First Goal Scorer – The gift that keeps on giving

First Goal Scorer – The gift that keeps on giving

One of the biggest complaints I read about Matched Betting is people’s mistaken belief of being unable to earn any further profits once all the sign-up offers are completed. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Granted; the sign-up offers are probably the easiest and simplest bets you’ll do.. however by the time you’ve ran through the 50+ different bookmakers you ought to be pretty quick at calculating the stakes and placing the bets.

Many bookmakers do regular recurring offers which sites like Profit Accumulator are awesome for spotting, however you can also make some pretty decent returns on the constantly recurring offers. Dafabet are one such bookmaker who have this type of offer, which are available without needing to opt in or being invited. It’s just automatic!

I’m finding their most profitable to be the First Goal-Scorer Refund offer. Here you’ll receive an (up to) £50 refund if your first Goal-Scorer bet doesn’t win. So how do we take advantage of this? Simple:

 

Find a game and player who has a close match between the bookmaker back odds and Betfair lay odds. Aim for low odds players as these are more likely to score at some point in the game. You place your back bet & matched lay bet then hope the player scores 2nd.

If he does; your back bet loses.. your lay bet wins.. AND you get a refund on your back bet.

Acceptable qualifying losses for these are about £2-£4 for players with odds of about 5 or less. I’m currently hitting about 1/4 of these bets, so costing around £8-£16 losses for a £50 free bet. I’ll use this free bet to make a £40 return.

Total estimated profit: £40 – £16 = £24

Repeat as often as possible.

8 thoughts on “First Goal Scorer – The gift that keeps on giving

  1. Whilst most of my matched betting is on football, I’ve never done these ones as there aren’t always close first goal scorer matches. Although perhaps I need to look beyond the Premier /Championship leagues.

    1. I personally so for the internationals plus English/Spanish/German/Italian premiers. There’s usually at least 1 decent match per weekday with between 2 – 8 on an average Saturday.

  2. Hi
    I’ve been looking out for these but can’t find any close matches making the QL too big. From what I can see, betfair cover this market but not smarkets.

    Is there an optimum time before the game when you find a close match or a particular sort of match?

    Thanks

    Rob

    1. I tend to find the odds on Betfair drop in the last hour before a match. It has gotten much harder to find decent matches now though as William Hill have stopped doing the offer leaving only Dafabet, Betfred and Betfair Sportsbook.

  3. Smarkets now offer FGS markets which is excellent for BFSB. In your experience, did you find any game where you had a chance to cover two or more players across all of those bookies?

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