The Cheltenham Festival 2018 gets underway on Tuesday and you don’t want to miss this Bet365 offer! Simply back a winner at odds of 4/1 or more on any Cheltenham race televised live on ITV Racing and Bet365 will give us a risk-free bet to the same stake (up to £50.00) on the next live ITV race. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a risk-free potential profit of £50.00+ and here’s how…
Qualifying Bets:
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.
This offer is available on 5 races each day as follows…
| Time/Day | Race |
|---|---|
| 13:30 Tuesday | Supreme Novices’ Hurdle |
| 14:10 Tuesday | Arkle Chase |
| 14:50 Tuesday | Ultima Handicap Chase |
| 15:30 Tuesday | Champion Hurdle |
| 16:10 Tuesday | Mares Hurdle |
| 13:30 Wednesday | Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle |
| 14:10 Wednesday | RSA Chase |
| 14:50 Wednesday | Coral Cup |
| 15:30 Wednesday | Queen Mother Champion Chase |
| 16:10 Wednesday | Cross Country Chase |
| 13:30 Thursday | JLT Novices’ Chase |
| 14:10 Thursday | Pertemps Handicap Hurdle |
| 14:50 Thursday | Ryanair Chase |
| 15:30 Thursday | Stayers Hurdle |
| 16:10 Thursday | Brown Advisory Plate |
| 13:30 Friday | Triumph Hurdle |
| 14:10 Friday | County Hurdle |
| 14:50 Friday | Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle |
| 15:30 Friday | Cheltenham Gold Cup |
| 16:10 Friday | Foxhunters Chase |
If our selection wins at odds of 4/1 or greater, Bet365 will give us a risk-free bet on the next live ITV race. The risk-free bet will be equal to our qualifying stake, up to a maximum of £50.00.
The back and lay odds will tighten as we get closer to each race starting. In the meantime, I’ll use fictional odds for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle in the following example to illustrate how this offer should be done.
Let’s say we want to select Kalashnikov at back odds of 5.50 and lay odds of 5.70…
We know that if our bet wins, we’ll get a £50.00 risk-free bet on the next race. We would just need to bet £50.00 using our own funds and if it loses, Bet365 will refund our stake in cash. We can therefore expect to extract around 80% cash from any risk-free bet we are eligible for.
With that in mind, we can simply add 0.80 onto our back odds of 5.50, to get our effective back odds of 6.30. We can then enter these effective back odds into the matched betting calculator to get our overlay stake. By overlaying, we are able to guarantee ourselves a profit on any outcome.
I like to place my exchange lay bets with Betfair as they have great liquidity in the run up to races and the site is really easy to use.
As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £55.75…
Place £50.00 on Kalashnikov @ 5.50 = Potential profit of £225.00
Lay £55.75 on Kalashnikov @ 5.70 = Potential liability of £262.02
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
| Kalashnikov wins | + £225.00 – £262.02 + £40.00 (extract 80% from £50.00 risk-free bet) = £2.98 profit |
| Kalashnikov doesn’t win | – £50.00 + £52.96 (£55.75 minus 5% commission) = £2.96 profit |
So, regardless of the outcome, we’ll make a guaranteed profit of £2.96.
We won’t be able to find a profitable match on every race and even when we do, some will be more profitable than others. With 20 eligible races though, we should be looking at a risk-free potential profit of £50.00+ on this Bet365 offer!
It’s worth mentioning that when placing a risk-free bet, if our selection wins, we’ll qualify for another risk-free bet on the next ITV race.
I’ll update the following table throughout the week with some actual selections…
| Race | Selection | Back Odds | Lay Odds | Profit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:10 Tuesday | Petit Mouchoir | 5.50 | 5.70 | £2.96 |
| 14:50 Tuesday | Coo Star Sivola | 6.00 | 6.40 | £0.89 |
| 13:30 Wednesday | Next Destination | 5.00 | 5.40 | £1.49 |
| 14:10 Wednesday | Black Corton | 8.50 | 8.60 | £1.67 |
| 16:10 Wednesday | The Last Samuri | 6.00 | 5.80 | £6.17 |
| 13:30 Thursday | Shattered Love | 6.00 | 6.40 | £0.89 |
| 14:10 Thursday | Delta Work | 9.00 | 8.80 | £3.20 |
| 14:50 Thursday | Cue Card | 6.00 | 6.40 | £0.86 |
| 15:30 Thursday | Yanworth | 7.00 | 7.40 | £0.40 |
| 16:10 Thursday | The Storyteller | 7.50 | 7.80 | £0.86 |
| 13:30 Friday | Redicean | 8.00 | 8.20 | £1.29 |
| 15:30 Friday | Might Bite | 5.00 | 5.30 | £2.47 |
| 16:10 Friday | Burning Ambition | 5.00 | 5.10 | £4.55 |
* Finding tight back and lay odds proved challenging at times, resulting in an overall profit of £27.67 on this Bet365 offer. *
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