Manchester City Results

The word “exploit” sounds heavy. It’s a strong word to use. It’s worth being clear right from the off that matched betting is not about exploiting anybody. It’s about maximising profit from the free bet offers that bookmakers offer anybody and everybody to sign up with that bookie and make a bet.

We could sign up with a bookie and bet £10 on Manchester City to win at odds of 1.5. It might come in, giving us an account balance of £15. The bookie will, mostly, still give us the free bet offer that it promised when we signed up. (I say mostly - this is dependent on the kind of sign-up offer we complete - some are money back offers if we lose. If we win, we keep our profits.)

So, City has done us proud. We decide to punt the £20 free bet on City to win their next game. A newly-promoted side at home. A banker. Only, City don’t win. They draw. It’s a fantastic defensive performance from the away team and City miss a hatful of chances. And how many times have we seen that happen? Not just for City, either. Any team can recount at least one game a season where that has been the story of the match.

This still leaves us with a balance of £15.

But what if we could guarantee profit, regardless of the outcome? This is where maximising our free bet offers through matched betting comes in. In this example, we could end up with a balance of £31 or more if we had laid the result at a betting exchange like Betfair as well as backing it at Coral - doubling our profit over our punting extravagance.

The Yesbets OddsMatcher

So this is our start-point. Our lift-off. Our hitch by the pants. Googling “online bookmakers uk” gives us scores of hits. Hundreds. Thousands. But which offer do we go for?

Good question. All of them? Is the right answer.

There is no limit to the amount of bookmaker accounts that anybody can have. So there is no limit to the amount of matched bets we can make. Matched betting is just as legal as betting. Bookmakers don’t like it, of course, because it means we are maximising their free bet offers while minimising the risk.

So let’s say we have signed up to Yesbets and are ready to start our matched betting profit-making exercise. We are going to start with the Coral offer, because it’s the first offer, it’s free to access and it’s easy to complete. Plus Yesbets features step-by-step video tutorials on how to complete the offer.

We are looking to place a £5 bet on any market with odds of 1.5 or greater to qualify for the £20 free bet bonus that Coral is dangling as a carrot for joining up.

In this example, the Yesbets Oddsmatcher searches all the odds across Coral’s website and the corresponding odds at Betfair.

Coral Qualifying Bet Example

(When we have completed all our sign-up offers we can move onto reloads, highlighted on the Yesbets Reloads page, its private Facebook group or shouted about in the Yesbets matched betting blog. But for the moment let’s just stick to sign-up offers, as we won’t move onto reloads until we’ve rinsed all of the sign-ups available to us.)

Back to the OddsMatcher.

The Yesbets OddsMatcher details all of the markets and outcomes that qualify for this particular bonus, just as it will for each and every other bonus. The benefits to the Oddsmatcher are evident and enormous. It saves us time and effort, while the Matched Betting Calculator - brought up when we select an event on the OddsMatcher - makes completing a matched bet super simple. It even contains links to take us direct to the relevant bookie and exchange we have selected.

When we have settled our bets, we can then head back to the Yesbets Sign Up offers page to complete any of the other matched bet offers that take our fancy. Rinse and repeat.

Why We Shouldn’t Always Go For Top Profit

By ordering the events and outcomes in order of most profitable to least profitable, the OddsMatcher furnishes us with the tools to easily choose which event to bet on. And, while it would be tempting to just hit the most profitable every single time, there is a very good reason why we shouldn’t.

You see, bookmakers monitor our activity. If we bet on Man City every game they play, we are going to look like a normal punter. The bookie’s trading team thinks that we follow City. We might bet on other games in the Premier League, or even around Europe. But we bet on City because it’s our team.

But City (or any other team we choose) might not offer top profit on the OddsMatcher. It might be FC Samtredia v Kolkheti Poti in the top Georgian League. But if we swan in with a random bet on this game, the bookie is going to raise its eyebrows. Looking beneath the maximum profit matches and going for mug bets gives us more organic, believable matches that allow us to stay under the radar. We will therefore be able to continue to bet at that particular bookie, and continue to maximise the free bet offers that bookmaker is oh-so-keen to send us via text and email.

High Profile / Mug Football Leagues

Staying onside and appearing like a regular punter are integral parts of a long-term plan to make the most of free bets offers. Yesbets offers plenty more hints, tips and strategies to help its members keep their matched betting profit-making exercises going to supplement their incomes. And that, after all, is what it’s all about.

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