It was nice to walk into one of the local bookies yesterday afternoon and pick up some decent returns gained from the first week of doing the Each Way Golf Doubles.  

Now I know this is a generation/age thing, but I have to admit I had to ask the cashier how to use the SSBT terminal in terms of being paid out.  I had worked out pretty easily how to get my bets on last week, something for which I was ridiculously proud of myself for, to the extent that when I got home I immediately talked my wife through how I’d figured out how to use the very latest in cutting edge technology.  To be fair it took me about a month to figure out how to use the new television we got recently (who needs two remote controls!?!), which is why she merely raised an eyebrow and dismissed me with a far from sincere, “very good, dear”.

Anyway, as those who bet in shops know, it’s always good to build a rapport with the shop staff.  So I made fun of myself whilst asking for help and the young chap was very polite in lying to me about how it wasn’t an age thing and that he struggles at times with the machines too (I now have him labelled as a well-intentioned liar who has had a good upbringing!).  But when all was said and done I walked out with a couple of hundred quid or so in my pocket and a small grin.  It’s always nice to get off to a good start when doing something new!

What also made me smile last week?

Well, a nice 75/1 winning double for Tilt The Odds perked me up a bit, and the continued golden form of WinnerOdds Tennis gladdened the heart.  The latter is bouncing along, but I’ve got to admit to some trepidation when Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays come around.  The relatively massive outlay in such a concentrated period of time always gets the adrenaline going a little, no matter how experienced a bettor I am and no matter how much faith I have in the laws of probabilities.  It’s not that I ever think I’d not recover from a (very) sharp drawdown.  It’s more that I enjoy winning and having profitable days.  They’re just more fun than losing days and they help make life feel just a tiny bit better and easier when you see a positive return for the previous day’s efforts.  It’s a bit like waking up to a warm, sunny day compared to a cold and wet day – you know you’ll get through the latter but the former is just nicer.

And then a smile facilitated by Weekly Golf Value who gave winner of the Nexo Championship in Scotland, Grant Forrest (30/1).  Bit of a weird week for WGV in that the FedEx Championship in the US saw some pretty hefty stakes going down, none of which were returned.  So a good winner on the week plus a couple more placed over on the LIV Tour, and yet the actual profit for the week was not more than if we’d had say, three or four placed.  But look, I certainly ain’t complaining!  More observing what feels like a bit of a quirk.

So when all had been counted up, another very profitable week.  Things have been going swimmingly for three months or so now.  I can kinda guess what might happen next.

Tune in on Friday to find out.

PS. A note re. the figures below for the eagle-eyed.  I’ve ‘added’ a bank to cover the Each Way Golf Doubles to the total bank, which will obviously bring the overall ROC down a little, despite this being a week making good profit.

August 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 558pts, +110.88pts, ROI 19.87%, ROC 7.39%

BB Tracker Each Way Golf Doubles: Staked 142pts, +176pts, ROI 123.94pts, ROC 17.6%.

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 650pts, -146.61pts, ROI -22.55%, ROC -9.77%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 202pts, +192.26pts, ROI 95.17%, ROC 12.81%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 2,041.5pts, -86.8pts, ROI -4.25%, ROC -5.78%.

WinnerOdds Tennis: Staked 5,923pts, +429.38pts, ROI 7.24%, ROC 21.46%.

TOTAL: Staked 9,516.5pts, +675.11pts, ROI 7.09%, ROC 7.5%

Since being able to “reboot”, I’ve missed going into betting shops.  A bit like top flight football, betting shops have largely been sanitized.  The characters that made going into my local William Hill as a teenager always something of an adventure, seemed to have disappeared.  I’m sure the characters are still there, it’s just that they’re subsumed by those infernal slot machines as opposed to passing on “inside information” to their co-bettors,  telling anyone who might listen about their latest conquests, or chatting up/winding up the counter staff as appropriate.

