How Students Can Bet For Free

With bookmakers and websites competing for your attention it is not difficult to make some relatively easy money these days with little risk, or even in some circumstances no risk at all. Sports betting community site OLBG.com has these 5 tips for making betting pay. 

1. New Account Free Bets 

The easiest way to bet for free is to take advantage of all the free bets that are on offer with the online bookies. Nearly every bookie offers a sign up bonus so the fewer betting accounts that you already have the more money you can potentially make. The way most free bets work is your first deposit or first bet will be matched up to a certain amount, some bookies offer just a tenner whilst others can give around £200, with the most common free bet around the £25 mark. Some bookies also offer loyalty bets and other incentives on a regular basis when you already have an account. 

 2. Tipster competition 

There is a completely free way to make money from betting without any risk and that is on the OLBG Tipster Competition. Every month there are thousands of pounds up for grabs in the free to enter competition and there are prizes to be won for successful tips on a variety of sports such as football, horse racing, tennis, golf, rugby or even Big Brother and even X Factor! 

If you want to try your luck amongst your peers, there’s even a Tipster Competition dedicated to students, Uni Challenge. Here, you represent your Uni and compete against your rivals for real cash prizes! 

 3. Get Free Tips 

OLBG also provides punters with access to free tips on all the popular sports. It is easy to check tipsters’ records and filter the best and most profitable tipsters. You can view all the tips they have submitted at that time and then back these with your own money, much cheaper than paying for expensive (and sometimes less profitable) tipping lines. 

4. Take The Best Odds 

When betting, it is import to make the most from your money and that means always taking the best odds. Once you have taken advantage of all the free bets the bookies have to offer you should have accounts with all the top bookies. Now you can use odds comparison services such as Valuechecker.co.uk to see what odds each bookie is offering on an event and you can easily choose the best bookie and the best odds for your bet. This can be the difference between taking 16/1 and taking 12/1 so it makes a big difference to your profit on bets. 

 5. Trade The Odds For Free Bets 

You can generate your own free bets on events by correctly predicting which way the odds are going to move. A simple example of this could found early on in the new Premiership season. If one of the outside fancies for the Premiership title such as Liverpool or Tottenham have a favourable run of fixtures they could look like they are challenging for the title after five or six games when they are top or second in the league despite the fact they haven’t played a tougher team yet. Their new odds will reflect where they are in the table to a certain extent so anyone who backed them before the season started could trade out of that bet using betting exchanges where you can lay bets like a bookie as well as back them. When the odds have changed in your favour you can lay off for a free bet on that outcome or if the odds have changed plenty you could lock in a profit whatever the outcome. 

 To do this you will need an account with a betting exchange, click here to join Betfair and claim up to £1,000 cash back .

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