It’s Stoke v Man City in the Premier League tonight and you don’t want to miss this William Hill offer! Bet a total of £5.00 or more on Stoke v Man City and William Hill will give us a £5.00 free bet to use on Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival 2018. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £5.88 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.
To be eligible for our £5.00 free bet, we must bet a total of £5.00 or more at odds of 1.50 (1/2) or greater on Stoke v Man City tonight. Qualifying bets must be placed between 17:30 on Monday 26th February and the final whistle (around 21:50 on Monday 12th March 2018), to be eligible.
Having looked at the odds available, we could place our qualifying bet on ‘Yes‘ in the ‘Both Teams To Score‘ market.
I like to place my exchange lay bets with Betfair as they have great liquidity and the site is really easy to use.
We can calculate our lay stakes using my matched betting calculator…
As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £4.69…
Place £5.00 on ‘Both Teams To Score’ @ 2.00 = Potential profit of £5.00
Lay £4.69 on ‘Both teams to Score? – Yes’ @ 2.18 = Potential liability of £5.53
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
| Both teams score | + £5.00 – £5.53 = £0.53 loss |
| Either team keeps a clean sheet | – £5.00 + £4.45 (£4.69 minus 5% commission) = £0.55 loss |
So, regardless of the outcome, we’ll lose a maximum of £0.55 in qualifying for our £5.00 free bet.
Free Bet:
Our £10.00 free bet will be credited by 09:00 on Tuesday 13th March 2018 and must be used on Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival 2018 (Tuesday 13th March 2018).
By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 75% of our £5.00 free bet as cash, so around £3.75. If we take into account our maximum qualifying loss of £0.55, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £3.20 on this William Hill offer!
* Man City won the match 2-0, resulting in a profit of £3.20 on this William Hill offer. *
Significant Conditions:
- Min. stakes of a total of £5/€5 on the Stoke v Man City match only.
- Bet must be placed at odds of 1/2 (1.5) or greater.
- Singles only.
- Bets must be placed before the final whistle.
- If you Cash in your bet you will not qualify to receive a Free Bet.
- Qualifying bets must be placed between 17:30 on Mon 26th February and the final whistle of Stoke v Man City.
- Receive a free bet of £5/€5 to use on any Racecard Market on a scheduled race at Cheltenham Festival on Tues, 13 March 2018.
- Free bet will be available by 09:00 on Tuesday 13th March 2018
- Free Bet is non-refundable and may not be withdrawn.
- Free Bet stake will be excluded from any winnings.
- Free Bet cannot be partially redeemed.
- Offer available to UK and Irish customers only.
- With regards to Retail Betting, the qualifying bet must be placed using a registered PLUS card on a William Hill PLUS self-service betting terminal in-shop.
- Terms and conditions apply.
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