BETVISA Dehado Meaning: Underdog vs. Favourite in Sabong
Dehado meaning, in sabong, is the underdog gamecock; its opposite, llamado, is the favourite.
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BETVISA Meron Wala
Meron wala names the two sides of a sabong bet: meron is the favoured side, carrying the bigger center bet, and wala is the underdog side, both called out by the kristo before a fight starts.
BETVISA PD 449
PD 449 is the Cockfighting Law of 1974: it licenses one cockpit per city or municipality, restricts fights to approved days, and says nothing about tupada or the online sabong suspension that arrived decades later.
BETVISA Tupada
Tupada is the Filipino term for a cockfight held outside a licensed cockpit, and it is illegal gambling under PD 1602 — not a grey area PD 449 happens to skip.
Dehado meaning, in a sabong crowd, is simple once explained once: it is the underdog gamecock, the one carrying the smaller center bet and given less chance of winning. Its opposite is the llamado, the favourite, carrying the bigger center bet. Both words describe the birds themselves, not the side of the arena or the spectators backing them. They apply at a licensed cockpit fight; online sabong, where the same terms were once heard too, has been under nationwide suspension since 2022.
Dehado Meaning: The Underdog Gamecock, Defined
Term
Role
Dehado (also Dejado)
The underdog gamecock — smaller center bet, read as less likely to win
Llamado
The favourite gamecock — bigger center bet
Llamado Meaning: The Favourite Half of Every Call
A kristo — the bet-taker standing in the pit — calls both halves before a fight starts, naming which bird is llamado and which is dehado based on how the center bet splits. There is no published formula for exactly how large a gap has to be before a bird is called dehado rather than an even match; it is a judgment the kristo and the crowd make together, fight by fight.
What decides the call:
The size of the center bet already placed on each bird.
How the two gamecocks compare on sight, before a feather is thrown.
The kristo’s own read of the room, fight by fight.
Llamado Dehado: Two Halves of the Same Call
Llamado and dehado always arrive as a pair — a cockpit crowd never hears one without the other, because naming the favourite automatically names the underdog too.
Names
Points at
Meron / Wala
The side of the bet
Favourite side / underdog side
Llamado / Dehado
The gamecock
Favourite bird / underdog bird
For the side of the bet rather than the bird itself, the meron and wala breakdown covers that half of the vocabulary in full.
Where This Fits in Philippine Sabong
Both terms travel together wherever sabong is discussed, in a licensed cockpit or otherwise, and neither one is specific to a single region or dialect group in the Philippines. The two related pages below go further into where each half of the vocabulary sits.
Tupada uses the same dehado and llamado calls, even though the fight itself is unlicensed and outside PD 449 entirely.
FAQ
What does dehado mean?
Dehado, also spelled dejado, is the underdog gamecock in a sabong match — the one carrying the smaller center bet and seen as less likely to win.
What does llamado mean?
Llamado is the favourite gamecock — the one carrying the bigger center bet, called out by the kristo before the fight.
Is dehado the same as wala?
They track the same idea — the underdog — but name different things. Dehado names the gamecock itself; wala names the side of the bet. Meron and llamado are the equivalent pair on the favourite's side.
Does backing the dehado pay more?
In principle, yes, since it is priced as less likely to win. No site publishes a fixed formula for exactly how much more; that call belongs to the kristo taking bets in the pit, fight by fight.
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