Stake Returned Free Bets

Hi all,

I’ve been matched betting for just over 2 weeks and am running out of the simple bonus sign up offers and will need to move on to offers which require rollovers, some with stakes returned.

I understand the rollover requirements but it’s the stake returned option on the MB calulator that I don’t seem to be able to grasp?

For example: the 10Bet offer of a 50% deposit bonus upto £200 is a stake returned offer. If I was to depsoit the full £400, to gain the £200 max bonus, I need to play through the £400 once . The next bet I place will be with the £200 bonus but I won’t have met the rollover requirements to withdraw yet so I figure the stake is NOT returned at this point, therefore I shouldn’t apply it in the calulator until my final bet of my rollover requirements (if I have a lucky streak)?

Hope that makes sense and if I’m wrong can someone explain why?

Thanks.

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beh 7 April 9, 2016 at 1:19 pm

Assuming the bonus also has a WR, just put all the bets through as a “qualifying bet” which is the same as stake returned. SNR is typically only for free bets without a WR.

Read the T&Cs thoroughly before proceeding.

If you don’t understand an offer, you shouldn’t do it. Particularly one with so much at stake.

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MB Anonymous 1 April 9, 2016 at 2:21 pm

Thanks beh.

I wouldn’t dare do anything I don’t understand, I just used the 10Bet offer as an example.

This particular offer requires rollover of deposit and bonus x5 with a max of 50% of the bonus counting towards rollover with each bet.

If I’m right in saying, I beleive I would want to lose a bonus bet like this as early as possible with the bookie in order to win at the exchange and not have to bother with any rollover?

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beh 7 April 9, 2016 at 2:38 pm

Yes, that’s the hope, but it’s foolish to rely on losing it to the exchange. You should still have enough to cover the potential liabilities to see it through to the end which isn’t small change.

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dalesp8 0 April 10, 2016 at 12:15 am

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if somebody could talk me through how to get the free bet out of this offer from Titan Bet

Premier League Money Back if a Defender scores in the following fixtures:

West Ham United v Arsenal 12.45pm April 9th 2016
Swansea v Chelsea 15.00pm April 9th 2016
Watford v Everton 15.00pm April 9th 2016
Southampton v Newcastle 15.00pm April 9th 2016
Crystal Palace v Norwich 15.00pm April 9th 2016
Aston Villa v Bournemouth 15.00pm April 9th 2016
Manchester City v West Brom 17.30pm April 9th 2016
Sunderland v Leicester 13.30pm April 10th 2016
Tottenham v Manchester United 16.00pm April 10th 2016
Liverpool v Stoke 16.00pm April 10th 2016

Minimum Bet £5 Max Bet £20

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FoG_BLoG 47 April 10, 2016 at 7:56 am

Dale. It depends on the terms. Not every offer will be profitable for matched betting.

What market do you have to bet on? What are the min odds? Is it money back if your bet loses?

If win-draw-win market is allowed then for example. Liverpool are 1.61 to win and can lay at 1.69 on smarkets.

Go to calculator, select qualifying bet, 20 stake, 1.61 back odds, 1.69 lay odds, 2% commission. The calculator will tell you that your lay stake is 19.28 and qualifying loss is £1.10.

So you take the qualifying loss and if a defender scores then you get 20 free bet which is worth 16 after extraction.

You are down 1.10 or up 16-1.10=14.90. So it’s effectively betting on a 1.10 on a defender to score at odds of about 12/1.

If you check the any time scorer odds skrtel for one is 6/1 so should be long term profit in that.

It will be important the market and the min odds. On first scorer or other markets qualifying losses will be much higher. On bigger odds qualifying losses will be higher. And won’t make it worth while.

In a tight game like Man Utd and Spurs it might be too unlikely to win the free bet that it won’t be worth the qualifying loss.

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