Yes, that's right. Only 3 months and 19 games into the start of the 2020/21 season, Stoke City F.C., founders of the football league and the oldest club currently in the football league, have already named 7 different goalkeepers in their 18 man matchday squad.
With only one of them having left The Potters in this time, it means Stoke City currently have 6 goalkeepers on the books registered in their first-team squad, more than any other team in Europe.
While this is only going to be the case for a maximum of two months as two of the men will be out of contract, I thought I'd still have just a quick look into the 7 men staking their claim for the Number 1 spot at the Staffordshire giants, and how they came to wind-up at the bet365 Stadium.
** 1. Joe Bursik**
The current keeper in the nets for Stoke at the time of writing, Joe Bursik is also, alebit arguably, the least qualified for the position out of the lot.
Bursik joined the club from the AFC Wimbledon Under-18's back in 2017 after 8 years in The Dons academy. From then, Bursik has enjoyed semi-successful loan stints at Hednesford Town, AFC Telford and Accrington. Bursik has actually already gone out on loan in the 20/21 season to Doncaster Rovers, making 10 league appearances for the Yorkshire outfit, before being re-called from the loan after injury to Angus Gunn
** 2. Angus Gunn**
Following on from Bursik, lets have a dive into the career of the man he replaced. Angus Gunn was born in Norwich, joining the club of the same name as a youngster, before quickly being snapped up by the Manchester City academy at 15 year olds.
Gunn would never get a chance to stake a claim with The Citizens and so sought a loan spell back to his boyhood club in the summer of 2017. After one season of the depthless hell hole that is Championship mid-table obscurity, Gunn sought a permanent move to a much stronger outfit than that at Carrow Road.
Southampton were quick to snap up the 22 year-old for an estimated fee of around £13.5 million. However, in the two years so far spent at St. Mary's, Gunn only managed 22 league appearances, ultimately leading him straight back into the bottomless trap hole of bench-warming in the Championship with Stoke
Coming in to replace Jack Butland on the Stoke bench, Gunn eventually finding himself quickly into the starting line-up after an injury to teammate Adam Davies saw Gunn come in in a 2-0 away loss to Swansea back in October.
4 appearances later, Gunn would himself be forced out for up to 8 weeks with an ankle ligament injury. Where his Stoke City position lies at the end of the season really comes down to how quickly Gunn can recover.
** 3. Jack Butland**
The one time England wonderkid that had every onlooker licking his lips back in 2013, Jack Butland's fall from international star to mid-table benchwarmer is as drastic as it is sad.
Signed from Birmingham back in 2013 from Birmingham City for a neat sum of £3.5 million, Butland would go on to register over 150 league appearances for Stoke, after several loan spells where Asmir Begovic was the Potters favourite under Mark Hughes, the Bosnian's move to Chelsea come in as the immediate number one in the potteries.
After several impressive season between the sticks, seeing him win the Fans Player of the Year twice and his stock rise dramatically, resulting in him being linked with the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool, Butland suffered a fractured ankle in England's 3-2 win over Germany in March 2016.
The injury the end of Buland's season and subsequently his England Career. Butland hasn't made an international appearance since and a string of bad form spanning relegation with Stoke and two following seasons in the Championship, he lost the starting position to Adam Davies.
Butland has since moved to Crystal Palace in the summer of 2020, where he has yet to register an appearance at Selhurst Park and see his recovery from England halted by a positive COVID test. Honestly, this man hasn't caught a break since 2016, however when I asked him for a picture in Morisson's once he was a bit snippy, so yeah he deserves it.
** 4. Adam Davies**
And now, the man who dethroned Butland as the number one at Stoke City, Adam Davies is by far the best and most talented player of our 7. The twice capped Welshman, who was actually born in Rintein, Germany (not gonna blame you for not knowing that tid bit), signed for the club as back-up to Butland from Barnsley in August 2019, alongside fellow League One Team of the Season winner Liam Lindsay.
While Lindsay's career at Stoke has halted almost immediately, Davies has seen himself fully enforced as the Potters' starting 'keeper. Seeing himself come into the 2020/21 off the back of a tremendous end of last season which saw Stoke lose once in their last six games, Davies was on hot form.
Unfortunately, during his 12th league appearance for the West Midlands side, Davies suffered a torn cruciate knee ligament, ruling him out for an estimated 3 months. If not for this injury, Stoke would be nowhere near the level of 'keeper confusion that they are now, so in the end, it's all his fault (jk love you Adam, please get fit soon x).
