As promised, I am back today with the final 2 categories as voted for by you in the 2017 SBC Awards – that of Best Odds Comparison Website and the biggy: Worst Bookmaker.
For those of you that missed my email on Friday with details on who you voted for as Best Bookmaker & Best Betting Website, you can read that here.
Best Odds Comparison Website
Kick-starting things today with the Best Odds Comparison Website, a new category introduced for the first time in 2017, you voted as follows:
The inaugural Gold Award was taken by Oddschecker, who have quickly become the go-to website for many of you keen to seek out value for your bets. With a quick, easy to use odds comparison matrix and the ability to bet without leaving their website, it’s a very useful resource for punters keen to find the best odds.
The Silver Award went to Oddsportal, who offer up-to-date odds comparison on a huge range of betting markets, particularly useful for those of you betting on sports such as Football, NBA & NFL.
The Bronze award was taken by BestBetting.com, who provide odds comparison across several different markets including horse racing.
Your Worst Bookmaker Award
Onto one of the most anticipated ‘Awards’ – that of the ‘Worst Bookmaker’ whereby voting was extremely competitive!
Here is who you voted for:
The somewhat surprising Gold Award Winner for Worst Bookmaker with 24% of the votes (I told you it was competitive) was Ladbrokes. Having taken the Bronze Award last year, whatever it is Ladbrokes have been doing in the past 12 months has clearly irked enough of you to put them forward as the worst bookmaker out there. Certainly the ‘Ladbrokes Life’ is not something many of you seem to be aspiring to!
Less surprisingly, the Silver Award went to Stan James, who continue to cement their place as one of the most universally-disliked bookmakers after claiming just under 21% of all votes. Stan James have long been known as one of the worst culprits for betting restrictions, a strong reason behind their poor reputation.
The Bronze Award this year went to last year’s Gold Winner, Boylesports who took 19.4% of your votes. Whether this is down to any improvement or just the fact other firms have got worse is very hard to say, yet the fact still remains there is much to dislike.
Other poorly rated Bookmakers included 4th placed Betfred with 16% of the votes and 5th placed Racebets with 8.41% of the vote.
Over $1 Million In Profits Betting…
“ My total profits since joining the Smart Betting Club are well over $1 million of which SBC approved tipsters account for about 25% of that amount.”
As written by Billy McPherson – An SBC member since 2011
Click here to read more from Billy on his SBC experience
Why It Pays To Know The Best & Worst Bookmakers
As well as helping us have a bit of fun at their expense, there is a serious side to this award – namely to help raise awareness of those bookmakers treating punters poorly.
One of the main reasons these bookmakers are disliked so much is due to their notoriety as firms that both limit stakes and close accounts for anyone with even a modicum of ability.
Should you for example bother opening accounts with Ladbrokes, Stan James and Boylesports if you expect to win money betting?
In my opinion it is often not worth the time, unless you are keen to take advantage of new account opening offers or simply keen to try to win as much as you can, while you can.
In terms of our own tipster reviews, we regularly mark tipsters down who quote and settle bets to top prices available with the likes of Stan James and Boylesports.
Very often, such prices are a work of fiction as in reality they are not available to all but losing punters. And as the 2017 SBC Awards Report – over 80% of our members made a substantial profit betting last year, so these bookmakers will not be open to them.
Let Them Know They Won!
As it is extremely unlikely that either of Ladbrokes, Stan James or Boylesports will acknowledge their status as the top 3 most disliked bookmakers, it is up to us to raise awareness as the poor quality of service they offer.
With that in mind, feel free to share the following Gold, Silver & Bronze Award winner images on Social Media and link to this email (Via the SBC Blog)
The Best Tipsters & Betting Sites
Alongside revealing the Worst Bookmakers, in the 2017 SBC Awards Report, you can also read plenty that can genuinely help your betting.
Here is what can be found inside it:
- The Best Horse Racing, Sports & Overall Tipster (Gold, Silver & Bronze winners)
- The Best Free Tipster (Gold, Silver & Bronze winners)
- The Best Tipster Newcomer (Gold, Silver & Bronze winners)
- The Outstanding Contribution to Tipping & Editors Choice Awards (recognising some of the best tipsters and betting experts)
- The lowdown on why 80.3% of SBC members made a profit last year from their betting.
You can gain full access to the complete 2017 SBC Awards Report with a Smart Betting Club Membership, on which you can currently save up to £35 on the cost of joining.
Sign-up here right now and gain access to the Report & a lot more besides!
See you on the inside.
Peter Ling
SBC Editor
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