Cheltenham Festival 2017 gets underway on Tuesday and Sky Bet lead the way with a fantastic money back offer! Simply place a bet on the first race at Cheltenham each day and if it loses, Sky Bet will refund our stake as a free bet up to a maximum of £20.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £52.00+ and here’s how…
Qualifying Bets:
This is a risk-free offer, so we can guarantee ourselves a profit on any outcome! If you’re unsure how to do risk-free bet offers, check out my Risk-Free Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.
This offer only applies to bets placed after 20:00 on Wednesday 1st March 2017 and is available on the following races…
| Race | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Novices’ Hurdle | 13:30 | Tuesday 14th March 2017 |
| Neptune Novices’ Hurdle | 13:30 | Wednesday 15th March 2017 |
| JLT Novices’ Chase | 13:30 | Thursday 16th March 2017 |
| Triumph Hurdle | 13:30 | Friday 17th March 2017 |
We’ll need to select horses with long odds in order to maximise our profits.
The back and lay odds should tighten up on the day of each race. In the meantime, I’ll use fictional odds for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle in the following example to illustrate how this offer should be done each day.
I like to place my exchange lay bets with Smarkets as they have great liquidity in the run up to races and the site is really easy to use. They are also charging 0% commission on the first race every day at Cheltenham!
We just need to select ‘Risk-Free Bet’ on my matched betting calculator and enter £16.00 as our ‘Cashback’ amount as we can expect to extract 80% of our £20.00 free bet refund as cash…
As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £17.00…
Place £20.00 on River Wylde @ 11.00 = Potential profit of £200.00
Lay £17.00 on River Wylde @ 12.00 = Potential liability of £187.00
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
| River Wylde wins | + £200.00 – £187.00 = £13.00 profit |
| River Wylde doesn’t win | – £20.00 + £17.00 + £16.00 (extract 80% from our £20.00 free bet) = £13.00 profit |
So, regardless of the outcome and with some good odds, we should make a guaranteed minimum profit of £13.00 each day. With four days of racing to look forward to, this gives us an overall guaranteed profit of £52.00+ on this Sky Bet Cheltenham 2017 offer!
If eligible, free bets will be credited within 24 hours of the race finishing. Free bets can be used on any sport and will be valid for 3 days.
I’ll update the following table with my actual selections after each race…
| Race | Selection | Back Odds | Lay Odds | Profit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supreme Novices’ Hurdle | Crack Mome | 13.00 | 14.00 | £13.43 |
| Neptune Novices’ Hurdle | Bon Papa | 21.00 | 22.00 | £14.36 |
| JLT Novices’ Chase | Politologue | 8.00 | 8.60 | £12.74 |
| Triumph Hurdle | Master Blueyes | 8.50 | 9.40 | £12.38 |
* As you can see, I made an overall profit of £52.91 on this Sky Bet Cheltenham 2017 offer. *
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