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Money Back Offer (13:55 Ascot) – Paddy Power

There’s a big day of racing at Ascot on Friday and you don’t want to miss this Paddy Power money back offer! Simply place a bet of up to £10.00 on the 13:55 at Ascot and if our horse finishes 2nd, 3rd or 4th, Paddy Power will refund our stake as a free bet, up to a maximum of £10.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £7.15 and here’s how…

Key Terms:

  • We must place our bet between 17:00 on Thursday 17th December 2020 and 13:55 (race-off) on Friday 18th December 2020.
  • Offer applies to the win market and the win part of each way bets only.
  • If less than 6 runners take part, this offer will revert to money back if 2nd.
  • If our horse finishes 2nd, 3rd or 4th, Paddy Power will refund our stake as a free bet, 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, 3rd or 4th place finish.

At the time of writing, the back and lay odds aren’t quite tight enough. Mack The Man 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 after the race with a genuine selection.

We can calculate our lay stakes using my Matched Betting Calculator

Select bet type

Back Bet (Bookie)

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Lay Bet (Betting Exchange)

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Lay stake required: £
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If lay (exchange) bet wins
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Total profit: £

As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £9.34…

Place £10.00 on Mack The Man @ 3.25 = Potential profit of £22.50

Lay £9.34 on Mack The Man @ 3.50 = Potential liability of £23.35

Outcomes:

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

OutcomeBookieExchangeFree BetProfit/Loss
Mack The Man wins+ £22.50– £23.35£0.85 loss
Mack The Man finishes 2nd, 3rd or 4th– £10.00+ £9.15+ £8.00£7.15 profit
Mack The Man finishes outside top 4– £10.00+ £9.15£0.85 loss

So, we’ll make a nice profit of £7.15 if Mack The Man finishes 2nd, 3rd or 4th and we stand to lose £0.85 on any other outcome. Risking £0.85 to make a profit of £7.15 gives us effective odds of 9.41, which I’m sure you’ll agree, makes this a profitable offer in the long run.

If eligible, free bets will be credited within 2 hours of the race ending and will be valid on any horse racing market for 7 days.

If you’re unsure how to convert your £10.00 free bet into £8.00 cash (80%), please see my free bets guide for a walkthrough of how it should be done.

* Editeur Du Gite was available at back odds of 4.333 and lay odds of 4.80. Editeur Du Gite finished 2nd, resulting in a profit of £6.87 on this Paddy Power 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.