Term and Conditions

Bookie’s Ts & Cs may well be dull, they may well be boring, but they are important and you are advised to read them, understand them and realise their implications prior to attempting to bash a bookie. The devil is in their detail !!!

Let’s look at Coral and the particular Ts & Cs that apply to their free bet offer.

Coral’s Terms & Conditions

  • New Phone Customers - free matching win-only single bet of your choice when staking between £10-£25.
  • Where we offer to match a customer’s initial deposit as part of a promotion, this money is provided for customers to bet with, and it may never be withdrawn as cash.
  • We reserve the right to insist that customers bet the amount of their own deposit before they can bet with the free money we credit to them.
  • Both the initial deposit and bonus must be staked before any withdrawal will be permitted.
  • As only one Coral.co.uk account per person is permitted, any customer is entitled to only one initial matched deposit.
  • We reserve the right to amend or withdraw any promotion at any point for whatever reason.
  • Advertised offers relating to the opening of a Coral.co.uk account are limited to one per customer. In the case of a customer opening more than one Coral account, we reserve the right to suspend and close duplicate accounts, and make void any bets placed.

The above is an actual quote from Coral’s web site.

The conditions that you must be aware of are:

  • The offer only applies to new phone customers. If you are already a Coral phone customer, you do not qualify for a free bet.
  • To qualify for the free bet, a minimum of £10 must be deposited into a Coral betting account. Coral’s will then match the deposit up to a maximum of £25. There is therefore little point in depositing more than £25 since no additional benefit will be received.
  • The free bet is in the form of a single win only bet. The bet cannot be split over several bets. What you do with your own money, however, is your own affair.
  • The free bet amount cannot be withdrawn. Although it remains in your Coral Betting account, it remains Coral’s property. Winnings, derived from free bets, may be withdrawn at any time.
  • Coral reserves the right to insist that before qualifying for a free bet, the initial deposit must have been bet.
  • Before Coral will allow any funds to be withdraw from an account, the free bet and the initial deposit must both have been bet.

 

Let’s now look at Victor Chandler (VC Bet) and the particular Ts & Cs that apply to their free bet offer.

VC Bet Terms & Conditions

  • Your first bet must be settled within 30 days of opening your VC Bet account and be on a selection with odds of Evens (2.00) or greater, if the bet contains three or less selections. If your first bet contains four or more selections they can all be at below Evens (2.00). Void bets do not qualify.
  • The free bet will be paid into your account within 2 business days of settlement of your first bet. The free bet will match your first settled bet stake to a maximum of £20.
  • The free bet up to a maximum of £20 will appear in your account as a Promo Cash balance. Promo cash can be selected to be used at the bet slip stage of placing any bet.
  • Winnings from promo cash are returned to your real account balance, promo cash stakes are not returned with winning bets. Please disregard the estimated returns on your bet slip when using promo cash.
  • Your promo cash bets should be placed separately from account balance bets.
  • You have 30 days to use your promo cash once credited to your promo cash balance, if you do not use it in this period your promo cash balance will return to zero.
  • VC Bet encourages customers to participate in promotions, but to refrain from abusing them. Abuse of this bonus promotion, which comes to the attention of VC Bet, will result in the withdrawal of bonus privileges and account closure.
  • The offer applies to customers who are over 18 years only.
  • The offer is open only to the residents of those jurisdictions where participation is legal.
  • This offer is not open to existing members of VC Bet.
  • This offer is only open to VC Bet customers who are yet to play at any Victor Chandler sportsbook or partner site.
  • The promotion is available only once per customer. The identity of a customer will be determined on the basis of all or any combination of the following: name, mailing address, e-mail address, IP address, credit/charge card number, computer, and any other forms of identification which may be required.
  • VC Bet reserves the right to withhold any bonus payment if it believes that the promotion has been abused and/or where the terms of the offer are not fulfilled, or any irregular betting patterns are found. The decision of the VC Bet is final. VC Bet reserves the right to withdraw or amend this offer at any time, without prior notice.

The above is an actual quote from the VC bet web site.

The conditions that you must be aware of are:

  • The free bet amount will be credited to an account once the first bet has been made. The amount credited will be equal to the amount of the first bet up to a maximum of £20. There is no point, therefore, in placing an initial bet of more than £20 since no additional monetary benefit will be derived from VC Bet.
  • Although winnings from the free bet may be withdrawn at any time, the free bet amount cannot be withdrawn.
  • The free bet offer is only open to new customers. It is not open to existing customers.
  • The free bet will be credited to an account with 2 days of the initial bet being settled.

Let’s now look at Boylesports and the particular Ts & Cs that apply to their free bet offer.

