Bet365 Manchester City v Barcelona – £50 Free Bet Offer

A fantastic free bet offer from Bet365. Place a pre-match bet on the Manchester City v Barcelona game and Bet365 will give you a free In-Play bet to the same stake on the big match. These Bet365 offers don’t come around often enough but when they do, there are big profits to be had. Here is how…

Bet365 describe the In-Play bet as a ‘free bet’ but this isn’t strictly true. It should really be referred to as a ‘risk-free’ bet. We are required to place the In-Play bet using our own funds and if this In-Play bet loses, they will refund it in full.  It is worth noting that although the current odds for the draw (at the time of writing) are 3.60, this will usually drop slightly when the game kicks off and therefore I have adjusted the odds accordingly in the following example.

 

Step 1:

Place £50.00 (pre-match) on Man City @ Bet365 @ 2.87 = Returns £143.50

Place £50.00 (in-play) on the draw @ Bet365 @ 3.40 Returns £170.00

Place £52.00 (pre-match) on Barcelona @ Betfred @ 2.75 Returns £143.00

Step 2:

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

Man City win

£143.50 + £50.00 refund = £193.50 – outlay of £152.00 = £41.50 profit.

Draw

£170.00 – outlay of £152.00 = £18.00 profit.

Barcelona win

£143.00 + £50.00 refund = £193.00 – outlay of £152.00 = £41.00 profit.

 

Step 3:

In order to even the profit figures up, we could place an additional bet on the draw…

Place £6.00 (pre-match) on the draw @ Bet365 @ 3.60 = Potential profit of £15.60

This would result in the following overall profit/loss for the three potential outcomes…

Man City win

£41.50 – £6.00 = £35.50 profit

Draw

£18.00 + £15.60 = £33.60 profit

Barcelona win

£41.00 – £6.00 = £35.00 profit

So as you can see, no matter what the result of the game, we stand to make a profit of somewhere between £33.60 and £35.50 profit!  How long did that take?  10 minutes?

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