Betting shops are now clean, air conditioned (some of them), and “corporate”.  They’re the equivalent to all seater stadia with rooves and the like that means you can watch your football and stay dry, compared to the terraces that I used to stand on getting piss wet through whilst in constant worry that at some point in time the away fans will think it a bit of a laugh to mount an attempt at a bloody takeover of enemy territory.

But look, I still like to go to the Emirates to watch the Arsenal, just as I still like to go into the local BetFred to put my bets down using that old fashioned thing called cash.  And if I’m really honest with myself, I don’t really miss passively smoking two packs of Marlborough whilst I’m in there, either.

We all know however, that the easiest way to make money from betting is through access to soft, online bookmakers.  Which I’ve had, but realise I might very well not have for much longer.  So for the past few months, I’ve gone back to mainly betting online, but now it’s important to have a contingency plan and to start transitioning again to shop betting.

The question was where to start?

I’ve previously had great experience of, and success in using the various Bookie Bashing Tools, so moving in this direction makes a lot of sense.  And then I started to watch Tom Brownlees’ BB YouTube channel, which has a weekly video of him utilizing the BB Golf Tracker to put down each way doubles on golfers playing across the DPWT Tour and PGA Tour events.  A plan was easily hatched.

This is how it’s going to work…

I’ll use the Tracker on my ‘phone to find out what bets to strike.  I’ve a BetFred (which produces golf coupons each week) and Ladbrokes (who have their golf markets on their SSBTs) literally opposite each other, less than two miles away.  Should I be fortunate to experience a very big win one week, I can easily give that shop a rest for a while as there are at least two other BFs and Laddies within a short drive.  It’s the perfect set up.

I started this week, and I’ll report back on results alongside all the others so you can keep track.

As with anything, the first time you do something, you learn.  What I learnt this week (assuming this week is typical) is that there is a fair bit of odds movement.  With the coupons at BetFred, some had come in a little, but others had gone out, so my feeling is that unless there’s a major move, to just take what’s on offer.  At Ladbrokes however, particularly on the DPWT event, there were significant odds cuts.

The answer moving forward is to go into Laddies first, and check the prices.  Without striking any bets, I can then nip over to Fred’s place, stick those bets on, and before returning to Ladbrokes look at the Tracker to see if the reduced prices still hold value and to look for some possible alternatives if not.  Within a couple of weeks, I reckon I’ll have this running like clockwork!

Watch this space for more detail as the weeks go by.  Something tells me this is going to be fun.

August 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 0pts, 0pts, ROI 0%, ROC 0%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 430pts, -220.92pts, ROI -51.37%, ROC -14.72%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 119.2pts, +255.86pts, ROI 214.64%, ROC 17.05%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 1,286.5pts, +36.97pts, ROI 2.87%, ROC 2.46%.

WinnerOdds Tennis: Staked 4,093pts, +304.32pts, ROI 7.43%, ROC 15.21%.

TOTAL: Staked 5,738.1pts, +363.23pts, ROI 6.33%, ROC 4.54%

This morning was damp.  Very damp.  In fact, it was bloomin’ wet as the rain from some “Storm” or other hit the North West of England.  Not sure storm is an accurate description, but it’s been a bit breezy and certainly, the rain was at times pretty torrential.

Which is in stark, stark contrast to where I was last week, holidaying in Crete.  Hot, sunny, warm sea to swim in.  Why oh why do I live in England?!?

Being on holiday meant that other than ten minutes sticking on the Weekly Golf Value bets, I had a gambling free week, and I feel much refreshed for it.  It was the first time my wife and I had been away just the two of us for any longer than a couple of days, for 22 years!  I think the last thing she would have appreciated would have been me taking up time on the laptop.  Far better to swim, explore, find good food, drink good wine.

The upshot of all this is that I didn’t really do anything to add to or subtract from the July figures.  So now is time for a quick review of the month.

Final Figures: Staked 14,938.8pts, +1,233.38pts, ROI 8.23%, ROC 15.41%, Biggest Drawdown: -334.04pts.

That is a fine month.

