Coral Offer – Channel 4 Racing

There’s a full schedule of Channel 4 horse racing today and you don’t want to miss this Coral offer. Bet £20.00+ on any live Channel 4 race today and Coral will give us a £10.00 free bet to use on Sunday’s racing. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £8.00 and here’s how…

Qualifying Bet:

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.

To qualify, we must place a Win Single £20.00+ bet at odds of 2.00 (evens) or greater on any of the following live Channel 4 races today…

Racecourse Race Times
Sandown 1.50     2.25     3.00     3.35
Ffos Las 2.05     3.15
Wetherby 2.45

Having looked at the odds available, I’ve opted to place my qualifying bet on Arthur’s Oak in the 1.50 at Sandown.

I like to place my exchange lay bets with Smarkets as they have great liquidity, the site is really easy to use and they only charge 2% commission in comparison to the 5% charged by other betting exchanges.

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 £20.41…

coral

Place £20.00 on Arthur’s Oak @ 3.50 = Potential profit of £50.00

smarkets white

Lay £20.41 on Arthur’s Oak @ 3.45 = Potential liability of £50.00

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

Arthur’s Oak wins + £50.00 – £50.00 = £0.00 loss
Arthur’s Oak doesn’t win – £20.00 + £20.00 = £0.00 loss

So regardless of the result of the race, we will lose £0.00 in qualifying for our £10.00 free bet.

Free Bet:

Our £10.00 free bet will be credited by 11:00 on Sunday 7th February 2016 and can be used on any horse racing markets that day and will expire at the end of the day’s racing.

By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% of our £10.00 free bet as cash, so around £8.00. If we take into account our qualifying loss of £0.00, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £8.00 on this Coral offer!

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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.