It’s Derby v QPR in the Championship on Monday night, and The Pools are getting in on the action! Place £5.00 on three or more goals in the match at boosted odds of 6/5 and qualify for a £5.00 free bet if you bet a further £20.00 on selected events. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a profit of £5.85, and here’s how…
Price boost
To qualify for the two ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offers, we need to place a bet of £5.00+ on Three or more goals scored in the match at boosted odds of 2.20 (6/5).
For a walkthrough of how to lay price boosts, please see my price boosts guide.
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Betfair and Smarkets are both great options for this offer. If you’ve not used one of them, now is a great time to give them a try.
+ 2% commission for all new sign-ups
+ £10 bonus for all new sign-ups
We can calculate our lay stake using my Matched Betting Calculator…
As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £4.95…
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Place £5.00 on ‘Three or more goals scored in the match’ @ 2.20 = Potential profit of £6.00
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Lay £4.95 on ‘Over 2.5 Goals’ @ 2.24 = Potential liability of £6.13
Outcomes
Let’s have a look at our profit/loss for the two potential outcomes…
Outcome
The Pools
Betfair
Profit/Loss
3 or more goals
+ £6.00
– £6.13
£0.13 loss
2 or less goals
– £5.00
+ £4.85
£0.15 loss
So, no matter the outcome, we’ll make a maximum loss of £0.15 in qualifying for our two ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offers.
Qualifying bets
Please see my qualifying bets guide if you’d like more information about them and how they work.
To qualify for the 2 x £5.00 free bets, we must bet £20.00 on both any European football match and any horse racing market on Monday 29th November 2021 at minimum odds of 1.20 (1/5).
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The Pools – Derby v QPR Offer 13
Betfair and Smarkets are both great options for this offer. If you’ve not used one of them, now is a great time to give them a try.
+ 2% commission for all new sign-ups
+ £10 bonus for all new sign-ups
We can calculate our lay stakes using my Matched Betting Calculator.
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Aim to lose no more than £1.00 on each of our qualifying bets
So, we’ll lose a total of around £2.00 in qualifying for our £10.00 in free bets.
Free bets
Our 2 x £5.00 free bets will be credited by midday the day following bet settlement and valid for 7 days.
Using straightforward matched betting, we should convert our free bets into 80% cash, so £8.00. Considering our total expected qualifying loss of £2.00 and our price boost maximum loss of £0.15, this provides us with an overall profit of £5.85 on this The Pools offer!
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