Free Bets on Betfred

Fred and Peter Done started out as bookmakers when opening a betting shop in Salford, Manchester in 1967, trading as Done Bookmakers the business expanded in the Greater Manchester area until the mid 1990s when it bought a group of nine betting shops in the north-east of England.

The company expanded rapidly with a string of betting shops around the country, in 2002 it opened a new telephone call centre and in 2004 the company was re-branded Betfred with the launch of its internet betting site Betfred.com.

Betfred has its headquarters in Warrington, north-west England where it manages the retail estate of over 850 betting shops while the telephone and internet interests are based in Gibraltar. Betfred claims to be the biggest privately-owned betting company in the world and Fred Done, who chairs the compamy, remains very active in the promoting the business.

Fred is the self-styled Bonus King and his betting shops prospered by competing on the high street with an un-matched range of offers and bonuses for customers and he ensures that Betfred continues this policy for its telephone and internet customers.

Offers and Promotions

Betfred has one of the best introductory offers around, matching your first bet with a FREE BET up to £50.
There are no nasty surprises with the terms, the minimum stake is just £5 and the first bet can be a single or multiple bet at cumulative odds of evens or more.

Carrying the soubriquet, The Bonus King, you will expect Betfred to offer numerous and interesting offers and you will not be let down.

Betfred claims to have invented the Lucky 15 bet with its triple odds consolation for one winner and was the first bookmaker to offer early prices for every UK horse race and then became the first to guarantee those odds. You will find a long list of bonuses for popular horse racing and greyhound racing multiple bets, forecasts, tricasts plus ‘Double Result’ pay out on first past the post and amended result.

Football bettors will be offered arrange of casback insurances against 0-0 or 1-1 draws, games decided by a penalty, last goalscorer plus doubling and trebling first goalscorer odds with Double Delight and Hat-trick Heaven offers.
Golf, Motor Sport, Rugby and Cricket bettors are not forgotten and Betfred regularly introduces an offer for big events on these and other sports.

The Promotion section of Betfred’s website has 7 pages of offers and promotions for the whole product range and they are being updated all the time with fresh offerings.

Odds & Markets

Betfred offers odds for all the major sports with just under 20 different sports covered. In a similar vein, the most popular betting markets are provided which leads us to rate the range of betting opportunities as decent rather than exceptional.

Betfred offers In:Play betting via an easy to use console, it covers a good range of sports with a few basic markets to play.

The overall choice of betting markets at Betfred is not the most comprehensive available but all the popular markets are quoted and there is some great value to found in the sportsbook.

The betting margins right across the range are very competitive and Betfred is not afraid to offer stand out odds, especially on UK horse racing and football. Add in the special offers and bonuses and Betfred is a great online bookmaker to visit before settling down to watch live televised sport.

Website

Betfred’s website is built on the reliable Finsoft platform; it is neat, tidy and easy to navigate. Page loading is fast with registration and placing a bet being very straight forward.

In:Play betting opportunities and up coming events dominate the uncluttered home page with Betfred bonuses rotating through the graphics display.

Other Betfred products can be accessed on the website, with Poker, Casino, Games, Bingo and Virtual sections of the site. Betfred has always offered high returns on numbers bets and has a whole section dedicated to lotteries across Europe and Canada.

The website is quite light on ‘extra’ features; it does not have live video, but you can get audio commentary and Betfred provides racing form and sports results and statistics.

Betfred’s Mobile site is accessible from all internet enabled mobile phones manufactured in the last couple of years, including touch screen phones.

The website can be viewed in English or Spanish with odds displayed in fractional, decimal or American format.

Betfred accept payments in the following currencies; AUD, CAD, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, ISK, JPY, MYR, NOK, NZD, SEK, SGD, THB, USD, ZAR and the following deposit methods are available; Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Visa Electron, Delta, Laser, Bank Wire, Check, Neteller, Western Union, Moneybookers, Citadel.