The Pools – Arsenal v Aston Villa Offer

It’s Arsenal v Aston Villa in the Premier League on Friday night and The Pools are getting in on the action! Place £5.00 on Arsenal to score first at boosted odds of evens and qualify for a £5.00 free bet if you bet a further £20.00 on the Premier League this weekend. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £3.38 and here’s how…

Price boost

In order to qualify for the ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offer, we need to place a bet of £5.00+ on Arsenal to score first against Aston Villa at boosted odds of 2.00 (evens).

For a walkthrough of how to lay price boosts, please see my price boosts guide.

Smarkets works best for this offer

Smarkets’ 0% commission rate makes them the best option for this offer.

They often have less liquidity than Betfair, but for this offer, that’s okay. You can go ahead and maximise your profits.

  • 0% commission for 60 days

We can calculate our lay stake using my Matched Betting Calculator

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Total profit: £

As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £5.49…

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Place £5.00 on ‘Arsenal to score first’ @ 2.00 = Potential profit of £5.00

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Lay £5.49 on ‘First team to score – Arsenal’ @ 1.84 = Potential liability of £4.61

Outcomes

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

OutcomeThe PoolsSmarketsProfit/Loss
Arsenal score first+ £5.00– £4.61£0.39 profit
Arsenal don’t score first– £5.00+ £5.38£0.38 profit

So, no matter the outcome, we’ll make a guaranteed profit of £0.38 in qualifying for our ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offer.

Qualifying bet

If you’d like more information about qualifying bets and how they work, please see my qualifying bets guide.

To qualify for the £5.00 free bet, we must bet £20.00 on a Premier League match taking place up to and including Sunday 24th October 2021 at minimum odds of 1.20 (1/5).

Either exchange works for this offer

Betfair and Smarkets are both great options for this offer. If you’ve not used one of them, now is a great time to give them a try.

  • Money back as cash up to £20
  • 0% commission for 60 days

We can calculate our lay stakes using my Matched Betting Calculator.

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Aim to lose no more than £1.00 on our qualifying bet

Free bet

Our £5.00 free bet will be credited by midday the day following bet settlement and will be valid for 7 days.

Using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to convert our free bet into 80% cash, so £4.00. If we take into account our expected qualifying loss of £1.00 and our price boost minimum profit of £0.38, this gives us an overall guaranteed profit of £3.38 on this The Pools offer!

* Arsenal scored first, resulting in a profit of £3.39 on this The Pools offer. *

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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.