matched betting routines

[janiehee]

Hi All

This site looks great! I just found it recently after reading an article about making money from home with matched betting, surveys etc and getting going a couple of weeks ago. I've made £170 profit on matched betting so far.

I was wondering what sort of routine you more experienced MBs use? as I had quite a few free bets on and have ended up with all my money in the exchanges. I wanted to get going with some new qualifying bets and then realised I had no cash in my account and have to wait a few days to get the cash back onto my debit card.

Do you normally do loads of qualifiers for one saturday and then wait for the next saturday matches to do the free bets? or do you try and get it done quicker than that?

Thanks.

 

[Jon]

Hi All

This site looks great! I just found it recently after reading an article about making money from home with matched betting, surveys etc and getting going a couple of weeks ago. I've made £170 profit on matched betting so far.

I was wondering what sort of routine you more experienced MBs use? as I had quite a few free bets on and have ended up with all my money in the exchanges. I wanted to get going with some new qualifying bets and then realised I had no cash in my account and have to wait a few days to get the cash back onto my debit card.

Do you normally do loads of qualifiers for one saturday and then wait for the next saturday matches to do the free bets? or do you try and get it done quicker than that?

Thanks.

Morning @janiehee

My routine typically goes
mon-fri -Do all the reloads I want to do
Sat morning - Place all horsey refunds / football bets I want
Sunday - I typically don't do anything unless there are some nice Prem League offers

On top of that I tend to run around 4-5 accas a week. 2 or 3 done NORMAL and 2-3 done LOCK IN method

 

[janiehee]

Thanks, good to know. It takes a while getting your head around how to manage it doesn't it!

 

[Jon]

Thanks, good to know. It takes a while getting your head around how to manage it doesn't it!

absolutely, the learning curve is there for a good few months!!

 

[MamaMidwife]

Wouldn't call myself experienced just yet (!) but one thing I would add is don't wait a whole week to then use your free bets. Most will expire after a few days.

I do weekly offers, football reloads that I consider to be good value (I'm still at the stage where I'm doing less risky offers), accas (I always use lock in method) and sometimes the horses, last weekend I didn't, and this weekend I'm on nights so will be sleeping during the day so may do a few before retiring to bed, but may not.

In the early days it is very much about juggling your money from accounts to your bank and then back in to the bookies so it can feel slow going to start, but definitely persevere with it.

Don't forget your weekly clubs as well, such as Skybet £25 over the week for £5 FB, coral, paddy power etc. Lay your qualifying bets so you have a few pence loss for a weekly free bet, can't go wrong!

 

[janiehee]

Wouldn't call myself experienced just yet (!) but one thing I would add is don't wait a whole week to then use your free bets. Most will expire after a few days.

I do weekly offers, football reloads that I consider to be good value (I'm still at the stage where I'm doing less risky offers), accas (I always use lock in method) and sometimes the horses, last weekend I didn't, and this weekend I'm on nights so will be sleeping during the day so may do a few before retiring to bed, but may not.

In the early days it is very much about juggling your money from accounts to your bank and then back in to the bookies so it can feel slow going to start, but definitely persevere with it.

Don't forget your weekly clubs as well, such as Skybet £25 over the week for £5 FB, coral, paddy power etc. Lay your qualifying bets so you have a few pence loss for a weekly free bet, can't go wrong!

Thanks, that's useful. I was wondering what sort of football matches you bet on? as obviously most of the UK ones are on a Saturday. But I read that if you bet on lots of random foreign matches just because of the odds that can be something that makes them notice your account and you get gubbed. Is that right? plus if you do less high profile matches they don't always get fully matched on the exchange which can then cause problems. What sort of matches do you normally bet on?

cheers

 

[Cas]

Thanks, that's useful. I was wondering what sort of football matches you bet on? as obviously most of the UK ones are on a Saturday. But I read that if you bet on lots of random foreign matches just because of the odds that can be something that makes them notice your account and you get gubbed. Is that right? plus if you do less high profile matches they don't always get fully matched on the exchange which can then cause problems. What sort of matches do you normally bet on?

cheers

being gubbed is a tricky one .

I don't think there is a perfect formula , i think just bet on everything .

Just keep your odds below 8

 

[homie]

What sort of matches do you normally bet on?

cheers

The best offers are usually for premier league and champions league matches. They normally have the closest odds too, so I usually bet on those. Plus some international matches when it is world cup/european cup.

 

[Jon]

The best offers are usually for premier league and champions league matches. They normally have the closest odds too, so I usually bet on those. Plus some international matches when it is world cup/european cup.

Good call on the internationals

Bet365 loved dropping their £50 free bet offers during the euros!

 

[stonecrows]

You can use some of the more prominent non-English leagues too - Scotland's Premiership, Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, Germany's Bundesliga and France's Ligue 1 are all their equivalent of the English Premier League. The English Championship is usually safe too. Then there's the Champion's League mid week, and the Europa League. Fridays occasionally have a Premier League or Championship game, Mondays sometimes have a PL game too.

Get a 'to do' spreadsheet going where you record which offers you have coming up, then you record when the free bet is due and when it expires. Then you can see what needs using and when. I do a lot of my free bets on the Champions League mid-weeks. But some free bets last a week, so you can use them the following weekend, but at the same time do more qualifiers. So if it's a weekly bet offer, do the free bet on one Sat/Sun match, do the qualifier for the next week's free bet on another Sat/Sun match, but on the same weekend.

There are apps which show upcoming football matches and also record scores - great for a quick glance as to what's won and what hasn't. Alternatively, William Hill's website have a nice clear 'Daily Match List' in their football section which is easy to look through to see the week ahead's matches.

 

[taffynoel]

being gubbed is a tricky one .

I don't think there is a perfect formula , i think just bet on everything .

Just keep your odds below 8

Why below 8?

 

[Cas]

Why below 8?

Betting companies dont really like it , they will paying out more money to you if your bet wins .

 

[taffynoel]

Betting companies dont really like it , they will paying out more money to you if your bet wins .

But surely mug betters pick large odds too? Does picking such odds make us look like MBers?

 

[rninja]

But surely mug betters pick large odds too? Does picking such odds make us look like MBers?

Yes, mug punters often do use large odds. However, I'd you've placed a qualifying bet on lowish odds and then placed your freebie on higher odds that would suggest a typical matched betting profile. I often place both qualifier and freebie on similar odds of 3.5-4.5 to stand out less to those hard-nosed traders!

 

[taffynoel]

Yes, mug punters often do use large odds. However, I'd you've placed a qualifying bet on lowish odds and then placed your freebie on higher odds that would suggest a typical matched betting profile. I often place both qualifier and freebie on similar odds of 3.5-4.5 to stand out less to those hard-nosed traders!

Better still??, get the benefits of higher % from free bet using a higher odds (say 7-10) but place mug bets on things at 5.0ish. Accept the few p extra losses. Throw in qualifiers at around 4.0 and up rather than at 1.81 or 1.2 and utilise profites in the exchange to fund the larger liabilities. I’m hoping this masks me being a typical match bettor.

 

[Jon]

Using your free bet at odds of 7-10 is just account suicide!!