Most bookies offer incentives to join, or once you've joined offer regular free bets. Use
these to the full to back up your own cash!
Free Bets and Incentives
You can get hundreds of pounds in free bets, simply by
joining up with a few different online bookies. There's no point in putting down your own
cash when you can join another bookie and get a free tenner to place on whatever you want.
Read the small print with each bookie, but there's usually no catch, even if it sounds like there
is with free money!
Free bets come in a range of formats. Some bookies will give you a £10 free bet just for
joining, some will match your first deposit up to a certain amount e.g. a £25 free bet for
a £25 initial deposit, some will give you a percentage bonus for depositing money on a certain
day of the week e.g. 5% bonus for Thursday deposits, whereas others will give you offers
after you've joined in the form of free bets on big games e.g. if you place a £10 bet on a
game you'll get a free £10 in-running bet. Check out our
bookie comparison and free bets
pages for the latest information on freebies.
Let's look at some ways to use free bets :
1.
You join a bookie, and they give you a free tenner to bet on anything you want. Instead
of just placing it on anything, wait until you're making your first bet with your own money.
For example, you think ManU will beat Arsenal at 6/5 so you put your own tenner on ManU, and your
free £10 bet on the draw at 2/1. This way you increase your chances of coming out with a profit
because one of the bets is free. If the draw comes in you've got £30, if the win comes in you've got
£22, all from only £10 of your own money. If you placed two tenners on two different games you
could just end up losing both. Narrow your chances of losing by using your free bet wisely.
2.
You join 3 bookies at once, all giving incentives. With three free bets you can cover a game and
all it's outcomes - home, draw, away, all with free money! This ensures you'll win something, whereas
if you placed all three bets on three separate games you could end up losing all three. Try go for an
evenly matched game where you'll get the best value for all outcomes, for example Home 6/4, Draw 2/1,
Away 6/4. With three, free £10 bets, you'll win at least £25 (£10 at 6/4) you can withdraw as cash (most
'free' bets can only be used as bets, not withdrawn immediately. Betting and winning means you can
withdraw the cash). You could also try this strategy in conjunction with the
Any Which Way but Lose strategy. The Any Which Way bet is not as certain
to win, but the potential
winnings are big, and who cares, the bets are free!
