The Pools – Arsenal v Leeds Offer

It’s Arsenal v Leeds in the EFL Cup on Tuesday night and The Pools are getting in on the action! Place £5.00 on Arsenal to beat Leeds in 90 minutes at boosted odds of evens and qualify for £10.00 in free bets if you bet a further £20.00 on both the T20 World Cup and horse racing. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £6.83 and here’s how…

Price boost

In order to qualify for the two ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offers, we need to place a bet of £5.00+ on Arsenal to win in 90 mins at boosted odds of 2.00 (evens).

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

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 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 £5.95…

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Place £5.00 on ‘Arsenal to win in 90 mins’ @ 2.00 = Potential profit of £5.00

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Lay £5.95 on Arsenal (Match Odds) @ 1.70 = Potential liability of £4.16

Outcomes

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

OutcomeThe PoolsBetfairProfit/Loss
Arsenal win in 90 mins+ £5.00– £4.16£0.84 profit
Any other outcome– £5.00+ £5.83£0.83 profit

So, no matter the outcome, we’ll make a guaranteed profit of £0.83 in qualifying for our two ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offers.

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 2 x £5.00 free bets, we must bet £20.00 on both a T20 World Cup match and horse racing between Tuesday 26th October 2021 and Thursday 28th 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 each of our qualifying bets

So, we’ll lose a total of around £2.00 in qualifying for our £10.00 in free bets.

Free bets

Our 2 x £5.00 free bets 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 bets into 80% cash, so £8.00. If we take into account our total expected qualifying loss of £2.00 and our price boost minimum profit of £0.83, this gives us an overall guaranteed profit of £6.83 on this The Pools offer!

* Arsenal won the match 2-0 in 90 minutes, resulting in a profit of £6.84 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.