It was a fairly quiet weekend’s betting, truth be told. Only one DD/HH bet (backing someone playing for Nottingham Forest to score at all, let alone first, did feel a triumph for optimism over reality, tbh), only one golf tournament (so no each way golf doubles), and not that much value by way of racing for Bookie Bashing driven Lucky 15s.
That said, one slip did look like it could pay a bumper return after a 33/1 winner and a placed at 16s, but it wasn’t to be. The return was nothing to sniff at, but it wasn’t huge. Not even big enough to push me to a new high profit point for the month.
One service who did run hot was The Transfer Flow, which is now racing along at an ROI of 24%, way, way higher than long term expectation. Saturday was a stormer as six of seven Championship bets returned a profit.
My plan was to trial this service for a month, but I’ve extended the trial period to two months after the recent snooze fest of an international break brought tipping to a halt for a couple of weeks. So far, I’m managing to match the official prices on the vast majority of picks, beat the price of one or two, and perhaps have to accept a tick or two lower on the odd three of four. Still playing to low stakes and one thing I would say is that the Exchange markets are more than liquid enough to facilitate a significant raising of the stakes if I so choose. We’re betting on the Asian Handicaps in the Premier League, Championship and Champions’ League. You don’t really get markets more liquid than those.
I briefly thought that Weekly Golf Value was going to enjoy a good win when Daniel Hillier led halfway through the final round. But a double-bogey/bogey/bogey sequence across the back nine did for those fanciful notions. There was a profit on the week as two places were landed, although Hillier wasn’t one of them. Muppet!
Talking of golf, I was fortunate enough to record a video outlining the Each Way Golf Doubles with SBC Pete and Tom Brownlee on Friday. Look out for that. Tom and Pete talk a lot of sense, although singling out golfers to lambast for their inability to land returns I thought was a bit harsh! I opted out. I mean, you never know who might just watch/listen…
A poor few days for SharpBetting Football but we were due them.
It all feels like October is an experimental month. Trying a few things here, a few things there. It is all beginning to fall into place though and I think I’m more or less clear on how things will move forward from 1st November. As I’ve suggested in recent posts, a lot more betting will be done in shop than has previously been the case this year. So let’s hope that the Chancellor doesn’t end up raising the taxes on gambling firms as threatened, with large scale closures of offices up and down the country! That simply wouldn’t do.
October 2025 figures (stakes normalized):
Bookie Bashing Racing Tracker (L15s): Staked 1,015pts, +171.49pts, ROI 16.89%, DD -180.17pts, Max DD -244.62pts.
BB EW Golf Doubles: Staked 231pts, -96.65pts, ROI -41.83%, DD -121pts, Max DD -121pts.
BB Darts Tool: Staked 160pts, +43.49pts, ROI 27.18%, DD: -21.78pts, Max DD: -38.05pts.
DD/HH: Staked 305pts, +340pts, ROI 111.47%, DD: -20pts, Max DD -35pts.
BB Football Coupons: Staked 140pts, +78.75pts, ROI 56.25%, DD -26.2pts, Max DD -26.2pts.
Value Bets/Enhanced Specials (Exchange): Staked 315.4pts, -112.87pts, ROI -35.78%, DD -112.28pts, Max DD -112.28pts.
Sharp Betting Football: Staked 6,118.36pts, +108.45pts, ROI 1.77%, DD -196.36pts, Max DD -248.46pts.
The Transfer Flow (Trial): Staked 440pts, +105.63pts, ROI 24%, DD: -0pts, Max DD -17.89pts.
Touchdown Profit: Staked 340pts, -119.42pts, ROI -35.12%, DD -119.42pts. Max DD -119.42pts
Weekly Golf Value: Staked 558pts, -163.8pts, ROI -29.35%, DD -163.8pts, Max DD -218.8pts
Total: Staked 9,622.76pts, +355.07pts, ROI 3.68%, DD -184.54pts, Max DD -427.92pts, Bank Growth 5.07%