The biggest contributor was WinnerOdds Tennis, which generated bank growth of 32.9% in just two weeks worth of betting.  I had considered waiting to sign up until I got back from holiday, but I’m pretty pleased I didn’t!  That ROC figure and an ROI of 15.4% is way over the norm so I know that I was simply the fortunate beneficiary of some short term positive variance.

My observations of the service are that Tuesdays/Wednesdays are ridiculously busy and results over those two days have real potential to fundamentally impact whether I have a winning or losing week, that odds on many bets disappear before I can get on but that said, by being quick, there are plenty I can get on.  What will be interesting is how long it is before restrictions kick in.  The main account I use for WOT is the same as that I used for eSoccer Edge (more on that anon), with that same firm – and I’m sure everyone can guess which it is! – now restricting me to pennies on Esports and football, but remaining perfectly happen to take my business on golf, tennis and horse racing.

In the meantime, Service of the Month winner for July 2025 has to be, without any doubt, WinnerOdds Tennis!

The we have three services that each produced a very solid month.

The first of these is The Value Machine Exchange Profit.  After a couple of weeks of July I was flying but a bit of a drawdown knocked some, but certainly not all of the shine off.  Bank growth of 12.5% and an ROI of 9.5% is more than respectable and losses from a biiig drawdown suffered earlier this year are being clawed back.  I have to acknowledge too that once the summer is over, I’ll be in a position to get on a greater percentage of the bets, and so with increased turnover I’m hoping will come increased profitability.

I can apply very similar comments re solidity of performance through July and losses being clawed back from a bigger historical drawdown to SharpBetting Football.  A not dissimilar level of bank growth of 11.4% came at a much lower ROI of 3.5%.  I started to experiment with placing a few selections in Doubles towards the end of the month, with a view to increasing the ROI figure and also in an attempt to appear a bit more “muggy” to the books.  We’ll see how that goes.

The third – with an ROC of 11.5% – is Weekly Golf Value.  There’s not much I can say here.  I just love the service and those that run it!

Overall though, I’m delighted with SB Football – I can get plenty of bets down each day and since starting just a couple of months ago, and despite a biggish drawdown, I’m sitting at 57.7% ROC.

The sad news that hit during July was the restrictions that brought my eSoccer Edge betting to a sudden halt.  I’m looking to resolve this issue, helped by exploring some “clone” options to see if I can find alternative market entry points.  In a short space of time, this service was a revelation, and I miss it badly already.  I’ll be doing everything I can to make it an “au revoir” and not a terminal “goodbye”.

Finally, a small losing month for Tilt The Odds, but as ever with this service it’s a case of waiting for a big one to hit.  It felt like I hit the bar more times than is fair last month, but I’ll keep trying to land a big one or two.  As I type this, I have a race starting in just over an hour which if it kicks up the right result, will represent the type of “big one” I’m talking about.  Fingers crossed!

If August turns out literally half as good a month as was July, I’ll be a happy man.

July 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 1,156pts, +173.4pts, ROI 15%, ROC 11.56%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 1,860pts, +116.5pts, ROI 6.26%, ROC 7.76%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 1,960pts, +187.86pts, ROI 9.58%, ROC 12.52%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 814.8pts, -76.01pts, ROI -9.32%, ROC -5.06%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 4,913pts, +171.82pts, ROI 3.49%, ROC 11.45%.

WinnerOdds Tennis: Staked 4,280pts, +659.81pts, ROI 15.41%, ROC 32.99%.

TOTAL: Staked 14,983.8pts, +1,233.38pts, ROI 8.23%, ROC 15.41%

I don’t know whether or not Charles Darwin enjoyed a flutter, but I do know he talked a lot of sense when it came to evolution, natural selection and survival of the fittest.  From what I can gather, the fundamental of Darwin’s theories was that species would either adapt and if not thrive, at least survive.  And if they didn’t, well, it was curtains.

Now let’s take that principle and apply it (admittedly clumsily) to betting.  I think we have to acknowledge that being able to adapt and to be resourceful are two pretty useful skills to be able to call on if wanting to survive and then thrive in the betting world for any substantial period of time.  And I do.  I do want to.

