Get down to your local job centre and say you want to be a benefits scrounger, I suggest turning up in a track suit, Nike air max trainers and a can of super-strength lager in one hand to make the right impression. They'll happily sort you out.

Might try and give this a go, could do with a little extra beer money ;)

Yeah I'm going to look into it further, I would certainly try it with a couple hundred see if it worked out worthwhile.

ive just stuck £200 on a horse thats 500/1... whats the next step?

Give me £80 of that 200 first you cunt!

Right, so just in case I'm missing something, the main deal with matched bets its covering your bet with another bookie so that you don't make a loss, and then using a newcomers incentive / free bet to increase the gain on that. Assuming the free bet is only offered to new registered users, how can you continue this process without expending all the bookie's available? Or is there just that many offering first-bet incentives? or those offering incentives to existing registrations?

Not trying to get convinced, just getting my head round it, anything that sounds like a sure thing or a 'too good to be true' type of deal, usually is, there is no such thing as free money, or at least in my experience anyway maybe I'm just sceptical.

Would love to give this a go though, not for making a living, but maybe for just a few extra pennies each month. I was just unsure if bookie's continue to make these offers to existing users or whether you have to cycle new email addresses or something.

Yeah I'll ask him about it on Thurs, probably better than shooting over to Barcelona hah! Cheers man

This sounds quite complicated for a not-too-good mathematician like myself.

However, I'd start off low (due to my own funds) then work up. I've always considered this to be an easy way to make money but never given it a go.

I'm gonna do my research, study the information and then give it a whirl.
"You have hardly anything to lose but perhaps a lot to gain..."


Is the the correct thread to find the relevant information?
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=2658533

I just dived head first into the matched betting game. My first bet is on Celta Vigo's game tonight, Im almost certain I got it right but I literally only started looking into it today, I put 25 quid into one bookie and 35 into another to lay with.. As it works out I will do better if they lose because who I'm using to lay with have a promotion to cover your deposit only if you lose your first bet so I've tried to work it out to maximize the chance of losing without a huge float

So all in all I'm 60 quid in and restless to see if I done it right! I should lose either 2quid or a fiver depending which way the bets go, should they lose I should unlock £50 in free bets, win then only £25.

Will update on how I get on later :p

Db