In most cases, betting sites offer one-off promotions such as reload bonuses, cashback or risk-free bets to customers on an individual basis or bet boosts/risk-free bets around a particular sporting event, to all customers.
The idea here is to reward a customer as a one-off for something they’ve already done or something they might be about to do.
Free bet clubs work differently. Rather than focusing on a short time period or a specific event, the free bet club operates on an ongoing basis, until further notice.
Customers have the chance to claim free bets every week if they fulfil the requirements of the promotion.
The requirements could be: placing a certain number of bets, placing a certain type of bet (Bet Builder, Multiple), wagering a particular amount, betting on a particular sport or other variations. These requirements will generally need to be met over a certain time period or by placing bets on a specific day. But in some cases, there are no time restrictions.
In return, the customer will receive free bets, which vary in nature, and which can be claimed every week.
Quite how the Weekly Free Bet Club offers work, varies from one bookie to another.
Some offers are universal. By that we mean they work in pretty much the same way, whichever betting site you’re playing at.
An example of that is the Best Odds Guarantee promise. All bookies offering it guarantee that they’ll pay out on UK and Ireland winning horseracing bets at either an early price, or the industry Starting Price, whichever is bigger.
Not so with free bet clubs for existing customers. Which is one of the reasons why they’re so interesting. Each site offering Weekly Free Bet Clubs has different requirements and different rewards.
Here’s a run-down of the best free bet clubs out there and how they work.
How it works:
What we like about Unibet free bet club: A good way to start the week in style with the free bet awarded on a Monday.
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What we like about the Betway Free Bet Club: The fact your free bets are divided into two bets means that you get two bites of the cherry and two chances at winning money on them, possibly on both. Better still, getting free bets for a value of £10 for bets placed totalling just £25 is a promo giving you extremely good value.
Here’s how it works:
What we liked about the Betfred Free Bet Club: It’s perfect for fans of greyhound racing, who don’t normally have specific greyhound offers to look forward to but certainly get a good one here.
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What we like about the BetVictor Weekly Free Bet Club- There’s an element of excitement to opening the box and the chance to win free bets up to £25, which is a lot.
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What we like about the Boylesports Free Bet Club: There are no time restrictions relating to the Weekly Free Bet Club offer, meaning that customers can place the qualifying bets whenever they wish, without being dictated by time periods.
So, that’s a summary of the best free bet clubs on the market, what’s on offer and what you need to do to claim the free bets. But let’s take a step back and remind ourselves why Free Bet Clubs are a great idea to begin with for customers.
In the section above where we looked at some of the best free bet clubs, and we explained how they worked. Like any offer that’s available at multiple betting sites, it’s not 100% a case of ‘one-size-fits-all’ in that the process is exactly the same. But in general terms, here are the steps you need to follow:
Free bet clubs are one of the more recent ways of betting sites giving something back to active customers, in this case, in the form of free bets.
We’ve given you four top-quality betting sites who offer them, explained what you get, and highlighted what you need to do in order to get them.
For the record, we particularly liked the Betway Free Bet Club where not only do you get two free bets to use (rather than one) every week but where you get £10 in free bets for placing just £25 of them (40% in free bets in relation to what you wagered). Which is extremely generous.
We’ve mentioned the advantages of Weekly Free Bet Clubs, in particular the fact that they can be claimed every week (the clue is in the name) and that they’re flexible in terms of what you can use them on. And are generally available to all customers.
Disadvantages, or cons? There aren’t many at all, other than the fact that you don’t generally get free bets for more than £10 and that in certain circumstances the qualifying bet or free bet can’t be used on a particular sport.
Weekly Free Bet Clubs are a form of loyalty rewards, but most betting sites have VIP Programs that go well beyond this.
They offer more rewards such as: other free bets, cashback, personalised Account Managers and trips to sports events. The general rule being that the more you play, the more you get in return.
888Sport, Bet365 and Betway are three of the best ones for VIP Programs.
Not at all. The whole point of them is that they’re open to all customers, however long they’ve been at the betting site.
No, it’s limited to one free bet per week, although of course, there’s nothing to stop you from claiming that free bet at more than one betting site every week.
Not at all. Most betting sites give you the chance to make use of several promos every week. Bet Boosts and Best Odds Guaranteed offers are just two examples of other bonuses you can use on a weekly, or even daily basis, alongside Free Bet Club offers.
All of the five listed on this page have good offers but if we had to pick just one, we’d probably go with the Betway Free Bet Club.
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