Royal Ascot 2019 Offer – Bet365

Royal Ascot 2019 gets underway on Tuesday and you don’t want to miss this Bet365 offer! Simply back a winner at 4/1 or more in any live ITV race and Bet365 will give us a risk-free bet equal to our stake, up to a maximum of £50.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us an overall potential profit of £100.00+ and here’s how…

Key Terms:

  • Offer applies to first win or each way single bet placed on each race shown live on ITV.
  • If our horse wins, we’ll qualify for a risk-free bet to the same stake, up to £50.00, on the next ITV race.
  • Risk-free bets must be placed using our own funds and if it loses, Bet365 will refund our stake in cash.

Qualifying Bets:

This offer is available on all six Royal Ascot races each day (14:30, 15:05, 15:40, 16:20, 17:00 and 17:35).

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.

We have the option to overlay our bets for a small guaranteed profit. We can simply add 0.75 to our back odds when entering them into the calculator as we would expect to extract 75% cash from a risk-free bet, should our horse win.

The guaranteed profits are a little on the small side though, so it may be best to just lay our bets normally and hope a couple of our horses win.

The back and lay odds should tighten up as the start of each race draws nearer. In the meantime though, I’ll use fictional lay odds for Mustashry in the 14:30 at Royal Ascot on Tuesday to illustrate how this offer should be done. I’ll update the table at the bottom of the post with some actual selections at the end of each day.

At the time of writing, laying our bet at Smarkets is likely to give us the smallest qualifying loss.

We can calculate our stake using my matched betting calculator…

Select bet type

Back Bet (Bookie)

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Lay Bet (Betting Exchange)

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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 £48.42…

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Place £50.00 on Mustashry @ 5.50 = Potential profit of £225.00

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Lay £48.42 on Mustashry @ 5.70 = Potential liability of £227.57

Outcomes:

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

Outcome Bookie Exchange Extracted Profit/Loss
Mustashry wins +£225.00 -£227.57 +£37.50 £34.93 profit
Mustashry doesn’t win -£50.00 +£47.45 £2.55 loss

So, we’ll make a nice profit of £34.93 if Mustashry wins, otherwise we’ll lose £2.55. Risking £2.55 to make a profit of £34.93 gives us effective odds of 14.70. So, given that Mustashry is odds of just 5.50 (9/2) to win the race, this is a profitable offer in the long run.

This offer is available on all 30 Royal Ascot 2019 races, giving us an overall potential profit of £100.00+ on this Bet365 offer!

If any of our selections win, our risk-free bet will be valid on the very next ITV race. We must place our risk-free bets using our own funds and if our selection loses, Bet365 will refund our stake in cash, up to a maximum of £50.00. If our risk-free bet wins, we’ll qualify for another risk-free bet on the next ITV race.

If you’re unsure how to extract £37.50 cash (75%) from a £50.00 risk-free bet, check out my Risk-Free Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.

I’ll update the following table with some actual selections at the end of each day…

Race Selection Back Odds Lay Odds Profit/Loss
16:20 Tuesday King Of Comedy 7.00 7.20 -£2.23
15:40 Wednesday Crystal Ocean 5.00 5.20 -£2.69
16:20 Wednesday I Can Fly 5.00 5.00 +£39.35 *
17:00 Wednesday New Graduate 8.00 8.20 -£2.08
14:30 Thursday A’ali 6.00 6.20 -£2.40
15:05 Thursday Cape Of Good Hope 6.00 6.40 +£38.39 **
16:20 Thursday Cross Counter 5.50 5.70 -£2.55
14:30 Friday Daahyeh 5.00 5.30 -£3.60
15:05 Friday Private Secretary 6.00 6.60 +£37.23 ***
17:00 Friday Desirous 7.00 7.20 -£2.23
16:20 Saturday City Light 8.50 8.80 -£2.56
17:35 Saturday Max Dynamite 5.00 5.30 -£3.60
Total: +£91.03

* Crystal Ocean won the 15:40 on Wednesday, resulting in a profit of £39.35 on the next race (16:20). *

** A’ali won the 14:30 on Thursday, resulting in a profit of £38.39 on the next race (15:05). *

*** Daahyeh won the 14:30 on Friday, resulting in a profit of £37.23 on the next race (15:05). *

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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.