Another great Cheltenham Festival rolls by and so does the opportunity to make a healthy profit. I set out at the beginning of the month to make £1000 in March and i am pretty happy with the fact i made just shy of that.
Through Cheltenham festival and the rest of March i managed to make £928.84 from match betting. This means my daily average was an awesome £30.96 per day. That said the amount i made per bet wasn’t necessarily any better than normal as it came in at just under £3 (£2.97 per bet). The reason for my increased profit is simply the volume of bets i made, mainly due to the increased opportunity from the Cheltenham Festival . In total i made 313 bets made with the at least 250 of these being horse related offers
Horse related offers are pretty interesting and they add an additional dynamic to match betting. I find myself getting excited when i get a close match with hardly any qualifying loss. I then go on to watch the horse race and pray for a 2nd place result – it’s a strange feeling that most match betters will understand.
I had one race in in the Cheltenham festival when i needed one horse to win to get a £25 free bet, one horse to no win to get a £20 free bet and 3 to come 2nd. It was such a great feeling when the winner i needed came in, one of the 2nd offer horses came 2nd and the horse i didn’t want to win didn’t. This netted me a risk free bets to the tune of £55 for the one race – now that doesn’t happen very often, unless you make a lot of bets, and trust me there are better people out there than me that do this very often.
I imagine April will be a little bit of a comedown from Cheltenham as the horse offers die down and i’m back to football and the other bits and bobs. Therefore i am looking to make around £500 for April with a focus on making some more money from accumulator bets and getting more comfortable with putting them on.
I have updated my monthly match betting results with this months bets and profits. Here you can see the money i have made over time and the type of offers i have done.