aka the dirty gambling club. Which brings me to recommending the Be Gamble Aware website. The phrase "when the fun stops, stop" could not be more true when it comes to betting. If you don't enjoy it or cannot afford it, don't do it. This thread is for members aged 18 and above. If you are found to be underage and gambling you will no longer be welcomed.
NO AFTER EVENTING
After eventing is the act of posting winning bets after they have been settled. Please only post bets placed before the event you are betting on. After eventing is strictly prohibited in this thread.
This thread is to share tips and to discuss bets. All sports bets can be discussed including but by no means limited to horse racing, football, boxing and american football. I imagine betting on football will be most members' vice but come the horse racing festivals I imagine the geegees will take centre stage.
Affiliate links are allowed. If you are affiliated with any bookmaker, good luck to you and I will happily earn you some commission whenever possible.
Feel free to post your bets in decimal or fraction format. Personally I prefer fractions but it's easy enough to transpose one to the other so both are welcomed.
After eventing is the act of posting winning bets after they have been settled. Please only post bets placed before the event you are betting on. After eventing is strictly prohibited in this thread.
This thread is to share tips and to discuss bets. All sports bets can be discussed including but by no means limited to horse racing, football, boxing and american football. I imagine betting on football will be most members' vice but come the horse racing festivals I imagine the geegees will take centre stage.
Affiliate links are allowed. If you are affiliated with any bookmaker, good luck to you and I will happily earn you some commission whenever possible.
Feel free to post your bets in decimal or fraction format. Personally I prefer fractions but it's easy enough to transpose one to the other so both are welcomed.
And with that said, let's get betting.
Every weekend I go to Betfred and do a Goals Galore Bonus coupon. Here's how it works:
There are five groups, each containing six games - a few played on Friday and Sunday but most played on Saturday.
The majority of games are from the top five English leagues but a few are from the top three Scottish leagues.
The aim of the coupon is to choose the matches where you think both teams will score.
If both teams score, it's goals galore.
You must pick three games from each group, totalling fifteen games.
The odds are 7500/1.
Sure it's not an easy bet but realistically you can win just by correctly predicting 30 goals. Even if you bet £1 a week from the day you can first legally place a bet, if you win at least once in your lifetime, you will have made your money back. Well, unless you live to be 161 years old. So, very obviously, I highly recommend playing this coupon every weekend. I'm not encouraging you to bet hundreds and thousands of pounds and bankrupting yourself and losing everything through debt; seriously even just doing a quid a week could make your life a lot better. I budget for £10 a week, knowing that if those thirty goals go in, the next time I leave Betfred I'll have £75k in my pocket. Yes mate!
When I first heard about this fantastic coupon with incredibly generous odds, I admit I was skeptical. For the following two weekends I did two things:
1. Only bet £1 on the coupon.
2. Took a blank coupon home with me. On Sunday evening I loaded up the Sky Sports Score Centre app on my phone and looked up the scores for every game featured on the coupon, and filled in all the games that finished as goals galore. I wanted to see if it was indeed possible to win - were three games from each group actually goals galore? Well in the first one, technically it was possible to win, but only if you'd put your bet on early as two of the games were postponed due to heavy snow, so although the odds would have been shortened for the cancelled games, because the remaining games were goals galore, it was considered a winning bet and you could have won. If I'd backed these games, I'd have won. I did not. However the second week was less controversial and without any room for dispute, exactly three games from each group were goals galore. Again, I didn't actually win, but I could have. Two from two? I was sold! And I've put a £10 Goals Galore Bonus bet on every week. Unfortunately I didn't snap a photo of the second coupon.
