Best Betting Promotions

Many betting sites offer free bet promotions, in which if you wager a certain amount, a free bet after the placement or settlement of your initial stake is awarded. In some instances, the free bet is only given if the bet loses. In others, it is given regardless if the bet wins or loses.

A regular example of free bets being given is when there are several big sporting events on over the course of a weekend. Bookmakers will try to encourage bets on a less popular market, such as boxing, by rewarding a free bet on a big Premier League match taking place the next day.

Free bets can also be handed out to players personally, via email, phone, and text, as a reward to loyal customers. 

BetVictor and Coral are two of the best betting sites for free bet promotions. As you may have seen advertised on TV from time to time, they sometimes give existing customers free bets without even having to place a qualifying bet.

Paddy Power also rewards customers with no deposit free bet promotions occasionally - such as a free bet on the opening race of the Cheltenham Festival or a free bet builder bet on the big football contest of the day.

While spontaneous free bet promotions are always well received by punters, there are also a number of ongoing deals that allow users of certain betting sites to claim free bets on a regular basis.

These "bet clubs" reward players for making a specified amount of bets within a seven-day period and can be based on singles, accas and bet builders. Arguably the best exponent of this is Sky Bet Club, which allows players to choose the reward they wish to earn, keeping it fresh and fun.

Enhanced odds have become so common among UK betting sites now, with many of the top UK bookmakers offering north of half a dozen odds boosts on every major football match.

Each of the betting sites that offer enhanced odds may call them different things depending on how they want to market them. Betway is known for its 'Betway Boost' section, while VBet simply goes for 'Boosted Odds' and on ZetBet you can 'Boost your Zet Bets'.

Most enhanced odds betting promotions have the markets set by the bookmaker, but some bookies allow users to choose which odds they want to boost.

Best Bookies for Enhanced Odds

1. BetVictor - Boosts every day on football and racing
2. Ladbrokes - Choose what you want boosted
3. Unibet - 'Uniboost' for racing
4. Paddy Power - Earn 'Power Up' odds boosts
5. Betway - Betway Boosts section
6. Sky Bet - Best for football price boosts

As well as boosting regular bets, many of the top bookmakers offer enhanced odds on pre-made bet-builders too, with BetVictor once again leading the way, with its "Bet Builder Boosts", with many others offering enhancements on these bets, boosting the odds still further.

Landing an accumulator is hard enough, so you want to be paid properly when you do manage to pull one off. That is why Acca bonus or Acca boost betting promotions are loved so much by punters.

Acca bonus and Acca boost mean pretty much the same thing, but there are some small differences. Usually with an acca bonus, you get your extra winnings as a percentage of your usual profit, and they can sometimes be paid as free bets. This is available when placing three or more selections, usually starting at 5% and increasing with each added selection..

An acca boost, as offered by Ladbrokes and many others, usually involves the odds being boosted before you place your wager, and it is always paid fully in cash.

Generally, players are required to pick three selections (a treble) at least to qualify for the boost, with the option available to select on the betslip. There are some limitations depending on the bookmaker, with one available boost per day or several available per week, while all bookmakers will have a maximum bonus amount that can be won, regardless of the winnings.

Mr Play calls their version of this offer 'PlayBoost', and with this, you can boost your winnings up to 77%, while bet365 offers up to 70% as a bonus, with a cap of £100,000.

Sky Bet Acca Freeze

A more recent addition to Acca bets is Sky Bet's Acca Freeze option, which allows players to take the current score of any game on a football accumulator bet and "freeze" the result. 

This is particularly handy when picking a tough selection that could go either way, but with Sky Bet, if that selection takes the lead, you can freeze that result and count it as a winning selection.

This is limited to five uses per week and once per acca, with a minimum of 5+ selections on full-time results bets only.

'Money back' covers a rather wide scope of online betting promotions, and various betting sites implement them in a number of ways.

Within football betting, certain promotions allow you to get your money back if the game finishes 0-0 (Bet365) or if your team concedes late. Paddy Power often offers money back if a certain team wins or a particular player scores in a selected match, while QuinnBet offers crossbar insurance, injury time goal insurance and red card insurance on various football markets.

Horse racing is the other sport in which you will see a lot of money back betting promotions. 

Bookmakers have steadily gotten more creative with their promotions and some have now become a staple across the majority of sports betting sites, with money back available if a horse falls or fails to start (quinnbet), finishes 2nd or is beaten by a length of less (BOYLE Sports).

Other, less common options available include "fail to finish" which includes jockeys being unseated or if the selection is pulled up and "finishing 2nd, 3rd or 4th to the SP favourite (Betfred)". 

It's always worth keeping an eye on several big brand bookies when it comes to money back promotions as they vie for your custom in this busy landscape.

Bet Builder Bonus

Bet Builders have come on leaps and bounds, with a massive number of markets to bet upon pre-match and now some are starting to provide bonus winnings on top of a payout, via a price boost option.

Bet365's "Winnings Boost" promotion allows players to enhance their odds on a minimum 3+ selection bet builder with odds of at least 1/1 (Evens). If the bet qualifies, players can select the Winnings Boost option on the betslip. There's a maximum stake limit and a fixed boost percentage, but overall this is a great option for football betting fans.