** 5. Blondy Nna Noukeu**
By far the most mysterious and unknown member of this group, and likely the entire squad, very little is actually known of the 19 year old Belgian/Cameroonian shot stopper.
Noukeu has been called up by the Cameroon National Team so far this season, but has yet to register a career appearance in goal, and considering he was third choice at the start of the season and now finds himself ranked 7th in that list, that ain't changing anytime soon buddy.
Like, seriously, imagine being 3rd choice keeper, both ahead of you get injured, so the club finds four more people immediately before even thinking about you. That's harsh af man.
** 6. Niki Mäenpää**
The penultimate keeper in this seven will hopefully turn out to be the penultimate signing Stoke have to make this season. Mäenpää, who at 35 joins the club having been released by Bristol City at the end of last season, was intended to come in to play as support for youngster Joe Bursik.
Not even expected to ever even play for the first team, two days after signing for the club, Mäenpää suffered an injury during training, leaving him out until at least the New Year.
This left Michael O'Neill scrambling again, looking to sign yet another senior goalkeeper, with a game against Wycombe Wanderers in two days time.
** 7. Andy Lonergan**
This signing is the biggest coup of the season and no one even noticed it. The Club World Cup winning, Champions League winner, Premier League champion dropping down to the chamionship ON A FREE should be shocking news!
Nah, Andy Lonergan left Liverpool at the end of last season after no minutes ever gained at Anfield, but was given a Premier League winners medal by Jurgen Klopp, noting how his guidance really improved the quality of the the backup goalkeeping squad and signifying how the whole squad is as important as each. A touching gesture, but that's a bit of a kop-out mate, like giving the fat kid an MVP award at the end of the season because he didn't score an own goal all season.
BONUS 8TH KEEPER THAT I FORGOT ABOUT
If this story couldn't get any more ridiculous, I forgot about Stokes' 8th keeper, the England Under-18 international Nathan Broome!
Currently a member of the Stoke academy, Broome was called up by Kevin Betsy to represent his nation. Initially poised to take over as bench keeper to Joe Bursik, Broome has also picked up an injury and so also faces time on the sidelines.
So there you have it, a thorough run through of every goalkeeper currently fighting for a first team spot Stoke where all they have to do is recover quickly.
At time of writing, Joe Bursik is the starting keeper, while normally being considered Stoke's 4th choice, while Andy Lonergan remains on the bench, while being considered 8th in the list by Michael O'Neill. Something tells me this won't be over soon and soon we'll be getting Doris the Tea Lady in a pair of Puma goalie gloves from Sports Direct and training with the big boys down at Clayton Wood.
A man can dream.......
submitted by Yes, that's right. Only 3 months and 19 games into the start of the 2020/21 season, Stoke City F.C., founders of the football league and the oldest club currently in the football league, have already named 7 different goalkeepers in their 18 man matchday squad.
With only one of them having left The Potters in this time, it means Stoke City currently have 6 goalkeepers on the books registered in their first-team squad, more than any other team in Europe.
While this is only going to be the case for a maximum of two months as two of the men will be out of contract, I thought I'd still have just a quick look into the 7 men staking their claim for the Number 1 spot at the Staffordshire giants, and how they came to wind-up at the bet365 Stadium.
** 1. Joe Bursik**
The current keeper in the nets for Stoke at the time of writing, Joe Bursik is also, alebit arguably, the least qualified for the position out of the lot.
Bursik joined the club from the AFC Wimbledon Under-18's back in 2017 after 8 years in The Dons academy. From then, Bursik has enjoyed semi-successful loan stints at Hednesford Town, AFC Telford and Accrington. Bursik has actually already gone out on loan in the 20/21 season to Doncaster Rovers, making 10 league appearances for the Yorkshire outfit, before being re-called from the loan after injury to Angus Gunn
** 2. Angus Gunn**
Following on from Bursik, lets have a dive into the career of the man he replaced. Angus Gunn was born in Norwich, joining the club of the same name as a youngster, before quickly being snapped up by the Manchester City academy at 15 year olds.
Gunn would never get a chance to stake a claim with The Citizens and so sought a loan spell back to his boyhood club in the summer of 2017. After one season of the depthless hell hole that is Championship mid-table obscurity, Gunn sought a permanent move to a much stronger outfit than that at Carrow Road.
Southampton were quick to snap up the 22 year-old for an estimated fee of around £13.5 million. However, in the two years so far spent at St. Mary's, Gunn only managed 22 league appearances, ultimately leading him straight back into the bottomless trap hole of bench-warming in the Championship with Stoke
Coming in to replace Jack Butland on the Stoke bench, Gunn eventually finding himself quickly into the starting line-up after an injury to teammate Adam Davies saw Gunn come in in a 2-0 away loss to Swansea back in October.
