Paddy Power Offer – £10.00 Premier League Free Bets

The in-play Paddy Power offer is back!  To celebrate the return of Premier League football, Paddy Power are offering free bets on all Sky Sports and BT Sport Premier League matches in August 2015. Simply place a single bet of £20.00 or more pre-match on the big games and Paddy Power will give us £10.00 worth of free bets to be used in-play.  Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £34.00 and here’s how…

Qualifying Bet:

If you’re unfamiliar with qualifying bets, please see my Qualifying Bet Strategy page for a walkthrough guide on how to place your qualifying bets.

This weekends’ eligible matches are as follows…

Match Kick-Off Date
Man Utd v Tottenham 12:45 Saturday 8th August 2015
Chelsea v Swansea 17:30 Saturday 8th August 2015
Arsenal v West Ham 13:30 Sunday 9th August 2015
Stoke v Liverpool 16:00 Sunday 9th August 2015
West Brom v Man City 20:00 Monday 10th August 2015

It’s entirely up to you what you place your qualifying bets on, as long as you place them at the minimum odds of 1.50 (1/2) or above.

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 stakes using the matched betting calculator.

paddypowerAim to lose no more than £1.20 on each of your qualifying bets

So we will lose approximately £6.00 in qualifying for our 10 x £5.00 in-play free bets.

Free Bet:

It’s impossible to know what odds will be available until the matches have kicked off but by using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% out of the 10 x £5.00 free bets as cash, so £40.00.  If we take into account our qualifying loss of £6.00, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £34.00!

My advice is to wait until half-time to place your free bets and then lay them at the betting exchange.  This is simply because the odds don’t fluctuate as much as when the game is live.  There’s nothing worse than placing a free bet on a market and then something happens in the game that changes the odds before you have chance to get your lay bet on!  I tend to look at the correct score markets first and then if I can’t find anything suitable I move onto goal scorer markets.

If you’re not sure how to extract 80% of the 10 x £5.00 free in-play bets, please see my Free Bet Strategy page for a walkthrough guide on how it should be done.

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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.