Free Bets and Offers Betting Strategy

Most sportsbooks offer incentives to join, or once you've joined offer regular free bets. Use these to the full to back up your own cash!

Disclaimer - Betting strategies and systems presented here are for illustration only. They are not a guaranteed method of winning or making profit, but instead are meant to generate your own thought and analysis about the way you bet. Please assess and monitor the way you bet and please gamble responsibly.

How To Use Free Bets and Offers

You can get hundreds of dollars in free bets, simply by joining up with a few different online sportsbooks. There's no point in putting down your own cash when you can join another sportsbooks and get a free ten bucks to wager on whatever you want. Please read the terms and conditions with each sportsbook.

Free bets come in a range of formats. Some sportsbooks 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 wager a $10 bet on a game you'll get a free $10 in-game bet. Check out our sportsbook comparison and free bets pages for the latest information on freebies.

Consider these examples:

Example

Free Bets Example 1

You join a sportsbook, and they give you a free bonus to bet on anything you want. Instead of just wagering it on anything, wait until you're making your first bet with your own money. For example, you think Man Utd will beat Arsenal at 6/5 so you put your own ten bucks on Man Utd, and your free $10 bet on the tie at 2/1. This way you increase your chances of coming out with a profit because one of the bets is free. If the tie 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 wagered two ten bucks bets on two different games you could just end up losing both. Narrow your chances of losing by using your free bet wisely.

Example

Free Bets Example 2

You join 3 sportsbooks at once, all giving incentives. With three free bets you can cover a game and all it's outcomes - home, tie, away, all with bonus funds! This ensures you'll win something, whereas if you wagered 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, Tie 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!

Free Bet Examples

Free Bet Example 1
Free Bet Example 2
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