Matched betting is one of my absolute favourite ways to make extra money online. Once you get to grips with how it works, it’s quick to do, and guarantees you a profit every single time. In the matched betting world, Bet365 is a pretty firm favourite. They have some fantastic offers regularly that bag matched bettors sometimes hundreds of pounds in a matter of minutes. Whilst this article focuses on Bet365, there are lots of other sports betting sites with profitable offers too!

Firstly, I’d like to mention that I’ve had to justify matched betting to a few people recently. I’d just like to say once and for all – MATCHED BETTING IS NOT GAMBLING. I do not endorse gambling. Gamblers risk money in the hope of a win, whether for fun or whether they just can’t help themselves – they’re risking cash each time they place a bet. Matched bettors DO NOT RISK THEIR CASH. The whole ethos of matched betting is that you GUARANTEE A PROFIT every single time. There’s no risk involved. Matched bettors simply take advantage of bookmaker promotions in a way that ensures they make money on every single offer.

Horse Racing proves to be one of, it not the best, sporting events to bet on with Bet365. They have a ‘Price Promise’ to indicate the best price on every horse for all races shown live on ITV Racing. Their max bet is £25,000, higher than the majority of other bookies in the UK, though endorse betting responsibility throughout their website. Bookmakers Covered: SBO, Pinbet88, ISN, Maxbet, GA, Sing, 1bet, 18bet and M8, Mollybet and also 3ET Betting Exchange Covered: Matchbook – 1.25% when Backing a selection and 0.75% when you add liquidity to their exchange. Bet365 Racingform. Highclere Thoroughbred Racing Mares' Standard Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race) (4-6yo, Class 5, 2m 69y, 12 runners).

A lot of this post assumes that you know a bit about matched betting and how it works. If you don’t, then it might be worth signing up for my beginner course here first.

Finding the offers

I strongly recommend signing up to Profit Accumulator – I really wouldn’t make anywhere near as much money as I do without them.

They find the offers daily and write instructions out in such a way that’s really simple to follow and understand. They have a fantastic customer support network too. All of the Bet365 offer details and instructions are written out in much more detail over there, this post just aims to show you just how profitable these can be.

Bet365 Matched Betting

Bet365 are one of the big guns in the matched betting world. They have the most profitable initial signup offer and regular reload offers for existing customers too. They’re an account that everyone wants to keep hold of and take advantage of as they’re so profitable.

Bet365 Signup Offer

When you first register with Bet365, they offer a really profitable welcome promotion. They used to offer a £200 free bet when you placed a qualifying bet of £200. Sadly those times are gone (for now at least). However, they are currently offering a £100 free bet when you place a qualifying bet of £100. By using the clever calculators from Profit Accumulator, and laying off your bets at a betting exchange, you can guarantee a profit of around £70-£80 from this offer. Not bad for a few minutes “work”!

Bet365 £50 in-play free bet

This is probably the offer that most matched bettors look forward to appearing on the Profit Accumulator forums. These days the offer is invite only, meaning that you’ll need to have received an email or a message within your Bet365 account in order to qualify.

Bet365 offer up to £50 free in-play bet on specific football matches when you place a qualifying bet of £50 on the same match. It’s a really simple offer! There are no minimum odds which means that you can place your bet on whatever you can find the lowest qualifying loss for. Then, once the match starts, you simply place your free bet in-play.

I tend to place my qualifying bet on the favourite team to win. I think this gives me the best chance of qualifying for their 2 Up offer (see below) which can be extremely lucrative! I’ve hit it twice now and make hundreds each time.

Not everyone is offered the full £50 for this offer so make sure you check your emails carefully before attempting.

In this example, you’d make a qualifying loss of £1. Note that I always use Smarkets to lay off my bets because of the lower 2% commission.

So, I’ve lost £1 but I know that once the game kicks off, I’ll have a £50 free bet which will guarantee me a profit overall.

Once the game kicks off, the odds will move about VERY quickly. This makes it really difficult to find close odds and it can be pretty risky. Imagine if you placed a bet on 0-0 and then a goal was scored before you could lay it off! The best way to handle in-play bets is to lay them off at half-time. The odds will be much more stable then. I find that correct score markets are usually pretty profitable and I usually look for odds around 5.0.

In this example, I’ve made a profit of £36.43 from the free bet. When you take into consideration the £1 loss from the qualifier, that’s over £35 profit from a few minutes spent online. That’s what makes this offer so popular!

