Betting can be a matter of fine margins, as my fingernails will attest to! You can see this of course with casinos, where the ‘house edge’ isn’t all that significant, but due to how a person gambles (and how much they gamble on each bet) it can directly feed into their success or otherwise. At the roulette wheel, which is fixed odds and has a very small house edge, if you spend your time placing a small percentage of your bank on each event, you’re more likely to leave a happy man than if you randomly lump on a high percentage your banking bank – then inevitably hit a bad run. So strategy matters, and along with that any ‘edge’ you can gain. Funnily enough, one of the ‘edges’ I discovered at my local casino is a tie in with the Great Yarmouth racecourse. Essentially it’s a perk / bonus, in that if you pay to go into the racecourse you get a free £5 bet and drink at the casino.
This perk is not dissimilar to betting bonuses available with UK bookmakers. These take on a few forms, of which a common type of betting bonus, or ‘welcome offer’, goes along these lines: Place a £20 bet and get another £20 bet for free. So essentially a ‘like for like’, where your commitment to place a bet of a certain value sees you rewarded with a bet of the same amount, up to say £20 or £30 on some occasions. Other forms of free bets or bonuses include an outright free bet where you make no commitment to spend your own money initially. This can be one bet, or split across multiple smaller free bet opportunities. Some welcome bonuses are a half way house of, say bet £10 and get £30 free, so once you’ve ‘put your money where your mouth is’ you see a good reward for doing so. You can find the best horse racing offers at horseracingbetting.co.uk . It can be both valuable and useful to compare and contrast welcome offers.
Another plus of signing up for a welcome bonus or promotion is that often these perks are ongoing. I was with one bookmaker that would call from time to time with a free bet offer. It wasn’t even advertised anywhere, it appeared to be specific to my betting account. These perks are not uncommon with bookmakers, and competition between them has really ramped up over the years. ‘Best Odds‘ guarantees are commonplace now, so there’s less worry about not getting the biggest betting price possible. There are ‘odds boost’ type offers too, where you receive better odds than you typically would on certain events (typically horse racing and football). Again this can be a huge plus where we’re talking about finding ‘value’ in your bets, and boosting your winnings. That can make make a serious monetary difference considering what can be won as a horse racing punter, especially on accumulator bets. Best odds and odds boost type features are definitely a useful tool to utilise in scenarios like that.
With horse racing, it you analyse the form closely or have an innate awareness of ‘value’, you’re one step ahead of the competition as it is (and this is something that those into ‘fixed odds’ betting events can’t really take advantage of). So when adding these bonuses and boosts into the equation , it really can make a difference. All in all, this isn’t something that those who enjoy a bet should allow themselves to overlook!