New clients get £100 (non-withdrawable) to bet with. Keep what you win. Any losses over £100 are your liability. Market restrictions and 7 day time limit apply. Offer available for a limited time only. Click for Full T&Cs. Account opening subject t
And to celebrate you joining, we are giving you a free £25 Fixed Odds bet. All new clients are eligible and to qualify you simply need to deposit, place and settle 5 x £5 minimum Fixed Odds individual bets on any sports market at odds of 1.5 (1/2) or greater and once the 5th bet settles, we'll give you a £25 free bet.
If you do fully understand spread betting - we will have a full spread betting article coming shortly as there is quite a bit to run through. It´s really important to understand the risk of spread betting before you proceed with this option. The spread betting sign up offer is £100 to bet with for new accounts (full details here)
Key terms: “New clients get £100 (non-withdrawable) to bet with. Keep that you win. Any losses over £100 are your liability. Market restrictions & 7 day time limit apply. Click for full T&C’s. Account opening subject to suitability checks. Spread betting involved risk. Losses can exceed deposits”
Definition from Sporting Index: “At Sporting Index we make predictions on various aspects of sporting or topical event. You then decide whether that prediction has been pitched too high or too low. What you then win or lose depends on the stake you choose and how right or wrong you are.”
More about spread betting here:
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The sign up offer was really easy to complete, just remember to select the 10/10 offer when signing up and not the spread betting offer. Then all we need to do is deposit (at least) £10 and place our first cash bet at odds of at least 1.50. Simples!
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The new odds section of the Sporting Index website works in exactly the same way as other bookmakers fixed-odds betting. It´s great to see the Sporting Index as default display fractional odds, like the majority of bookmakers. As I prefer to view the odds in decimal, having placed a huge selection of bets in my time on the betting exchange I find it easier to view in this format. There is a quick way to change your preference once signed in to change from fractional to decimal odds. Click “My Account” once signed in and alter the “Odds Display” to “Decimal”. This preference will now be saved so each time you visit the site you will see decimal odds displayed.
Sporting Index has a huge range of sports that you can place bets on - all major sports that you expect from a decent bookmaker with the history they have in the industry including horse racing, football, golf. There are also some interesting markets available for example under “TV & Specials” it´s possible to bet on tomorrow´s airport temperatures - if you have some insider knowledge why not have a go at Edinburgh (EGPH) temperatures being over 10.5 celsius.
If politics is your thing, there are also a lots of world politics markets available:
It´s also great to see a fair chunk of in-play markets including - horse racing, greyhound, football, table tennis & ice hockey to name a few.
At the time of writing, there are no active promotions available for Sporting Index fixed-odds (see “promotions” tab on the main navigation bar. But if I take a look back at the offers we had listed on the yesbets website and via the emails I’ve received, we can see an interesting range of existing customer offers to keep you coming back:
Bad Beat Special
Quite an interesting offer this one, the offer is not currently available on their website, but I do hope it returns later on this year.
“Back a team to win and if they lose the match but ´win´ according to the Expected Goals measure, we will refund your stake!”
For example on the 10th August - the offer was available on Tottenham v Aston Villa and Man United v Chelsea. The offer has been in the form of a £50 cash refund if the team you back in the 1x2 market loses the match but win according to the xG measure.
More details on the xG market
Six Nations Bad Beat Special
Following on from the populatority of the football bad beat special, this offer is slightly easier to understand as there is no xG measure. All thats required in this offer is to place up to £50 on the match winner market and if your team loses but scores more tries, you will receive up to £50 refunded as cash.
“Back a team to win on our ´Match Winner - Bad Beat Special´ market and if your selection loses the match but scores more Tries than the match winner then we will refund your stake as a Free Bet! Selected matches, £50 max stake and full terms apply.”
To be fair this does not hit too many times, at the time of writing we have not seen this hit once in the 2020 Six Nations Championship so it may be worth looking at other six nations betting markets, in comparison the football bat beat offer does hit quite often. In September 2019 we received word…. “Our Bad Beat special offer has paid out on the last three selected games! Bournemouth v Everton, Norwich v Man City and Everton v Wolves all saw client stakes on the losing team refunded! Make sure you don´t miss out this weekend! “
Horse Racing Odds Boosts
With Barry Geraghty, a high profile jockey as their Brand Ambassador you’d expect them to be pushing his name hard. There are often horse racing odds boosts available on Barrys key rides - recently a Cheltenham Festival ante post email received offering 9/4 for Defi Du Seuil to win the Champion Chase. In hindeside, not a great price to be pushing as Defi Du Seuil didn’t do the business in the Champion Chase, but he did only just miss out on the top jockey honours at Cheltenham Festival 2020 - hitting join top spot with Paul Townsend with 5 winners - however after place contback just missed out on the top prize.
A quick look at Sporting Indexes milestones over the last twenty five years:
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.
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.
New players only, minimum £30 single bet to qualify, T&aCs apply
