Not Found The Bet You Want? Tweet Request-A-Bet From SkyBet

As you will already know if you are a SkyBet customer (and if you aren’t, you can get a SkyBet account by joining Sky Casino or Sky Poker. Just don’t forget to claim your Sky Casino bonus), there is a huge amount of sports betting available on the site, not just in terms of different sports, but also regarding the number of betting markets available on each individual sporting event.

The net result of this is that SkyBet offers an extensive range of sports betting opportunities across a massive range of different sports, particularly when it comes to football, horseracing, greyhound racing, golf, Formula 1, tennis and darts betting.

However, if you are a punter who likes to combine several bets together into one longer odds bet, then finding the perfect bet for you can be difficult. For example, if you want to place a bet on a football match of their being Over 2.5 Goals in the game, more than 10 corners and one of the specific players in a team getting booked, then it can be very difficult to combine these individual bets into a single line bet.

So, rather than be frustrated at the lack of options, SkyBet now run a service where punters can contact them with details of a bet they would like to make. SkyBet will then review the bet and if they can offer it, will give the punter a price for that specific bet.

This service is called Request-A-Bet and you can only access it as a SkyBet customer via the SkyBet service on Twitter.

How do I use the Request-A-Bet service?

The first thing you need to understand is that you can’t request a bet from SkyBet using the website or the mobile app, you need to have a SkyBet account and a Twitter account to be able to use the service and following the SkyBet Twitter account outlined above is also a sensible move.

Once you have perused the available options for the bet you would like to make and checked that the bet you want to make isn’t already available on the site. Simply load up your Twitter account and Tweet details of your bet to SkyBet in the following format:

Include the @SkyBet tag to ensure that SkyBet see your tag and also include the #RequestABet hashtag alongside your message. Give the full details of the bet you would like to make and then send the Tweet to SkyBet.

SkyBet will then review your tweet and the bet on it and had the details to their team, who will review the bet and if they can offer odds on the bet, will contact you back with details of what the odds are. In addition, if your Request A Bet is accepted, then it will be made available in the Request A Bet section of the site for other punters to back too.

Once the bet is made available, you can back it as you would any other bet on SkyBet, by clicking on the odds and adding it to your bet slip and then placing the bet in the usual way by entering your stake and clicking the Place Bet option.

Is there a charge for this service?

No, Request-A-Bet is completely free of charge and you can request as many or as few bets as you like from SkyBet, provided you enter the information on your Tweet as outlined above.

Where can I find other successful Request-A-Bet bets?

When SkyBet lists all the available betting markets for a particular sporting event, for many of the major sporting events where they feel that customers will contact the site with specific bet requests, then they will have a dedicated Request-A-Bet section on the site.

For some of the biggest betting events of the year, the Request-A-Bet section may well contain a large number of bets, in which case SkyBet tends to list the bets in groups of bets that are of roughly similar odds, for example one group may be bets of odds up to 20/1, the second may be of odds between 20/1 and 40/1 and a third group may be of odds of 40/1 or more.

By organising these bets in this way, Skybet makes it easier for punters to find the right bet they are looking for in terms of value, this is particularly useful as most of the Request-A-bet requests are devised so that the punter can receive long odds on their bet.

Do I have to make my Request-A-Bet Tweet via my mobile?

No, Twitter have a website which you can access via a browser on your laptop or desktop PC, which will allow you to log in and make Tweets from your computer. So you can access the request a bet service from any device you use to interact with SkyBet. It is not a mobile-only service.

However, that being said, the Twitter social media platform has been expressly designed to be easy to use from mobile devices, so it is arguably easier to use this service from a mobile or tablet as it is a desktop/laptop.

What sports is the Request-A-Bet service available for?

In theory, you can tweet @SkyBet with any potential bet request for any sport and it would be up to Sky’s team of market experts to work out whether they can offer the bet and if they can, what odds the bet will be available for. While this, in theory, is available for any sport and any potential bet, the Request-A-Bet service does tend to be used mainly by certain sports.

Football, Formula 1 and Tennis are amongst the most popular Request-A-Bet markets although there are plenty of examples of other sports seeing bets requested and offered by Sky following the request from a customer.

Request-A-Bet is a simple but effective way for punters to place specific bets that are not otherwise available with SkyBet, or indeed with any other bookmaker. However, it is prudent to send in your bet request in plenty of time before the event starts, so SkyBet have enough time to work through your request and offer you the odds before the event starts.