paddy power last man standing

It was one of the prime online football betting features of last season, and it is worth revisiting again, as Paddy Power and their Last Man Standing competition can bring great rewards. First of all you will need to go to the online bookmaker, which is one of the most highly recommended and popular ones available for football betting promotions and sign up for a new betting account. When you do this, just to make all of this even better, Paddy Power offer a £50 free bet for new customers. Just deposit and the bookie will match your first stake on a new account. It’s as simple as that, and once you are on board with Paddy Power, you will be able to gain entry into their Last Man Standing competition. What is the Last Man Standing competition? Well, the upshot of the tournament is simply to do what it is says in the title, be the Last Man Standing by navigating your way through rounds of correct football predictions. If you are the only person left in one of the Last Man Standing competitions (of which a new one begins each week) then you will win the prize, that guaranteed jackpot! The upshot of this, is winning a lot of money for predicting one result each week, and with over £50,000 being paid out in jackpots this season – it will be well worth investing some time in. Let’s look at the Paddy Power offer in a little more detail.

After signing up for a new betting account at Paddy Power, you can enter the Last Man Standing competition. There are two types of competition, a paid entry (which is around £4) or a free public entry. In order to gain entry to your first free tournament, you will need to have funds in your Paddy Power betting account, and have already made one bet on their sports book. After that, you are set to go, and all that you have to do, is pick the winner of just one (yes, really!) Premier League result each week. That’s it, and if your prediction wins, you stay in the competition, if your prediction is wrong, then you are out. You predict who will win a match (well, you can actually pick a team to draw, and if they win or draw you will go through) and if you get it right, you are still in with a chance of the jackpot. Naturally you are thinking, aha, just pick Chelsea week in, week out, but Last Man Standing rules prohibit that, and this is where your football prediction skills really come in. You are not allowed to pick the same team twice in a tournament (unless it runs past 20 weeks which is when you‘ll run out of teams and they will be reset). This means, that once you have probably used up the stronger teams in the early round, you then will be left with the teams for which results are a little more uncertain, and there is the big test.

A new Last Man Standing tournament starts each week, with new jackpots up for grabs in each one. Each tournament will continue to run until its conclusion of having just one person left who will be the big winner. Tournament 31 is already just down to 80 players on week five, so a jackpot should be coming soon to one lucky person. All of these tournaments, whether paid entry or free running simultaneously and just progress through to the conclusion whenever that may be. One of the nice bonuses is that if you lose in Week one of a tournament then you get free entry into the next one. Also, you don’t even have to worry about missing a week if you go on vacation or anything, because if you have qualified for the next round, then Paddy Power will automatically assign you the next team in alphabetical order that you haven’t used). That’s all there is to it, but you can keep a track of how many people are left standing with your in the tournament, by checking out the Paddy Power Last Man Standing Stats page. You can even team up with friends in order to create your own tournaments (you can still enter the other regular tournaments as well). Remember that you need to be a Paddy Power account holder to gain entry into the Last Man Standing tournaments.

This is just one of the great features about Paddy Power who are renowned for their great betting promotions. They are worth checking out every day, and other features include a football betting promotion which is called a Half Time Saver. For this accumulator special, Paddy Power will refund any stakes on four fold bets or larger which are winning at half time, but lose come full time. This really is great, and as a punter, you can probably recall many times that everything in your accumulator has been looking great at half time only for it to all fall down come the end of the matches. What Paddy Power do very well as an online bookmaker, is throw out football betting promotions on individual matches. There is a Luck of the Draw promotion for the forthcoming Barclays Premier League clash between Man Utd v Liverpool, in which lost stakes on certain markets will be refunded if the match finishes as a score draw. This is what Paddy Power are all about, delivering a great service and great promotions to their customers. With excellent live in play betting services, and some of the most unique betting markets in football specials, then it’s hard to turn down the rewards which will come by signing up with Paddy Power.

Two of the biggest and best bookmakers around have a competition available where you can easily win £10,000.

Ladbrokes have recently launched a Premier League prediction promotion ahead of the new season, where customers have to select who they think will finish in the top three and the bottom three of the table by the end of the season.

Providing that you’re right with your prediction and nobody else has matched your achievement, Ladbrokes will credit your account with £10,000 in free bets. This competition is totally free to enter and it’s definitely worth opening a Ladbrokes betting account now if you don’t already have one.

For what it’s worth, we are going for an Arsenal – Chelsea – Manchester United top three and a Wigan (18th) – Sunderland (19th) – West Brom (20th) bottom three. Fingers crossed!

Meanwhile, Paddy Power are continuing to run with their popular Last Man Standing competition this season, something which offers £10,000 to the person / people who survive until the final round.

It costs £10 to enter a particular game and you have to pick a particular Premier League team to win that weekend. If you’re right, then you go through to the next round, although you won’t be allowed to pick the same team twice. Therefore, while many people will be going for Chelsea against West Brom this coming weekend, it could be worth a look at the fixture list to see whether this is an ideal time to pick Wigan (who are playing Blackpool).

Two other pieces of advice when it comes to playing Last Man Standing at Paddy Power. Firstly, you do have one opportunity to select the team + draw for a particular round, although this is definitely worth saving until a later stage. Secondly, if you go out in the first round, you will receive a free entry into the following week’s game (where you start all over again) so it’s worth taking a calculated risk.

