Opening An On-line Account

#1
venga1

Posted 19 January 2007 - 15:15

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About to open an on-line account for football betting purposes and trying to decide which 1 or 2 are the best ie have the best free bet offers.
Can anyone advise?

Also with the free bet, I believe it is a case of if you open your account with a 1st bet of £25 then they will double it? But if your bet wins do you get the £25 that they have doubled it with our just the profit it generates?

EG I open account with £25 on Stranraer to beat Peterhead say add odds of even.
They double bet and Stranraer win - do I get £100 (my bet, their free bet offer and all the profit) back or £75 (my bet the profit it generates plus ONLY the profit the free bet generates - NOT the free bet offer) back?

Also if your 1st bet wins with their free bet can you withdraw your total account straight away and effectively close the account?

If you can I would maybe stake a big bet on a certainty EG Chelsea v Watford just to get "free money" through their offer.

#2
edinlichtie

Posted 19 January 2007 - 15:37

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A couple of sites to help...

www.free.thedailypunt.com
www.bet72.com

Look for their "offers" bit.

Betfair do a good offer, deposit £25, get £25 free, don't think they have any annoying "must be staked over 3 times befroe withdrawl" clauses... Usually the best odds for single bets too!

xbl, on Sep 1 2007, 11:12, said:

Im not feeling up to going to this one, so I shall be watching on sky sports.

#3
edinlichtie

Posted 19 January 2007 - 15:44

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About your staking of the free bet...

Usually bookies don't return the free stake, only the winnings.

Eg u bet on a team at evens, your own £25 + £25 free stake.

You'd get £25 winnings from your stake, plus your £25 stake, plus £25 winnings from your free bet.

= £75

Some bookies will let you withdraw this £75, some will make you stake your £25 over 3 times before withdrawl, some will only let u bet on things evens or above. Make sure you read the terms!

Hope this helps

xbl, on Sep 1 2007, 11:12, said:

Im not feeling up to going to this one, so I shall be watching on sky sports.

#4
Richard_B

Posted 19 January 2007 - 17:05

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Betfair is sooooo confusing.

Any way to get the odds to fractions? I might stick in 25£

#5
edinlichtie

Posted 20 January 2007 - 00:20

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Nah, betfair works in decimals only unfortunately. There are many websites u can convert decimal > fractions, but it's easy enough to understand when u get the hang of it.

1.25 = 1/4
1.5 = 1/2
2 = 1/1 (evens)
2.5 = 6/4
3 = 2/1
4 = 3/1

etc etc

And aye, it can be confusing at first glance. Thing to remember, if you want to back a result to win, always use the left hand blue column. You'll get used to it

xbl, on Sep 1 2007, 11:12, said:

Im not feeling up to going to this one, so I shall be watching on sky sports.

#6
Fudge

Posted 20 January 2007 - 03:35

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For decimals to fractions you just take 1 off the decimal and divide by 1.

4.00 = 3/1
5.00 = 4/1
6.00 = 5/1

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