4 appearances later, Gunn would himself be forced out for up to 8 weeks with an ankle ligament injury. Where his Stoke City position lies at the end of the season really comes down to how quickly Gunn can recover.
** 3. Jack Butland**
The one time England wonderkid that had every onlooker licking his lips back in 2013, Jack Butland's fall from international star to mid-table benchwarmer is as drastic as it is sad.
Signed from Birmingham back in 2013 from Birmingham City for a neat sum of £3.5 million, Butland would go on to register over 150 league appearances for Stoke, after several loan spells where Asmir Begovic was the Potters favourite under Mark Hughes, the Bosnian's move to Chelsea come in as the immediate number one in the potteries.
After several impressive season between the sticks, seeing him win the Fans Player of the Year twice and his stock rise dramatically, resulting in him being linked with the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool, Butland suffered a fractured ankle in England's 3-2 win over Germany in March 2016.
The injury the end of Buland's season and subsequently his England Career. Butland hasn't made an international appearance since and a string of bad form spanning relegation with Stoke and two following seasons in the Championship, he lost the starting position to Adam Davies.
Butland has since moved to Crystal Palace in the summer of 2020, where he has yet to register an appearance at Selhurst Park and see his recovery from England halted by a positive COVID test. Honestly, this man hasn't caught a break since 2016, however when I asked him for a picture in Morisson's once he was a bit snippy, so yeah he deserves it.
** 4. Adam Davies**
And now, the man who dethroned Butland as the number one at Stoke City, Adam Davies is by far the best and most talented player of our 7. The twice capped Welshman, who was actually born in Rintein, Germany (not gonna blame you for not knowing that tid bit), signed for the club as back-up to Butland from Barnsley in August 2019, alongside fellow League One Team of the Season winner Liam Lindsay.
While Lindsay's career at Stoke has halted almost immediately, Davies has seen himself fully enforced as the Potters' starting 'keeper. Seeing himself come into the 2020/21 off the back of a tremendous end of last season which saw Stoke lose once in their last six games, Davies was on hot form.
Unfortunately, during his 12th league appearance for the West Midlands side, Davies suffered a torn cruciate knee ligament, ruling him out for an estimated 3 months. If not for this injury, Stoke would be nowhere near the level of 'keeper confusion that they are now, so in the end, it's all his fault (jk love you Adam, please get fit soon x).
** 5. Blondy Nna Noukeu**
By far the most mysterious and unknown member of this group, and likely the entire squad, very little is actually known of the 19 year old Belgian/Cameroonian shot stopper.
Noukeu has been called up by the Cameroon National Team so far this season, but has yet to register a career appearance in goal, and considering he was third choice at the start of the season and now finds himself ranked 7th in that list, that ain't changing anytime soon buddy.
Like, seriously, imagine being 3rd choice keeper, both ahead of you get injured, so the club finds four more people immediately before even thinking about you. That's harsh af man.
** 6. Niki Mäenpää**
The penultimate keeper in this seven will hopefully turn out to be the penultimate signing Stoke have to make this season. Mäenpää, who at 35 joins the club having been released by Bristol City at the end of last season, was intended to come in to play as support for youngster Joe Bursik.
Not even expected to ever even play for the first team, two days after signing for the club, Mäenpää suffered an injury during training, leaving him out until at least the New Year.
This left Michael O'Neill scrambling again, looking to sign yet another senior goalkeeper, with a game against Wycombe Wanderers in two days time.
** 7. Andy Lonergan**
This signing is the biggest coup of the season and no one even noticed it. The Club World Cup winning, Champions League winner, Premier League champion dropping down to the chamionship ON A FREE should be shocking news!
Nah, Andy Lonergan left Liverpool at the end of last season after no minutes ever gained at Anfield, but was given a Premier League winners medal by Jurgen Klopp, noting how his guidance really improved the quality of the the backup goalkeeping squad and signifying how the whole squad is as important as each. A touching gesture, but that's a bit of a kop-out mate, like giving the fat kid an MVP award at the end of the season because he didn't score an own goal all season.
BONUS 8TH KEEPER THAT I FORGOT ABOUT
If this story couldn't get any more ridiculous, I forgot about Stokes' 8th keeper, the England Under-18 international Nathan Broome!
Currently a member of the Stoke academy, Broome was called up by Kevin Betsy to represent his nation. Initially poised to take over as bench keeper to Joe Bursik, Broome has also picked up an injury and so also faces time on the sidelines.
