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Let’s take a look at some slightly different types of bonus.

Bet 365 for example always have very generous bonuses but they are slightly different in their terms and conditions every time.

A common bonus with Bet 365 is a matching bet of £250 but it must be claimed as five separate bets of £50. This is no different to any other BOGOF bonus, you just use the exact same system as always but you repeat it five times, five qualifying bets of £50, followed by five free bets of £50, just repeat the process five times.

One issue with Bookmakers like Bet 365 is that they watch your account like hawks, after all they are offering £250 in bonus money so they don’t want nasty traders like us playing.

The way to throw them off the scent is to have a silly punt between each free bet, maybe claim the first two free bets and you’ll be around £80 up and then place a small ‘mug punter’ bet, a 20p Yankee or Canadian or something, risking a couple of pounds, bet a small amount like a regular Saturday afternoon mug punter and you’ll look less like a trader. You might even get a nice win. The way the system is set up means that the majority of your income will come in at Betfair, they don’t care that you are trading but the bookies do. Cover your tracks or you will find your account restricted or even closed.

If you do happen to have a run of winnings at the bookmaker end of the trade it is especially important to play the mug punter before diving in for the rest of the bonus.

At the time of writing Bet365 have an absolute cracker of a free bet offer available where you should be able to bank around £150 or more.

37 Quite simply it is an immediate matching bonus of up to £200. Open your account, follow the instructions, deposit £200 and they will immediately double it up to £400. The catch is that you can’t withdraw it until you have ‘played it through’ three times, ie placed bets to the total value of £1200. But that is not a problem to us.

Here we see the rules which are quite simple. Head over to our website and click the Bet365 link to be taken to their sign-up page. Register for your account but DO NOT deposit any money until you receive an email from them giving you a 10 digit code ending in NCDB2. Once you have this code you enter is when you make your deposit and it will immediately give you £400 to bet with, doubling your deposit.

Now in order for us to bank this lovely money we need to read the extended terms and conditions to make sure that we do not foul up.

38 Firstly we note the date that the offer ends, obviously as this is a book the date above may well be ancient history by now, but Bet 365 are one of the leading players in the bonus game and nearly always have offers of this magnitude. Just read the rules carefully. The salient points here are that there is a closing date, once you have made your initial deposit you have 90 days to meet the wagering requirements which are that you must place a total of £1200 in bets and certain markets do not qualify, but they are not markets in which we play. Also any bets placed at odds of below 1.5 do not count towards the wagering requirement. No problem to us as we are always looking to bet at around 4.00 or greater.

Now the wagering requirement does not have to be met in one bet, you have 90 days and you can make as many bets as you need to fulfil the requirement, however we are not looking to fulfil it, we are looking to lose the money at this end of the market and win it at Betfair.

Because we are always looking to bet and lay at odds of 4.0 or greater this means that we are nearly always going to be backing the outsider at the bookmakers, in other words the likely loser, and nearly all our winnings will come in at Betfair.

39 This keeps the bookmakers happy as you will be a regular losing client, and they love those!

It can’t be repeated too often, bookies and Betfair have different attitudes to you. Betfair don’t give a damn if you win or lose as you aren’t betting against them. They get their 5% of the winning market whoever wins so they don’t mind you trading one little bit, in fact they run courses teaching people how to do it!

How you play this one depends on your finances, obviously in order to play all of this in one bet you would need £1200 in your Betfair account. Just play it through as a series of bets as your cash allows, you might play it as 4 x £100 bets or 8 x £50 and with a bit of luck you’ll get 4 straight losers in a row and the money will all be in your Betfair account.

Just try and find markets where you are backing and laying with odds as close together as possible and where the likely loser is going to be on the Bet 365 end.

Once you’ve lost the £400 at Bet 365 that’s the end of the promo, and your profit is in your Betfair account.

You might want to leave this one until you’ve built up a stash of profit if you don’t already have the liquidity to cover it, just watch the closing dates of their offers.

Bet 365 are also very good at sending you new offers if you don’t use your account for a while. Keep your eyes peeled at our website we monitor the offers so that you don’t have to.

Finally, let’s take a look at a couple of other types of free bet offer which you will come across sooner or later.

Firstly a type 5 bet, double your stake money. In other words you bet £25 and if your bet wins then they pay you out to a £50 stake minus the £25 free stake money.

This is a very simple one to calculate, in effect it is no different to our normal stake and free bet, it just means that you are getting your free bet at the same time as your qualifying bet is placed. The way to deal with it is to use the betting calculator and work it out as two separate bets, firstly as a normal £25 stake refunded bet, and then as a £25 stake not refunded free bet.

Add the two sets of stakes together and place your bets. If you feel easier you can place it as two separate bets, it makes no difference.

The other type of offer which you will encounter is more tricky, a type 3 where you only get a free bet if your original bet loses.

This is a more difficult bet to deal with. The best way to approach this is to look for an event where you can pick a likely loser, so you are probably going to be looking at odds around 4.0 and then under-stake the lay side of the bet a little.

That way if your bet wins you will make a nice profit and if it loses you will make a small loss but you will have crystalised your free bet which will cover your losses and show a profit.

You will need to play with the calculator to get the stakes right.

You won’t come across these very often so best left until later when you are more experienced. Now all that remains is to head on over to our website and follow the links to claim your free money.

40 Links to all the tools we use are given both in the appendix below and on our website, where you can sign up to our mailing list. Bookmakers very often have great offers on single events, these are great sources of income after you’ve used up all the sign-up bonuses but because they are very short term you will probably miss them.

If you are on our mailing list we will email you about them and also advise you how best to stake them for maximum profit.

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