A great offer from the popular UK based sports betting site Premierbet. For a very limited time only they are offering a free £50 bet to those opening up a new account and staking £50, but only to users of BeatTheHouse.co.uk.

To claim simply click on one of the Premierbet banners, stake £50 and then  email info@premierbet.com with your FREE BET selection, quoting selection, date of match and your account number.

Premierbet focus entirely on football and offer a variety of bets on every major football match as well as a number of specials. You can place the free bet on any market (except the event you placed your original bet on). To claim your free bet do the following....

'Please place and pay for your Free Bet in the normal way (i.e. pay for it as if it were a normal bet) and if the Free Bet loses please email Customer Services on info@premierbet.com and they will refund your losing stake. Please include both bet numbers, your Username/Account Number and Premierbet will credit your account within 24 hours'

How you might use this offer....

Stake £50 on Man Utd vs Blackburn at 1.28 (22nd Nov). Assuming that Man Utd win (and this is the safest bet of the week-odds are 9:1 for Blackburn to win). Your return will be £64. As an alternative backing Ireland for the Rep of Ireland vs Canada (18th Nov) should also be very safe. If you want to totally cover yourself click here to read about combining different bookmakers offers and covering all eventualities.

You then go on to place your free bet.......as you don't receive the free stake money in your winning it is advisable not to go for a very safe bet. As your stake is taken away, placing the £50 on a Man Utd win with the free bet would only net you £14 if they win. Instead we suggest a bet such as Bolton to beat Leeds (22nd Nov). At 3.0 this would net you a profit of £100 if they won. Alternatively Liverpool to beat Middlesborough (22nd Nov) at 2.37 would net you £68.50 profit if the result came in.

This is the most generous Sports Betting offer we have seen in the past year and should definitely not be missed.

Taking up different bookmaker offers at the same time....

There is also absolutely nothing stopping you opening up accounts at more than one bookmaker and taking up their free offers and using them simultaneously........ Take the following example......

22nd Nov  Man Utd vs Blackburn -   Man Utd 1.28/ Draw 5.0/ Blackburn 10.0

This means that the odds on Man Utd to win are 1.28. If you placed a normal £10 bet and Spain won your returns would be £12.80- your £10 stake back and £2.80 profit.

BetFair also offer a very generous free £20. The free £20 is credited to your account within 48 hours after you have staked £20 and in this case the free stake is withdrawable and can be split- i.e. 2 £10 bets/4 £5 bets etc. For this example let's imagine that you open up accounts at Premierbet and Betfair and deposit £50 and £20 respectively.

To obtain PremierBet's free £50 you first need to stake £50. For this example imagine you place the entire £50 on Man Utd.

With Betfair you need to stake £20 (in any combination of bets) to receive your free £20. Assuming Betfair's odds are the same as above (generally they are actually significantly better) you could then stake £13.50 on the draw and £6.50 on Norway. So these would be your returns for each result......

Man Utd- £64   Draw- £67.50   Blackburn - £65

The best result here for you is the draw- here you'd have deposited £70 in total and get £67.50 back and remember that based on the odds this is by far the most likely result. The worst result is the draw in which case you'd initially be £6 down. HOWEVER you now have £70 of free bets to place without ever having to risk whatever you won on the first bet. You can even withdraw the £64-£67.50 if you like.

Place your free bets in the same way as you did on the Man Utd vs Blackburn game. Play it sensibly (i.e. by covering all eventualities) and you should be looking at making no less than £50 profit for very little effort. NB with Betfair the free stake is returned with the winnings. I.E. if you bet on something very safe with your free £20 with Betfair your winnings will be £21/22. As you can split the bet up too (e.g 4 £5 bets) you can even cover all eventualities of a game just with betfair! If you would like to comine betting the free £20 with yet another free bet offer, click here to learn about Betdaq's great £10 free offer.

With Premierbet however, your free bet stake is not included in the winnings- betting on something very safe would only get you the winnings i.e about £5-10 profit. Click here to see some suggestions for placing the free Premierbet bet. Remember also that you place the bet as if it were a normal stake and then email customer services if it loses so that the stake can be refunded- in other words you can't lose on your second £50 bet.

N.B. These odds are liable to change and the example is meant to be just that- it tells you what it would be possible to do and only reflects BeatTheHouse's beliefs about what constitute 'good bets'

Advert/Banner Problems

A number of people have reported problems with the PremierBet/Betfair links. This is generally caused by Spyware blocker/internet firewall programs. Disabling this software should solve the problems.

To deactivate ad-blocking with the most common firewall software- Norton Internet Security- perform the following steps.

1) Double-click the icon in your system tray to open the Norton Internet Security window.
2) Under the System Status find and click the words ‘Ad Blocking’, which should indicate it is ‘On’
3) In the right side panel, click on ‘Configure’ near the bottom
4) UN-check the ‘Turn On Ad Blocking’ checkbox.

Users of Kazaa lite/++ may be unaware that this software also automatically blocks many advertiser links. If this is the case or turning off software didn't help then the following steps should rectify the situation.

1) In Windows click the start button | search | for files or folders
2) Type in hosts and hit enter to search
3) The Hosts file for Windows 95 / 98 / Me should be located in
c:\windows\
4) The hosts file for Windows NT / 2000 / XP (You may need administrator access) should be located in:
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ or
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\
5) Open the files in Notepad. Don't use WordPad or MSword as it may mess up the formatting.
6) You should see a really long list of urls. Delete the following occurences from the list.
www.linkshare.com
www.linksynergy.com
www.cj.com
www.commission-junction.com
www.qksrv.net
7) Save the hosts file.
8) Perform the same steps for any other Hosts files that were found.
9) Close the browser and then Open it. Try the links again.