Betway Offer – Everton v Man Utd

Man Utd are the visitors to Goodison Park today and Betway are getting in on the action! Simply back a team to win in Everton v Man Utd and every time your selected team scores, Betway will give us a £5.00 free bet. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £19.42 and here’s how…

Qualifying Bet:

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.

It’s entirely up to you who you place your qualifying bet on, as long as you place it pre-match on either Everton or Man Utd in the Win/Draw/Win market. I’ve opted to place my qualifying bet on the favourites, Man Utd.

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 my matched betting calculator…

Back Bet (Bookie)

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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 £19.81…

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Place £20.00 on Man Utd @ 2.10 = Potential profit of £22.00

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Lay £19.81 on Man Utd @ 2.14 = Potential liability of £22.58

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

Man Utd win + £22.00 – £22.58 = £0.58 loss
Man Utd don’t win – £20.00 + £19.42 (£19.81 minus 2% commission) = £0.58 loss

So, regardless of the result of the match, we will lose £0.58 in qualifying for our potential free bets.

Free Bets:

For every goal that Man Utd score in the match, we will receive a £5.00 free bet, up to a maximum total of £25.00. Free bets will be valid for 7 days and free bet stakes are not included with any returns.

By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% of any free bets as cash.

Therefore, if Man Utd are able to score 5 goals in the game, we would receive £25.00 in free bets, from which we would extract £20.00 cash. If we take into account our qualifying loss of £0.58, this gives us a potential profit of £19.42 on this Betway offer.

* The match was drawn 1-1, meaning I made a profit of £3.42 on this Betway offer. *

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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.