As part of the run up to the Euro 2008 the teams are playing friendlies to get themselves in trim and to work things out. I set up a matched bet today on the France game because I set up new accounts and had free bets to use up. I backed the correct score of 1 – 0 with €31.79 @ odds of 6.5 for France at Will Hill and laid it off at Betfair odds of 6.8.

With the higher odds I get more of the money into my Betfair account if the trade works that way. There were no good odds for me on the draw which I often go with so I looked around some more. I think I am getting about 75% of my free money from this. Won’t be so good if the scoreline ends up 1 – 0 though but I should be alright France have a good enough team to score a couple and then again Colombia could put one in the net too.

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