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Money Back Offer (13:45 Chester) – Sky Bet

It’s Day 3 of the Boodles May Festival 2021 at Chester on Friday and it’s time for another Sky Bet money back offer! If our horse finishes 2nd or 3rd in the 13:45 Chester, Sky Bet will refund our stake as cash, up to a maximum of £10.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £9.15 and here’s how…

Key terms

  • Applies to our first bet on the 13:45 Chester.
  • Applies to bets placed between 11:00 on Wednesday 5th May 2021 and 13:45 (race-off) on Friday 7th May 2021.
  • If fewer than seven runners come under starters orders, Sky Bet may withdraw the offer.
  • If our horse finishes 2nd or 3rd, Sky Bet will refund our stake as cash, up to £10.00.

Qualifying bet

If you’d like more information about qualifying bets and how they work, please see my qualifying bets guide.

It’s entirely up to you which horse you go for, but it would make sense to select a horse with fairly short odds in the hope of a 2nd or 3rd place finish.

At the time of writing, the back and lay odds aren’t quite tight enough. Revich is favourite to win the race at back odds of 3.25 (9/4). I’ll use lay odds of 3.50 to illustrate how this offer works and I’ll update the bottom of the post with a genuine selection after the race.

Smarkets works best for this offer

For this offer, Smarkets are the best option due to Sky Bet being part of the same group as Betfair.

Laying your bet at Betfair would probably be fine, but if you don’t want to risk it, Smarkets is your safest bet.

  • 0% commission for 60 days

We can calculate our lay stake 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 £9.34…

Sky Bet logo

Place £10.00 on Revich @ 3.25 = Potential profit of £22.50

Smarkets logo

Lay £9.34 on Revich @ 3.50 = Potential liability of £23.35

Outcomes

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

OutcomeSky BetSmarketsCashbackProfit/Loss
Revich wins+ £22.50– £23.35£0.85 loss
Revich finishes 2nd or 3rd– £10.00+ £9.15+ £10.00£9.15 profit
Any other outcome– £10.00+ £9.15£0.85 loss

So, we would stand to make a nice profit of £9.15 if Revich finishes 2nd or 3rd or we’d lose £0.85 on any other outcome. Risking £0.85 to make a potential profit of £9.15 gives us effective odds of 11.76, which I’m sure you’ll agree, makes this a profitable offer in the long run.

If eligible, cash refunds will be credited within 24 hours of the race finishing.

* Revich was available at back odds of 3.75 and lay odds of 4.10. Revich finished outside the top 3, resulting in a loss of £1.00 on this Sky Bet offer. *

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Matt KirmanMatched Betting Blogger

Since 2014, I’ve blogged over £90,000 worth of profit, and made it my mission to make matched betting accessible to everyone.