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I've more or less given up on this Forum, sadly, as its a shadow of its former glory. Nevertheless, as its Cheltenham this week, and being in a good mood, and in the spirit of sharing a few thoughts, I thought that I might throw a few tasty value morsels onto the forum, just in case there are players out there who haven't spotted these opportunities.
This will be a good week for finding some value and there are 3 right now to be had right here on Betfair.
1. BF Sportsbook are offering 3 free bets up to a maximum stake of £25 if you back a winner of 3/1 or more on the Sportsbook on the first day of Cheltenham
That seems quite generous as its the equivalent of 3 points on the price. A 3/1 winner becomes 6/1 so thats a 100% bonus. On a bigger price it obviously is not as much value (+10% on 30/1 shot for example) but if I'm thinking of backing a 3/1 shot or bigger tomorrow then it makes sense to have £25 of that on this offer. Not going to make a fortune but , hey , I'll take the opportunity. Hopefully, they will have similar offers on the other days.
2. Whilst browsing around the site I came across the Free Play 6 on the Pools site. You can get a free play to win £1M with the opportunity to cash out.I'm not one for believing that I have an edge when it comes to forecasting football scores but they (Collosus) offer a random scores generator which saves having to make an effort. I think that this offer has been around for a while but nobody is making much of it which seems strange, especially as you can play it every week for free. I can't quite understand why Betfair don't have this fairly prominently on the Homepage as its a low cost traffic builder. I don't expect to win the million on offer (somebody will no doubt) but if I get a few scores right I'll cash out. As Phil Bull once said, "the best bet is a bet to nothing."
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3. Whilst on the Pools page I noticed that the Pick 4 Pool has a £125,000 roll-over. This is a bit of value given that the odds of calling the scores correctly are 83,520 to 1 . The matches are the 4 European matches this week (Wed, Thurs nights) so I think that even I have some chance of improving those odds by up to a factor of 8 (I will rule out Arsenal winning by a large score against Barcelona for example, and I don't think that Juventus will beat Bayern M away) so I will give it a crack. When I have played this in the past I have managed to make money even though I think that chance plays too big a role in forecasting outcomes for me to be confident. But, if you were playing roulette and you get 35/1 about a 4/1 chance, it would be worth having a bet, wouldn't it? Anyhow, that's how I see it.
Be lucky
This will be a good week for finding some value and there are 3 right now to be had right here on Betfair.
1. BF Sportsbook are offering 3 free bets up to a maximum stake of £25 if you back a winner of 3/1 or more on the Sportsbook on the first day of Cheltenham
That seems quite generous as its the equivalent of 3 points on the price. A 3/1 winner becomes 6/1 so thats a 100% bonus. On a bigger price it obviously is not as much value (+10% on 30/1 shot for example) but if I'm thinking of backing a 3/1 shot or bigger tomorrow then it makes sense to have £25 of that on this offer. Not going to make a fortune but , hey , I'll take the opportunity. Hopefully, they will have similar offers on the other days.
2. Whilst browsing around the site I came across the Free Play 6 on the Pools site. You can get a free play to win £1M with the opportunity to cash out.I'm not one for believing that I have an edge when it comes to forecasting football scores but they (Collosus) offer a random scores generator which saves having to make an effort. I think that this offer has been around for a while but nobody is making much of it which seems strange, especially as you can play it every week for free. I can't quite understand why Betfair don't have this fairly prominently on the Homepage as its a low cost traffic builder. I don't expect to win the million on offer (somebody will no doubt) but if I get a few scores right I'll cash out. As Phil Bull once said, "the best bet is a bet to nothing."
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3. Whilst on the Pools page I noticed that the Pick 4 Pool has a £125,000 roll-over. This is a bit of value given that the odds of calling the scores correctly are 83,520 to 1 . The matches are the 4 European matches this week (Wed, Thurs nights) so I think that even I have some chance of improving those odds by up to a factor of 8 (I will rule out Arsenal winning by a large score against Barcelona for example, and I don't think that Juventus will beat Bayern M away) so I will give it a crack. When I have played this in the past I have managed to make money even though I think that chance plays too big a role in forecasting outcomes for me to be confident. But, if you were playing roulette and you get 35/1 about a 4/1 chance, it would be worth having a bet, wouldn't it? Anyhow, that's how I see it.
Be lucky
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Thanks. Most of the mugs on here are already millionaires though, so offers two and three are moot
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BetfairBuddy will be disappointed though. He thought the thread title meant McDonalds were hiring again
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They will once you fail your three month trial.
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There is no value on the Betfair Sportsbook
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Eligible for offers on the sportsbook and being able to get a bet on is know in Betfair Towers as the hermaphrodite
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Poor result for bf in the first, thanks Sandown!
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You cannot win on the Betfair Spudsbook - once you are a small winner you get allowed to bet pennies.
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I'm going for DUSTY RUG in the 2.10
it will take some beating |
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The BF Sportsbook 3 Free bets offer paid off with Altior in the first. Not a fortune but it meant that Altior paid the equivalent of 8.0 to £25
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westender
Its the betting equivalent of look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.You must be grumpy today to turn your nose up at £75. |
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Was that a NCO offer Sandown ?
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new customers*
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Tbf Cheltnham limts on the win markets seem a bit higher than usual, can just about get the free bets on, odds 4 or less. Was for any customers.
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Fair enough Westender. I've no real experience of the sportsbook, usually play exchange only. Shame if BF behave like all other bookmakers.
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I can understand bookies tightening up -theyre trying to run a business , but wouldn't harm the exchange to run a few commision free offers once in a while for regular customers ,or even just the non winning customers .
All goodwill |
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Barry Orr of BF just said that the 3 Free offer cost them £1M with Altior going in
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Will be £10m now, all the free bets placed on Annie Power and Vroum Vroum Mag.
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Betfair Sportsbook only make offers as the competition are rogering them and have better offers for their army of losers.
The Betfair we knew died when the current Paddy Power CEO took over Betfair on 1 Aug 2012. |
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a sea of empty boxes these days
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Doubt we'll see this offer back tomorrow... shame!
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Betfair give out £10m
 This mob, if they could, would charge you for smelling your own farts |
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BF insure themselves against these events though (to an extent )
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There was a pic8 tonight sandown missed normally gteed 4k was a roll the jackpot on it £58410 for 8 results but will have a play in the 500k pick 4 tomoz gl all
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The Pick 4 Pool is £253K now so plenty of value in that. I've covered the home (Barca, Bayern) teams to win tonight with a view to cashing out tonight if its a good offer. If not, I'll let it ride.
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See a betfair customer at the weekend got offered £2115 for their freeplay ticket and cashed in half (£1057) at half time after getting 1st 3 scores correct beats £15 for 5 numbers on the lottery!
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