Month: June 2022

First a 40/1 win, now a 28/1 follow-up for top tipster – No Foto Needed

Posted on by Peter Ling

Back at the start of May, I penned this article on the outstanding performance from one of SBC’s in-house ‘Free Tipsters’ who was fresh off a 40/1 winner.

Well fast forward the rest of May and into June and he has continued to smash the bookies with an extra 52.45 points profit from a further 168 bets over the past 8 weeks.

Including a big 28/1 advised winner just yesterday in the form of unfancied ‘Dutch Schaefer’ who won at 28/1 SP and 49.52 Betfair SP!

312.28 POINTS PROFIT @ 19.22% ROI

As I alluded to several times in my Star Sports interview recently, what matters most when exploring a tipster is performance over the long-term and on that front he also ticks the boxes.

Dating back to January 2021, he has put up 965 bets and made a profit of 312.28 points @ 19.22% Return on Investment.

The tipster in question is called ‘No Foto Needed’ and he is one of the tipsters we make available to follow free of charge to those with an SBC membership.​

You can read more about No Foto Needed and how he works here.

Whilst also checking out all of his results in detail via the SBC Free Tipster results spreadsheet.

My Star Sports ‘Betting People’ Video Interview

Posted on by Peter Ling

The big news this week is my appearance in the Betting People series of video interviews as published by the bookmaker, Star Sports.

You can watch them all 4 of the 15 minute video interviews via this link: https://www.starsportsbet.co.uk/bettingpeople-peter-ling/​

Amongst a wide variety of topics I discuss:

  • How SBC works and the reality of following modern day tipsters
  • The need to focus long-term when making important betting decisions
  • The sport that is the most profitable to bet on currently
  • My own betting and the need to tailor tipster services to fit your circumstances and preferences.
  • How I use runners and get bets on
  • The power of connecting and building relationships with other bettors
  • Some of the simple mathematical concepts that are vitally important to success
  • What I find to be the biggest fundamental difference between a winning and losing punter
  • Why free tipsters need to be treated cautiously as per the motivations and reasons why they are free
  • Why the actual ‘winning’ side of betting has become the easy part these days.
  • How to get started and choose the right tipsters for you
  • Plans for SBC moving forward

For those of you keen to learn more on the world of tipsters and SBC’s goal of helping people with their betting, these video interviews are a great place to get started.

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New SBC Podcast: Rowan Day explains how he makes a profit using tipsters

Posted on by Peter Ling

In the latest SBC Podcast episode I chatted with real-life tipster subscriber, Rowan Day to explore the results from his tipster portfolio and the profit he has made betting over the past 12 months.

You can listen to this episode now via Apple / Spotify / Google and all other major podcast directories (search Smart Betting Club)

This episode is a companion to the new Bet Diary annual report we published on Friday, which summarises the performance of the tipsters that Rowan follows.

You can download your report via the following link:

(Link opens up a PDF file containing the report in full)

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

My guest in this episode was SBC’s Rowan Day who has been writing the weekly Bet Diary blog on making a profit from tipsters for several years.

Once again it was another successful year with a strong profit achieved and Rowan outlines some of the best performing tipster services, who they are and why and how he follows them in.

For those of you keen to build your own tipster portfolio, he shares his thoughts on how best to approach this and how to choose tipsters that suit you, your budget, experience and bookmakers available.

We also get into the topic of bookmaker restrictions and how he gets around that with a few tips for account longevity and using the exchanges.

Its an ideal podcast for those of you interested in making money via tipsters and the experience Rowan can share on his success over the years doing exactly this.

ABOUT THE BET DIARY

The SBC Bet Diary was introduced in 2015 with the goal of helping to communicate some of the practical realities of following tipsters to make money betting.

It’s penned by profitable punter, and SBC writer, Rowan Day who each week discusses his ongoing betting journey including the tipsters he follows and his performance, using their advice (win or lose – he is always refreshingly honest!).

The idea behind the Bet Diary is to provide some real-life, genuine, experiences of just how the tipsters we rate and recommend can actually make you a realistic extra income stream.

Whether it’s to simply make some extra pocket money, fund a family holiday, or to generate a sustainable second income – his Bet Diary will be able to help you achieve your goals.

Updated weekly, you can read the very latest from Rowan at the Bet Diary homepage.

