in England in 2024, a case which was still ongoing in 2024.