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Coral Offer – West Ham v Liverpool

West Ham host Liverpool in the early kick-off today and Coral are getting in on the action. Place a £10.00 bet at odds of 1.50 (1/2) or greater on any pre-match market in West Ham v Liverpool and Coral will give us a £10.00 free bet to be used in play on any Premier League match being played today. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £7.70 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 must be placed pre-match at minimum odds of 1.50 or above to be eligible for the free bet. Having looked at the odds available, I’ve opted to place my qualifying bet on a Liverpool win.

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 £9.90…

coral

Place £10.00 on Liverpool @ 2.00 = Potential profit of £10.00

smarkets white

Lay £9.90 on Liverpool @ 2.04 = Potential liability of £10.30

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

Liverpool win + £10.00 – £10.30 = £0.30 loss
Liverpool don’t win – £10.00 + £9.70 = £0.30 loss

So regardless of the result of match, we will lose £0.30 in qualifying for our £10.00 free in play bet.

Free bet

Our £10.00 free bet will be credited upon placement of our qualifying bet and can only be used on the in-play markets available for any Premier League match being played today (Saturday 2nd January 2016). The free bet will expire after the Watford v Manchester City match (17:30 kick-off).

By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% of our £10.00 bonus bet as cash, so around £8.00. If we take into account our qualifying loss of £0.30, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £7.70 on this Coral offer!

If you’re unsure how to extract 80% of our £10.00 free bet, check out my Free Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.

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Matt KirmanMatched Betting Blogger

Since 2014, I’ve blogged over £100,000 worth of profit, and made it my mission to make matched betting accessible to everyone.