Bet365 regularly run an in play offer that is worth around £35 in risk free cash. This guide will show you how to complete it, with some different approaches depending on your appetite for risk.
1. Sign Up for a Bet365 account (if you don't have one already) and deposit (at least) £50 in your Bet365 account.
If you don't yet have an account, Bet365 currently offer £100 bet credits when you sign up, so its well worth taking advantage of this offer too!
New customers only. Min deposit requirement. Free Bets are paid as Bet Credits and are available for use upon settlement of bets to value of qualifying deposit. Min odds, bet and payment method exclusions apply. Returns exclude Bet Credits stake. Time limits and T&Cs apply.
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Bet £10 & Get £50 in Free Bets
2. At least £350 in your Exchange Account (if you plan on matching the bets off, if you plan on punting the bets there is no need to complete this step)
New customer offer. Place 5 x £10 or more bets to receive £20 in free bets. Repeat up to 5 times to receive maximum £100 bonus. Min odds 1/2 (1.5). Exchange bets excluded. T&Cs apply.
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£100 Free Bet
3. Time during the game to place your back and lay in play bets
To qualify you need to place a £50 pre match bet on the featured game. In the below example, you can see we placed a £50 bet (using our cash balance) on Real Madrid to win against Man City in the Champions League on the 7th August. At odds of 5.50 (decimal) or 9/2 fractional (odds converter available here), with out £50 bet if Real Madrid won we would return £275, a profit of £225.
If matched betting this offer - Place a normal back and lay bet that will give you the lowest qualifying loss, aim for around £2.00 if you can.
Once the game kicks off, you need to place an in play bet free bet. Make sure to tick the “Use Free Bet £50” from the betting slip, if you don't the bet will be placed using your cash balance.
*UPDATE - Bet365 didnt used to give you free bets. You did need to fund your account with £100 and place the £50 in-play bet using your own cash balance. After the game finished, if the bet lose, Bet365 would refund you £50 cash. This is no longer the case, you only need £50 in your account to complete the offer, the £50 in play should be placed using the £50 free bet token - see the screenshot below (make sure to tick the box before placing the bet) .
As you can see within the first 30 seconds of the game starting, we decided to bet the £50 free bet on Real Madrid to win at the same odds we did before the game started.
Matched betting tips:
The best time to do this is at half time when the odds settle down and there isn’t the chance of a team scoring whilst placing your bets.
Aim for a profit of at least £35 when you are using the calculator. Once you have placed this bet you will have locked in the profit regardless of the outcome.
Summary - This is one of the best sporting offers available, it offers great value to users. There are lots of strategies that can be used to optimise the return from this offer. You can see above we mention the word “matched betting”, there is a strategy available that can guarantee profit no matter what the outcome of the game, if gambling is not for you, this offers you a great way to get around £35 profit.
If you would like to start matched betting, we would recommend taking a trial with a matched betting service, free trials available for as little as a £1 and this will give you access to all their software and community of users.
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If you do like a punt, then this offer gives you double change to hit the winner! We placed two £50 bets on Real Madrid to win at odds of 5.50. Risking only £50 of our own money, if Real Madrid won, we would have walked away with £450 profit! Essentially giving us odds of 9/1 (or 10.0) on Real Madrid winning the same (much better than the 9/2 or 5.50 on offer).
As you can see from the below BT Sports highlights, Real Madrid didn't manage to win and we lost £50, on another day we could have been £450 better off. That's gambling!