Free Download – Discover How Our Tipster Portfolio Has Fared!

Posted on by Peter Ling

Want to know how a betting professional makes a profit by following tipsters?

If so, then you will absolutely want to read this new (FREE) report on the performance of the ‘Bet Diary’ tipster portfolio from the past 12 months.

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This PDF report reveals exactly how much SBC writer and professional bettor Rowan Day won with his tipster portfolio over the past year – as he has written about each week on the free-to-read Bet Diary.
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​The good news is that it was another profitable period for him – his 7th year in a row!

In this FREE to download report, Rowan explains all on his performance from the past year, including:

  • All the details on the tipsters he follows
  • The profit and loss each tipster made over the past 12 months and his thoughts on them!
  • Some of the key metrics Rowan uses to track his portfolio.
  • Exactly how much would have been made at various betting bank sizes.
  • How betting stacks up against other traditional investments.

DOWNLOAD THE BET DIARY PROFIT REPORT

To download the free report, either click this link or the image below and you can access the full PDF file

ABOUT THE BET DIARY

The SBC Bet Diary was introduced in 2015 with the goal of helping to communicate some of the practical realities of following tipsters to make money betting.

It’s penned by profitable punter, and SBC writer, Rowan Day who each week discusses his ongoing betting journey including the tipsters he follows and his performance, using their advice (win or lose – he is always refreshingly honest!).

The idea behind the Bet Diary is to provide some real-life, genuine, experiences of just how the tipsters we rate and recommend can actually make you a realistic extra income stream.

Whether it’s to simply make some extra pocket money, fund a family holiday, or to generate a sustainable second income – his Bet Diary will be able to help you achieve your goals.

Updated weekly, you can read the very latest from Rowan at the Bet Diary homepage.

​Sign-up to get every Bet Diary post emailed to you each week

The tipster with a clear edge betting on short priced favourites as low as 1/5 (1.2 in decimals!)

Posted on by Peter Ling

In the latest SBC Magazine – Issue 129, my team and I explored the unique Tennis Tipping service as offered by Winner Odds – a service we have tracked and used personally for several years.

Winner Odds is undoubtedly a tipster challenging preconceptions, not least that you can make money betting using tipsters, but also that you can make money betting odds-on.

Including betting as short as 1/5 or 1.2 in decimals!

So, if you thought that betting odds-on, including at some very short prices was a mugs game. Well, think again.

Let me reveal more on the edge that Winner Odds has including at short prices….

​Download SBC 129 and the entire SBC Back Catalogue of Reviews, Reports & More with a SBC Membership.

€5,678.49 PROFIT USING WINNER ODDS

I have been personally using the Winner Odds service for a couple of years now, having added the service to my portfolio back in late 2019/early 2020.

As of the date of writing the Winner Odds review, my profit stats are as follows with a screengrab taken directly from my Winner Odds account:

Now over a usual 2 ½ year period, it is entirely likely you would see a lot more bets being placed, however its important to make clear the disruption that Covid caused from early March 2020 into 2021.

We had circa 4-5 months without any live Tennis action and even when it did return, there were issues such as players unable to travel, train properly or with full motivation and a lack of discernible form to work from.

As such, Winner Odds wasn’t active or charging subscribers for a long period during this time – which is certainly something to bear in mind! The average tally therefore of 5.42 bets per day is likely a lot higher in reality in terms of active days tennis that was available to bet on via Winner Odds.

WEEKLY PROFIT & LOSS

Exploring these stats further, you can see the profit by week in the chart below and the proportion of profitable (green) vs loss-making (red) weeks over time.

The majority of weeks I made a fine profit, apart from a few periods including one 2-week run which lost circa €1500. As disappointing as that was at the time, I stood firm and that loss was soon made back with extra profit on top in subsequent weeks and it was quickly forgotten.

PROFIT AT LOW, LOW ODDS

Onto the point I raise at the top of this article and my profit at various odds ranges, which you can see in the next graph.

A full €4247.14 of my total €5678.49 profit has come on bets priced between 1.01 and 1.2, with another €1744.27 at those between 1.2 to 1.4.

Who says you can’t win betting heavy odds-on?

Everything is possible with the right edge and these stats prove it!

You can also see the Yield or ROI from each odds range below, with a 5.05% ROI at those between 1.01 and 1.2.

