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Jackpots in Kenya Compared: Mega Jackpot, Midweek Jackpot, Bonuses
Jackpots in Kenya run from the long mega jackpot to the shorter midweek jackpot and daily formats. SportPesa, Betika, Mozzart Bet, Shabiki and Odibets all run them, and they differ in how many matches a ticket covers, what one ticket costs and whether near misses pay. The table below puts those three things next to each other, with the source and check date for every value, and the sections after it explain what the numbers mean for your chances.
How do the jackpots in Kenya compare side by side?
They differ most in length. The SportPesa Mega Jackpot and the Betika Grand Jackpot both ask for 17 results on one ticket, while the shorter products at Mozzart Bet, Shabiki and Odibets range from a handful of matches up to the same long format. Entry prices sit in a narrow band, and the real gap between the products is in how much each bookmaker tells you about near-miss bonuses.
| Jackpot | Bookmaker | Games | Entry | Bonus tiers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Jackpot | SportPesa | 17 | KES 99 | 13 and 16 correct reported |
| Grand Jackpot | Betika | 17 | KES 99 | 12 to 16 correct reported |
| Midweek Jackpot | Betika | not stated | not stated | not stated |
| Daily Jackpot | Mozzart Bet | 9 or 12 | KES 99 to 199 | not stated |
| Power 17 | Shabiki | 17 | about KES 49 to 99 | not stated |
| 13-game Jackpot | Odibets | 13 | not stated | not stated |
| 7-game Jackpot | Odibets | 7 | not stated | not stated |
Read the table from left to right as a set of questions you would ask before buying a ticket. How many matches must I get right? What does one ticket cost? Does anything pay if I miss by one or two, and how far down do the bonus tiers reach? A “not stated” cell is an answer too: it means none of the bookmaker’s pages, the payments guides or the press reports we could read gave a figure, and the cell stays empty rather than filled with a guess.
What are you actually buying with a jackpot ticket?
A jackpot ticket is one fixed-price entry on a list of football matches that the bookmaker chooses for you. For each match you pick home win, draw or away win. You cannot add or remove matches, and you cannot pick a correct score or a goals line; the format is the old pools coupon moved onto a phone.
That fixed format is the reason jackpots in Kenya draw so many players. The entry is small, the list is ready-made, and the top prize is advertised in millions of shillings. It is also the reason they are hard. An ordinary accumulator lets you choose the matches you feel surest about. A jackpot hands you a list that includes the matches you would never have picked, and asks for every one of them.
If a bookmaker lets you choose more than one result for a match on the same ticket, every extra choice multiplies the number of combinations the ticket covers, and the price rises with it. A double on one match doubles the cost; doubles on several matches multiply it quickly. Check the price on the slip before you confirm, because a ticket with a few doubles costs many times the basic entry.
How long are the odds on a 17-game ticket?
Longer than most people picture. If every match had three results, there would be three possible outcomes for the first match, nine for the first two, twenty-seven for the first three, and so on. The table shows where that leads.
| Matches on the ticket | Possible result combinations |
|---|---|
| 7 | 2,187 |
| 9 | 19,683 |
| 12 | 531,441 |
| 13 | 1,594,323 |
| 17 | 129,140,163 |
On a 17-match list there are over 129 million distinct tickets, and only one of them is fully right. That is the arithmetic behind every mega jackpot and every grand jackpot, at any bookmaker.
Football is not a three-sided coin, of course. A strong home side makes one result likelier than the other two, and someone who follows the leagues will beat a random ticket. But jackpot lists are built from whole rounds of matches, close ones included, and a draw in one of them is enough to end a ticket. Good form reading moves the odds from absurd to merely very long. It never makes a full house likely.
The table also explains why the shorter products exist. Each match removed from the ticket divides the combinations by three. Going from seventeen matches to thirteen cuts them by a factor of eighty-one; going to seven leaves a ticket with a little over two thousand combinations. A shorter ticket is easier to complete on paper, and nothing published by the bookmakers suggests it pays the same top prize, so it is not a better deal by default. It is a different trade between how often you might win and how much.
What does the SportPesa Mega Jackpot offer?
The SportPesa Mega Jackpot is the long-format jackpot at SportPesa and one of the two 17-match products in our table. According to the press report in our sources, a ticket covers 17 matches and costs KES 99. The same report mentions bonus winners in the draw, and the tiers recorded for it are: 13 and 16 correct reported.
Read those figures with the combination table in mind. A ticket of 17 matches is one of more than 129 million possible tickets, so the top prize of the SportPesa Mega Jackpot is large because almost nobody hits it. The reported tiers at 13 and 16 correct are what reach more tickets in a typical round.
