No.1 son had a 90/1 golf winner yesterday. Picked straight off the Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker I couldn’t help but be pleased for him, as Ryo Hisatsune landed the spoils at 90/1 for Weekly Golf Value too, meaning I was able to share in my son’s joy.
I imagine this might happen quite a bit moving forward. Obviously the WGV picks will be showing as value on the Tracker so crossover is fairly likely. The difference between WGV and Joe’s approach to using the Tracker is that WGV tend to look to cover c.10-12% of the field (in terms of win probability) whilst Joe is aiming to cover around 20% of the field. In other words, Joe is going to be supporting more golfers. As a working example, he backed 15 golfers in the tournament that Hisatsune won, covering 20.4% of the field. In contrast, there were the usual eight golfers “tipped” by WGV.
In other news, Joe has also signed up to the Match Day Profits service, run by well-known-to-the-SBC, Paul Ruffy. Paul used to run the once Hall of Fame service Winning Racing Tips, something I followed myself a few years back and for some considerable time, and very successfully too. So Paul has a strong pedigree, and MDP looks like a good, safe bank builder, which Joe is hoping will contrast nicely with the more up and down ride that is golf betting. I can’t really argue, and from next week I’ll add results from this to the golf. This could be of interest to anyone out there in the early days of their betting careers.
Elsewhere and a fine example of how good customer service can be by those that actually work in the betting shops (and not those higher up the bookmaking food chain). Bear with me…
I’ve got a bulging disc in my lower back at the minute, and it’s bloomin’ painful. Until I have an MRI, all I can do is exercises the Physio has given me, and meds for nerve pain. Those meds don’t work (or haven’t yet), but they do make me slightly dopey! An example of this dopiness was on Saturday, when I went into a BetFred to have a decent bet on England in their Rugby Union World Cup match against Chile, with a -49 point handicap.
It wasn’t until I got home I realised that I hadn’t put the handicap total on the bet slip. In other words, instead of sticking my bet on at Evens, I’d simply backed England to win…at 1/200!
I had time to go to a different BetFred to put my bet on properly. England won by 71 points.
Yesterday, I took my (wrong) slip back to the shop, just to get my money back, basically. it came as a surprise when I was paid out at Evens. The guy who took my bet originally had realised after I’d gone what bet I had meant to place, and spent some time making the relevant ‘phone calls to his managers to get the bet accepted as it had meant to be struck. After some to and fro, apparently, this was allowed, hence my full return.
How good is that? I slipped the guy £20 out of winnings I never expected to have. Leaving the shop, I crossed over to stick a Football Coupon on at Hills. The relevant coupon wasn’t there.
“Any chance you could print one out?”
Stony faced, the answer the guy gave me was short. One word to be precise.
The difference between good customer service and bad, experienced in the space of two minutes.
Joe’s betting ROI: 42.16%
