OddsMonkey Review: Easily the Best Matched Betting Service

Matched Betting has been around for years and many people have made many thousands of pounds of risk-free profit.

In case you haven't heard of matched betting before, it's a betting strategy which takes advantage of the new customer and on-going promotions that are available at most bookies, whether they be online or in or high street shops.

Many services will teach you how matched betting works, provide a current list of offers and explain how to profit from them.

OddsMonkey was originally the provider of the odds matching tool which most other services used. However, in 2016 the team decided to open their own matched betting service to include a collection of revolutionary tools developed in-house.

Their aim was to provide a better value service for customers than what was currently on the market, so instead of charging extra for each of the various tools, a subscription to OddsMonkey includes access to everything as standard.

Read on for my full OddsMonkey review, or click here for a FREE trial.

Introduction to OddsMonkey

A free membership to OddsMonkey (no payment details required) gives you access to the introductory training guides and shows you how to make approximately £45 risk-free cash to get started with.

Premium membership costs £29.99 per month, or there is an all access option that includes the casino offers for £49.99 per month. 

With very little effort, you will make that money back many times over.

How Much Money can you Make with OddsMonkey?

OddsMonkey have stated that £400-£600 profit per month is a realistic expectation.

However, there are members who make more than £1,000 per month. It can vary quite a bit if you factor in casino and bingo offers which have the potential to boost your profits considerably.

After a quick scan through the forum, I found testimonials from members who were making approximately £500 per month before even trying some of the advanced tools such as the Each Way Matcher or Acca Finder.

It's very much a case of the more effort you put in, the more money you can make.

The other factor is how big of a bank/float you have available to complete offers. You can start with as little as £100, but a larger bank would allow you to complete more offers simultaneously.

More offers = more profit.

If you are new to matched betting (or even betting in general) the OddsMonkey guides are second to none.

They explain the whole process in easy to understand language and there are also video tutorials if you prefer to see how everything works in action.

It doesn’t stop there though, as once you are past the beginner stage, there are plenty of advanced guides and strategies in the Training section. These explain how to make money from 2nd place refunds, dutching extra place races and tips and tricks such as how to preserve your bookie accounts.

If you still need help, you can visit the community section where you will find the OddsMonkey forum. It's full of advice and support for new and existing customer offers.

There is also a dedicated thread for newbies called the 'Beginner’s Academy'.

The forum is one of the most active I have seen within a matched betting site and there's a real community feeling about it.

The OddsMonkey team also offer customer support via email from 8am – 9pm on a Saturday and 9am – 9pm on all other days.

This section contains a list of all the up to date bookmaker sign up offers split into various categories, such as beginner, bet X get X, risk free and even offers to avoid.

There are separate pages for offers from bookmakers, casinos and bingo sites.

Each offer has been given a star rating on how easy it is to complete – easy, average or hard. I tallied up a total of 63 offers on the bookmakers page, with the casino and bingo offers still to come.

Clicking on to an offer takes you to a guide detailing step by step how to complete it and includes some of the basic terms and conditions that you need to know, such as how much to deposit, what type of free bet it is and when it will be added.

Some of the offers also have a video guide, but as many of the offers are similar there is no need for a video for all of them.

Once an offer is finished with it can be marked as complete and any profit made can be recorded in the Profit Tracker. This can either be entered manually or logged directly from the Oddsmatcher tool, which takes away any need for spreadsheets as it keeps track of everything for you.

I estimate that completing all the bookmaker sign up bonuses listed in this section could earn you in excess of £1,000.

The bingo/casino offers are harder to predict due to having the element of luck thrown in, but many of the offers listed are risk-free so they are definitely worth taking a look at.

The Daily Offer Calendar is the main page for advanced members who have already worked through the sign-up bonuses.

It features a list of all the current offers for existing bookmaker customers available each day, along with further details on how each offer works and the best strategy to use to make money from them.

You can then click straight through to the bookie website or follow a link to the corresponding forum thread.

As with the new customer offers, the daily calendar has categorised each offer as either easy, average or hard and you can easily customise the list by selecting which type of offers you want to see.

They can then be sorted by either the most recently updated, start time, offer rating or level of profit.

OddsMonkey Tools

The Odds Matcher is the main tool for finding suitable bets for matched betting, whether it be qualifying bets or free bets.

Without entering any settings, it will pull up a list of bets sorted by their rating, i.e. those with the best bookie odds versus the betting exchange lay odds.

Clicking on the information button on any of the bets takes you to a 'Match Information' screen which has a matched betting calculator embedded. Here, you can work out the correct stakes to use and log the bet to the Profit Tracker.

There are also links that go straight through to the bookie to place the bet and there is also a handy feature where Betfair can be linked to your account to allow direct betting from the calculator.

It is the original and best odds matching tool on the market. The clean interface and useful filtering settings are excatly why so many other matched betting sites use it.

Every day, there are tons of horse racing offers available and it can be easy to lose track of them all.

The Racing Matcher was designed to scan through the day’s races and list the bookies that have offers on each race.

Here, you can see there are 8 offers on the Plumpton 14:10 race. Clicking on an offer pulls up a list of qualifying bets along with some useful information like the available liquidity and qualifying loss amount.

The example below shows the qualifying bets available for the Paddy Power offer, which is a free bet up to £25 if the horse finishes 2nd, 3rd or 4th to SP favourite.

