Some punters have the misunderstanding that betting with free bets is only for sports betting. Not so at all - don’t forget that the free bet is the customer gathering tool of the online bookmaker. These free bets can then be used on basically any market that a bookie offers.

So, if you want to join a bookmaker with a £20 free bet offer, you sign up, make your £20 deposit which is then matched. You receive your £20 free bet to add to the deposit and so you’ve got £40 worth of free bets to play with.

Now you choose a market, for example the financial betting market. You can use this £40 budget as a one-off bet in this market, or you can split this pot to divide into other markets, i.e. £10 on financials betting, £10 on something in the music betting world and a final, larger flutter on the Big Brother BettingMarket.

This way, you use your free bet to give you a larger budget for your campaign to spread your bets into different markets to give variety and perhaps even “Hedge” your bets.

Don’t let the sports betting fans have all the fun and look around our list of online betting bookies that offer these great free money bonuses for new customers when they join - and use them wisely!