And so it is that since losing the ability to bet on the eSoccer Edge picks last week, my mind has been concentrated on figuring out what next to do for the best.  eSE was very, very good to me.  I made a decent amount of dosh from it, but temporarily at least, that tap has been turned off.  So what next?

I think I mentioned in last week’s post that I was looking ideally for a high turnover approach, from a trusted source, with a track record of success.  I had a thought, placed one bet to test something out, and then it was clear where it was I should turn to…WinnerOdds Tennis.

Regular readers of the Bet Diary will know that I used WinnerOdds Football, and what wound that up for me was the inability after a while, to get on enough of the bets that came through.  It seemed though, from my experimental bet, that tennis is a sport I can still bet on, without restrictions that are too, well, restrictive.

How long this will last, who knows?  But my thought process is, let’s squeeze as much juice out of this account-shaped orange as is humanly possible.

After one week, and no issues so far.  Furthermore, WOT has got me off to a grand old start.  Don’t worry, I’m under no illusions. The current ROI of 18.68% is waaaaaaayyyy too high, but always nice to get off to a good start with something new.  There are a few other accounts I have access to that I can use for the moment too, so it’s not all going in one firm’s way just yet.  Let’s see how long I can make this last.

Meantime, ever conscious of Darwin’s theories (ahem), I’m thinking about what happens when I next need to adapt.  A road I’ve been down before – and successfully so – was betting more with cash in shops.  It may be that this is something I need to pick up again and to that end, I’ll be running a trial using one particular strategy that involves shop betting in the not too distant future.  Two weeks to be precise, when I get back from holiday.  But I’ll be writing a lot more about that once I get going.

Have a good week, and here are the latest figures…

July 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 896pts, +136.4pts, ROI 15.22%, ROC 9.09%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 1,860pts, +116.5pts, ROI 6.26%, ROC 7.76%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 1,670pts, +220pts, ROI 13.17%, ROC 14.66%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 681.4pts, -154.58pts, ROI -22.68%, ROC -10.3%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 4,188pts, +248.01pts, ROI 5.92%, ROC 16.53%.

WinnerOdds Tennis: Staked 1,533pts, +286.49pts, ROI 18.68%, ROC 14.32%.

TOTAL: Staked 10,828.4pts, +852.82pts, ROI 7.87%, ROC 10.66%

So immediately after posting last week around the subject of being able to get on eSoccer Edge tips again and how everything was going swimmingly again, now I can’t get on any.  Yup, my stakes have been restricted to pennies by the firm through which I was streaming all of these bets.

This is one of those times that makes you feel that you are merely a pawn in the chess game being played by the Gambling Gods.  It’s as if they were waiting for me to post of good things, and then quickly act to take away the joy you had.

“He’s making lots of money from this service is he?  He’s written about how things have got back to normal after a difficult spell, has he?  Well how do you like this then!?  You are a mere mortal, here for our entertainment.  And don’t you forget it!”

Interestingly, it’s only for eSports betting that the bookmaker has restricted me.  However, after backing Weekly Golf Value’s William Mouw, 45/1 winner of the US Tour event on Sunday at the same book, it will be interesting to see this week if golf betting is an avenue that remains open to me with this particular firm.

It was inevitable that this would happen, and has always been only a matter of time.  Even disguising bets as best I could by using multiples with other sports, keeping stakes and bookmaker liabilities relatively low in an attempt to remain underneath the radar for as long as possible, and using all the other tricks we use…you simply can’t profit from a soft book to the level and extent I have with this service to go unnoticed forever.

Despite knowing the day when I found myself restricted was always going to arrive however, it still stings.  I feel there is a big gap in my portfolio now, a vacuum which as I type, I’m undecided how to fill.  I’m sure that I’ll be able to jump back on board at some point down the line, but getting to that point is going to take a little time.  In the meantime, I need to work out what to do for the best.

