I have a bit of a quandary, in that with not having placed a single bet over the weekend, I don’t have a great deal to report.  That’s going to be the way of it though for the next month or so, as cricket kinda takes over.

Without boring you, this is how the weekend panned out, and is fairly typical at this time of year.

Saturday: leave the house at 8.00am, two hours of coaching 8.30-10.30.  10.30 is the team I play for meet time, match starts at 12, finishes at 7.00pm, couple of beers, in at 10.00pm.

Sunday: Leave the house at 8.30am to get to Liverpool (35 miles away) to manage/coach Women’s 1st XI – match starts at 11.45, finishes at 6.30pm, drive home and arrive at 7.30, eat, glass of wine, fall into bed.

As you can see, no betting!

So this Monday update, until the autumn anyway, is really likely to cover only Friday’s betting plus an update on how the golf went each week.

Sadly, not even close to a repeat of the heroics performed last week by Weekly Golf Value, whose one sole, shared place return from the US PGA Championship gave very little back.  94% of the total staked across the tournament was loss – the nearest thing to being a blank week without it officially being a blank week.

However, Friday saw another (third) nice winning double from Tilt The Odds land to push it up to a new profit high, and that is now running along very nicely at 81% ROI for the month.  Coming close to getting three winners in a Lucky 15 too which should produce some very healthy returns, but have hit the bar twice last week on that front.  It’ll come.

SharpBetting Football continues to be the model of consistency and like TTO, is sitting on a current profit high.  It’s notched up bank growth of 43% in just a day or so over a month, which it has to be said, is a pretty spectacular start!  I’m not counting on that rate of growth continuing but to say I’m pleased with how things have started, is something of an understatement.

So May continues to produce profit, and let’s hope that continues.

May 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 744pts, +814.57pts, ROI 109.4%, ROC 54.3%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 2620pts, +82.69pts, ROI 3.15%, ROC 5.5%

The Value Machine: Staked 1,032pts, -354.39pts, ROI -34.3%, ROC -23.6%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 270.75pts, +220.86pts, ROI 81.5%, ROC 14.7%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 3,226.5pts, +382.09pts, ROI 11.8%, ROC 25.4%.

WinnerOdds Football: Staked 357pts, -8.47pts, ROI -2.3%, ROC -0.5%

TOTAL: Staked 8,250.25pts, +1,137.58pts, ROI 13.7%, ROC 15.1%

It’s fair to say that The Value Machine Exchange Profit is enduring something of a drawdown at the moment.  Nothing out of the ordinary and nothing to cause any worry, but normally I’d be checking the previous day’s results to update my figures, thinking and hoping that a good winner or two had reversed the downward trend.

After the big, big winnings on the golf last week though, and with eSoccer Edge (which has gone from -135pts to +135 pts since Monday) and SharpBetting Football proving so consistent this week, that sort of very low level anxiety over the TVM drawdown just hasn’t been a thing.  The conclusion – and it’s a very obvious one – is that when other services are doing so well, one that isn’t doesn’t register even remotely on the when-is-this-losing-run-going-to-end-ometer!

In addition to those two, I’m still looking for a big win to hit via Tilt The Odds but in the meantime another nice winning double has added nicely to the pot, and very quietly and without any fuss or fanfare, we’re running at an ROI of 53%.  Why can’t it always be as easy?

All this is a nice position to be in.  It won’t always be like this, of course.  But at present, I feel I’m just sailing away merrily on a flat sea, with a prevailing wind filling the sails and not so much as a cloud in sight.  We all know it won’t last, and sometime, sooner or later, will come a storm.  But for now, I’m going to sit back, chill, dangle a fishing live over the side and make the most of what’s happening in the here and now.

All sounds very Zen that, doesn’t it?

It’s the USPGA Championship on the golf this week, so only one tournament for Weekly Golf Value to sink its teeth into.  Ten players carrying the money.  Let’s see how they get on.  Is it too much to ask for three winners in two weeks?

Have a lovely weekend.

May 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 570pts, +976.9pts, ROI 171.3%, ROC 65.1%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 2,320pts, +135.25pts, ROI 5.8%, ROC 9%

The Value Machine: Staked 972pts, -336.39pts, ROI -34.6%, ROC -22.4%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 230.1pts, +121.97pts, ROI 53%, ROC 8.1%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 2,846pts, +324.92pts, ROI 11.4%, ROC 21.6%.

WinnerOdds Football: Staked 357pts, -8.47pts, ROI -2.3%, ROC -0.5%

TOTAL: Staked 7,295.1pts, +1,214.08pts, ROI 16.6%, ROC 16.1%

Three tournaments, four placed, two winners (both at 40/1)!  The result was my biggest day’s single profit figure following the Weekly Golf Value service.

The performance from the week’s Weekly Golf Value picks has seen a return the equivalent to bank growth of 68%.  When the golf betting gods smile down at you, they don’t just smile, they positively beam with a warmth and radiance akin to a Mediterranean sun.  The last knockings of the final round of the Truist Championship saw a face off between two WGV selections, and always looked likely to produce a winner, to follow Martin Couvra’s earlier victory in the Turkish Open.  It was more a matter of how big was the second win going to be, with a heavier stake on Sepp Straka than Shane Lowry.  Straka prevailed, and so the jackpot was hit!

Frankly, this was a phenomenal tipping performance, and a week that demonstrated in a very sharp light the need for patience in betting on golf.  WGV has been ticking along very nicely this year, but it is not unknown for it to go for months without generating any forward momentum.  And then, bang! Two winners and fantastic returns, and we push on to a new profit high not only for the service, but for the year to date across the board.