SportPesa is rated on 3 of 5 criteria in our ranking, with a score of 9.2. Its M-Pesa Paybill is 955100 and its minimum deposit is KES 49. The full set of fields, each with source and date, is on the SportPesa review.
The entry price and tiers above come from a press report, not from a SportPesa terms page, and that matters. A bookmaker can change its entry price or its bonus structure from one round to the next. Before you stake, open the Mega Jackpot page on SportPesa and check that the price shown on the slip matches what you expect.
How is the Betika Grand Jackpot different from the Betika Midweek Jackpot?
The Betika Grand Jackpot is the long format and the Betika Midweek Jackpot is the shorter, more frequent one, but only the first has published figures we could source. A payments guide gives the Betika Grand Jackpot 17 matches at KES 99 a ticket, with bonus tiers recorded as 12 to 16 correct reported.
That bonus range is the widest of any jackpot in our table. In practice it means that a ticket several results short of a full house can still return something, which changes how the product feels even if it does not change the odds of the top prize. The amounts paid per tier were not stated on any page we could read.
Set side by side, the Betika Grand Jackpot and the SportPesa Mega Jackpot are built the same way at the top: 17 matches and an entry of KES 99. The difference is in the tiers below the full house. A ladder that starts at 12 correct covers five steps, while one reported at 13 and 16 covers two, and on a 17-match ticket each step down is shared by many more tickets than the one above it.
For the midweek jackpot, every structural field is empty. Betika lists a Midweek Jackpot alongside its Grand Jackpot, and the name says when it runs, but its game count, entry price and bonus tiers were not printed on Betika’s pages or in the payments guides we read. We would rather show “not stated” in all four columns than borrow figures from a forum post. If you want to play it, the jackpot section in your Betika account shows the current list and price before you pay.
Betika is rated on 3 of 5 criteria, scores 9.2 and takes deposits through Paybill 290290. It also offers *644# and SMS 29090 for betting without data. The Betika review has the rest.
Which shorter jackpots run at Mozzart Bet, Shabiki and Odibets?
Mozzart Bet, Shabiki and Odibets each run at least one jackpot that sits below or beside the 17-match format, and the figures come from a payments guide in every case.
Mozzart Bet runs a Daily Jackpot. The guide lists 9 or 12 games per ticket and an entry of KES 99 to 199. A daily product with a short list is the closest thing in Kenya to a quick jackpot: on a 9-match ticket, the combination count falls below twenty thousand. Bonus tiers were not stated, so the table cannot say whether a 9-match ticket that misses one result pays anything.
Shabiki’s Power 17 is, as the name says, a long ticket: 17 games, at an entry of about KES 49 to 99. The lower end of that price range is the cheapest way into a 17-match jackpot in our table. Whether that low price comes with a smaller top prize or fewer bonus tiers is not published on a page we could read.
Odibets runs two: a 13-game Jackpot and a 7-game Jackpot. Only the length is known for each, 13 and 7 games. The entry price and the tiers are not stated. Odibets is also the bookmaker with the lowest minimum deposit in our data, KES 1, which is relevant if you only want to fund a single ticket.
How do jackpot bonuses for near misses work?
Jackpot bonuses pay tickets that get most results right but not all of them. A bookmaker sets tiers, for example a payout for one wrong result and a smaller one for two or three, and those tiers are what makes a long jackpot return something to more than a single ticket per round.
Two bookmakers in our data have reported tiers: SportPesa (13 and 16 correct reported) and Betika (12 to 16 correct reported). For the other jackpots the tiers were not stated. None of the bookmakers publishes the payout per tier in a form we could read, which is why the table records which tiers exist and not what they pay.
The tiers matter because of how the near misses are distributed. On a 17-match ticket there are far more ways to get two results wrong than to get one wrong, and far more again to get four wrong. The lower a tier sits, the more tickets share it, and the smaller each share tends to be. Our guide on how jackpot bonuses work counts the tickets in each tier and shows what to look for in the terms.
A practical point: a bonus payout is still a payout, and it goes through the same tax treatment and the same M-Pesa withdrawal as any other win.
How much do jackpots weigh in our bookmaker scores?
Jackpots count for 15% of a bookmaker’s base score. The jackpot criterion has three inputs of equal weight: whether the number of games is published, whether the entry price is published, and whether bonus tiers for near misses are reported. It rewards transparency, not prize size. A bookmaker that tells you exactly what you are buying scores higher than one with a bigger advertised pot and no terms.
M-Pesa carries more weight than jackpots, because paying in and cashing out is what every bettor does, every week. The full formula, including how the score is worked out when a bookmaker publishes nothing on a criterion, is on how we score.
