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Spied a good one for all those matched betters out there. On Boylesports Blackburn are 3.6 to win. The lay on Betfair is 3.4 at the moment.

If you bet £50 at Boyle's today you get a £50 free bet. By my reckoning you can make a £1 profit at the current prices and also get the free £50 bet.

I think I will make about £35 today using a free bet. I'm still chipping away at the further free bet offers at Boyle's and Bet365 but this is requiring patience as I don't have the bankroll to do it all at once.

Anyone else got anything on?

The meaningless Spurs v Liverpool game to have more than 3 goals in it @ 8/5.

If this comes off my stake is big enough to have authorities looking into irregular betting patterns.

Got it on good information that Paul Robinson is playing then Lebowski?

Just worked out I have over £600 in various betting accounts. Yikes!

Went for the wrong sodding meaningless fixture didn't I!

Think I will retire from betting now. It's been fun.

Going to make another £35 odd quid from the FA cup final today  :)

Anyone see the chap on the news who's going to win 58 grand if Cardiff win?

How?

Hope he loses then

Crazy stuff. I hope one-song Pompey win though

He got 25-1 on a Welsh grand slam, which is pretty damn good odds, I'd have put some money on at that price, then 80-1 on Cardiff...presumably a few rounds ago now!

Matching a free bet at the bookies (£50 no stakes returned) with a lay at the betting exchange.

At bookies: No goalscorer back £50 @ 9.00

At betting exchange: No goalscorer lay £40.20 @ 10.00

If there is no goalscorer I will make £400 at the bookies and lose £361.81 at the exchange = £38.19 profit

If there is a goalscorer I will make £38.19 at the betting exchange (5% commission comes off the lay total of £40.20) and lose nothing at the bookies (free bet) = £38.19 profit.

I'm going to lose a little bit on another qualifier bet which will bring today's profit down to around £35.

All those numbers confuse me. I just chucked £40 on Pompey to win (£32 profit). Not bothered if they don't, it just comes out of the cash I've made on Betfair recently.

I still have the odd punt now and again, but it's a good way to make money.

whats a lay?

You bet against the result.

e.g. Swindon to win @ 2/1. If I put £10 down on a lay, I would get £10 is Swindon lost or drew, but would have to pay £20 if Swindon wone.

Basically you act as the booky. Strood made a thread about it, I'd heard of it before but didn't really know what matched betting was until then.

I did one of these matched bets a little while ago which paid off nicely.  But am I right in thinking that smaller offers e.g. "Free £10 matched bet - no stake returned" aren't worth doing, as by the time the stakes have been taken out you only win a couple of quid?
So its only really worth doing if either the stakes ARE returned on the free bet or where the matched bet value is a lot higher (50 quid for example)?

I've lost huge amounts on the play-offs and the cup final this weekend -

I backed Southend, Crystal Palace and Wycombe blimey none of them even made the final play-offs.

Backed Portsmouth to win by at two goals as well.

The equivalent of 330 pints of Stella down the drain, fuck me.

 :shock:

Nope. You just need to play the odds right and look for a good percentage return, around 75% is what you should look for. You could quite comfortably make £7 a pop with a £10 NSR bets. The higher the odds with an NSR bet the better. Use a matched bet calculator to look at the different combinations. That £7 would take 5 minutes work. It's worth it - squeeze every penny at of every bookie and your bankroll builds up.

It's actually worth starting off with the smaller free bets, as the larger £50 ones require a bigger bank roll to offset the potential loss at the exchange. As per my earlier post about the FA cup final, if I'd lost at the exchange I'd have lost £360 odd quid there, due to the size of the lay. With a £10 lay I'd have only needed £70 odd quid in my exchange account in case I lost.

I use a far more technical system, it's called 'fuck it I'll just guess'.

Seems to be working ok so far.  :D

£60 up this weekend.