FREE £50 Bet

Betfred are another of my favourite bookmakers for two reasons:

ONE: They’ve got plenty of betting shops around the country – around 750 shops, so when they’re offering a good price your not just restricted to betting on the internet.

TWO: Betfred use the Finsoft Bookmakers Betting Liability Software which has useful features for the Professional or Semi-Professional Punter who wants to get bets on quickly and not be kept hanging around while the bookie decied whether he wants to give you the bet or nor.

Opening an account with Betfred

When you open an account with Betfred bookmakers you’ll be able to immediately bet any horse to win £2,000 (sometimes £3,000) without any questions being asked simply open your Betfred account, deposit the cash and place the bet so that the total winning are £2,000 or less and it will be accepted immediately.

Facilities like this are one of the reasons I love betting with internet bookmakers like Betfred because in the old days you could be left hanging on the end of a telephone for several minutes whilst the chicken hearted bookmakers pontificated whether to take your bet or not.

WHY open an account with Betfred?

… To get a £50 Free Bet

(and up to £500 in casino bonuses!)

The first good reason to open an account with Betfred bookmakers is the healthy normal resonse of any astute investor! – getting free money!! Their current offer is a free £50 bet when you deposit or bet £50 or more with them. In the usual manner Betfred will give you a free bet equal to your first bet. So I recommend you make sure your first bet uses the whole of your bet available or you’ll waste what’s offered. In other words when the bookmakers  are offering a free bet of £50, wait until you actually want a £50 bet – don’t waste it with a piddly £10 bet otherwise you’re effectively chucking a £40 free bet down the drain.

FREE BET DETAILS

A quick word of warning Betfred, in common with other bookmakers won’t credit you with your free bet unless your selection is evens or better. However you could have a double containing two or more selections providing the accumulative odds are evens or better for example two horses at 4/7 in a double is almost the equivalent of 6/4 and so should qualify.

You have to stake at least £5 to place the bet, but as said previously its wasteful if you don’t use up the whole of the £50. However if £50 is too big a bet for you, you could open an account with one of the exchanges such as Betfair / Betdaq  and bet say £50 with Betfred getting a free £50 bet and lay off as much as you like on the exchanges to reduce your liability. In fact you could have a TOTALLY FREE bet if you wanted to be really cheeky: Bet £50 with Betfred, claim your £50 free bet, and then layoff your £50 bet on Betfair!!! (It gets even better because you can have a free bet when opening an account with Betfair – click here for more details)!

Betfred Bonuses

Betfred are famous for offering bonuses particularly on multiple bets. Now whilst I don’t recommend having multiple bets too often if you are having one, you may as well get a free bonus.

They offer a 25% bonus for all current lucky 15’s and here’s a story to bring a smile to your face:

£49,298.44 winnings for a fiver bet!

One lucky punter from Hastings, Jerry Higham won £49,298.44p for a £5 lucky 15 bet on Saturday 10th Jan 2009. The last horse in his fantastic bet was called ‘Big Fellow Thanks’ he only included it in his selections because he’s 6ft 4 and a friend had just txt him to say thanks for giving him a ticket to a football match. The 25% bonus added approx £10,000 to his winnings.

Sadly I can’t get bets on with Betfred now as is the norm with all bookmakers, my account was limited to £25 bets after I won about £100,000 off them in the space of a year but to their credit they did let me bet in thousands for 8 months before they closed me down so I cant really complain. I wish there were more bookmakers who were as brave as Betfred!

Betfred are in fact the major independent bookmakers in the UK and you may well get value betting with Betfred because they are headed by one man, Fred Done and so they can make very quick decisions and are not answerable to shareholders in the same way that some of the other big firms are.

As a result if Fred Done is entertaining at Ascot or flying down to Goodwood and for some reasons doesn’t fancy a horse, he is quite capable of picking up the phone ringing his office and instructing the traders to go the biggest price in the country for that animal! Fred Done is only human and like the rest of us makes mistakes and it is extremely enjoyable to bet a winner at enhanced odds just because he doesn’t think it can win.

Betfred are also great to bet with because until recently they had a reputation for offering prices on most races early in the morning. This did leave them vulnerable to informed punters like ourselves who might swoop on them when they had made a mistake on a horse’s price.

Recently Betfred bookmakers were engaged in a mini ‘turf war’ and were offering best prices on lots of horses as well as being the first bookmaker to price up the first races.

Sadly the big bookmakers like Hills and Lads who control most of the other betting shop outlets  in the country aren’t as brave and so we often have to wait until maybe 11am until we discover what odds they are prepared to lay.

Having an account with Betfred will be extremely helpful to you if you want to get on early and get a good price about your selection. Sadly at the moment Betfred aren’t being as brave as they used to be as they acquired a new director from William Hills who has discouraged the trade from offering such generous prices and always being first up. But who knows when that may change. They’re still always earlier then the big firms.

Anyway their £50 is as good as anyone else’s and pays for a free dinner eh?

Plus they still do offer best prices on many races and will lay a fairly decent bet. Betting a horse to win £2,000 if often more than enough for most investors and so it may not make much difference to you if they evenentually limit you to £100 bets. Open the account while they’re still making this offer, my other clients are hoping to clean them out so they may not be able to afford it soon!