These are the five bookmakers in our ranking that run a jackpot, in ranking order:
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1
Betika
9.2/10 Rated on 3 of 5 criteria- Min deposit
- KES 50
- Min stake
- not stated
- Paybill
- 290290
- Grand Jackpot: 17 games at KES 99
Authorised and regulated by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya (GRA), licence no. BK 0001117
18+ Not for persons under the age of 18 · Play responsibly · Helpline gamhelpkenya.com
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2
Mozzart Bet
9.2/10 Rated on 3 of 5 criteria- Min deposit
- KES 50
- Min stake
- not stated
- Paybill
- 290059
- Daily Jackpot: 9 or 12 games at KES 99 to 199
Authorised and regulated by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya (GRA), licence no. BK 0001188
18+ Not for persons under the age of 18 · Play responsibly · Helpline gamhelpkenya.com
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3
Shabiki
9.2/10 Rated on 3 of 5 criteria- Min deposit
- KES 50
- Min stake
- not stated
- Paybill
- 290063
- Power 17: 17 games at about KES 49 to 99
Authorised and regulated by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya (GRA), licence no. BK 0001080
18+ Not for persons under the age of 18 · Play responsibly · Helpline gamhelpkenya.com
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4
SportPesa
9.2/10 Rated on 3 of 5 criteria- Min deposit
- KES 49
- Min stake
- not stated
- Paybill
- 955100
- Mega Jackpot: 17 games at KES 99
Authorised and regulated by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya (GRA), licence no. BK 0001193
18+ Not for persons under the age of 18 · Play responsibly · Helpline gamhelpkenya.com
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5
Odibets
9.0/10 Rated on 3 of 5 criteria- Min deposit
- KES 1
- Min stake
- KES 1
- Paybill
- 290680
- 13-game Jackpot: 13 games
Authorised and regulated by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya (GRA), licence no. BK 0001095
18+ Not for persons under the age of 18 · Play responsibly · Helpline gamhelpkenya.com
18+ Gambling is addictive! Play responsibly!
Order and scores as in the main ranking. Checked 5 November 2026.
Which jackpots in Kenya come from licensed bookmakers?
All the jackpots in Kenya listed on this page belong to bookmakers on the GRA licensed operators list for the 2025/26 financial year, where SportPesa, Betika, Mozzart Bet, Shabiki and Odibets each appear with a BK sports betting licence and the status “Renewal”. The Gambling Regulatory Authority licenses bookmakers under the Gambling Control Act, 2025, which replaced the Betting Control and Licensing Board. The licence number shown on each review is taken from that list, checked on 5 November 2026.
If you come across a jackpot on a site that is not in our list, start with the licence. A site that prints no licence number, one whose brand or domain is not on the GRA list, or one that sells “fixed” jackpot results, is one to leave alone. The guide to checking a GRA licence walks through how to match a site against the list.
How are jackpot wins taxed?
Betting in Kenya is taxed at two points. Excise duty of 5% applies to amounts deposited for betting, on the rules in force since 1 July 2026. On a deposit of KES 1,000 that is KES 50. On the way out, withholding tax of 5% applies to amounts paid to a player’s account.
The Finance Act 2026 also reintroduced a withholding tax of 20% on “winnings”, which the Act defines as payouts from a lottery or prize competition. Whether a sportsbook jackpot falls under that definition or under the withdrawal rule is not settled in the sources we read, and we do not state a rule for it. The payout statement in your account shows what the bookmaker deducted. Our betting tax guide tracks the rates and their sources, and its calculator shows the deposit side.
How do you pay for a jackpot ticket with M-Pesa?
You top up your betting account through the bookmaker’s M-Pesa Paybill, then buy the ticket from your balance. The ticket itself is not paid separately by M-Pesa.
| Bookmaker | Paybill | Minimum deposit |
|---|---|---|
| SportPesa | 955100 | KES 49 |
| Betika | 290290 | KES 50 |
| Mozzart Bet | 290059 | KES 50 |
| Shabiki | 290063 | KES 50 |
| Odibets | 290680 | KES 1 |
The steps are the same at each: in the M-Pesa menu choose Lipa na M-Pesa, then Paybill, enter the business number and the account number the bookmaker shows on its deposit page, enter the amount and confirm with your PIN. Once the deposit shows in your betting balance, open the jackpot section, make your picks and confirm the ticket. Our page on M-Pesa betting sites has the withdrawal limits and payout times for each bookmaker.
Keep the deposit close to what you mean to spend on tickets. Money sitting in a betting balance is easy to spend on something else.
Why does this page not give jackpot predictions?
