Wimbledon 2018 Offers

Wimbledon 2018 gets underway today and the bookies are getting in on the action! There are some great offers available for the duration of the tournament, so provided we minimise our qualifying losses, we stand a great chance of making some big profits and here’s how…

Available Offers:

Bookie Offer
10Bet (M) Money back as a free bet (up to £10.00) if your selection loses in 5 sets
188BET (M&W) Money back as cash (up to £25.00) if your selection wins the first set but loses the match
21Bet (M) Money back as a free bet (up to £25.00) if your selection gets knocked out in a 5th set
Bet365 (M) Men’s Singles bets paid as a winner if our selection goes two sets up (if eligible)
BetMcLean (M) Money back as a free bet (up to £25.00) if your selection loses in five sets
Betway (M&W) Double winnings as a free bet (up to £50.00) if your selection loses the first set but wins the match
BoyleSports (M&W) Double winnings as a free bet (up to £25.00) if your selection loses the first set but wins the match
Bruce Betting (M) Money back as a free bet (up to £25.00) if your selection loses in a 5th set decider
NetBet (M) Money back as a free bet (up to £20.00) if your selection goes 2-0 up and loses the match
Paddy Power (M) Men’s Singles bets paid as a winner if our selection goes two sets up
Toals (M&W) Money back as a free bet (up to £25.00) if your selection wins the first set but loses the match

 

WARNING: Please be aware of the retirement rules regarding tennis bets. In the event of a player retiring, if the bookmaker has different rules to the betting exchange, it could leave you exposed to big losses. Betfair and Smarkets have the same retirement rules, in that if the first set of a match is not completed, all bets related to the match will be voided. If the bookmaker has different terms to the betting exchange, you may want to consider dutching your bet with a bookmaker who shares the same retirement rules.

 

Qualifying Bets:

If you’re unfamiliar with qualifying bets, please see my Qualifying Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how they should be done.

The strategy is the same for all eleven offers. We just need to select players with tight back and lay odds in order to minimise our qualifying losses and hope we hit the money back/double winnings triggers.

For the Bet365 and Paddy Power offers, we need to hope our selection goes two sets up and then loses, so that both our back and lay bets win.

The following example is for the 188BET offer. Having looked at the odds available for Ivo Karlovic v Mikhail Youzhny, we could place a qualifying bet on Mikhail Youzhny.

At the time of writing, laying our bet with 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 £24.35…

188BET logo

Place £25.00 on Mikhail Youzhny @ 1.88 = Potential profit of £22.00

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Lay £24.35 on Mikhail Youzhny @ 1.95 = Potential liability of £23.13

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

Youzhny wins the match + £22.00 – £23.13 = £1.13 loss
Youzhny loses the match having won the first set – £25.00 + £23.86 + £25.00 (cash refund) = £23.86 profit
Youzhny loses the match having lost the first set – £25.00 + £23.86 = £1.14 loss

So, if Mikhail Youzhny loses the match having won the first set, we’ll make a nice profit of £23.86. Any other outcome and we’ll have made a maximum loss of £1.14. Risking £1.14 to make a profit of £23.86, gives us effective odds of 21.93, which I’m sure you’ll agree makes this is a profitable offer in the long run.

* Youzhny lost the match 3-1 having won the opening set, resulting in a profit of £23.86 on this match. *

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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.