Boylesports Terms & Conditions

  • When you place your first bet, we will match your stake with a free bet balance to the maximum value of £/€25.00.
  • After a further 10 bets with Boylesports.com we will match your average stake to a maximum of £/€25.00.
  • We will repeat this offer until you have received a total of four free bets to the maximum value of £/€100.00 in total.
  • These bets will be applied to your account on a ‘next day’ basis, therefore if you place a bet today the free bet will be applied at midnight tonight.
  • You should note that free bet balance is non-refundable (therefore if a free bet wins only the winnings are returned to your account).

The above is an actual quote from an email received from Boylesports.

The conditions that you must be aware of are:

  • The amount of the free bet is equal to the value of the first bet up to a maximum of £25 or €25 depending upon the currency of your stake. There is no point, therefore, in placing an initial bet of more than £25 or €25 since no additional monetary benefit will be derived from Boylesports.
  • Further free bets will be credited to an account after a further 10 bets have been placed. The value of the free bet is equal to the average of the 10 bets up to a maximum of £25 or €25.00. Boylesports will repeat this offer until a maximum of 4 free bets up to a maximum of £100 or €100 has been received. There is no point, therefore, in placing bets such that their average is greater than £25 or €25 since no additional monetary benefit will be derived. To qualify for the maximum £100 or €100 worth of free bets, £775 or €775 will need to be staked.
  • Although the profits from free bets may be withdrawn at any time, the value of the free bets may not be withdrawn.
  • The free bets will be credited to an account on the day following the day on which the 1st., 11th., 21st. and 31st. bets are placed.

Let’s now look at Littlewoods Betdirect and the particular Ts & Cs that apply to their free bet offer.

Littlewoods Betdirect Terms & Conditions

  • Simply stake £10 or more on your chosen bet, if it’s a winner we’ll add a 50% bonus to your winnings up to a maximum of £100!
  • Offer applies to the first bet only placed by new internet/interactive account holders registering after 24/02/06.
  • One new account promotion permitted per person, family, household address, email address, telephone number, debit/credit card and shared computer/IP address, e.g. school, public library or workplace. Existing customers or duplicate accounts do not qualify.
  • The 50% bonus is paid only on the bet winnings and does not include bet stake. For each-way bets, the bonus only applies to the win part of the bet.
  • To qualify for the 50% bonus the bet must be a winner on an event with three or more outcomes.
  • The odds (or combined odds) of your first bet must be evens or greater to qualify for the bonus. In the case of multiple bets, each leg must have three or more outcomes.
  • The minimum unit stake to qualify for bonus is £10 (or currency equivalent).
  • The maximum bonus is £100 (or currency equivalent*).
  • Bonuses will be credited to a customer’s account within 48 hours of the first bet being settled.
  • Customers referred by either Oddschecker, Easyodds, Betgenius or Bestbetting.com (or sites powered by any of these sites) do not qualify for this promotion.
  • From time to time we may offer customers a promotional free bet. All free bets are subject to the following terms and conditions:

    Free sportsbook bets cannot be split between bets and cannot be used on BetLiVE, games, casino or poker services.

    Free bet offers are only available on the platform on which they are promoted (e.g. internet offers are not available on mobile).

    The free bet stake is non-withdrawable.

    We reserve the right to terminate this promotion without prior notice

     

The conditions that you must be aware of are:

  • The amount of the free bet is equal to 50% of the winnings of the first bet up to a maximum of £100. The offer does not apply to the stake nor does it apply to the each-way part of an each-way bet i.e. it only includes the win part of an each way bet. If the first bet loses, a bonus is not received.
  • There is no point in placing a bet such that the qualifying winnings exceed £200 since no additional monetary benefit will be derived.
  • The offer is not open to existing customers and those who have been referred by certain web sites.
  • The minimum stake is £10.
  • Bets on events with only two outcomes do not qualify for the bonus.
  • The bonus will be credited with 48 hours of the qualifying bet being settled.
  • Although the winnings from free bets can be withdrawn at any time, the free bet amount cannot.

As can be seen from the above, the bookies’ Ts & Cs are not that appreciably different and they contain common themes:

  • Although each bookie identified in this article provides a free bet bonus, the amont of the free bet does not appreciably vary.
  • Bonuses, in the form of free bets, are not accumulated until qualifying bets have been placed. The qualification rules vary from bookie to bookie, but not appreciably.
  • The payment of free bet bonuses are delayed until at least the day following that on which the qualifying bets are placed. The period of delay in paying the bonuses varies from bookie to bookie, but not appreciably.
  • Although the profits from free bets may be withdrawn as cash, the free bet amounts themselves may not be withdrawn as cash.
  • Once a free bet credit amount has been used, it cannot be re-used, even if the free bet wins. Free bets can therefore be used once and once only. Therefore, if the free bet balance is £25 and a free £25 bet is placed and wins, the free bet balanced is reduced to £0. It does not remain at £25.