Matched Betting: Get Ready for the New UK Football Season!
I’ve talked about matched betting a few times on this blog. To recap, it’s a way of making risk-free (and tax-free) cash by taking advantage of bookmaker special offers and promotions.
Matched betting is perfectly legal and (done properly) it’s not gambling. You can read my introduction to matched betting here, and why I believe it is such a great money-making sideline for older people here. I have personally made over £2,500 of tax-free profit from matched betting, which is why I have no hesitation about recommending it here..
While matched betting doesn’t present a source of passive income – you do have to put a bit of time and effort in, especially at first – it really is risk-free as long as you apply the method correctly. Even if you do make the odd mistake – and many people do when starting out – it may not cost you any money. Even if it does, the overall profits should quickly cancel out any losses incurred.
Since the last UK domestic football season ended it has been a quiet time for matched bettors, but with the start of the new 2019/20 season all that is about to change. The first match in the Premiership is on Friday 9th August, with the other leagues in England and Scotland starting this weekend.
To be clear, you don’t have to be a big football fan to look forward to this (I’m certainly not). No, the reason to anticipate the new season so keenly is the host of money-making opportunities it will present for matched bettors.
For one thing, the bookies will be pulling out all the stops to attract new clients and get current and former clients back onside. I expect to see a flood of offers on the football in the coming weeks, giving the potential to generate some tasty risk-free profits by applying matched betting principles.
For those who have yet to try this sideline-earning method, matched betting initially involves taking advantage of bookmakers’ welcome offers to generate risk-free profits. These offers typically entail getting a free bet when you place your first paid bet. As a matched bettor you can take advantage of this by backing one outcome of an event with an online bookmaker and at the same time laying it (betting it won’t happen) on a betting exchange.
You will therefore break even (or make a very small qualifying loss, depending on the odds) on your initial bet. But this will qualify you for a free bet from the bookmaker. And by backing and laying this to the appropriate stakes you can guarantee yourself a net profit no matter how the event in question pans out.
Matched betting really is that simple, with the welcome offers at least. However, you do need an understanding of how to apply the method and (in particular) how betting exchanges work. You also need access to calculators and oddsmatching tools to ensure you are staking correctly at the best possible odds to maximize your profits. Unless you are very confident, therefore, I highly recommend signing up to a matched betting advisory service.
I cut my teeth with Profit Accumulator and still recommend this as a great service for people who are new to matched betting.
More About Profit Accumulator
Profit Accumulator is a marched betting advisory service suitable both for those brand new to matched betting and for experienced matched bettors.
You can join PA free initially and they will provide details of two bookmaker offers you can take advantage of straight away, with in-depth tutorials (including videos) on how to do them. These offers should make you around £45 in net profit.
If you wish to proceed further, you can then pay to become a Platinum member and get access to the full range of offers and services. The latter include an oddsmatching tool and calculator for finding profitable bets to use with bookmaker welcome offers and maximizing your returns from them. And, of course, you will get access to hundreds more offers, again with step-by-step tutorials for doing them.
You also gain access to more advanced tools, including Acca Matcher, Each Way Matcher, and more. These allow you to boost your profits and continue to make money even when you have exhausted all the bookmaker welcome offers (which will take a long time!).
A further advantage of joining Profit Accumulator is that you get access to the busy members’ forum, where you can get any questions you may have answered by more experienced members and/or the team behind PA.
If you think matched betting may be for you, therefore, I highly recommend that you click through to the Profit Accumulator website to see what they offer and sign up for the free trial. By joining today you will be perfectly placed to take advantage of the flood of bookmaker offers in the coming weeks.
As ever, if you have any questions or comments about matched betting or Profit Accumulator, please do post them below.
Disclosure: As well as being a member of Profit Accumulator I am also an affiliate for them. If you join and become a paying member after following any of the links in this post, I will receive a commission for introducing you. This does not affect in any way the cost of the service to you or the benefits you receive.
