Ladbrokes Offer – 13:50 Newmarket (Saturday)

There’s a big day of horse racing at Newmarket today and you don’t want to miss this Ladbrokes offer! Simply place a bet on the 13:50 at Newmarket and if our selection loses, Ladbrokes will refund our stake as a free bet, up to a maximum of £25.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £16.34 and here’s how…

Qualifying Bet:

If you’re unsure about how to place qualifying bets, check out my Qualifying Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.

Qualifying bets must be placed between 08:00 and 13:50 on Saturday 6th May 2017, to be eligible.

Losing stakes are refunded as a free bet, so this is effectively a risk-free offer. We therefore need to select a horse with long odds. Having looked at the odds available, I’ve opted to place my qualifying bet on Abareeq.

I like to place my exchange lay bets with Smarkets as they have great liquidity in the run up to races, 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 work out our lay stake by using the ‘Risk-Free Bet’ setting on my matched betting calculator. We can enter £20.00 as our ‘Cashback’ figure as this is the amount we can expect to extract (80%) from our £25.00 free bet refund, should our horse lose…

Select bet type

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 £21.82…

Ladbrokes Offer - 13:55 Newbury (Saturday)

Place £25.00 on Abareeq @ 13.00 = Potential profit of £300.00

smarkets white

Lay £21.82 on Abareeq @ 14.00 = Potential liability of £283.66

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

Abareeq wins + £300.00 – £283.66 = £16.34 profit
Abareeq doesn’t win – £25.00 + £21.38 + £20.00 (extract 80% from our £25.00 free bet) = £16.38 profit

So, regardless of the result of the race, we’ll make a minimum guaranteed profit of £16.34 on this Ladbrokes offer!

If our selection loses, our free bet will be credited within 24 hours of the race ending and will be valid for 7 days.

If you’re unsure how to extract 80% of our £25.00 free bet, check out my Free Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.

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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.