Matched betting - who's done it and who's good at it? (No Referrals)

Simon · 14 Sep 2015 at 23:57

It's a refund. Not a freebet.

So in reality you don't lose. Either you make £0 or £18

daniel_owen_uk · 15 Sep 2015 at 10:39

It's a refund as a free bet. But you are correctish.

Two potential outcomes;

Under 2.5 Goals scored = Your Pregame Wins you receive £18 profit. Your in play loses - £25 but is refunded as a free bet makes you £20 you are £13 profit.

Over 2.5 = Your pregame loses -£25 your in play wins £25 you are even.

Still more money in it laying it. And it's profit either way.

Simon · 15 Sep 2015 at 19:51

Its a cash refund, no need to bet.

I did a no loss bet with ladbrookes on MC win and Draw and B365 JV win. £17.50, £12 or £4.5 profit respectively

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Huggie86 · 16 Sep 2015 at 10:38

I took part in the man city refund offer last night. It was my first inplay offer so was a little nervous.

What were the conditions of getting the refund? Did both bets have to lose?
My first bet lost but the in play bet I put on won. So where do I stand over all? Doesn't seem like £25 as been refunded anywhere.

Thanks guys!

FortuitousFluke · 16 Sep 2015 at 10:42

Some nice football refund and double odds offers kicking about for the first goalscorer markets on tonight's champs league ties.

Ladbrokes, pokerstars and Betfred are the three I can think of off the top of my head with some kind of offer. Potentially a nice earner.

Brabbinho · 16 Sep 2015 at 10:47

If inplay won then you don't get a refund

Simon · 16 Sep 2015 at 11:58

Huggie86 said:
I took part in the man city refund offer last night. It was my first inplay offer so was a little nervous.

What were the conditions of getting the refund? Did both bets have to lose?
My first bet lost but the in play bet I put on won. So where do I stand over all? Doesn't seem like £25 as been refunded anywhere.

Thanks guys!

Read the T+C. You need the in play to lose for the refund.

Huggie86 · 16 Sep 2015 at 12:11

So am I up anything at all without the refund? Or did I only break even.

Brabbinho · 16 Sep 2015 at 12:15

It depends how you did it. If you placed the inplay bet using a SNR calculator and laid both then you will be in profit no matter what the result

FortuitousFluke · 16 Sep 2015 at 12:18

Huggie86 said:
So am I up anything at all without the refund? Or did I only break even.

It depends, there are a few ways to use inplay refunds:

Lay the original bet and treat the inplay bet as a stake not returned freebet (effectively underlaying at the exchange and guaranteeing a modest profit regardless of the result)

Lay the original bet but don't lay the inplay bet, effectively making it a risk free stake (if the inplay loses you've just made a slight loss on the original stake due to the lay, if the implay wins you've made a decent profit depending on the odds).

Finally you can lay the original and lay the inplay (not an underlay), in this circumstance you need the inplay to lose in order to make a profit, it's the same as the first option but you sacrifice a guaranteed profit for an improved return if the inplay loses.

I'm almost certain that made no sense......

Huggie86 · 16 Sep 2015 at 12:26

Thanks the the run through.

Tosno · 16 Sep 2015 at 18:01

I've decided to make a new bank account just for MB as my main account looked so messy and dodgy

Tosno · 16 Sep 2015 at 22:14

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FeFiDoh · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:55

Made £12 on that, I see it yesterday and never got around to do it. Been an okay few days. Ronaldo hat trick yesterday got me a free £15 bet today also.

doodah · 18 Sep 2015 at 13:01

Paddy Power have a good looking offer, place a £25 bet on the Rugby World Cup's top try scorer and you get a £5 free bet for every try he scores. I have put £25 on Sevea, haven't laid yet as lay odds are shocking (8.0 compared to 5.0 for back odds).

rs1800 · 18 Sep 2015 at 13:54

xibinim said:
Paddy Power have a good looking offer, place a £25 bet on the Rugby World Cup's top try scorer and you get a £5 free bet for every try he scores. I have put £25 on Sevea, haven't laid yet as lay odds are shocking (8.0 compared to 5.0 for back odds).

I did the same last night on him. Probably wont lay unless the odds come down. Should get at least £25 back and treat this as a free £25 5/1 bet! I think He has a good chance and they have an easy group.

mors · 18 Sep 2015 at 15:18

Skybet Championship live game tonight - bet 25 on the game beforehand and get 10 free bet for the ingame. Should be the same for the Forest game tomorrow - 25quid of free money if your in the sky free bet club too.

Goose · 18 Sep 2015 at 15:51

Do you guys all use Fix the Odds? I've only started this week and ive been using the automatcher tool on savethestudent.com but it only works for about 5 bookies. For all the others you have to identify which games to bet on yourself which can be quite time consuming.

daniel_owen_uk · 18 Sep 2015 at 15:55

oddsmonkey?

Most of these matching things use oddsmonkey's engine.