So there you have it, a thorough run through of every goalkeeper currently fighting for a first team spot Stoke where all they have to do is recover quickly.
At time of writing, Joe Bursik is the starting keeper, while normally being considered Stoke's 4th choice, while Andy Lonergan remains on the bench, while being considered 8th in the list by Michael O'Neill. Something tells me this won't be over soon and soon we'll be getting Doris the Tea Lady in a pair of Puma goalie gloves from Sports Direct and training with the big boys down at Clayton Wood.
A man can dream.......
submitted by Hey beermoneyukers!
After years working in my 9-5 job as a website developer for a large corporation I decided I could not face selling my soul any longer lols and packed in my job.
Since then, I had a stint working as a freelancer whilst also making a healthy side income via matched betting. And over the past 9 months I’ve been building a website that teaches people how to do the same.
There are a lot of websites out there that teach matched betting, but most require a monthly subscription and most have long articles that can be a bit dry and hard to follow.
So instead, I built a website,
Team Profit, that:
Is
completely free Uses
animated video guides to teach people (
link)
Has infographics to accompany all video guides
Provides step by step guides for 25+ bookmaker offer which will
make you £600+ risk free (
link)
I have amended the video script over 50 times to try to make it as concise and helpful as possible, hopefully they are a good watch!
Any feedback on the videos, guides, blog or anything else, please let me know, I spend every day adding new content and improving existing content.
If you are thinking of learning matched betting and making £600+ risk free, please check it out! www.teamprofit.com MEGA FAQs GUIDE TO MATCHED BETTING The video guides I posted above will teach you everything about matched betting.
However, I figure no harm in me writing down everything I know about matched betting in an FAQ style layout. Hopefully this will be useful to you.
I have tried to answer every question as concise as possible / no rambling :D
I have split the FAQs into the following sections:
INTRODUCTION 1) What exactly is matched betting and how I do make money risk free?
2) How popular is matched betting?
3) Does it involve gambling?
4) How much money will I need to start?
5) How much time will it take me to learn matched betting?
OFFERS & YOUR PROFIT 1) How much money can I make matched betting from the welcome offers (new customer only)?
2) How much is a free bet worth in actual cash profit?
3) After I have finished the Welcome Offers, how much money can I make matched betting each month from Daily Offers (existing customer offers)?
4) What type of Daily Offers are available?
BOOKMAKERS AND BETTING EXCHANGES 1) Which bookmakers have the best welcome offers?
2) Which bookmakers have the best offers for existing customers?
3) What is mug betting?
4) What is a betting exchange?
5) How do we use a betting exchange?
ADDRESSING COMMON CONCERNS 1) How sustainable is matched betting?
2) Will it impact my credit rating?
3) Do the bookmakers have terms to stop customers from withdrawing?
4) Do I need to know about sports?
WHICH WEBSITES TEACH MATCHED BETTING - YOUR OPTIONS 1) Where can you learn matched betting?
ADDITIONAL FAQS 1) Depositing and withdrawing
2) Sending identification documents
Any questions that haven’t been answered please add a comment and I’ll add the FAQ and answer.
INTRODUCTION 1) What exactly is matched betting and how I do make money risk free? There are more than 25 online bookmakers in the UK. In order to attract new customers, they each offer free bets, known as ‘Welcome Offers’.
In total they offer over £800 in free bets to new customers.
In order to receive the free bet, bookmakers require you to place your first bet. An example offer is ‘Bet £5, Get £20 free bet’.
The risk is that you could lose both the £5 bet (your own cash) and the £20 free bet.
By using a technique called matched betting, we remove this risk.
This is because we match our first £5 bet on the bookmaker with a £5 bet on a betting exchange on the opposite outcome (this is known as a ‘lay bet’).
For example, we bet £5 on Man Utd to win on the bookmaker, and £5 on Man Utd not to win on the betting exchange.
As we have now bet on all outcomes, regardless of whether Man Utd win, draw or lose, we will neither win nor lose money. However, we have received the £20 free bet!
With the £20 free bet, we can now repeat this process by betting on say Liverpool to win on the bookmaker and Liverpool not to win.
This time, because we are using a £20 free bet but our winnings are paid out in cash, we will always make a profit.
We repeat this process for 25+ bookmakers, one by one. In total we can convert the £800+ in free bets to over £600+ in actual cash profit, in very little time at all.
2) How popular is matched betting? Matched betting isn’t new and has been around since at least 2005.
