High Stakes Games Encourage Punters to Bet For Free

As the football season hots up, there is as much at stake for punters as there is for teams challenging for the Premier League title or FA Cup. Such high-profile matches whet the lips of the betting public and encourage them to select one of the free bets out there to taste more glory than merely that their team enjoys.

The key allure of free bets is precisely that they are free. Punters are often not required to deposit any money into an account in order to play, with £5 and £10 free bets the most common. These amounts rise with deposit-match bets, which double any deposit made by the customer up to a stated ceiling of anywhere up to £200.

With such funds available, it comes as no surprise that events such as the FA Cup or Champions League quarter-finals see a jump in the betting figures. Choosing the participants of the semi-final is always a tasty selection, and a small, free bet accumulator on the two-derby outcome of Liverpool versus Everton and Chelsea versus Tottenham in this season’s FA Cup is one that has already proved too good to miss for many new punters, with a spike in new accounts and deposits reported by betting houses when the quarter-final draw was made.

The same is true of the Champions League, with punters taking advantage of free bets to place wagers on an el Classico final of Real Madrid versus Barcelona. Such long-shots are not always available, but certain betting sites take pride in providing such odds. This season, such an outcome would see a return of £271 for £100 placed at this early juncture, and with a deposit-match free bet available it would cost a punter just £50 to make the full return of £271. Of course, there are more attractive offers available, with a stand-out bet being a repeat of this season’s high-quality group games between Barcelona and AC Milan, which finished 2-2 and 3-2 respectively. Such a wager has seen quoted odds of 57/5, which would not only see a quality final for the neutral but also a decent return from a £5 or £10 free flutter.

Of course, it is any punters dream to collect a newsworthy win, but it is made all the more easier by betting for free at the outset. A free bet accumulator that has a real cost of £50 and returns over £100,000 is the holy grail for any gamester, and it is only the power of the Internet that has made such big wins possible. The hundreds of free bets available make it all the more possible for such wins to occur, all from the comfort of player’s own home. All it takes is a canny gamer’s eye and a decent odds selection and the big money dreams can become a reality.

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