Tennis Matcher

This works in the same way as the Racing Matcher, but it only functions when there is a grand slam tournament running.

There are guides on how tennis refund offers work as well as an up to date list of retirement rules for different bookies.

Each Way Matcher

The Each Way Matcher is designed to find each-way bets for an advanced matched betting strategy which exploiting the way bookies price up their place markets.

This is otherwise known as arbitrage betting (or arbing), which guarantees a profit whatever the result of the race.

This also works on golf markets but most of the opportunities you will find are for horse racing.

I did a quick scan to find the best bets that were currently available and the tool came up with a total of 82 selections that were guaranteed to make a profit.

The downside is you have to be fast putting bets on as odds can change quickly.

Opening the calculator next to the bet tells you exactly what stakes you need to place and has links going directly to the bookmaker and betting exchange.

The strategy is ideal for extracting profit from accounts that have been banned from promotions/free bets (gubbed) and this tool makes it easy.

The Extra Place Matcher allows you to make a profit from bookies that are paying out extra places on horse races.

Again, this is an advanced strategy, so we wouldn’t advise jumping in if you are new to matched betting.

After selecting a race, the tool brings up the back and lay odds for each runner and does all of the calculations for you based on your chosen stake.

As you can see above, you can instantly find out the best runner to back going by the extra place profit or qualifying loss.

After you have bet on a horse you can hit the save button which adds a tick next to it so that you can clearly see which runners you have already covered.

On a busy day where more bookies are paying out extra places this has the potential to be a real money spinner.

Dutch Matcher

Dutching is an arbitrage strategy where you back different outcomes across 2 or more bookmakers to guarantee a profit.

For example, Dutching a football match odds market would mean backing home, draw and away at three different bookies.

The Dutch Matcher scans the fixture list for profitable dutch bets and lists them in rating order by default.

Clicking on the information button next to each bet brings up the staking calculator and the usual links to the bookmaker websites and log bet button.

My personal favourite OddsMonkey tool is the Acca Finder. This is used for profiting from accumulator promotions at bookies, such as refunds if one leg lets you down or a percentage boost on accumulator winnings.

The main Acca Finder screen shows the best accumulators currently available in order of their expected value using the 'lay sequential' strategy.

There are a few different strategies to choose from to suit the level of risk you want to take or the amount of time you want to spend – The No Lay Method, Lay All at The Start, Lay All Sequentially, Lay All Sequentially & Lock in Profit.

The No Lay Method is my favourite as you can simply place the bet and let it run and your funds aren’t tied up in an exchange. On the downside, it is a high variance strategy, so you would need a large betting bank to cope with the swings.

You may be wondering why you would need use software for that, but unfortunately you can’t just assemble random teams to the acca; there needs to be value and that’s where the magic lies within this tool.

Laying accumulator legs off sequentially is a much lower variance strategy that will enable you to make regular small profits.

It doesn’t matter which one you use - if the accumulator has been calculated as having positive EV, you are guaranteed to make a profit in the long term. There are guides for each strategy in the “General Tips & Guides” section.

To search for accumulators for your chosen strategy, you can click on the relevant 'Acca Matcher' tool.

After choosing which bookie you want to use, the tool will scan for the best selections to add to the accumulator. You can see that the expected value for the acca above is £3.00 which works out as an ROI of 15%.

Each leg can be swapped for another match with slightly lower value, which can be handy if you want to try and stay under the bookies radar or if the odds of one of the legs have changed.

After placing your bet, the acca can be saved into the 'My Saved Accas' section where you can keep track of all your bets.

This is particularly useful if you are using a laying strategy as it automatically works out stakes for you based on the outcome you’ve entered for each leg.

The tool shows a breakdown of the profit/loss for every eventuality. In the selection below, if there was one losing leg in the acca we would make a profit of £12.43 from a £20 stake and any other result would give a loss of £3.57.

Casino Hub

Oddsmonkey's Casino Hub has all the resources you need to complete make money from casino sign up bonuses and reload offers, including comprehensive training guides, an EV calculator and the slots database.

Just going by the offers available at the time of writing, in total they have a value of £773.22. They range from being completely risk-free to higher risk, but all of them are profitable overall in the long run.

Even if you have already completed all the new account casino offers, the reload offers listed are valued at £231.

These figures are based on the offers available for the next 7 days and they are updated frequently, so there's potential to make more money completing reload offers each week.

Calculators and Spreadsheets

OddsMonkey have provided every calculator and you would ever desire for your matched betting, from each-way betting, spread betting and dutching to estimated value for casino offers.

There is also a collection of various spreadsheets to perform calculations or for tracking profit/loss.

Some of these are developed by OddsMonkey and some are third party, so it’s handy to have them all in one place to save trawling the net for the one you need.

Review Summary

OddsMonkey is easily one of the best matched betting services out there.

It offers excellent value for money and everything is included as standard with premium membership.

The OddsMonkey team offer fantastic support and have put together a great collection of written and video guides for both beginners and advanced matched bettors.

Having in-house software developers is a big plus and the tools that they have designed are innovative and allow you to profit from the abundance of offers with ease. I am looking forward to seeing what these guys come up with next.

There are so many ways to make a profit with OddsMonkey that is makes it the easiest pass I've ever awarded!