However, it is only since 2015 that it has really increased in popularity due to the rise of websites teaching matched betting. You can see this trend here:
Google Trends Link By looking at the various matched betting sites popularity, a reasonable estimate is at least 25,000 people in the UK are matched betters. You can see a review of sites that teach matched betting in the ‘Which websites teach matched betting?’ section below.
3) Does it involving gambling? This is the most common assumption with matched betting. You’d be forgiven for thinking that it did involve gambling simply because the name ‘matched betting’ would suggest it did.
However, matched betting does not involve gambling, you will never be risking a penny.
Because we are always covering the opposite outcome occurring, there is never any risk we will lose money. Furthermore, we still receive the free bets which we will where we make our profit.
The profitability and risk free nature of matched betting has been reviewed in the
Daily Telegraph and the
Guardian 4) How much will I need to start? You can start with as little as you want, however the lowest I would recommend starting with would be £25.
With £25, you can start your first bookmaker welcome offer and make a deposit into your first betting exchange, meaning you can start making a profit.
For more details, see this
Starting with £25 guide.
The downside, with only £25 you are restricted by having to wait for withdrawals before you can move onto the next offer.
Therefore, I would say an optimal amount to have available for your cash flow would be in the region of £200 as this allows you to complete multiple welcome offers simultaneously.
5) How long will it take me to learn matched betting? To learn the principles of matched betting, it will take up to 20 minutes.
To become familiar with completing your first offer, I would set aside another 30-60 minutes so you can take your time and ensure you are completing it correctly.
For example, the
video guides on Team Profit last a total of 21 minutes (8 minutes for the explainers videos and 13 minutes to watch the step-by-step real time example). Although they last just 21 minutes, some users watch certain parts of the video again to become comfortable with the process.
It is very much recommended to avoid trying to learn matched betting by yourself. There are thousands of experienced matched betters who can help you. For more details on this, see the ‘Which Websites Teach Matched Betting’ section.
If you need any help anytime, please do comment in this Reddit thread and I’ll help you out.
OFFERS 1)How much money can I make matched betting from the welcome offers (new customer only)? From the welcome offer, you can make approximately £1,000 cash profit.
There are 25+ bookmaker offers available on sports for at least £600 profit. These are relatively straightforward offers and good value in terms of time to complete. It would take around 12 hours to complete these offers, which works around £40 / hour tax free. You can complete them over any time period you like.
There are at least another 5 bookmaker offers, such as Bet365 and BetVictor, though these require more time, you could make around £100 to £200. They require more time because the bookmaker requires you to bet many more times before you can withdraw.
Plus 20+ offers across casino and bingo, though some are not risk free and typically take more time to complete, but you should be able to make at least £200 profit from these offers.
So overall, there is an easy £600 profit risk free, then up to another £400 if it’s worth your time to do them.
2) How much is a free bet worth in actual cash profit? A £10 free bet is worth between £5 to £8 in actual cash profit.
The reason for the range is because the higher odds you choose for your free bet, the more actual cash profit you will make.
For example, if you bet on a football team with odds of 2.0, the £10 free bet will convert to around £5 cash profit. Whereas if you bet on a football team that is unlikely to win, with odds of say 6.0, the £10 free bet will convert to around £8 cash profit.
Note though, the higher odds you choose, the more you will need in your betting exchange account in case the bet wins. For a detailed explanation with examples, read this
free bet profit article.
3) After I have finished the Welcome Offers, how much money can I make matched betting each month (from existing customer offers)? Anywhere from £100 to £1,000+ per month.
Bookmakers continue to run free bet offers to retain their customers, I refer to these as Daily Offers.
Daily Offers are typically less valuable than the welcome offers but still worth completing.
For example, rather than ‘Bet £5 Get £20’ that they offer to new customers, they may instead run ‘Bet £20 Get £10’ and on a particular football match.
I would say for people with a day job, aiming for between £300 to £500 a month is realistic. In terms of time required, for every hour you spend, you should make around £30 tax free.
So to make £300 a month, expect to spend around 2-3 hours a week. I’d say to earn more than this, you will likely need to accept a lower hourly rate and do some of the low value offers too.
If you are looking to make £1,000+, I’d expect you would have to be near full time and also be fortunate to keep your enough of your bookmaker accounts open for 12+ month period (what is mugging bet FAQ below).
4) What type of offers are available for existing customers? Easy offers: The most common easy offer on football matches is Bet £20 Get £10 free bet. Many bookmakers run this offer, though it will usually be on a particular football match.
The most common easy offer on horse racing is usually on SkyBet, who will run simple offers such as ‘Get £25 free bet if your horse comes 2nd or 3rd’.
