First full year of Matched Betting
This weekend marks the 1st year anniversary of my journey into the world of Matched Betting. What started out as a chat down the pub with an old friend about how he paid his £300 a month rent through a ‘gambling system’ has now turned into a major source of income, usually beating the 9-5 job each month.
It’s not month end yet so I havent updated the site’s overall profit figure, but I do know its going to be over £20,000!
That’s £20k of tax-free cash I’ve made in time when I’d have otherwise been sat infront of the TV or down the pub. This time last year I hadn’t ever placed an online bet before, been into a bookie shop or even watched a single horse race! Now I’m regularly putting through £8k+ worth of bets every month and maintaining a cash balance of £10k across my backing bank and bookie accounts. It’s a pretty major operation but has paid out far more than I’d ever expected and I’ve enjoyed it the whole way along!
Choosing to renew my subscriptions to the Sites I Recommend was the easiest decision I’ve made all week.
Going back through past records, here’s how my monthly profit grew:
Oct 2015 (1 week): £323
November 2015: £806
December 2015: £1158
January 2016: £932
February 2016: £900
March 2016: £2206
April 2016: £1610
May 2016: £2427
June 2016: £1877
July 2016: £1445
August 2016: £1828
September 2016: £2781
October 2016 (3 weeks): £2059
Total: £20,352
16 thoughts on “First full year of Matched Betting”
Truly remarkable Guy. Congratulations and fully deserved.
I will continue to use your results as motivation and inspiration to not only myself, but others I know that are interested in making money on the side.
£30k for the next 12 months??
I bet you can’t! 😉
£30k? Hmmm, we shall have to see how well Cheltenham festival goes next year 😉
Hey there buddy,
i wanted to ask how much i could make monthly if i spent around 1 hour a day doing matched betting, ONLY from home
i have around 3k free cash that im happy to use.
thanks a lot buddy
As a very rough estimate I’d say perhaps £1k per month. It really depends on how many friends and family you could assist in that time.
Hi Guy, congratulations on the amazing year of matched betting! Thank you for introducing it through your other blog (as I commented a few weeks ago). I’ve just finished most of the sign up offers through PA which were quite easy to do. But I’m struggling to switch to the reload ones. It just seems a lot of work and some involve betting on live events. I know it’s ridiculous to whine about making “free” money no matter how small! But if you have any suggestions for easy-ish transition to reload offers, it will be appreciated!
You’re welcome Nat, thank you. Some of the most profitable recurring offers are the Saturday channel 4 horses (Bet365 mostly), Coral win win get in (selected football matches) and the Gamesys casinos.
Thanks Guy!
Looks like you are smashing it. Do you have a target for next year?
Thanks Fox!
No real target other than “as much as possible”. When I started last year I’d have been happy with £300 a month.. now I’m expecting closer to £3000 per month.
SWwwweeeeeeeettt!!!!
I was approaching the 10K mark but then messed up two offers big time and lost about £1200 (Winner.co.uk in case you were wondering. The terms on that are a b*tch!) which has put me back a bit. If I can get to a year and make around £13K I think I’ll be happy (I started Feb 2016)
Cheers and best of luck for the next year.
Did you get stung by their max winnings limit? Winner has been taken off of alot of the recommended lists because of their harsh terms.
Hi Guy,
If you don’t mind me asking, how much of your monthly total is from your own personal matched betting accounts and not from helping friends and family. Your total figures are far higher than i can work out and wondered how much of it is actually down to helping out others. Also how many others do you help out and how do you decide on what percentage you take of the profit or however you work it out.
Many thanks,
Alex
Hi Alex,
Since making the switch to more higher risk casino offers I’d say my profit is about 70% casino income. Fortunately there are more casino sites with intro offers and reloads then you’d have time for if not doing this full time so there’s no need for multiple friends and family. The other 30% sports is then split between myself and my friends. Personally I pay them a set amount each month as it avoids having to work out specific %s for each person and avoids any suspicion of me withholding money from them.
Hi
What do you think is a reasonable commission for friends and family?
Thanks
Personally I think it’s better to agree a flat 1-off or monthly fee in advance rather than as a percentage. It really depends on how much time you are putting and how much work it is. If you are making what I consider the average to be of between £300-£500 per person per month then a reasonable monthly payment might be £50-£100?