Cheltenham Festival 2018 Offer – NetBet

The Cheltenham Festival 2018 is underway and you don’t want to miss this NetBet offer! Simply place a Race Winner bet on the first race at Cheltenham each day and if our selection loses and finishes within the advertised place terms, NetBet will refund our stake as a free bet, up to a maximum of £20.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us an overall potential profit of £40.00+ and here’s how…

The Offer:

We must opt in to this promotion before 13:25 on Friday 16th March 2018, to be eligible.

This offer is available on the first race each day as follows…

Race Time Date
Supreme Novices’ Hurdle 13:30 Tuesday 13th March 2018
Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle 13:30 Wednesday 14th March 2018
JLT Novices’ Chase 13:30 Thursday 15th March 2018
Triumph Hurdle 13:30 Friday 16th March 2018

If our selected horse doesn’t win the race, but finishes in the advertised place terms, NetBet will refund our stake as a free bet, up to a maximum of £20.00.

Qualifying Bets:

Having looked at the odds available for the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle, we could place our qualifying bet on Samcro.

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.

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

Back Bet (Bookie)

%

Lay Bet (Betting Exchange)

%

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 £19.51…

NetBet logo

Place £20.00 on Samcro @ 1.727 = Potential profit of £14.54

Betfair logo

Lay £19.51 on Samcro @ 1.82 = Potential liability of £15.99

Outcomes:

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

Samcro wins + £14.54 – £15.99 = £1.45 loss
Samcro places 2nd or 3rd – £20.00 + £18.53 + £15.00 (extract 75% from our £20.00 free bet) = £13.53 profit
Samcro finishes outside top 3 – £20.00 + £18.53 = £1.47 loss

So, if Samcro places 2nd or 3rd, we’ll make a nice profit of £13.53. Any other outcome and we’ll have made a maximum loss of £1.47. Risking £1.47 to make a profit of £13.53, gives us effective odds of 10.20, which I’m sure you’ll agree makes this a profitable offer in the long run.

If eligible, free bets will be credited within 24 hours of the race finishing and will be valid on horse racing for 7 days. Free bet stakes are not included in any returns.

I’ll update the following table with suggested bets throughout the week…

Race Selection Back Odds Lay Odds Qualifying Loss Potential Profit
Supreme Novices’ Hurdle n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle Samcro 1.727 1.82 £1.45 £13.53
JLT Novices’ Chase Terrefort 5.00 5.40 £2.25 £12.75
Triumph Hurdle Apple’s Shakira 2.20 2.26 £1.09 £13.91

* Overall profit of £10.21 on this NetBet 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.