Laying the Court – Betfair

If you’ve ever heard of the laying the field horse racing strategy, then you’re going to learn this strategy really quickly. To be completely honest it is a very quick strategy to learn, and as soon as you get your game selection sorted you’re going to be looking at some nice profits!

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Strategy

The strategy is incredibly simple, we’re going to lay both the individuals in a tennis game, at the same odds. The only requirement is that the odds must be below 2.0. The lower the odds you manage to lay at the better the profit will be.

To better ensure your chances of hitting a laying the court, you’re going to want to target either a closely matched game, or you’re going to want to underdog to take the first service, then when their price is low, you lay both of the players at that price and hope the favorite gets back into the game.

I’m not saying this strategy is going to work all of the time, and in fact over the next few weeks I’m personally going to be checking how often this strategy works by keeping track of the odds – so make sure you’re subscribed to the YouTube channel to ensure you don’t miss that video!

If you really want this strategy to be low maintenance you can go onto the match before it starts, enter your lay price, select the liability hyperlink and enter your desired price, then once confirmed select the KEEP option, and save changes. Then you’re done, no more effort is required, you’ll either lose your liability or make a profit if both get matched!

Profit / Loss

The loss is incredibly simple to work out, you’re either going to lose your liability if you’re not matched and not micromanaging or you’re going to lose around 30-50% of your stake if you’re watching the game and cash out in good time.

The profit, will depend on the price you get matched at. The highest I’ve seen get matched was during the Australian open final, as both contestants got incredibly close to winning, the lowest price of both was at 1.03, if you managed to lay both at odds of 1.05, a £10 liability would’ve returned £186.20!

However the likelihood of that happening on a regular basis is extremely low.

Personally, after some extremely brief research, I’ve seen odds of around 1.75 be quite common, sometimes 1.20 can be hit as well. Below I’ve shown what a £10 liability will return depending on the odds you hit.

Returns

1.05 – £186.20 – 1862%

1.20 – £39.20 – 392%

1.40 – £14.10 – 141%

1.50 – £9.80 – 98%

1.75 – £3.27 – 32.7%

1.80 – £2.45 – 24.5%

1.90 – £1.09 – 10.9%

1.99 – £0.10 – 1%