All this somewhat overshadows everything else.  I’m finding with cricket essentially taking over my life, especially at weekends, that turnover suffers on The Value Machine Exchange Profit, SharpBetting Football, and Tilt The Odds.  I guess for the next few months most of bets across these services will be struck across the week, which although isn’t ideal, is no great catastrophe either.

A bigger concern is how the accounts coughing up considerable golf winnings are going to react.  Do they remain viable?  I guess we’ll find out this week, but last week saw the closure of an account by one firm which for the life of me I can’t work out why.  It was primed, hadn’t produced any profit, odds on bets hadn’t shortened ridiculously…I’m genuinely flummoxed by it, but not surprised.

Catch you later in the week.

May 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 570pts, +976.9pts, ROI 171.3%, ROC 65.1%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 1,360pts, -135pts, ROI -9.9%, ROC -9%

The Value Machine: Staked 588pts, -121.13pts, ROI -20.6%, ROC -8%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 156.6pts, +84.28pts, ROI 53.8%, ROC 5.6%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 1,907.5pts, +172.96pts, ROI 9%, ROC 11.5%.

WinnerOdds Football: Staked 357pts, -8.47pts, ROI -2.3%, ROC -0.5%

TOTAL: Staked 4,939.1pts, +969.74pts, ROI 19.6%, ROC 12.9%

Not the best weekend of betting.  I say weekend, but really I mean Friday and Sunday, with Saturday being a blank day as cricket takes over.

It was a bad week for Weekly Golf Value with just one golfer placing across two tournaments.  It happens.

This was exacerbated by a small losing weekend for each of WinnerOdds Football, Tilt The Odds and eSoccer Edge, although I appreciate any readers who use these services may have experienced vastly different fortunes.  A small profit for The Value Machine Exchange Profit and SharpBetting Football, but not enough to even things out.

The weekend was essentially dictated by WGV, which tends to be the way of it.

Some updated thoughts around eSoccer Edge.

It has been very noticeable that the last week saw a bit of a different dynamic emerge.  Prices and lines of the advised picks started to change very quickly.  It used to be that if I happened to be in the kitchen making a cuppa or something when a bet alert flashed through on Telegram, I could saunter back to the laptop and get the bet on no problem after logging into the bookmaker account and then finding the relevant match.  Last week in particular, if I wasn’t actually sitting at my laptop when the bet came through, I had no chance.  That largely remains the case.

The guys there have acknowledged this shift to the group of members they have following, and are conducting all sorts of analysis to see how they might improve this situation moving forward.  Full credit to them for doing so and not burying their heads in the sand and pretending the problem doesn’t exist.

Hopefully the price movement will improve.  Like I say, if I happen to be sitting working at my laptop, by being particularly quick and efficient, I can get on most, if not all picks.  Let’s see what happens.

May 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 206pts, -157.2pts, ROI -76.3%, ROC -10.4%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 580pts, +28.5pts, ROI 4.9%, ROC 1.9%

The Value Machine: Staked 228pts, -50.02pts, ROI -21.9%, ROC -3.33%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 77.95pts, +9.44pts, ROI 12.1%, ROC 0.6%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 931pts, +66.76pts, ROI 7.1%, ROC 4.4%.

WinnerOdds Football: Staked 318pts, -31.37pts, ROI -9.8%, ROC -2%

TOTAL: Staked 2340.9pts, -133.69pts, ROI -5.7%, ROC -1.4%

eSoccer Edge!!!!!

There’s no arguing with the figures.  An ROI of 8.25% and bank growth (ROC) of 35.5% for April alone are outstanding figures.  Certainly I feel the decision made part way through the month to transfer from a flat, level staking approach to the graded one, two or three unit stakes advised for each bet now has been justified.

The month of April as a whole has been far more satisfactory and much less frustrating than March proved to be.  The end figures read an overall ROI of 4.6% and bank growth of  7.9%.  I would like that ROI to be a touch higher but in the absence of a long-priced golf winner something hovering around the 5% marker is ok.  Moving forward and a big win from Tilt The Odds could easily boost the ROI number.

In second place behind eSoccer Edge has been the new ‘Trial’ Service that I started following just under two weeks ago.  I can now reveal this to be the David’s Daily service, for which the SBC’s in-depth review was released just yesterday.  For clarity, I don’t simply follow the David’s Daily advised bets, but use the real time live model to source my own.  I appreciate that the current ROI figure of 10.4% is a bit higher than I can reasonably expect over the longer term, but it’s always nice to start with a new offering on the front foot and much better to run a little hot at the beginning than a little cold.

Weekly Golf Value started the month with an ROI in the 50/60% range without actually tipping a winner as a series of golfers provided place returns.  These dried up a little through the back end of the month, which meant some of the previous profit was temporarily donated back to the bookmakers.  Any month that ends in profit is a good one though, as far as I am concerned!

I’m going to write a post on each service, starting next week, and so will not say anything for now about WinnerOdds Football and where we are with that currently.

April 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 1,017pts, +57.35pts, ROI 5.6%, ROC 3.8%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 6,455pts, +533.05pts, ROI 8.2%, ROC 35.5%

The Value Machine: Staked 1,978pts, -17.39pts, ROI -0.8%, ROC -1.1%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 365.1pts, +12.78pts, ROI 3.5%, ROC 0.8%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 2,534.5pts, +265.57pts, ROI 10.4%, ROC 17.7%.

WinnerOdds Football: Staked 2,967pts, -137.57pts, ROI -4.6%, ROC -9.1%

TOTAL: Staked 15,363.6pts, +713.79pts, ROI 4.6%, ROC 7.9%