In addition to Last Man Standing, Paddy Power have a wide range of markets available on the new Premier League season, including Top English Goalscorer, Longest Unbeaten Run and Name the Top Four Teams. You can back Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City at odds of 23/10, or instead go for the first three and Tottenham at 15/2, which is what happened last year.

Unsurprisingly, Wayne Rooney is the 8/11 favourite with Paddy to be Top English Goalscorer, with Jermain Defoe on offer at 13/2, Darren Bent at 15/2, although Frank Lampard could be the value pick at 9/1.

As for Longest Unbeaten Run, you can back Manchester United to achieve this at 11/4 and they certainly look a better bet than the 2/1 about Chelsea considering the Blues have lost their last four pre-season friendlies.

The Irish bookmaker have been known to take some unusual steps in the past, usually by paying out on a team winning a league well before it becomes a mathematical possibility. Indeed, there have been several occasions when Paddy Power have got it wrong and ended up paying out on Manchester United and Arsenal or Celtic and Rangers in the same season! Now it appears that they have been courting controversy again with their popular Last Man Standing competition.

In fairness to them, they were caught between a rock and a hard place when the snow started falling last week, leading to seven of the ten Premier League fixtures being postponed. Many contestants in the Last Man Standing competition took advantage of this by selecting a team in a match which had been postponed, but which Paddy Power hadn’t managed to void on time. Therefore, they were left with a situation whereby contestants had either:

1)    Deliberately picked a ‘postponed’ team
2)    Been forced to pick one of the six teams that were actually playing a match between Saturday and Monday
3)    Innocently picked a team and then seen their match postponed nearer to the time

Quite rightly, Paddy Power have decided to allow all participants to progress in the respective competitions, although some will feel a sense of injustice due to:

a)    picking a team that won the match, eg Manchester City, while others went for Manchester United or Arsenal
b)    no longer being able to pick Manchester City in the competition, while others went for Burnley, Wigan and Stoke etc, knowing the games would be postponed

It’s an unusual circumstance, although if you’re like me and one of the 101 left in the ‘Week 15’ competition, then it’s no longer a level playing field. I managed to pick Wigan although my first choice ‘postponed’ team would have been Burnley, especially as they have now lost Owen Coyle as manager and it’s doubtful they will win many more matches this season!

Nevertheless, with Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City left to pick, it promises to be an interesting few weeks, with the draw insurance still available for one particular week. This is the time when it pays to look at the fixture list for the weeks ahead and assess likely home wins (always slightly dangerous to go for away picks). Many of the previous contests have seen more than one winner, with the contestants being left with the dregs to pick from when it gets towards the tenth week of the competition!

One thing that Paddy Power should be applauded for is the moneyback specials that are regularly available at their website. They have commemorated Owen Coyle’s return to Bolton as manager by offering a refund to all losing first / last goalscorer, correct score and scorecast singles if Wanderers give their new gaffer a dream start by winning the match. Click here for more details.

After last weekend’s round of Premier League fixtures, there are now 144 people left in Paddy Power’s Last Man Standing competition (tournament 15). 834 people entered three weeks ago, although some unusual results (such as Manchester United losing at home to Aston Villa) meant that the field was drastically reduced to 162 people. It appears that many people (like myself) went for Arsenal last weekend and, after a nervous opening, the Gunners’ 3-0 win saw 144 of us survive to week 3.

There’s a new tactic which could be deployed for the forthcoming set of fixtures (although I had already selected Liverpool to beat Wolves before thinking about it!). Namely that if you select a team who has a match postponed, then you automatically progress to the next round. Therefore, it might be worth waiting to see which games are in danger of not going ahead before making your selection.

A new competition starts every week, with £10,000 in guaranteed prize money available to the winner(s). In the first week, it’s better to take a small risk as you get a free entry if you are eliminated, while you have the option to include the draw during one week.

In addition, the Irish bookmaker have just announced some generous cashback specials for Boxing Day. The first one focuses on the Liverpool v Wolves match, where Fernando Torres will be looking to fire his team to victory. Paddy Power have offered to refund all losing 1st / last goalscorer, correct score & scorecast singles if the Reds number 9 scores the last goal of the game. On the basis that Torres is 3/1 to score the last goal, this is a decent offering.

The second offer is arguably more tempting, with Paddy offering to refund all losing 1st / last goalscorer, correct score & scorecast singles if Aston Villa win the match. I personally think that the Villans have a decent chance of landing victory at the Emirates after their recent success at Old Trafford, so this again represents good value. Put together with the Torres offer, there’s a reasonable chance of one of these outcomes happening.

Stan James have also got into the festive spirit as far as the Arsenal v Aston Villa game is concerned. Have a first goalscorer bet with this bookie and if the player fails to score the first goal but scores at any other time, you’ll get your money back as a free bet. Not bad if you think a few goals will be scored and it prompts me to back the excellent James Milner at big odds.

Meanwhile, we’re at the halfway stage of the football season and Victor Chandler have created some ‘half-time season specials’. The Gibraltar-based bookmaker offer an enhanced 9/1 that Chelsea, Newcastle, Leeds and Rochdale all win their respective divisions, while they also have a special price of 5/1 that Chelsea, Barca, Inter and Bayern Munich all win their domestic divisions.