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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.
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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 8.0.
Big Boss
That's a pity. BF behaving like any other bookmaker then. I usually only play on the exchange so no experience how they run their sportsbook.Still a good offer.... assuming you can get it!
That's a pity. BF behaving like any other bookmaker then. I usually only play on the exchange so no experience how they run their sportsbook.Still a good offer.... assuming you can get it!
Barry Orr of Bf just said that the 3 Free offer cost them £1M with Altior going in
Very plausible. They let me have £0.00 on the winner. All those £0.00 free bets soon add up to £1 million.
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The zeros are cheap, its the 1 in front of them that's expensive
The zeros are cheap, its the 1 in front of them that's expensive
Only read this post this morning.
Doubt I would have been able to get much on the Sportsbook offer but thanks Sandown for taking the time, through your well written post, to bring the opportunities to the attention others on the forum.
Doubt I would have been able to get much on the Sportsbook offer but thanks Sandown for taking the time, through your well written post, to bring the opportunities to the attention others on the forum.
Sandown, have you been gubbed from sportsbook offers yet? I had a new account setup. Got a lot of Cheltenham races in and the standard email has come out about offers no longer applying. Lasted just over a week. I guess I should have known better really but the offers were good, especially day 1.
See a betfair customer got offered £2115 on their betfair freeplay ticket last weekend and cashed out £1057 (half) at ht beats 5 numbers on the lottery and getting £15 lol
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