There are also easy casino offers, such as ‘£5 risk free’, where you spin on slots and hope to win, if you don’t they’ll refund up to £5 of losses.
These offers can make you up to £300 per month (or £500 on a good month with European football) and are easy for those with a day job.
Harder offers: If you are looking to make more than £300 to £500 a month, then you will need to spend time on Saturday’s completing horse racing offers on Channel 4 racing and during the week too, though Saturday’s are the most profitable.
Plus you will need to do more advanced offers such as football accumulator refunds, each way offers, though I will leave these aside given they could have their own separate thread :p
If you’d like to understand where you can learn more about these offers, see ‘Which sites teach matched betting?’ FAQ below.
BOOKMAKERS AND BETTING EXCHANGE 1) Which bookmakers have the best welcome offers? There are 3 formats of bookmakers welcome offers.
‘Bet £X Get £Y free bet’ - these are the most straightforward. Simply place your first bet and receive a free bet.
This format of welcome offer, ranging from Bet £5 Get £20 to Bet £50 Get £50, is available on Coral, SkyBet, BetBright, Betfred, Paddy Power, BetStars, William Hill, Stan James, Betway, Ladbrokes, TitanBet, 32Red and MarathonBet.
‘Refunds’ (also known as Risk Free offers) - these are similar to Bet £X Get £Y free bet. The only difference is you only receive your free bet if your first bet loses, hence I refer to these offers are refund offers.
This format of welcome offer is, ranging from £10 to £50 refunds, is available on Bwin, Dafabet, UniBet, Totesport, 188Bet, SuperLenny, Genting and 888Sport.
‘Multi Bets’ - these welcome offers require multiple bets to be placed before receiving your reward. It can take form of a bonus which requires to bet £X amount until you can withdraw any winnings, or the form of a cash reward once you have bet £X amount.
This format of welcome offer is available on Bet365, BetVictor and some other bookmakers, however they often require such a large amount of betting that I haven’t included them in this list.
The quickest to complete are the Bet £X Get £Y due to their simplicity, then the next best are the ‘Refunds’ offers.
The Multi Bet offers can be very valuable (e.g. Bet£365’s offer is worth over £150 profit risk free) but can also require much larger deposits in order to place the bookmaker bets and lay these bets in your Exchange.
For details of each bookmaker offer, see this
Welcome Offer List & Guides 2) Which bookmakers have the best offers for existing customers? Bookmakers vary in their level of generosity to existing customers. This is a little subjective, but in my opinion, this is the ranking of bookmakers for existing customers:
Best: Bet365 Bet365 run a £50 Risk Free offer most months (sometimes twice a month during popular football months) which is worth £35. It is very quick to complete (less than 10 minutes) so for £35 to £70, or around £500 a year, it is a great offer.
Plus they have one of the best horse racing offers, up to a £50 risk free bet if your pick a winning horse with high odds. This is a profitable offer worth around £20-£30 a week, or up to £1,000 to £1,500 a year.
Second Best: SkyBet SkyBet run regular £5 to £25 free bet offers on horse racing and football, plus regular £5 risk free offers in SkyVegas.
Third & Fourth Best: Coral and Paddy Power Both these sites run regular horse racing, price boosts and football offers (Bet £20 Get £10 in particular), at least £20 to to be made on every week from these two sites.
Good: William Hill, Ladbrokes, BetStars, Stan James, Betway, Bwin, Betfred, Totesport, 188Bet, 888, BetVictor All these bookmakers run offer(s) each week so it’s worth ensuring you have completed the welcome offer for each of these sites so you can take advantage of their daily offers for existing customers.
3) What is mug betting? If you are only ever betting when you receive an offer, the bookmaker will no longer allow your account to receive free bet offers (this is known as being ‘gubbed’).
To get around this, you should place ‘mug’ bets. ‘Mug’ bets are simply bets that a ‘mug’ punter would place. Mug bets include £1 accumulators (betting on several teams to win) and betting on favourites without an offer.
Most advice suggests that for every offer you receive, you should place 2-3 mug bets.
If you are gubbed, it does kinda suck when you receive the email, as you can no longer profit from the bookmaker’s offers.
It is also becoming increasingly common as bookmakers are noticing more suspected matched bettors, due to its increasing popularity. My advice is to make money whilst you can and take sensible precautions to try to keep your account active.
For more details, see this
Mug Betting article 4) What is a betting exchange? A betting exchange is a marketplace for customers to bet between each other on the outcome of particular events. This differs from a traditional bookmaker because an exchange also gives you the ability to be the bookmaker yourself and take bets from other exchange users.
