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Free 'no lose' £20 World Cup bet

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  • photome
    photome Posts: 16,670 Forumite
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    Won £260 today Switzerland vs Spain but not seen the £20 stake back. Is that correct?

    Have it!

    Jason


    Yes see my other posts about digital odds
  • meryll83
    meryll83 Posts: 73 Forumite
    Does anyone know what time the offer ticks over? Says today's free bets are gone already...
  • Maddie57
    Maddie57 Posts: 183 Forumite
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    I tried today at 7.15 and 7.30 so if the deals still on I'd also really appreciate knowing when it changes.

    Alas I am at work till 5 now and I can't access any gambling sites :(
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  • dan684
    dan684 Posts: 2 Newbie
    Hi all.

    New to the forum but I wanted something explained to me if possible. Why doesn't the 'stake' get refunded ? I put my £20 on Uraguay to win last night at 11/8. My win has totalled £47.50 but I haven't been given my stake money back which would have made it £67.50. So in reality it's lucky I went for a bet with good odds.

    If for example i'd have placed my bet on England to beat Algeria at 2/9 then I would have winnings of £4.44. So if I don't get my stake money back then i'm at a loss of £15.56.

    Maybe this is how the company are making their money back. Has anybody else made a 'safe/odds on' bet and if so do they find themselves out of pocket ?
  • Ralphy101
    Ralphy101 Posts: 281 Forumite
    Not advocating gambling ...

    however check out http://www.bigfreebet.com/freebets.php

    It gives you a handy list of sites that are offering similar offers....

    I am just in the process of getting my losing £20 bet back.. once done.. I will then go to another one of these sites and do the same thing..

    I'm not a gambler but when it doesnt cost you anything.. hey i'm game!

    OH AND SELECT THE ONES THAT STATED "NO RISK BET"
  • RobCrin
    RobCrin Posts: 35 Forumite
    RobCrin wrote: »
    Hmm, I would be interested to see how they would treat a multiple match bet slip... for example I have signed up and bet on 9 matches using Trebles, if you do not know what this is, it is betting on every combination of 3 results (ie, I need at least 3 teams to win to win anything, the more teams that then win, the more combinations come in and the more I win..). Using this bet, I can win a maximum of something like £75, however if only 3 out of the 9 teams win I will only win something like £1... does this count as a win?? And therefore I cannot claim my £20 back? This would seem unfair that a £20 cost bet is classed as winning when you lose £19.... any thoughts??

    If you have no idea what trebles are or have no idea on which teams are going to beat who then you might find the blog http://clinicalfootballtips.com/ useful, I have been following this world cup and found it rather useful! :)
    photome wrote: »
    Doesnt the no lose bet have to be a single?

    I'm not too sure, the T&Cs says,

    "this bet must be placed individually on a bet slip."

    So it depends what a bet means... I thought this just meant any one bet, be it 1 team, or a mix of them... ah well, will see what happens! Will hopefully win anway (however Spain managed to screw up a big chunk of it for me! I pretty much need Germany to do me a favour and win there next 2 games, and England to win on Friday, hmm not to sure about that last one... ;))
  • LuSiVe
    LuSiVe Posts: 1,059 Forumite
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    dan684 wrote: »
    Hi all.

    New to the forum but I wanted something explained to me if possible. Why doesn't the 'stake' get refunded ? I put my £20 on Uraguay to win last night at 11/8. My win has totalled £47.50 but I haven't been given my stake money back which would have made it £67.50. So in reality it's lucky I went for a bet with good odds.

    If for example i'd have placed my bet on England to beat Algeria at 2/9 then I would have winnings of £4.44. So if I don't get my stake money back then i'm at a loss of £15.56.

    Maybe this is how the company are making their money back. Has anybody else made a 'safe/odds on' bet and if so do they find themselves out of pocket ?

    You HAVE got your stake back: 11/8 produces winnings of 27.50 ((20*11)/8) and your stake back of 20.
  • the182guy
    the182guy Posts: 1,018 Forumite
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    RobCrin wrote: »
    I'm not too sure, the T&Cs says,

    "this bet must be placed individually on a bet slip."

    So it depends what a bet means... I thought this just meant any one bet, be it 1 team, or a mix of them... ah well, will see what happens! Will hopefully win anway (however Spain managed to screw up a big chunk of it for me! I pretty much need Germany to do me a favour and win there next 2 games, and England to win on Friday, hmm not to sure about that last one... ;))

    I don't think that will count. The whole £20 has to go on a single bet, which can be an accumulator, as long as you enter £20 into the stake box and not something like 3 x 6.66.

    I did an accumulator which lost last night due to switz. I had 5 games + 2 group winner selections.
  • meryll83
    meryll83 Posts: 73 Forumite
    meryll83 wrote: »
    Does anyone know what time the offer ticks over? Says today's free bets are gone already...

    Can't see the banner at all now, there's a new one for £50 of free bets if you blah blah blah...?
  • the182guy
    the182guy Posts: 1,018 Forumite
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    meryll83 wrote: »
    Can't see the banner at all now, there's a new one for £50 of free bets if you blah blah blah...?

    The banner is there but it's saying they've reached the cap for freebets today. Looks to me like they have pulled the promo now.
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