‘The vibe coming into the meeting was as muted as I can recall and I’ve never experienced a flatter two days at the meeting than the first two days of it this year.”
This was a tweet from Declan Meagher, the extraordinary tipster behind the Learn Bet Win service. I hadn’t thought I’d misread the room in last week’s post, but it was good to see someone as esteemed as Declan back up my thoughts on the feeling going into Cheltenham. To be honest, I saw the pundits on ITV Racing debating the issue of Cheltenham losing its bling/charm (delete as you feel appropriate) so at least there is some recognition that there is at least, an issue.
From a personal point of view it felt at least, that things were more like you would expect the Festival to be, on the Thursday and Friday when more competitive racing kicked in. From a punting point of view, the meeting was a fairly successful one.
The Lucky 15s from the Bookie Bashing Racing Tracker had been seriously underwhelming, but a couple of decent winning tickets took a good chunk out of the year to date losses, and ensured the week in isolation was a good one. No spectacular winning bet, but a couple with two winners and another with a win and three placed netted circa 10 points profit on each, and that soon adds up. The Lucky 15s are still in the red for 2024, but a good step has been taken towards the promised land of profit.
Sys Analyst ran a free trial over Cheltenham and those dabbling weren’t let down. There were some good winners and overall a decent profit made. I think I said this last week, but if you get the opportunity to join this long term winning service, I would recommend you do so. If you look at my figures for 2024, I’m currently running at 35% ROI and have achieved 40% bank growth, which is obviously excellent. The main thing here though, is that 90% of the bets I place for Sys Analyst I do so on the Exchanges. Because of Allan’s desire for everyone to be able to get on, I’m betting into liquid markets and getting the prices I need.
It was also a week when after a couple of “sideways” weeks, the Lucky 15s from the Bookie Bashing Early Pay Out Tracker took another step forward. This is now running at a 15% ROI and a wee bit under 40% bank growth since the turn of the year, so another going along swimmingly. Managed to get all four up in one bet, although the prices on three of the teams were relatively short, but a couple of L15s that carried three winners at odds between 2.0 and 4.0 meant returns from those tickets were solid. Just a case of plugging away with these.
The only thing to suffer a poor week was the Double Delight/Hat Trick Heaven strategy with more bets to place than has been the recent norm, but none of the beggars winning. It will change.
Figures for 2024:
Account Angel: Staked 1,370pts, -34.22pts. ROI -2.49%
Bookie Bashing Early Pay Out Tracker: Staked 4,170pts, +562.98pts, ROI 13.5%, ROC 37.53%
Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/Weekly Golf Value: Staked 1,843.5pts, -318.49pts, ROI: -17.27%, ROC: -21.23%
Golf (Win Only): Staked 150pts, -150pts, ROI -100%, ROC -15%
Bookie Bashing Racing Tracker (Lucky 15s): Staked 3,015pts, -151.93pts, ROI: -5.13%, ROC: -10.12%.
Bookie Bashing Value Bets Tracker: Staked 2,044pts, +455.23pts, ROI: 22.27%, ROC: 45.52%
DD/HH: Staked 474.5pts, -103.5pts, ROI: -21.81%, ROC: -10.35%.
Golf Betting Club: Staked 723pts, 218.12pts, ROI 30.16%, ROC 15.58%
NFL strategy: Staked 94.5pts, +95.45pts, ROI: 101%, ROC: 9.54%
Sys Analyst: Staked 1,141.05pts, +407.04pts, ROI: 35.67%, ROC: 40.7%
Touchdown Profit: Staked 120pts, +75.44pts, ROI: 62.86%, ROC: 7.54%
TOTAL ROI: 3.19%
