Weekend Winning Bets

A new Masters champion, a new name on the long list of Grand National winners, but it is as you were at the top of the Premier League as City and Liverpool fought each other to a standstill.

It was billed as one of the biggest weekends of sport all year and it delivered in spades with plenty of thrilling matches and events to watch. As ever, we are back to review the weekend’s action and see where the big spread makeups occurred.

Please remember that unlike fixed odds betting, losses can exceed deposits when spread betting.

NOBLE YEATS 100-60-30-20-10-5 RACE INDEX (SETTLED AT 100)

Of course, there is only one place we can start a betting round-up of the weekend’s action and that is at Aintree as Noble Yeats became the first seven-year-old to win the Grand National since the 1940s.

It was a fairytale ending for jockey Sam Waley-Cohen who retired after the race on Saturday having previously won the King George and the Cheltenham Gold Cup whilst riding his father’s horses.

It was also a good day for those who backed Waley-Cohen’s mount on our expanded race index for the day. With 100 points on offer for the winner going down on a sliding scale to 5 points for the sixth placed finisher, Noble Yeats 100-60-30-20-10-15 spread was 4-6 as the runners went to post.

With an SP of 50/1 on the fixed odds, Noble Yeates was far from a fancied runner but hit the front two out and stayed on gamely to beat the favourite Any Second Now as buyers on the expanded race index landed a win equal to 94x their stake.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER WIRE 2 WIRE (SETTLED AT 187.5)

Scottie Scheffler – surely a candidate for the oldest looking 25-year-old in history – continued his meteoric rise through the world of golf with a stunning victory at Augusta to land a coveted Green Jacket.

The new Masters champion was nerveless on the final day and watched his nearest challenger Cameron Smith blow his chances with a triple bogey on the 12^th having just gained a shot back on Scheffler at the 11^th. Rory McIlroy put together a blistering final round to come second by three shots, but it was once again a case of what-ifs for the Northern Irishman as he chases that elusive Grand Slam.

One way to bet on the golf apart from the fixed odds is with our Wire 2 Wire market which works as follows. You get 50 points for your selection finishing top after a round, 30 for second, 20 for third and then 10 for fourth. If you finish top after the final round and win the event you are awarded 80 points, 40 for second and so on until 8^th place which is awarded 5. The maximum makeup is 230 (3x50 + 80).

Before a ball was driven in anger Scheffler was priced at 20-24 on the Wire 2 Wire market and he closed out with a total score of 187.5 (dead heat rules apply on rounds, hence the half point) meaning buyers holed out with a win equal to 163.5x their stake.

LEEDS v WATFORD CROSS-BOOKINGS (SETTLED AT 0)

It might not have been the glamour tie of the weekend but Leeds’ trip to Watford was important in the relegation scrap, especially as Everton’s win over Manchester United in the early kick-off threatened to drag the Peacocks back into the mix.

However, Jesse Marsch’s side had other ideas and extended Watford’s woeful home record to nine defeats in a row courtesy of a scrappy – but much needed – 3-0 win.

Goals from Raphinha, Rodrigo, and (the less glamorously named) Jack Harrison secured the three points for Leeds, but it was a market away from goals that we are focussing on here.

The Cross-Bookings market multiplies Watford’s booking points with those accumulated by Leeds and whilst the hosts picked up 20 points, no Leeds player was shown a card (though Rodrigo can count himself lucky after a mistimed challenge in the first half).

That meant the spread settled at 0 and with the spread at 465-535, sellers were left pocketing a win equal to 465x their stake.

Please note that these are examples of winning bets over the weekend, and it is important to remember that spread betting carries a high level of risk to your capital and can result in losses larger than your initial stake/deposit.