McGregor v Cerrone Offer – Unibet

It’s Conor McGregor v Donald Cerrone in UFC 246 in the early hours of Sunday morning and you don’t want to miss this Unibet ‘Bet £10, Get £5’ offer! Place a £10.00 bet on McGregor v Cerrone and Unibet will give us a £5.00 free bet. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £3.21 and here’s how…

Key Terms:

  • Stake of £10.00.
  • Qualifying bet must be placed at odds of 1.40 (2/5) or greater.
  • No opt-in required.

Qualifying Bet:

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.

It’s entirely up to you what you place your qualifying bet on. Having looked at the odds available, we could place our qualifying bet on Donald Cerrone in the Bout Odds market.

At the time of writing, laying our bet at Betfair gives us the smallest qualifying loss.

Betfair are currently running a great sign up offer where you pay 0% commission up to £500 for the first 30 days…

Banner showing the zero commission sign up offer from Betfair

Banner showing the zero commission sign up offer from Betfair

If you already have a Betfair account, you can opt to pay just 2% commission by selecting the Basic package.

We can calculate our lay stakes 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 £9.40…

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Place £10.00 on Donald Cerrone @ 3.60 = Potential profit of £26.00

Betfair logo

Lay £9.40 on Donald Cerrone @ 3.85 = Potential liability of £26.79

Outcomes:

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

Outcome Bookie Exchange Profit/Loss
Donald Cerrone wins +£26.00 -£26.79 £0.79 loss
Donald Cerrone doesn’t win -£10.00 +£9.21 £0.79 loss

So, regardless of the outcome, we’ll lose £0.79 in qualifying for our free bet.

Free Bet:

Our £5.00 free bet will be credited upon settlement of our qualifying bet. Free bets will be valid for 7 days on any sport other than racing and greyhounds.

By using straightforward matched betting, we should be able to extract 80% cash from our £5.00 free bet, so £4.00. If we take into account our qualifying loss of £0.79, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £3.21 on this Unibet offer!

* Conor McGregor won the fight, resulting in a profit of £3.21 on this Unibet 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.