Milton Friedman has clearly never heard of Matched Betting Guy, because I’m gonna show you show to get a free lunch every weekday!

Throughout the week multiple bookies do various price boosts on a wide variety of sports. Most of these are for a limited time and are impossible to predict accuratly when and on what the boost will be. It’s also likely your accounts may begin to get limited if you’re always chucking large amounts online on these arbs as they spring up.

In contrast; William Hill does a boost on the same sport at the same time every weekday making it easy to plan for. Even better.. the boost is avaliable instore! Each day at 12 midday Mr Hill will boost a horse in a race later that day creating a nice arb. I’ve been monitoring these boosts for the past month and they’ve always been an arb and are worth on average £3-4 per bet. The boosts last for 15 minutes so if you have multiple William Hill shops in your town centre you can get round a couple of them placing the same bet for even better profit.

That’s a free lunch every weekday!

You are able to bet a maximum of £20 per shop on this and need to use a special coupon to place the bet. It can sound daunting if you’re not familiar with betting shops but having a specific coupon makes things much easier.

How to place you bet

At 12 midday, walk into your local William Hill shop and take a look at the screens. One of them will have the boost labelled as “Special 1” displaying the name of the race in the top left and name of the horse & odds in the middle. Make a note of the race, time & horse. In the 3 months I’ve been doing this now the boost has been positive value 95% of the time, very rarely it is negative value however there is that small risk. If you want to play it safe, check the odds against the exchange before placing your bet but make sure the staff dont see you on betfair/smarkets! Check that the offer is for the horse to win, NOT for the horse to win by X lengths.

You want to look for slip of paper titled “Today’s Horse Racing Specials”:

Find that slip and put a cross in the £20 box under the “Special 1” section in the top left:

Take the slip and your £20 cash (never pay by card!) to the counter and hand both over. Keep hold of the receipt.

Once you are done, head outside and away from the shop. Get out your smartphone and use the Smarkets app to find the race & horse. You want to place a lay bet of exactly £20 against the horse that’s been boosted instore.

If you’re going to hit another shop then get moving as you’ve only got 15 minutes to get all your bets on!

Why lay exactly £20?

There’s 2 reasons why we lay exactly £20 rather than working out the exact amount using a matched betting calculator like you would for all other bets:

Speed

You’ve only got 15 minutes to get these bets placed in store. Trying to work out an exact match is going to use up valuable time if you’re going between shops and can be very fiddly to do while on a phone out in town. Far easier to just lay exactly £20 without having to do any of the calculations.

Reward

By laying exactly £20 regardless of the odds you are effectivly placing a risk-free bet. If the horse loses and your money goes into the exchange then you will get back pretty much dead-on your original £20 per-shop stake (£20 minus the exchange comission). No profit but equally nothing lost.

If your horse wins at the bookie then you will make a much bigger profit than if you had calculated an exact match. I much prefer to do this as it helps compensate for the extra time and hassle of going round to collect your winnings.

By doing this your profit can jump up to £8-£13 if the horse wins with £0 loss if it doesnt.

This assumes you have 0% Smarkets comission avaliable through Profit Accumulator or similar

It really is that easy! Spend 5 minutes of your daily lunchbreak walking into the bookie in town.. place a single bet and have it pay for the meal-deal lunch. Give me a shout in the comments below if you have any questions.

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There are many guides available online which explain the maths behind Matched Betting and how the offers are totally risk free. I strongly recommend you sign up to one of the Matched Betting guide websites. Profit Accumulator has a free trial which requires no payment method to be registered so is great for giving Matched Betting a try for free. Just register with your email address and take a look through the guides for instructions on how to complete the first 2 signup offers.