I'm finding less time to go into Betfred, despite it being a ten minute return journey on foot, so was thinking of doing it online instead - there's a Goals Galore app, or you can find coupons on the Betfred website. Both the app and the website provide the same options. You may have noticed I aded a link to the Sky scores app earlier but I haven't linked to the Goals Galore app here. There is a reason for this: You're better off completing the Goals Galore Bonus coupon in store. For a start there are no groups on the app. What this means is you are not limited to only choosing certain games. Great, right? You have more leverage for match selection making it easier to win some sweet sweet moolah, right? Wrong! Well, kinda. Basically you can work your way through the list and make fifteen match selections and the odds are offered at the bottom. Odds of 5000/1. Now these would look like very good odds to the average uninformed punter, but as we now all know you can get far better odds in store. Maybe the groupings are just secret and you can still get the better odds on the app, you just have to select the right games? No such luck. I tested this by replicating the bet I had already made in a Betfred shop that weekend, using the app. After selecting the same fifteen games, I was only offered odds of 5000/1. So for the exact same bet you can either get odds of 5000/1 (online) or 7500/1 (in the shop). That could have been a difference in twenty-five thousand pounds for my winning bet. How can Betfred justify this? Well I tweeted them on 11th October but haven't had a reply.
So this discovery put me off Betfred a but, and so I started wondering if any other bookies offer a similar coupon and/or if they give better odds for predicting fifteen BTTS games. And so I researched it. I registered for various online bookmakers and visited a handful of highstreet bookies shops, only to discover that Betfred's 7500/1 Goals Galore Bonus coupon is the best value on the market. I even considered I may have just missed the correct part of the website or app so sent out a flurry of tweets asking if other bookmakers offered anything similar to Betfred. The responses were a resounding no, quite unsurprisingly.
So why the writeup? Just to make more people aware of this amazing opportunity to improve your bank balance. Visit your local Betfred on Friday or Saturday (before 3PM) and grab yourself a Goals Galore Bonus coupon. If there are none out in the POS displays, ask a member of staff to print one out for you. It takes two minutes and it's totally worth it. Fifteen penstrokes later and you'll be walking out of there with a receipt in your back pocket that could potentially worth £7500, assuming you bet £1 while it's your first try. Why not ask for two coupons so you can take away a blank one and test the winning possibility yourself?
I've delayed posting this for two weeks now, hoping I could include a photo of a more recent coupon where it has been possible to win. Unfortunately these past two weeks yielded unsuccessful results. On the coupon for Friday 13th – Monday 16th October the best you could have done was one game from each group (22/1) due to a poor show in the second group. The coupon for Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd October offered slightly better results but not the complete package – you could have got 350/1, as three of the groups only had two winning selections each.
Now before I hit submit post I figure I should acknowledge that if you've sat here and read this entire post, about gambling, on ResetEra, you might not be the type of person who happily strolls into a bookies, asks for a coupon you're not entirely sure even exists (sounds too good to be true, right?) and physically places your bet in person. Well, I get that. And, let's be honest, 5000/1 are still pretty fantastic odds for something which is entirely possible. So why not just go ahead and place the bet online? And if you "only" win £50k, rather than £75k, holy shit you've just won fifty grand buddy! All you need to do is sign up for a free Betfred account (or use your existing one if you have used Betfred before) and access the goals galore bonus coupon on their website. There are two options, long list and bonus, but honestly the bonus coupon offers much better odds so I'd recommend avoiding the long list.
CLICK HERE TO PLACE A GOALS GALORE BONUS BET ONLINE
(select Goals Galore Bonus from the dropdown menu)
Of course there are many other online bookmakers out there, and there are constantly new offers on to entice new members, usually in the form of free bets. A good place to check current offers is freebets.co.uk. I'll post some links to some of the more popular online bookies' offers pages below:
Please also share any tipping websites you use. I am a very big fan of OLBG for horse racing tips, especially during the big festivals such as Cheltenham and Aintree for the Grand National. Another good regularly updated website for horse racing tips is Mick Doonan's Racing Wordpress and you can also follow him on Twitter @themicktorious
So let's get the show on the road. Everyone (over 18) welcome to share their tips and bets. Good luck everyone; let's take the bookies to the cleaners.
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