The vacancy I now have to look to fill is a high turnover service, with relatively short losing runs, that is most likely to provide the sort of consistency eSE has given me over the last few months.  When we take out the weird period when something fundamental changed within the eSports game which caused a sharp drawdown (which was quickly recovered from), the largest drawdown I’ve experienced in amassing 2,428 points of profit has been just -210.7 points.  Not only has eSoccer Edge produced fantastic profit, it’s facilitated my betting to be as least volatile I’ve ever known it.  And as time wore on, I got to appreciate that more and more.  It was like being coddled in a warm, fluffy safety blanket.

It may be I have to accept that I’m going to have to accept more volatility moving forward, and fill the gap temporarily with a service that provides good profit but which doesn’t have the day in/day out consistency I’ve grown used to.

Anyway, ideas are buzzing through my head.  I need to just sit down and think things through.  Possibly trial a service or two and see where I am and how I’m feeling after that process.  Obviously, I’ll keep you updated every step of the way through this process.

Speak soon.

July 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 626pts, +244.4pts, ROI 39.04%, ROC 16.29%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 1,860pts, +116.5pts, ROI 6.26%, ROC 7.76%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 940pts, +410.36pts, ROI 43.65%, ROC 27.35%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 478.4pts, -39.75pts, ROI -8.3%, ROC -2.65%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 2,679.5pts, +139.39pts, ROI 5.2%, ROC 9.29%.

TOTAL: Staked 6,583.9pts, +889.9pts, ROI 13.51%, ROC 11.86%

What do we think is the most important factor in profitable betting?

If I had to make a check list, it would look something like this…

• Having an edge.
• Patience.
• The ability to get on.
• Patience.
• An appropriately sized betting bank, ie. having sufficient funds so as not to carry too much risk.
• Patience.
• Extra dollop of patience, for when patience starts to wear a bit thin.

Normally, when talking about having patience in the context of gambling, we mean the ability to focus on the long term and refusing to allow drawdowns and extended losing runs to knock us off our path.  In other words, not giving up on something or someone with a proven edge, too soon.

Last week though, I felt I was able to demonstrate a different type of patience. Or at least, I was able to be patient when faced with a slightly different challenge.

The profits I’ve enjoyed from eSoccer Edge since the early part of this year have been nothing short of phenomenal.  After yesterday’s profits were added to the pot, I’m standing at just over 2,500 points profit at an ROI of 15.3%.  The issue last week was that I struggled to get many bets down at all.  Turnover suddenly slowed drastically as lines/prices on the bets changed almost immediately the Telegram notifications came through.  In short, it was a bit of a pain.

This week however, the situation has almost completely eased, and I’ve been able to get on over 95% of the picks that came through at the times I was happy to be betting.

Where I’m pleased with myself is that for most of last week, if the bets came through, I’d react in the same way I always do and look to jump on quickly and efficiently.  I must have tried and failed to get on well over 50 bets.

But I figured on two things.

One – this is an exceptionally well run service, and I knew the powers that be would be working hard on finding a solution.  And…

Two – the crashes might well be caused by someone staking big and looking to make a quick hit of profit and max out before the account would be shut down…but I was pretty confident if this was the case, it would be shut down.

I don’t know what’s ultimately happened, but I do know that this week normal service was very much resumed, and I’m 231.5 points better off than I was.  I wonder when the insanely hot streak this service has been enjoying will end, and patience will be tested in a more traditional way?

I’m going to give myself a little pat on the back. 🙂

Enjoy the sun, folks!  See you next week.

July 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 218pts, +115pts, ROI 52.75%, ROC 7.66%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 1,440pts, +209.5pts, ROI 14.54%, ROC 13.96%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 700pts, 293.18pts, ROI 41.88%, ROC 19.54%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 373.4pts, +51.32pts, ROI 13.74%, ROC 3.42%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 2,155pts, +172.05pts, ROI 7.98%, ROC 11.47%.

TOTAL: Staked 4,886.4pts, +860.05pts, ROI 17.6%, ROC 11.46%

The first week of July has been kind, profits have come in very nicely, and as a result a new profit high has been reached for the year to date.

