World Cup 2018 Top Goalscorer Offer – Bwin

The World Cup 2018 is fast approaching and you don’t want to miss this Bwin offer. Simply bet £10.00 on the World Cup Top Goalscorer and Bwin will give us a £2.00 free bet for every goal our player scores during the tournament! Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £9.70 and here’s how…

Qualifying Bet:

We must opt-in to this offer on the promotion page.

Qualifying bets must be placed between 00:01 on Sunday 3rd June 2018 and 16:00 on Thursday 14th June 2018, to be eligible.

It’s entirely up to you which player you place your qualifying bet on. Having looked at the odds available, we could place our qualifying bet on Gabriel Jesus.

At the time of writing, laying our bet at Smarkets gives us a small qualifying profit.

Just bear in mind that our exchange funds will be tied up until our player’s team gets knocked out. The alternative is to not lay our bet and just let the qualifying bet run. Gabriel Jesus should score enough goals to cover some of the £10.00 stake and we could win big if he goes on to be top goalscorer.

We can calculate our lay stake using my matched betting calculator…

Back Bet (Bookie)

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Lay Bet (Betting Exchange)

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

Optimal Underlay

Lay stake required: £
Exchange liability: £

If back (bookie) bet wins: £
If lay (exchange) bet wins: £

Optimal Overlay

Lay stake required: £
Exchange liability: £

If back (bookie) bet wins: £
If lay (exchange) bet wins: £

As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £10.28…

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Place £10.00 on Gabriel Jesus @ 19.00 = Potential profit of £180.00

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Lay £10.28 on Gabriel Jesus @ 18.50 = Potential liability of £179.90

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

Gabriel Jesus top scores + £180.00 – £179.90 = £0.10 profit
Gabriel Jesus doesn’t top score – £10.00 + £10.07 (£10.28 minus 2% commission) = £0.07 profit

So, regardless of who is top goalscorer, we’ll make a minimum profit of £0.07 in qualifying for our potential free bets.

NOTE: It’s worth pointing out that if we select the same player for the various different bookmaker Top Goalscorer offers, we would need a huge amount in our exchange account to cover the overall liability. By selecting a few different players, we can reduce our overall liability at the exchange. That’s because only one player can be top goalscorer (winnings are reduced if players finish tied), so we just need enough exchange funds to cover the player with the largest liability.

Free Bets:

For every goal that Gabriel Jesus scores, we’ll receive a £2.00 free bet within 24 hours, up to a maximum of £25.00 over the course of the tournament. Free bets will be valid for 48 hours and free bet stakes are not included in any returns.

There are 3 group matches and 4 potential knock out matches. If Gabriel Jesus scores 6 goals in total, we’ll receive £12.00 in free bets. By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% cash from our £12.00 in free bets, so £9.60. If we take our maximum qualifying profit of £0.10 into account, that gives us a potential profit of £9.70 on this Bwin offer!

* Gabriel Jesus failed to score at the tournament, resulting in a small qualifying profit of £0.07 on this Bwin offer. *

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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.