The Ashes 2019 gets underway on Thursday and you don’t want to miss this William Hill offer! Simply bet £20.00 on the Series Top Batsman market and William Hill will give us a £10.00 free bet every time our selected player scores a century. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £11.96 and here’s how…
Key Terms:
- Qualifying bets must be placed between 12:00 on Monday 15th July 2019 and 11:00 (first ball) on Thursday 1st August 2019.
- We must place a £20.00 win or £10.00 each way bet on the Top Ashes Series Batsman market.
- We’ll receive a £10.00 free bet every time our selected player scores a century.
Qualifying Bet:
If you’re unfamiliar with qualifying bets, please see my Qualifying Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.
It’s entirely up to you who you place your qualifying bet on. Having looked at the odds available, we could place our qualifying bet on Steve Smith (Australia).
We’ll need to lay our bet at Betfair.
Just bear in mind that our exchange funds will be tied up until the end of the series, which is scheduled to be on Monday 16th September 2019.
The alternative is to not lay our bet and just let the qualifying bet run. Steve Smith should score a century or two to cover some of the £20.00 stake and we could win big if he goes on to be the top batsman.
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 £16.81…
Place £20.00 on Steve Smith @ 5.00 = Potential profit of £80.00
Lay £16.81 on Steve Smith @ 6.00 = Potential liability of £84.05
Outcomes:
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
| Outcome | Bookie | Exchange | Profit/Loss |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Smith top scores | +£80.00 | -£84.05 | £4.05 loss |
| Steve Smith doesn’t top score | -£20.00 | +£15.96 | £4.04 loss |
So, regardless of the outcome, we’ll lose a maximum of £4.05 in qualifying for our potential free bets.
Free Bets:
We’ll receive a £10.00 free bet every time Steve Smith scores a century. If he can make two centuries, we’ll receive £20.00 in free bets.
Free bets will be credited by 12:00 the following day and will be valid for 4 days. Free bet stakes will not be included in any returns.
By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% cash from our £20.00 in free bets, so £16.00. If we take into account our minimum qualifying loss of £4.04, this gives us a potential profit of £11.96 on this William Hill offer!
* Steve Smith made three centuries on his way to being the Series Top Batsman, resulting in a profit of £19.95 on this William Hill offer. *
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