Standard bookmakers generate profit by offering odds that are in their favour. Betting exchanges explained in terms of how they generate revenue is they charge a commission on any winnings a player receives.
The two market leading betting exchanges are, Betfair and Smarkets.
For more details,
Betting Exchanges Comparison.
5) How we use betting exchanges? When matched betting, a betting exchange is used to place our lay bets (the opposite bet to our trigger bet). So when we place the trigger bet with the bookmaker on one outcome to release the initial free bet, we must also cover the opposite outcome so that if the bookmaker bet does lose we still win on the lay bet - making it risk free!
Similarly when we are placing the free bet bet with the bookmaker we then lay off that bet using the exchange and because we’re using a free bet but being paid out in cash, this is how we turn free bets into withdrawable cash.
We only ever use betting exchanges for lay bets.
ADDRESSING COMMON CONCERNS 1) How sustainable is matched betting? Matched betting over the past 6-9 months has become harder. Most bookmakers have realised they are thousands of matched betters taking advantage of their offers and so have either reduced the generosity of their offers or have made the daily offers more complicated.
However, there is still intense competition between the bookmakers, meaning they will always run special offers to an extent.
By spending a few hours a week, you can still make £300 to £500 a month, whereas in past year(s) this figure could have been £500 to £800.
The biggest issue matched betters face is being
‘gubbed’. As explained in the mug betting FAQ, this is when a bookmaker restricts you from receiving free bets and bonuses.
There are various theories as to how a particular bookmaker decides to to gub a customer. Reasons include taking up too many offers, winning a high % of bets, withdrawing regularly, placing bets far in advance or at irregular times.
The truth is nobody really knows precisely why people gubbed. However, you can expect to get gubbed at some point from a particular bookmaker, it may be 2 months, it may be 2 years, it is hard to know.
I really think though that everyone can make up to £1,000 from the Welcome Offers and at least £300 to £500 a month without any problems. I think the issues comes when you are making £1,000+ every month which sooner or later bookmakers will catch up that you are taking up a lot of offers.
Having said this, some people say they have been making £1,000+ every month for years, so maybe it is possible if you are using a wide variety of bookmakers and consistently placing mug bets.
2) Will it impact my credit rating? Having betting activity on your bank statement does not impact your credit rating.
The only thing to be wary of when making betting deposits and withdrawals is that it can affect your application for a mortgage. So if you’re planning on applying for a mortgage in the near future then I’d recommend using a separate bank account to that which you’ll be applying for the mortgage with.
3) Do the bookmakers have terms to stop customers from withdrawing? The vast majority of welcome offers do not have any withdrawal restrictions.
A handful of welcome offers do but this will be state in the terms and conditions. It is much easier though to use a matched betting website as they will clearly highlight the key terms of each offer (see ‘Which websites teach matched betting’ section below).
Casino offers will almost always have withdrawal restrictions, however for the matched betting welcome offers we are focusing on sports betting.
4) Do I need to know about sports? Not at all! You do not need a sports background or have any sort of betting knowledge, many matched betters do not know anything about sport or betting before learning matched betting.
You may learn matched betting a little faster if you have sports betting experience but it really isn't important at all.
WHICH WEBSITE TEACH MATCHED BETTING - YOUR OPTIONS There are 30+ websites that three key stages to matched betting:
Stage 1) Learning matched betting Stage 2) Completing the Welcome Offers (for new customers) Stage 3) Profiting in the long term from Daily Offers (for existing customers) Below I have tried to cover the main sites that will help you with each of these stages.
In summary, I may be biased :p but I think the: Stage 1) and Stage 2) best approach is to use TeamProfit.com Stage 3) Join a paid membership site, either OddsMonkey.com, ProfitAccumulator.co.uk or ProfitMaximiser.co.uk to continue to make money from the Daily Offers. FREE SITES: TeamProfit.com (link) I really believe Team Profit is the best site to learn matched betting and complete the welcome offers, but compare us to the other sites and see what you think!
Learn matched betting with animated videos
(link) 25+ Welcome Offers using the step by step guides
(link) A free Facebook group to provide help to you anytime you need
(link).
MoneySavingExpert.com (link) The
advantage of MoneySavingExpert is the sheer volume of content, covering all aspects of matched betting.
The
disadvantage of MoneySavingExpert it is not well structured as it is just one forum with a long lists of posts so it takes quite a while to find relevant threads and miss key information.
MatchedBettingBlog.com (link) The
advantage of MatchedBettingBlog is the clear layout of the daily offers posted each day for with step by step instructions. It’s a good site to check to avoid missing the best and easier daily offers. The forum community also helps to post additional offers on top of those listed on the homepage, and also provides general advice on completing daily offers.
