Paddy Power have gone Cheltmental again with this fantastic Cheltenham offer! If Un De Sceaux wins the Arkle Chase, Paddy Power will refund all losing single stakes on that race as a free bet up to £50.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential risk-free profit of £14.95 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 walkthrough guide on how it should be done.
For this particular offer, we need to select any horse other than Un De Sceaux (current favourite at 4/7). This ensures that if Un De Sceaux wins, our qualifying bet will have lost, meaning that we’ll be eligible for the free bet refund. Having looked at the odds on offer, I’ve opted to keep my qualifying losses to minimum and place my qualifying bet on Vibrato Valtat.
Place £50.00 on Vibrato Valtat @ 6.00 = Potential profit of £250.00
Lay £37.74 on Vibrato Valtat @ 8.00 = Potential liability of £264.18
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
| Vibrato Valtat wins | +£250.00 – £264.18 = £14.18 loss |
| Un De Sceaux wins | -£50.00 + £35.85 + £40.00 (extract 80% from our £50.00 free bet) = £25.85 profit |
| Neither wins | -£50.00 + £35.85 = £14.15 loss |
So as things stand we will make £25.85 profit if Un De Sceaux (the favourite) wins. Unfortunately, we also stand to lose a maximum of £14.18 on any other outcome and so we need to insure ourselves against this by laying Un De Sceaux at Betfair. In order to calculate our lay stake, we need to divide £14.18 by 0.95 to account for the 5% commission. This gives us a lay stake of £14.93.
Lay £14.93 on Un De Sceaux @ 1.73 = Potential liability of £10.90
Let’s have a look at our overall profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
| Vibrato Valtat wins | -£14.18 + £14.18 = £0.00 |
| Un De Sceaux wins | £25.85 – £10.90 = £14.95 profit |
| Neither wins | -£14.15 + £14.18 = £0.03 profit |
So if Un De Sceaux doesn’t win, we will break even and there’s no harm done. However, if Un De Sceaux justifies his favourite tag by winning the Arkle Chase at Cheltenham we will make a nice risk-free profit of £14.95!
If you’re unsure how to extract 80% of our £50.00 free bet, check out my Free Bet Strategy page for a walkthrough guide on how it should be done.
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