Paddy Power In Play Offer – Champions League & Europa League

European football returns this week and Paddy Power can’t stop giving free bets away! Place a single bet of £20.00 or more pre-match on any matches involving Premier League teams being shown live on Sky Sports or BT Sport and Paddy Power will give us £10.00 worth of free bets to be used in-play on that match. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £37.80 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.

This week’s eligible matches are as follows…

Match Kick-Off Date
Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb 19:45 Tuesday 24th November 2015
Maccabi Tel Aviv v Chelsea 19:45 Tuesday 24th November 2015
Juventus v Man City 19:45 Wednesday 25th November 2015
Man Utd v PSV Eindhoven 19:45 Wednesday 25th November 2015
FK Karabakh v Tottenham 18:00 Thursday 26th November 2015
Liverpool v Bordeaux 20:05 Thursday 26th November 2015

It’s entirely up to you what you place your qualifying bets on, as long as you place them at the minimum odds of 1.50 (1/2) or above.

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. It’s also a good idea to avoid laying Paddy Power offers at the Betfair Exchange following the recent merger agreed between the two companies.

We can calculate our lay stakes using the matched betting calculator.

paddypowerAim to lose no more than £1.20 on each of your qualifying bets

So we will lose approximately £7.20 in qualifying for our 12 x £5.00 in-play free bets.

Free Bets:

It’s impossible to know what odds will be available until the matches have kicked off but by using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 75% out of the 12 x £5.00 free bets as cash, so £45.00. If we take into account our qualifying loss of £7.20, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £37.80!

Extracting profit from our free bets can be a little tricky when betting in-play. My advice is to wait until half-time to place your free bets and then lay them at Smarkets. This is simply because the odds don’t fluctuate as much as when the game is live. There’s nothing worse than placing a free bet on a market and then something happens in the game that changes the odds before you have chance to get your lay bet on! I tend to look at the correct score markets first and then if I can’t find anything suitable I move onto goal scorer markets.

If you can’t wait until half-time, you might want to look at placing them on 1-1, 2-1 or 3-1 whilst the score is at 0-0. By selecting a scoreline where both teams score, it reduces the risk of the odds fluctuating unfavourably.

If you’re not sure how to extract 75% of the 12 x £5.00 free in-play bets, please see my Free Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.

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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.