An overall ROI for the week of 24.59% and bank growth of 7.32% tells the story.  July has seen a very strong start.  And yet, there’s an inescapable sense of what could have been…again…after watching the end of the John Deere Classic golf tournament last night.

Weekly Golf Value generated an ROI for the week of 52%, but in what seems to have become a theme recently, one of our players threw away a strong position, and ended up losing in a play-off.  There was a time we couldn’t lose a play off.  Now we can’t win one.  Having said that, our man Grillo missed a putt to win it on the last and avoid the need for any extra holes, by a matter of an inch or two.  I guess that sums up the very fine margins between winning, and winning big.

It was the horses last week that produced much of the profit, however.

A couple of nice winning multiples were landed for Tilt The Odds, although still waiting for a biggie.  Keep hitting the crossbar as far as that is concerned, but nevertheless bank growth of 10.76% represents a fine week.

And then we had The Value Machine Exchange Profit enjoy a great day last Thursday, but subsequently give some back.  I’m quite looking forward to getting really stuck in with this come the autumn.  At the moment, I’m not able to get a fair percentage of the bets down, particularly at weekends.  This will change when the cricket season comes to an end, but in the meantime and despite a bit of clawback, bank growth of 12.1% on the week is excellent stuff!

And a similar story for SharpBetting Football, with a couple of fantastically profitable days followed by a bit of a clawback by the books.  But very healthy ROI (8.68%) and ROC (6.28%) have meant that July is already looking much better than June was.

Just hints that the line/price movement issues recently experienced by eSoccer Edge have been got on top of.  I don’t want to speak to soon, but there are promising signs and I’ve been able to get on a few more bets towards the end of the week than I was at the start.  Let’s see what happens this week.

July 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 218pts, +115pts, ROI 52.75%, ROC 7.66%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 300pts, -3pts, ROI -1%, ROC -0.2%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 460pts, +181.6pts, ROI 39.47%, ROC 12.1%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 170.2pts, +161.51pts, ROI 94.89%, ROC 10.76%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 1,085pts, 94.2pts, ROI 8.68%, ROC 6.28%.

TOTAL: Staked 2,233.2pts, +549.31pts, ROI 24.59%, ROC 7.32%

First of all, a huge apology for being a day later with this post than had been planned and promised.  We had to say goodbye yesterday to the faithful mutt who, at 16 years of age had chased her last squirrel, bless her.

Without further ado, let’s take a look back at June’s betting and we’ll start with the main figures:

Staked 13,890.9pts, +720.11pts, ROI 5.18%, ROC 9.6%.

The target for each month is to look to hit bank growth of 10%, so the first thing to say is that at 9.6% ROC, June has been a decent enough month.  However, a week before the end that ROC figure was up near the 12-13% marker, and the ROI near the 10% line.  The last few days of June were anything but “blazing”.

My biggest overall drawdown this year has reached a depth of -467.45pts, and that was hit this Sunday just gone.  A decent Monday from eSoccer Edge has eaten into that, but it shows how the last week has been a bit of a struggle.

Winner of ‘Service of the Month’ was yet again, for the third consecutive month, eSoccer Edge.  Its figures were frankly, phenomenal…

Staked 3,480pts, +922.25pts, ROI 26.5%, ROC 61.48%.

Not sure I’ve ever had 60%+ bank growth from any one service in just a month’s worth of betting.

I am forcing myself to remember that 26.5% ROI is waaaaaaayyy over the expected long term norm, and as hot as the service has been running, there will come a time when it runs cold.  The other issue is that the speed with which lines and prices are now moving has severely curtailed the number of bets I’ve been able to get on.  I’m really hoping this can be got on top of, and am very willing to give time to see this happen.  The fear is that this becomes a service that burns ridiculously bright but only for a short time before burning itself out.  But I have total belief and trust in the management team to be doing everything possible to get on top of the problem.

