Our Results & Methodology | Extra Place

This is real data from one of the strategies Rob runs - no-lay extra-place betting, tracked over 3,500 bets. It is deliberately a higher-variance approach, not the hedged low-risk matched betting we teach beginners, and we show it warts-and-all (including the early drawdown) rather than a clean upward line.

What we still owe you: a ledger of hedged matched-betting results (date, offer, stake, qualifying loss, profit, time). We are capturing these properly before publishing them - we would rather show real records than invent them.

Throughout our guides you will see worked examples - for instance, turning a £10 qualifying bet and a £30 free bet into roughly £24 of locked-in value. These are illustrative models of how an offer works, not records of specific bets we placed. They use realistic odds and stakes so you can follow the maths, but your own results will vary with the offers available, the odds at the time, and whether the bet is executed correctly. See the beginner guide and our calculators guide for the full workings.

• Profit figures are modelled before mistakes and any tool subscription, and we say so. Realistic sign-up-offer totals land around £500-£700 across the major UK bookmakers, not the inflated figures often quoted.
• How we test and review is set out in our methodology.
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