Bet365 Early Payout (2 Up)

This is another invite only offer, but one that most ungubbed accounts seem to be eligible for. Bet365 offer this promotion on a number of sports, but for ease I’ll focus on football. Bet365 will pay out your bet early as a winner if the team you backed goes two goals ahead. So, for example, say you back Manchester United to win against Chelsea. If Manchester United go two goals ahead at any point in the match, then your bet will be paid out as a winner. There are a number of ways to handle your bets once that happens – all of which are discussed on the Profit Accumulator forum. You can always lock in a profit once your team goes two goals ahead though and this is a really lucrative offer.

Bet365 Horse Refunds

Bet365 have a daily horse racing refund where if you back a winner at odds of 5.0 or greater, you’ll receive a risk-free bet on the next eligible race. This is another offer you can lock-in a guaranteed profit every time. Greyhound refunds work in exactly the same way.

Most bookmakers place a limit upon the total pay-out they will provide to punters rather than on the total amount you can bet in the first place.

The limits which bookies do place upon pay-outs – and in some rare cases on stake amounts – do differ from one bookmaker to another.

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Maximum Bet Amounts At Online Bookmakers:

The following table shows the maximum bet and pay-out amounts at online bookmakers:

Note: max payout amount varies by sport, above we have listed the biggest payouts possible across all sports.

What is the maximum stake for online bookmakers?

The maximum stake for online bookmakers varies from site to site as some use a max stake and some use a max payout amount. Technically Bet365 have the highest as their max payout is £2,000,000 so you could bet £1,000,000 at evens on their site. See our table for all limits.

Why Max Pay-Out Not Max Bet?

As we mentioned above, most bookmakers limit the maximum pay-out which they will provide rather than the maximum stake amount which they will accept. There are a number of reasons for this:

• Protection against pay-outs large enough to potentially cause financial damage.
• Protection against match fixing (less popular sports often have smaller max bet and max pa-out limits).
• Prevents odds manipulation by high stake punters and other bookmakers.
• Still allows them to take large bets at smaller odds – £100 at 1000/1 much less appealing than £50,000 at even money but bets have same payout.

What Are the Biggest Ever Bets?

On occasion punters do come up with monster bets which payoff big time!

The following five are some of the best examples of past bets which rank among the largest ever, in terms of either initial stake or eventual pay-out:

1. Leicester City Win The League

At the outset of the 2015/16 Premier League season you could get the same odds on Leicester City winning the title (5000-1) as you could on Elvis being found alive.

A number of devoted Foxes fans staked their hard earned cash on their beloved side, however, and Leicester’s ultimate victory is believed to have cost UK bookmakers in the region of £25 million.

The largest individual pay-out amongst that total is believed to be £100,000 paid to a punter in Manchester who bet £20 and resisted the urge to cash out.

2. Saints Take Super Bowl XLIV

Ahead of Super Bowl XLIV pretty much every expert, analyst and fan fancied the Indianapolis Colts to beat the New Orleans Saints. Infamous Las Vegas professional gambler Billy Walters, however, had other ideas.

He backed the underdog Saints to the tune of $3.5 million and whilst exactly how much he won when they did triumph is unknown, it is likely to have been an extraordinary amount.

3. Monty’s Pass Wins the National

Blackpool born Mick Futter, an owner of numerous bingo halls in Britain and Ireland, made headlines in 2003 thanks to the exploits of his horse Monty’s Pass in the Grand National.

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Futter and the other four co-owners of the horse placed numerous bets of £5,000 and £10,000 at 33-1 and 20-1 respectively, and duly received well over £1 million when Monty’s Pass was first past the post.

4.‘Money’ Mayweather

In 2015 boxer Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather took to social media site Instagram to boast about his sports betting exploits. Over the course of four days, Mayweather had staked a total of $350,000 on a combination of NBA games and a middleweight boxing bout.

The four separate bets all paid off and ‘Money’ revelled in revealing that he had received winnings totalling $827,272.73.

5. Frankie’s Magnificent Seven

A feat which has spawned its own online casino game, when Frankie Dettori won all seven races on the card at an Ascot meeting in 1996, he also won punter Darren Yeats some serious dough.

A dedicated gambler from Morecambe, Yeats placed a total of £59 on Dettori’s seven mounts and once the Italian completed his 25,000-1 seven timer, he collected £550,000 from the bookies.

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