Totesport are currently offering one of the biggest free bets to it’s new customers – a whopping £60 is up for grabs when you open a new account with them and getting it couldn’t be easier:

Step 1: Totesport will match your first paid bet of £10 or more on the day you register with a free bet up to £20.
Step 2: Place 5 further bets (minimum stake £10) and they’ll give you a second free bet to the value of your lowest stake (up to £20).
Step 3: Place 5 further bets (minimum stake £10) and they’ll give you a third free bet to the value of your lowest stake (up to £20).

Primarily Totesport focuses on football and horse racing so if that takes your fancy then you’re quids in. But they also feature cricket, rugby, greyhound racing, darts and plenty more.

The ‘Tote’ as it is affectionately known by punters operates differently to a traditional bookmakers as it is simply a big pool of cash from all the bets taken on a specific race, the winners are then paid out from this pool of cash. You can sometimes get much higher payout’s from Tote pools than you’d get from a traditional bookmakers.

It offers betting pools and traditional fixed odds style betting but it also re-invests profits back into horse breeding and the sport of racing in general.

Totesport also offers a number of bets which usually have big jackpots if you’re lucky enough to win them. ‘Totetrifecta’ is where you try to predict the 1st, 2nd and 3rd horse in a race in the correct order. The ‘Toteplacepot’ is a popular daily bet with punters, just pick a horse to be placed in each of the daily six toteplacepot races and you’ll win very big!

If you fancy making your pound go even further for the 2010 Grand National then try out SkyBet who are currently offering all new customers a cash match on their first deposit up to a whopping £500!! By taking advantage of the bonus you can double your cash and, in turn, double the number of horses you back, giving you a better chance of picking a winner – simple!

If you’re not very familiar with betting online then you can view all the odds in their standard format e.g. 16/1 but if you’re more comfortable with decimal odds then you can change over at the click of a button. SkyBet are also taking ante-post odds on many of the horses favoured to line up on the big day and will pay out 1/4 of odds for 1st 4 places on all each-way bets.

If in the mean time you fancy your hand at something a little different then why not try out their bingo, slots and fruit machines!