Welsh Open 2019 Snooker Offer – Betfred

It’s the Welsh Open 2019 Quarter-Finals on Friday and you don’t want to miss this Betfred ‘Bet £10, Get £5’ offer! Place a bet of £10.00 or more on Friday’s evening session and Betfred will give us a £5.00 free bet to use on Saturday. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £3.42 and here’s how…

Key Terms:

  • We must place our bet at odds of 1.50 (1/2) or greater.
  • Minimum stake of £10.00.
  • Qualifying bets must be placed on Neil Robertson v Kurt Maflin or Hossein Vafaei v Scott Donaldson, which both get underway at 19:00 on Friday 15th February 2019.

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.

Having looked at the odds available, we could place our qualifying bet on Scott Donaldson to beat Hossein Vafaei.

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

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 £9.62…

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Place £10.00 on Scott Donaldson @ 2.00 = Potential profit of £10.00

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Lay £9.62 on Scott Donaldson @ 2.10 = Potential liability of £10.58

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

Outcome Bookie Exchange Profit/Loss
Scott Donaldson wins +£10.00 -£10.58 £0.58 loss
Scott Donaldson doesn’t win -£10.00 +£9.42 £0.58 loss

So, regardless of the outcome, we’ll lose £0.58 in qualifying for our £5.00 free bet.

Free Bet:

Our £5.00 free bet should be credited by 12:00 on Saturday 16th February 2019 and will be valid until 09:00 on Monday 18th February 2019.

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 £0.58, this gives us a guaranteed profit of £3.42 on this Betfred offer!

* Hossein Vafaei won the match 5-1, resulting in a profit of £3.42 on this Betfred offer. *

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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.