A very poor last weekend across three tournaments meant that a fairly sizeable chunk was taken from the profits that Weekly Golf Value had amassed.  Despite a winner in June, it will be a month that goes down as a “what might have been”.  A number of close finishes and players throwing away seeming victory meant it could have been an absolute stormer.  Still, I refuse to complain.  Even with the last weekend’s disappointment, June finished with a perfectly respectable ROI and overall across 2025, my ROI is just a shade under 30%.

The third profitable service in June was The Value Machine Exchange Profit.  Again, a bit of a dip towards the end of the month meant it didn’t finish at the sort of performance level it looked like it might at one point.

The exact same comments apply to Tilt The Odds and I’m waiting patiently for that one bet that transforms how it looks.

The one disappointment was SmartBetting Football which followed an extremely hot May with a cold June.  It was never in profit, reached a fairly sizeable drawdown, but over the last couple of days started to process of clawing those back.  It will.

And let’s not forget where this service is for me overall.  Still on a 693pt profit and an overall ROI of 4.72%, which in a high turnover service isn’t at all shabby.

June 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 1,616pts, +133.04pts, ROI 8.23%, ROC 8.86%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 3,480pts, +922.25pts, ROI 26.5%, ROC 61.48%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 1,890pts, +97.92pts, ROI 5.18%, ROC 6.52%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 820.4pts, -108.45pts, ROI -13.21%, ROC -7.23%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 6,006pts, -320pts, ROI -5.32%, ROC -21.33%.

TOTAL: Staked 13,890.9pts, +720.11pts, ROI 5.18%, ROC 9.6%

Just a note to say I’m pushing back the normal Monday post to Tuesday.  One more betting day for June, so tomorrow a full monthly review.

See you then.

A profitable weekend and on we go, pushing up further the high profit line for month and year to date.

Having said that, it was very much another case of ‘What might have been’ for Weekly Golf Value.

These are my figures for the year to date:

Staked 3,195pts, +1,429.96pts, ROI 44.75%, ROC 95.33%.

Those are the figures of a service really hitting its straps and in fine form.  And yet this month alone we’ve had Sam Burns miss a 5ft putt to win and then lose in a play off, and last night Tommy Fleetwood enjoying a two shot lead deep into the final round only to bogey two of the last three holes and be overtaken at the last by Keegan Bradley.  Bradley had looked as if his race had been run until sinking a birdie putt on the 15th from what looked like about 200 yards away!

So it’s fair to say that despite it’s fine form, I couldn’t help myself in thinking last night, ‘and here is what you and WGV could have won!’

And until now, I haven’t even mentioned that Russell Henley had also been backed and finished tied for 2nd with Fleetwood just one shot behind Bradley.

I used to think that Darts could be the most frustrating sport to watch when you have a financial involvement.  Seeing your man miss three darts at a double to win the match and your bet, by a combined distance of about 5 millimetres could be a tough watch.  But after last night, I reckon golf can compete in the hide-behind-the-sofa element of betting.

Friday was a bad day for SharpBetting Football but almost the exact amount lost that day was made back across Saturday and Sunday, so no big drama.  It does feel that the drawdown is beginning to drag on a bit now, but I imagine that is simply because last month was so spectacularly successful by comparison.

And finally, I was only able to make one Tilt The Odds bet on Sunday – a Trixie.  Two winners and a non-runner.  What was I thinking when I saw the result?

I’ll tell you, shall I?

It was very much a case of: “And here’s what you could have won…”

June 2025 (stakes normalised)…

Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 1,184pts, +489.04pts, ROI 41.3%, ROC 32.6%

eSoccer Edge: Staked 3,100pts, +749.25pts, ROI 24.16%, ROC 49.95%

The Value Machine Exchange Profit: Staked 1,280pts, +138.46pts, ROI 10.81%, ROC 9.23%

Tilt The Odds: Staked 612.6pts, +19.29pts, ROI 3.14%, ROC 1.28%.

SharpBetting Football: Staked 4,239.5pts, -310.72pts, ROI -7.32%, ROC -20.71%.

TOTAL: Staked 10,494.6pts, +1,077.67pts, ROI 10.26%, ROC 14.36%