The
disadvantage of MatchedBettingBlog is it is relatively limited in terms of teaching matched betting and does not provide a clear list of welcome offers. Also, for those looking to make £500+ every month, it doesn’t provide any software to help with the more advanced types of matched betting with daily offers, such as horse racing refunds and accumulator refunds, that the paid member sites offer.
Additional free matched betting sites include:
Matchedbettingfree.co.uk
(link) (Reddit thread link) Freebets4all.com
(link) PAID SITES: Paid sites usually charge £15 to £25 a month.
In return, they will teach matched betting, provide list of welcome offers and provide daily offers too. Additionally, most paid sites will also provide software that helps to make you more money plus save you time.
OddsMonkey.com (
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OddsMonkey charge £15 per month or £150 per year.
They are the most well known provider of matched betting software. Earlier this year, they added the full range of matched betting services, so now they provide all of the below:
Tutorial articles
Welcome offer step by step guides
Daily offers calendar
Software: OddsMatcher, Horse Racing Refunds, Tennis Refunds, range of calculators and spreadsheet
Forum
The
advantage of OddsMonkey is the exceptional value. They have the best range of software and tools for matched betters to maximise their profits, are consistently bringing up new tools at no added cost. At only £15 per month it is one of the best options to consider.
The only
disadvantage is the forum is not as busy as the next two options, ProfitAccumulator and Profit Maximiser. Though the forum is still a sufficiently active to ensure any questions have you are answered quickly.
Profit Accumulator (
Link - Chazmer87's I don't have one |
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Profit Accumulator charge £23 per month or £150 per year
Profit Accumulator helped to bring matched betting to the main stream with a highly active community. There are clear similarities between OddsMonkey and Profit Accumulator in terms of their high standard of software and offers.
The
advantage of Profit Accumulator is their very active community. There is a great deal of advice in virtually every aspect of matched betting and the information is all well structured. Plus they have a very good offers coverage.
The only
disadvantage to Profit Accumulator is the higher cost. The membership itself is £23 per month, plus their version of the Horse Racing Refunds software is £10 per month, or £115 a year. So in total you are paying £33 per month versus OddsMonkey’s £15 per month.
Profit Maximiser (
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Profit Maximiser is run by the original matched betting guru Mike Cruickshank.
Mike has been building software for matched betters for many years and has a very active Facebook Group.
Each piece of software is sold separately, I believe the below is accurate, each have their own £1 free trials:
Bonus Bagging £27 plus VAT - provides a list of all welcome offers and teaching (
Link |
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Profit Maximiser £97 plus VAT - provides all daily offers (
Link |
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Each Way Sniper £47 plus VAT - provides a horse racing betting system (
Link)
Accumulator Generator £149 plus VAT - provides a football betting system (
Link)
I believe Mike may have a couple more tools, if so I’ll edit this post if you could please comment / send me a message.
The
advantage of Mike’s products is that there is no monthly recurring fee, so if you intend to do this for many months, it may work out profitable to do so. Plus from what I understand their Facebook Group finds some lucrative casino loophole offers faster than other matched betting providers.
The
disadvantage of Mike’s products is that you have to buy each product separately rather than having it all within one simple account. Additionally, the total cost if you were to buy all 4 above listed products is £320 + VAT (total cost £384) whereas you could receive all these tools for £15 per month from Oddsmonkey. Having said that, Mike’s products do come with a £1 free trial, just be careful to cancel before the trial ends if you don’t want to continue.
Additional free matched betting sites include: Yes Bets
link Pure Profit
link ADDITIONAL 1) Depositing and withdrawing To ensure you qualify for the Welcome Offer, use a bank card to deposit into your newly set up bookmaker account. Most sites will allow Paypal too though check the terms and conditions.
If you use Skrill or Neteller, typically you will not qualify for the Welcome Offer (bookmakers have this rule to prevent fraud) but you can check the terms and conditions.
Withdrawing is easy, you should receive your funds within 1-3 working days depending on the bookmaker.
2) Sending identification documents Occasionally, bookmakers may require to send in identification documents (passport or drivers licence for example) and a copy of your bank card. This is to prevent fraud. This usually happens if you are not listed on the Electoral Roll or there is a difference between your home address and billing address. Simply take a photo of the documents they ask for and email them back.
THAT COMPLETES THE MEGA FAQ GUIDE TO MATCHED BETTING! If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please do post a comment thanks! submitted by INTRODUCING BETRIUM
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