Bet365 4/1 offer strategies

I would be really interested to hear about the different approaches people use to tackle the 4/1 horse offer on bet365! Personally I just try and lay whatever I can get the tightest match on the exchange with.

Typically I will back a horse and 5.0 and lay it for 5.2 using 50 pound stakes. This gives me a qualifying loss of 10 pounds if the horse wins, I can then extract around 45 from the free bet, so Im making about 30-35 pounds on horses that range from 4/1 to 8/1 and this is at a rough cost of 2 pounds commission whenever the horses dont win.

So were essentially risking 2 pounds to win 35 on horses that are an average price of about 6/1. Im no maths wiz but I assume this equates to about 4 pounds equity per race per account. and theres 20 races a week!

Ive heard about people that have multiple accounts as well? Would be interesting to know how much people are making from this generous offer…

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Dave_Jones 9 May 27, 2016 at 8:27 am

@jimkeegan

If Gman does the Bet365 offer, then does the same horse with another bookie that is offering 2nd or 3rd place free bet offer then, if this horse finished in any of the top three places Gman is in the money.

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scoobs 0 May 27, 2016 at 11:04 am

I’d love to know how to safely multi-account, it’s flummoxed me.

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Tony 13 May 27, 2016 at 11:28 am

Fresh device (phone, tablet…) and a cheap data only sim.

More importantly you’ll need a friend or someone you can trust to be your patsy. Different address, ideally a bank account or at least a PayPal account in there name that you can fund and off you go.

Use websites rather than apps to be extra safe.

Imagine your current profits doubled (or tripled!) plus the profit from doing all the SUB again too 😀

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jimkeegan 0 May 29, 2016 at 4:47 pm

@Dave_jones

Thanks for the reply bud, I see what you are saying but is there actually anything special about doing these 2 things together / combining the offers?

As far as I understand it’s just a habit he likes to do, there’s no actual benefit of combining the offers cash wise?

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beh 10 May 29, 2016 at 5:12 pm

Not sure how you’re missing this Jim, if you back one of the favourites across the 2 offers then it’s quite likely it’ll finish in the top 3 and you’ll score a refund. Best to play it by ear cause Sky have terrible odds on those races so it usually doesn’t combine so easily.

Back when you had similar refund offers with hills, ladbrokes, and paddy, if you were fast enough you could easily cover the top few favourites. Or potential beyond that as Tony suggests with multi accounting.

B365 have great odds and if you keep an eye out for them matching betfred boosts mid morning then it’s easy to get close odds matches.

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Chris 22 May 29, 2016 at 6:30 pm

Bet365 odds are incredibly close to the lay and often slow to update, cant remember the last time I made a qualifying loss on this offer. Had a win today too.

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FoG_BLoG 59 May 29, 2016 at 9:05 pm

I think Jim is asking about the long term value in combining.

I don’t think it adds long term value.

Just gives you a steadier income rise.

Eg back and lay the same horse on “free bet for winner” and “money back 2nd”. Some times you will win one free bet for winner, sometimes 1 free bet for 2nd and sometimes no free bet.

If you back one horse for “free bet for winners” and a DIFFERENT horse for “money back 2nd” then sometimes you win TWO free bets, sometimes one or other and more often none.

It all balances out long term more or less. But you get a free bet more often by combining but it balances out because if you don’t then sometimes you get two.

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jimkeegan 0 May 29, 2016 at 10:32 pm

thanks guys for clearing that up – I just meant to ask that they are still 2 different bets / offers – as fog_blog says – where it wouldnt really make any difference if you did a different horse or the same horse with each offer in terms of increasing your odds/ winnings, but interesting to hear the different approaches all the same – 🙂

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