188BET Offer – West Ham v Man Utd

West Ham face Man Utd in today’s late kick-off and you don’t want to miss this 188BET offer! If a red card is shown at any time during West Ham v Man Utd, 188BET will refund losing pre-match 1×2, First/Anytime Goalscorer, Correct Score, Half-Time/Full-Time and Both Teams To Score bets as a free bet, up to a maximum of £25.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £21.75 and here’s how…

Qualifying Bet:

This offer is not available to customers who have claimed the “Bet £10 Get £30” welcome offer (FREE30).

If you’re unfamiliar with qualifying bets, please see my Qualifying Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how they should be done.

Qualifying bets must be placed between 00:01 on Sunday 1st January 2017 and 17:15 (kick-off) on Monday 2nd January 2017 to be eligible.

There is no way of making this offer risk-free so only get involved if you’re comfortable with your qualifying loss.

Only losing bets will be refunded in the event that a red card is shown, so we need to place our qualifying bet on a selection that we don’t think will win. We also need to place it at tight odds, in order to minimise our qualifying loss.

It’s entirely up to you what you place your qualifying bet on. Having looked at the odds available, I’ve opted to place my qualifying bet on a draw in the ‘1 X 2’ market.

I like to place my exchange lay bets with Smarkets as they have great liquidity, the site is really easy to use and they only charge 2% commission in comparison to the 5% charged by other betting exchanges.

We can calculate our lay stake using my matched betting calculator…

Back Bet (Bookie)

%

Lay Bet (Betting Exchange)

%

Min £
Max £
Lay stake required: £
Bookie
Exchange
Cashback
Total
If back (bookie) bet wins
£
£
£
= £
If lay (exchange) bet wins
£
£
£
= £
Total profit: £

Optimal Underlay

Lay stake required: £
Exchange liability: £

If back (bookie) bet wins: £
If lay (exchange) bet wins: £

Optimal Overlay

Lay stake required: £
Exchange liability: £

If back (bookie) bet wins: £
If lay (exchange) bet wins: £

As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £23.47…

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Place £25.00 on a draw @ 4.30 = Potential profit of £82.50

smarkets whiteLay £23.47 on a draw @ 4.60 = Potential liability of £84.50

Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…

Draw + £82.50 – £84.50 = £2.00 loss
Not a draw and red card shown – £25.00 + £23.00 + £23.75 (extract 95% from our £25.00 stake refund) = £21.75 profit
Not a draw and no red card shown – £25.00 + £23.00 = £2.00 loss

So, if the game isn’t drawn and a red card is shown, we’ll make a nice profit of £21.75. Any other outcome and we’ll have made a loss of £2.00. Risking £2.00 to make a profit of £21.75, gives us effective odds of 11.88, so given that the odds of a red card being shown are only 4.00, this is a profitable offer in the long run, even though we need either team to win.

Stake refunds just need rolling over once at minimum odds of 1.90 or greater before we are able to withdraw. The above calculations are therefore based on the assumption that, by using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 95% cash from our £25.00 stake refund.

To claim our stake refund, we must email the promotion code ‘WHM25’, our bet ID number and our 188BET member code to promo@188bet.co.uk using our registered email address by 23:59 (GMT) on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. Free bets will be credited within 48 hours of a successful claim being submitted.

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Matt Kirman - Matched Betting Blogger

Matt KirmanMatched Betting Blogger

Since 2014, I’ve blogged over £70,000 worth of profit, and made it my mission to make matched betting accessible to everyone.