Coral Offer – Bet £20.00, Get £10.00

It’s the Merseyside derby tonight and you don’t want to miss this Coral offer. Place a £20.00 single bet at odds of 1.50 (1/2) or greater on any pre-match or in play 90 minute markets (W-D-W) on tonight’s football and Coral will give us a £10.00 free bet to use on Thursday’s games. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £6.95 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 it should be done.

Qualifying bets can be placed pre-match or in play at minimum odds of 1.50 (1/2) or above to be eligible for the free bet. The offer applies to bets struck between 07:00 and 23:59 on Wednesday 20th April 2016. Having looked at the odds available, I’ve opted to place my qualifying bet on Liverpool beating Everton.

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)

%

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 £19.34…

coral

Place £20.00 on Liverpool @ 1.615 = Potential profit of £12.30

smarkets white

Lay £19.34 on Liverpool @ 1.69 = Potential liability of £13.35

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

Liverpool win + £12.30 – £13.35 = £1.05 loss
Liverpool don’t win – £20.00 + £18.95 = £1.05 loss

So regardless of the result of match, we will lose £1.05 in qualifying for our £10.00 free bet.

Free Bet:

Our £10.00 free bet will be credited by 12:00 on Thursday 21st April 2016 and will be valid until 23:59 on Thursday 21st April 2016.

By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% of our £10.00 free bet as cash, so around £8.00. If we take into account our qualifying loss of £1.05, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £6.95 on this Coral offer!

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Matt Kirman - Matched Betting Blogger

Matt KirmanMatched Betting Blogger

Since 2014, I’ve blogged over £85,000 worth of profit, and made it my mission to make matched betting accessible to everyone.