Because a prediction on a 17-match list is a guess about matches where nobody, including the people who sell tips, knows the result. Sites that publish weekly mega jackpot predictions are selling the feeling that the odds can be beaten, and the combination table above is the answer to that. We compare how the jackpots are built and leave the picking to you.
If you play, set the amount before the round starts and do not raise it after a near miss. A missed full house is the normal result, not bad luck to be won back. Our responsible gambling page covers deposit limits and how to take a break from an account.
Only two jackpots in the table have reported bonus tiers, the SportPesa Mega Jackpot and the Betika Grand Jackpot. For the others, the tiers are not stated, and a near miss on those tickets should be treated as a loss until the bookmaker’s own rules say otherwise.
Quick answers
What is a mega jackpot?
A mega jackpot is a single ticket on a long fixed list of football matches, usually the longest list a bookmaker offers. You pick a result for every match, and the top prize goes only to tickets with every result right. SportPesa calls its version the Mega Jackpot; Betika's comparable product is the Grand Jackpot.
What is the difference between a regular jackpot and a mega jackpot?
The mega or grand jackpot covers the most matches and carries the largest top prize a bookmaker advertises. Shorter jackpots, such as daily or midweek ones, cover fewer matches, which makes a full house far more reachable on paper. The comparison table on this page shows the number of games for each one we could source.
How do you win the SportPesa Mega Jackpot?
Only a ticket with every match result correct wins the top prize, and there is no method that makes that likely. With three possible results per match, a ticket of that length has well over a hundred million possible combinations. Treat any site that sells a sure way to win as a warning sign.
How do you play the SportPesa Mega Jackpot?
You open the Mega Jackpot section on SportPesa, pick home win, draw or away win for each listed match and pay the entry from your account balance, which you top up through M-Pesa. The Paybill number is listed in the M-Pesa section of this page.
How are mega jackpot prizes awarded for incorrect predictions?
A ticket that misses the full house can still pay through bonus tiers for near misses. Press reports mention bonus winners at SportPesa, and a payments guide lists a range of bonus tiers at Betika. Neither bookmaker publishes fixed bonus amounts on a page we could read, so the amount for a given tier is not stated here.
What happens if a match in the mega jackpot is cancelled or postponed?
Each bookmaker sets this in its own jackpot rules, and none of the pages read for this comparison stated the rule. Read the jackpot terms on the bookmaker's site before you stake, and look for what happens to a ticket when a match is called off.
How can I place a bet on the mega jackpot using M-Pesa?
Deposit to your betting account through the bookmaker's Paybill, then buy the jackpot ticket from that balance. Excise duty is charged on amounts deposited for betting, so the deposit is the moment the tax applies, not the ticket.
What is the minimum stake required to play the mega jackpot?
The entry price per ticket is in the comparison table, with its source. Press reports and payments guides give it for the SportPesa Mega Jackpot and the Betika Grand Jackpot; the bookmakers' own pages did not state it in a form we could read.
Where can I find the official mega jackpot results after the games are played?
Results are published by the bookmaker in its jackpot section and in the account that placed the ticket. This page compares jackpot structures and does not publish weekly results.
Is it legal to participate in online sports jackpots in Kenya?
Betting with a licensed bookmaker is legal for adults aged 18 and over. The Gambling Regulatory Authority licenses bookmakers under the Gambling Control Act, 2025, which replaced the old Betting Control and Licensing Board regime.
How can I verify an operator is a Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) licensed provider?
Find the licence number and company printed on the bookmaker's own site, then look them up on the GRA licensed operators list for the 2025/26 financial year and check that the trading name, BK number, status and domain match. The guide to checking a GRA licence walks through each step.
Does Betika have a midweek jackpot?
Betika lists a Midweek Jackpot next to its Grand Jackpot. Its number of games, entry price and bonus tiers were not stated on any page we could read, so those fields show not stated in the table until a source publishes them.
Which jackpot in Kenya is easiest to win?
On paper, the jackpot with the fewest matches. Every match removed from a ticket divides the number of possible combinations by three, so a seven-game ticket has far fewer combinations than a seventeen-game one. The prize is set accordingly, and none of them is easy.
Are jackpot predictions on this site?
No. This page compares how the jackpots are built and does not publish picks, tips or predicted results for any match.
Are jackpot winnings taxed in Kenya?
Kenyan law taxes betting at the deposit and at the payout, and the Finance Act 2026 changed both. How the payout taxes apply to a jackpot win is not settled in the sources we read, so the bookmaker's own payout statement is the record of what was deducted.
Can I buy more than one jackpot ticket?
Where a bookmaker allows several tickets, each one costs the full entry. Buying more tickets raises your total stake much faster than it raises your chance of a full house.