It’s Man Utd v Barcelona in the Champions League Quarter-Finals on Wednesday and you don’t want to miss this Bet365 ‘Bet £50, Get £50’ offer! Place a pre-match single bet on Man Utd v Barcelona and Bet365 will give us a free bet equal to our largest pre-match bet, up to £50.00, to use in play. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £35.06 and here’s how…
Key Terms:
- This offer is invite only, available to customers who have received the promotional email, web message, text message, pop-up or mobile notification.
- We must place our qualifying bet on Man Utd v Barcelona before 20:00 (kick-off) on Wednesday 10th April 2019.
- We’ll receive a free bet equal to our largest pre-match stake, up to a maximum of £50.00.
- The free bet will only become available once the match has kicked off.
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.
We should place our qualifying bet on either team to win as that will also qualify us for Bet365’s Early Payout promotion, where they’ll pay us out if our selected team goes two goals ahead.
Having looked at the odds available, we could place our qualifying bet on Barcelona in the Full Time Result market.
At the time of writing, laying our bet at Smarkets gives us the smallest qualifying loss.
We can calculate our lay stake using the ‘Qualifying Bet‘ setting on my matched betting calculator…
As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £48.54…
Place £50.00 on Barcelona @ 2.00 = Potential profit of £50.00
Lay £48.54 on Barcelona @ 2.08 = Potential liability of £52.42
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
Outcome | Bookie | Exchange | Profit/Loss |
---|---|---|---|
Barcelona win | +£50.00 | -£52.42 | £2.42 loss |
Barcelona don’t win | -£50.00 | +£47.56 | £2.44 loss |
So, regardless of the outcome, we’ll lose a maximum of £2.44 in qualifying for our £50.00 free bet.
Free Bet:
Our £50.00 free bet will only become available once the match starts and must be used in play. Free bet stakes are not included in any returns.
If you’re unsure how to extract cash from a free bet, please see my Free Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.
It’s impossible to know what odds will be available until the match has kicked off, but we should be aiming to extract around £37.50 cash (75%) from our £50.00 free bet.
I’ll use fictional odds for 2-1 Barcelona in the following example to give you an idea of how things should pan out.
We can calculate our lay stake using the ‘Free Bet‘ setting on my matched betting calculator…
As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £38.34…
Place £50.00 on 2-1 Barcelona @ 8.50 = Potential profit of £375.00
Lay £38.34 on 2-1 Barcelona @ 9.80 = Potential liability of £337.39
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
Outcome | Bookie | Exchange | Profit/Loss |
---|---|---|---|
2-1 Barcelona | +£375.00 | -£337.39 | £37.61 profit |
Not 2-1 Barcelona | -£0.00 | +£37.57 | £37.57 profit |
So, with some decent odds, we’ll extract around £37.50 cash from our £50.00 free bet.
If we take into account our maximum qualifying loss of £2.44, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £35.06 on this Bet365 offer!
* Barcelona won the match 1-0, resulting in a profit of £35.08 on this Bet365 offer. *
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James W
Guest userBet365 only give me £5 free bets now. Is there away i can earn back the £50 ones?
Matt
1490There’s no way of knowing for sure what their criteria is for distributing the different values of offer. It could possibly be related to your recent activity so maybe you could place a few higher value mug bets and see if that makes a difference for next time.
Jackson
Guest userLooks an exciting offer – shame I am illegible as confirmed by Bet365 Live Chat! 🙁
Julien
Guest userI was getting the 50£ offers but now down to 25£. Would putting a few random 50£ laid bets get me back up to 50?
Matt
1490Possibly Julien, but unfortunately there’s no way of knowing for sure.
Jamie
Guest userFew years ago I was getting the risk-free £50 ones, then they changed it to a free bet format and I got £25 for the last year, now I’m back to £50! Also got £50 for their Cheltenham offer so happy days
Matt
1490Did you increase your activity at all Jamie or does it seem random?
Jamie
Guest userNot really no, seems random. I don’t use B365 much, apart from the offers and occasional mug bet here and there
Matt
1490Fingers crossed you’ll keep getting the big ones then!
Chris
Guest userGod knows. I always place my accas with these if odds are best, plus I have had a few 50 pound bets, and done the national offer n only got 5 free bet for this.
Maybe based on average football single stakes.
Matt
1490Yes Chris, you would think it would be related to your football betting activity.