As always if you need a reminder of the reasons and rules behind this challenge have a read of the about me page. To see last month’s matched betting profit visit August’s results post here. This was a strange month. The gubbings started to increase and as you can see from the graph, I was at the 17th of the month staring down the barrel with just £29 to show for my efforts. I’m just so pleased that I managed to knuckle down for the last 13 days of the month and come out with at least at respectable figure even though I was still way off my target. Matched Betting Continues to Take a Back Seat ..read more

I thought I would just put together a short list of some advantage play hacks that perhaps not all of you know about. I certainly wish I knew about them when I started as they would have saved me a lot of time and increased my profits in the process. Some of these I have mentioned before without going into any real detail and some are fairly new to me so I haven’t spoken about them before. If you are new here and don’t know what I’m talking about, head over to my Advantage Play explainer page. So without wasting any more time let’s get into them. Advantage Play Hacks 1. Using a Colour and a Th ..read more

I used to do matched betting as my main side hustle. In fact, this entire site was initially dedicated to the practice of rinsing bookmakers of free bets and free spin offers. But as time wore on, and bookie after bookie “gubbed” me or stake restricted me, it became increasingly difficult to make a consistent profit. But it wasn’t just that. Even if I had my accounts, I would have quit anyway. Here’s why… Matched Betting is No Longer a Viable Long Term Money Making Option While the bookmakers have pretty much always known about matched betting, when it became an industry in its own right, they ..read more

This is a collaborative post. Whilst matched betting can be an effective and legitimate way to make money through sports betting, a lot of people – particularly beginners – will make costly mistakes. Here are just a few common matched betting mistakes to avoid if you want to make a profit. Not using free bets You can make money through matched betting without using free bets, but it’s a lot harder and more of a straight gamble. Sites like Free Bets can help you to locate bookmakers that offer free bets. You should take advantage of as many of these as you can. Even once you’ve exhausted every ..read more

As always if you need a reminder of the reasons and rules behind this challenge have a read of the about me page. To see last month’s matched betting profit visit November’s results post here. I find myself once more writing this post nearly half way through the month without having done any matched betting. Once again, despite very, (VERY) limited spare time in which to complete offers, I seem to have done a sterling job of racking up decent profits, even if I didn’t manage to hit the heady heights of last month where I somehow had an average transaction value (the average of all individual q ..read more

As always if you need a reminder of the reasons and rules behind this challenge have a read of the about me page. To see last month’s matched betting profit visit October’s results post. It feels strange to be writing this post since I haven’t done any matched betting whatsoever for over 2 weeks. I’ve been away in the USA and I’ve been frantically trying to catch up on work ever since I got back. So, as expected, this was a month where I didn’t find much time to do any matched betting yet somehow I managed to earn more than last month despite only putting in literally around 15 hours for the e ..read more

Weekly free bet clubs have long been the staple of many bookmakers marketing budget, “Bet X amount get Y Free Bet – EVERY WEEK!” or words to that effect. But are they worth investing time and money into from a matched betting perspective? Can you make healthy returns? In this post we go through the basic premise of the free bet clubs and compile a list of all the current profitable offers. If you are new here and don’t know what matched betting is then please head to my Matched Betting page which will bring you up to speed. Are Free Bet Clubs Worth Doing? I guess the short answer to this quest ..read more

As always if you need a reminder of the reasons and rules behind this challenge have a read of the about me page. To see last month’s matched betting profit visit September’s results post here.  Well after bigging up my new routine last month, I actually managed to reverse my declining profits and almost hit an on target month. It felt like the offers dried up a little this month, I think the major bookies and casinos are waiting for late November/early December before rolling out their big Christmas bonuses. Maximising Time Spent On Matched Betting As you may have noticed, this website h ..read more

We often take for granted how easy matched betting is to do in the UK. We just open our smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop and within a few clicks we can be completing offers for easy profits. But what about matched betting abroad? What changes when you leave the country either permanently or on holiday, can you simply just carry on as you were? Well the answer is no, not quite. You will need to invest in something called a VPN which will redirect your web location back to the UK. But it’s a fairly simple process. What about people that live abroad or that aren’t from countries that don’t a ..read more

Perhaps one of the best, if not the best reload offers in matched betting today is the 2up offer which is available across a range of sports from both Bet365 and Paddy Power. This post is going to take a look at how to reap healthy profits from this offer, and cover the different approaches you can take. If you’re new here you may want to have a quick read of my explainer page on Matched Betting so you can get up to speed. How to set up the 2up offer? Setting up the 2up offer at either bookmaker is very simple. Taking football as an example (we’ll tackle the other sports later in this article ..read more