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Spookle · 05/05/2017 20:00

I had to. I was getting jittery at the thought of no chat support for tonights match Grin

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MrsWombat · 28/05/2017 10:22

Betfair Sportsbook has a tennis offer running this week on the French Open. promos.betfair.com/promotion?promoCode=FOPEN5X10 It's looking very good at the moment. Hopefully £7 a day?

Fluffycloudland77 · 28/05/2017 10:51

My lay bet is only partially matched for the 16:30 at curragh, is this a bad thing?.

HeyRoly · 28/05/2017 10:55

It'll be fine, you have hours to get it matched.

Fluffycloudland77 · 28/05/2017 10:57

I clicked on it just now & it says matched at the same time I placed it?

Wtf?

louisejxxx · 28/05/2017 11:17

That's happened to my before fluffy my advice would be to click on the my bets bit at the top - it should take you to a different screen and show your open bets and their matched status...for some reason I trust that bit more than the tab on the right side.

louisejxxx · 28/05/2017 11:20

Wow that tennis offer on betfair sports book does look pretty good! I probably would t hit every day though as that can be a way to get gubbed quite quickly. I'm going to wait until tomorrow and try it as I have a fair bit tied up in smarkets at the minute as did my sunbets signup earlier on.

Fluffycloudland77 · 28/05/2017 12:34

Is this matched?

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OverthinkingSpartacus · 28/05/2017 13:40

For the Stan James acca I used the SuzyBeth spreadsheet from oddsmonkey.

they have loads of useful ones that make understanding how to profit from the paddy power 2 ups and locking in profit from Ladbrokes refund offers a doddle. They do the maths for me and just tell me where and how much I need to lay.

I have two other accas finishing today with William Hill and Coral. The Coral one is at least £5 profit and the William Hill has jumped up as the third leg lay odds dropped loads making it an accidental arb.

I have some free spins to be credited later today from a betfair casino offer but other than that not a lot on.

Next week should be fun as I've got a few free bets, and free spins scattered throughout the week.

ShinyGirl · 28/05/2017 13:55

Bloody hell, I've not lost yet in titanbet and have managed to get all my money tied up in it.

I hope I turn it over enough times or I'm going to be lots down. I'm doing the horses and they keep winning.

FiveHoursSleep · 28/05/2017 17:37

When you are turning over a betting bonus to you can get your funds released, you lay them as a normal bet, I guess?

NewUserName01 · 28/05/2017 21:47

I haven't done anything for almost a week now. I've been through almost all the new customer offers and feel a bit stumped about the next step. Was going to do the Stan James £20 acca offer but couldn't deposit £20 as must have set a daily deposit limit when I opened the account! I did this more for security at the time but not finding it a bit frustrating.

I want to get back into it as have made £250 profit this month (my first month) and have been taking it very, very slowly.

imnottoofussed · 28/05/2017 23:51

Fivehourssleep yes you lay as normal aiming for very low qualifying loss. Do as close to min odds as possible. My experience of these hasn't been good so far as they keep winning at the bookies so I've had to wager the full amount. Still in profit at the end of it but takes up time completing the wagering.

imnottoofussed · 28/05/2017 23:56

Newuser I think you can edit the deposit limit in the account settings

I'm just looking for other things to do myself now, I'm still doing a few of the mid to hard new account offers and not had a lot of time recently to look at doing some of the things the bookies keep emailing me. That blog mentioned earlier in the thread seems useful in explaining some of the unusual offers I've been emailed so I'm going to have a look at that tomorrow.

I've just been forced into doing my first acca because I signed up on the EnergyBet new account offer which requires you to wager on combo bets so I've done an acca which finished today. I need to do another one now and then hopefully all my money should be moved from the bookies to the exchange.

MrsWombat · 29/05/2017 07:34

It's an in-play offer for today only (although it was on yesterday too) with minimum odds of 1.5. Bet 3 x £25 and get £25 free.

www.betfred.com/sport/Promotions/Tennis/Bet-3-Get-1-Free

I've not been credited yet for either tennis offers from yesterday yet.

SierraJensen · 29/05/2017 08:41

I've got some free bets to use in the next few days but struggling to find anything that would be mainstream enough to use them on, but with high enough and close enough odds to make a decent profit. Tennis maybe? I'm not much of a sports fan! Apparently it can look dodgy if you have previously done only football bets then switch to horses for a free bet without building up a horse profile first so maybe I'll do a few horses this week to qualify for bet clubs. Thinking of sky bet mainly as their bonus builder club starts today.

imnottoofussed · 29/05/2017 11:35

Lesson to self. When doing an acca put the correct stake in Blush thankfully only about £25 lost.

NewUserName01 · 29/05/2017 14:33

Hmm. Noticed in Quidco that if you sign up to Genting Bet and wager £20 you get £22 cashback. Genting Bet also have a new account offer of wager £10 and get a free £10 bet.