TRACKING PERFORMANCE

The following hitrate/odds range chart also backs up how I am underperforming somewhat in a few areas.

The dashed line shows what you would expect long-term over a larger set of data (look how smooth it is!), yet my strike-rate on a couple of odds ranges is a bit lower, including at 3.5 (5/2) and 4.0 (3/1) and over.

At 4.0 and over I have only achieved a 15.56% strike-rate from 90 bets, yet long-term this should hit just over a 25% strike-rate. So, I am about 10% down on what I could reasonably expect, although from just 90 bets, which is clearly a very small sample.

I am also tracking at just a 44.83% strike-rate for bets between 1.8 and 2.0, where I should be at about 52 to 53%.

Again, this backs up my confidence that over time my ROI figure will improve when my sample size at these odds ranges increase, especially when you consider that the higher ROI returns for the service come at bigger odds.

MANY WAYS TO SKIN A BETTING CAT!

My experience over the years is that there are many ways to make a profit betting.

Some punters and tipsters make a profit betting odds-on, some at single figure odds and others even at triple figure odds.

Some swear by single bets only whilst others do doubles, trebles, lucky 15’s or even yankees to make their edge.

There are many ways to skin a betting cat and its good to challenge your preconceptions at regular intervals!

So next time you hear from someone who says “You cant make a profit betting odds-on” – you know they are completely missing the point!​​

 

READ THIS REVIEW NOW!

If you enjoy this small excerpt from our review of Winner Odds, you can read the full in-depth review as a Smart Betting Club member.

This includes a detailed look at the average user results across thousands and thousands of data points from Winner Odds customers, with an ROI of 5.61% since 2016.

  • Review based on several years actively using and monitoring Winner Odds Tips
  • Explore our own real-life results and how we made €5678.49 over 2336 bets using Winner Odds
  • Explore the strong betting bank growth stats and staking analysis for optimal returns
  • Full rundown on how the service works include how to customise it to the bookmakers you have available
  • Monte-carlo simulation results
  • Exclusive €50 SBC member discount on the cost of joining Winner Odds

Free 33 page sample of our Golf Betting Guide 🏌️⛳ Includes 5 Top Tipsters We Recommend!

Posted on by Peter Ling

Many of the sharpest punters agree – one of the best, most lucrative sports to currently bet upon is that of Golf.

Love it or loathe it from a sporting perspective, the number of great offers and terms that bookmakers offer (plus the value you can also get on the exchanges) has seen more and more punters start betting on the sport to earn a few quid!

Which is why today I want to again highlight the free expert golf betting guide that my team and I put together earlier this year to explain its potency.

It’s a 34 page free sample for you to download and includes:

  • 5 of the best tipsters and strategies we recommend for golf
  • The full lowdown on the SBC team’s profitable golf performance last year (including the tipsters we used)
  • The secrets to winning with both the bookmakers and exchanges
  • Golf betting tactics and advice from experienced punters

You can access the Free Report via this link

 

EXAMPLES OF GOLF TIPPING PROWESS

Proof of the success available from betting on golf can be seen in the ongoing excellent form shown by two of the tipsters that make up SBC Golf – our own curated group of golfing tipsters.

For those with bookmaker accounts, the Weekly Golf Value service keeps hitting its straps with another winner last weekend on Sam Burns at 30/1.

Dating back to 2019 when their strategy started, the Weekly Golf Value best bets have made a £9,591.97 profit at 35.38% ROI from 1830 advised tips. All from a £1000 starting point!

For those of you who want to bet just on the main PGA tour events each week and with a mix of bookmakers and exchanges, then the PGA Profit service ticks all the boxes.

Fresh off a May where they backed 3 winners at 33/1, 16/1 and 45/1, their numbers dating back to 2018 showcase a 32.8% ROI from 1423 bets.

LOVE OR HATE GOLF – ITS GREAT FOR BETTING ON!

Love or hate golf – the reality is that its a fantastic sport to bet upon currently.

With options for getting on with betting exchanges, its also open to all punters including those of you closed or limited with bookmaker firms.

And for those of you not sure or wishing to take it slowly, there are also a few excellent FREE golfing tipsters to follow and watch to ease you in.

So whatever you do, make sure you check out our free golf report and some of the top tipsters turning a profit on the sport currently.