The Pools – Man City v Wolves Offer

It’s Man City v Wolves in the Premier League on Saturday, and The Pools are getting in on the action! Place £5.00 on Man City to be leading at half-time and full-time at boosted odds of 3/4 and qualify for a £5.00 free bet if you bet a further £20.00 on selected events. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a profit of £6.04, and here’s how…

Price boost

To qualify for the two ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offers, we need to place a bet of £5.00+ on Man City to be leading at Half Time and Full Time at boosted odds of 1.75 (3/4).

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

Select bet type

Back Bet (Bookie)

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Lay Bet (Betting Exchange)

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Min £
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Lay stake required: £
Bookie
Exchange
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If back (bookie) bet wins
£
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= £
If lay (exchange) bet wins
£
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= £
Total profit: £

As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £5.15…

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Place £5.00 on ‘Man City to be leading at Half Time and Full Time’ @ 1.75 = Potential profit of £3.75

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Lay £5.15 on ‘Man City/Man City’ (Half Time/Full Time) @ 1.72 = Potential liability of £3.70

Outcomes

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

OutcomeThe PoolsBetfairProfit/Loss
Man City lead at half-time
and full-time
+ £3.75– £3.70£0.05 profit
Any other outcome– £5.00+ £5.04£0.04 profit

So, no matter the outcome, we’ll make a minimum profit of £0.04 in qualifying for our two ‘Bet £20, Get £5’ offers.

Qualifying bets

Please see my qualifying bets guide if you’d like more information about them and how they work.

To qualify for the 2 x £5.00 free bets, we must bet £20.00 on both any top tier European football match and any horse racing market on Saturday 11th December 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 valid for 7 days.

Using straightforward matched betting, we should convert our free bets into 80% cash, so £8.00. Considering our total expected qualifying loss of £2.00 and our price boost minimum profit of £0.04, this provides us with an overall minimum profit of £6.04 on this The Pools offer!

* Man City won the match 1-0 with the goal scored in the second half, resulting in £6.04 profit on this The Pools offer. *

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Matt Kirman - Matched Betting Blogger

Matt KirmanMatched Betting Blogger

Since 2014, I’ve blogged over £85,000 worth of profit, and made it my mission to make matched betting accessible to everyone.