I opened a new Genting Bet account (having clicked through from Quidco), deposited £20 and placed a £20 bet. I'm now wondering whether I should have placed two £10 bets as will this mean I won't qualify for the free £10 bet. What does everyone think?

titchy · 29/05/2017 14:49

The Betfred in play one looks good. The odds on in play tennis seem to be very close too - in fact arbs - depending on who's serving when you place the bet.

titchy · 29/05/2017 16:31

Ok I've put my third in play tennis bet on and laid it - it was looking like the lay and back odds were equal so great. But then the lay odds went long and my bet isn't yet matched, which made me think.....

If the player I backed wins and the lay remains unmatched I'm happy. If the player looks like losing the the lay odds will get a lot shorter and my bet will be matched yes? So would it work if I manually changed the lay odds to say 1.2 (with initial back odds of say 1.8 or more). In tennis it's fairly obvious who's going to win at certain points in the match and surely the lay odds would at some point get matched at my 1.2 and I've got either a nice arb, or a nice bookie win?

titchy · 29/05/2017 18:59

Ignore me!

SierraJensen · 30/05/2017 10:24

Anyone got anything good going on today? I don't seem to have too much going on - took a look at the Coral and Paddy tennis offers but they don't seem worth it right now. Might concentrate on qualifying for more bet clubs instead - has anyone got a coral connect card for that one? I don't fancy walking into the bookies even though it's pretty much on my walk home from work Blush

louisejxxx · 30/05/2017 10:41

All I've got is a free bet on betfair sports book from the tennis offer that I did yesterday...there doesn't really seem to be much else going on. Should improve towards the weekend though with the champs league final!

SierraJensen · 30/05/2017 11:04

Yeah that's what I'm hoping. I've got a free £10 bet to use on 888 but saving that for then and I think I've got a free one coming from WIlliam HIll too.

I joined StarSpins yesterday too following the advice on the Oddsmonkey thread. It seems that it is not risk free (you could lose the tenner) but that in the long run it is very lucrative so worth taking the risk I think. Now I've made profit elsewhere I am happier doing offers like this whereas at the start everything had to be 100% risk free!

MissEDashwood · 30/05/2017 11:17

I joined 'a' bingo site and made a fair amount, I then noticed that there was correlation between certain names that would also win.

So I think it's fair to say, look at the owners of bingo sites, as there are maybe 4 that are all connected. Once you have made your profit just stop, as from first hand experience I've seen, till a certain threshold you'll do well. I trebled what I put in. Whilst they have these offers, with some offering VIP membership out of the blue, an example I can give, two offers ran, one was a week long offer and one was a weekend offer. They do use underhand tactics to make sure that you have to wager a fortune to get anything back.

There's a competition starting on 1st June, I put a deposit limit on so I can't deposit till a few days later, you only have to wager £1 a day to be eligible for this competition, neither 'offer' I opted into paid out. After a long conversation checking what I'd be paid from 2 previous offers (one sneakily said play out slots and you'll make 10% or 20%, bingo winnings were offset against the slots wagers, so I got no payback at all, even as a VIP they wouldn't credit £5 in so I could take part in the new competition.

So it's fair to say, those with bottomless purses will win this weekend away, just like the same names seem to win.

Also the companies for this one group have their head office off shore too!

The threshold for withdrawals triggering more losses than wins must be around £1200!

Another offer, which they've since enhanced the T&C on, read, you would get 10% back up to £200 on net losses or wins.It might be because I'm new, but I read even the T&C as saying if your losses were £500 but your gains were £600 we would pay 10% of the higher sum. When in fact they deduct losses from gains, it always pays out that I dread to think how much you'd have to wager to get the max bonus of £200.

So I'm pretty sure once you hit a certain withdrawal amount, you start losing so you put deposit limits on that are pretty fair, as unless you can afford it you don't want to be depositing say even £20 a day if you're never going to see a return. Once you increase your deposit limits they don't want to know.

Considering how much I wagered in order to get the 10% & 20% bonus, a couple of bingo wins and my wagers were blown out of the water. My bingo wins weren't substantial, literally just enough, they knew you'd rewager it, thinking you'd get a bonus when you don't. I struggle to comprehend how bingo wins are relevant when the offer was specifically on slots played.

I also read that if you're a true gambler, playing their game, they're essentially just giving you money back they know you'll wager to try and win more. I can believe this now. I didn't want to but I can totally see how it works in their favour. You start off on say slots turning £10 in £300 or £400. You will get that mentality it's got to pay out big again at some point, it never does.

So whether there's a correlation between deposits & winnings or wagers and winnings I'm not sure. But there is a correlation with them not being the least bit bothered if you set a low deposit limit or your wagering drops! To be viable for this offer, what is £5 in credit to ensure you can enter.

I hope this makes sense.

HeyRoly · 30/05/2017 12:41

Bugger! My free bet from Coral expired!

I decided to opt into the Coral "bet and get" club last week. But unlike Sky, they don't notify you when the free bet arrives in your account. The Coral free bet arrives on the Friday and expires on Sunday evening, whereas the Sky free bet doesn't even arrive until the following Monday.

So, lesson learned!