🏇 Another Racing Service Beating Both Betfair SP & Bookmakers – The Latest SBC Review!

The latest SBC Tipster Review is out now featuring our deep-dive into the record of an Irish based racing expert with a profitable record with both bookmakers & Betfair SP.

The review explores how this tipster:

  • Provides simple & concise selections for Irish racing meetings
  • Requires a low workload to follow
  • Has a connected racing expert at the helm
  • Has made a 22.39% Return On Investment (ROI) to advised prices
  • Is also profitable on exchanges (with a 18.13% ROI on Betfair)

SBC Membership will grant you immediate access to this report alongside an exclusive discount for this excellent service. Another benefit of SBC Membership!

Detailed SBC Review

With account restrictions becoming an issue for more and more bettors, we are placing a larger focus on service performance on exchanges alongside the more traditional ‘advised prices’ with bookmakers.

Inside this report you will find a detailed analysis of this tipsters performance using both key metrics.

Price availability at certain intervals after release, drawdown analysis, Monte Carlo simulations and a plethora of other tools are used to give you the full picture of what to expect following this tipster in.

Plus you can save on the cost of joining the tipster in question – all thanks to the unique discounts we offer SBC members.

Instant access is a few clicks away

To get instant access to this report (and all of our other SBC Magazines and reviews) all that you need is an SBC Membership.

9 free tipsters, thousands of pounds worth of discounts, detailed bookmaker guides and a library of easy-to-follow guides are just some of the other benefits to membership as we continue to grow and find the very best tipsters, just for you!

SBC Podcast #53🎧 Anthony Kaminskas of AK Bets on his new online bookmaking website and doing things differently

Following my fascinating chat with David Lovell of DragonBet last week, the latest Smart Betting Club Podcast sees another ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’ join me for an interview.

Anthony Kaminskas has done it all. Cashiering in bookmaker shops, trading at the sharp end for Paddy Power and pro-punting with specialisms in multiple sports.

His bookmaking venture, AK Bets, started life in the form of pitches across Irish racecourses and Anthony stood out from the crowd immediately by introducing his own way of doing things.

Now, he has expanded into the online betting market with AKBets.bet and he has big plans to shake that market up too…

You can listen to Episode 53 now via Apple / Spotify / Google / YouTube and all other major podcast directories (search Smart Betting Club)

Note: The YouTube link is a full video feed featuring Anthony in his AKBets office as he chats to me!

AN IN-DEPTH CHAT WITH AK

In this episode, Anthony and I discuss:

  • The challenges of launching an independent bookmaker online.
  • The process of building the site, ‘White Labelling’ and the struggles that AK faces day-to-day as he tries to prioritise different plans that he has for the site
  • Anthony’s motivations and where he feels that he can out-do the industry’s ‘big boys’.
  • Criticisms that he has faced on social media for outsourcing certain website functions.
  • Plans for pricing at AK Bets and how this is a work in progress.
  • How AK Bets sacrifices concessions such as BOG in order to stand bets and trade with customers fairly.
  • Customers who aren’t welcome at AK Bets and behaviours that will result in restrictions or account closures.
  • How ‘smart money’ is more than welcome – even if it costs the business money.
  • How personal service and honest conversations with customers (both good & bad) are at the centre of how AK Bets will operate.
  • Casino products and why they are hosted on the site.
  • Anthony’s plans for the future.

Anthony was a brilliant guest and his outlook can provide something of value for anyone looking to profit from their betting.

If you would like to learn more about AK Bets, or if you want to open account with this independent firm, then you can do so by visiting www.akbets.bet.

INDEPENDENT BOOKMAKERS WHO WILL STAND YOU A BET

Our last two SBC Podcast guests both run independent bookmakers and here at the SBC we have been doing lots of work to profile firms like DragonBet and AK Bets, detailing what they can offer smart bettors.

A profile of both of these firms (and other likeminded bookmakers) is available on our regularly updated Independent Bookmaker page, providing a comprehensive summary of the different options available with these lesser known firms.

(Note – a more detailed dossier on all bookmakers is available to SBC members)

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Navigating The Tipster World Profitably – What My Betting Has Taught Me (And How It Can Help You)

What is the point of a tipster? Profit on paper or in the punter’s pocket?
Prices, timing, account restrictions and the realities of betting on tips.

Introduction

I’m Josh, an SBC member and full-time punter. In addition to my own racing betting, I use tipsters to diversify my income alongside doing some work for Pete at the SBC. 

Here, I am trying to write about tipsters from a follower’s perspective. Hopefully, I can provide some insight by referencing my own betting experiences and discussing the tipping industry as I see it. To begin with, I write about things as they are at first glance, with the mechanics of tipping and following being the main point of discussion. The ‘Elephant In The Room’ may make a lot of these observations moot, but it is only fair to take all involved at face value.

Naivete starting out: taking early prices

My interest in horse racing betting became more serious when ‘working from home’ was becoming the way of things in 2020. Like many, I had so much more spare time; no travel to and from work, less socialising and a general challenge to fill the day with something stimulating and meaningful.

With bookmaker shutters down, I armed myself with every sign up offer and tranche of free bets available on the Oddschecker grid and set about honing a model to become consistently profitable. Blogs, books, interviews, podcasts, ‘market watching’, tipster records and even academic papers were some of the resources I used. 

I settled on speed figures and sectional timing to gain my primary edge (numbers in a spreadsheet were just too hard to resist!). I used them alongside some traditional yardsticks such as the ground, track form, stall/track biases and video analysis whilst relying less on others such as raw form figures, weight, stable form and comments from trainers.

It quickly became evident that specialisation was key. Modelling and small stakes betting suggested my system worked best with flat races under a mile (with all weather tracks providing superior results). So, this is what I focused on – off I went.

I would study and place my bets during the evening before the day’s racing and then follow the results as they came in. Most accounts were profitable, some were hovering around the breakeven mark and a few were losing as variance played out from week to week. But then, something strange happened.

Restrictions.

My dream of buying a stately home in the country, leaving a huddle of bookmakers destitute and sharing a bottle of super-strength cider under a bridge, was… over.

The confusing element at the time was that there seemed to be no correlation between my ‘profit & loss performance’ and being restricted. Even the losing accounts started to offer maximum bets of obscure amounts under a pound.

Bet365 were one of the few firms polite enough to inform me of restrictions

After finding a new topic to research, It became apparent that two other factors were influencing the bookmaker’s actions – the timing of the bets and consistently taking prices that beat the SP.

Knowing what I know now, I was incredibly naïve. Beating early prices by taking advantage of ‘ricks’ or studying races in detail before the rest of the market might have been good for my ego, but was irrelevant if taking an early price wasn’t an option. There was no point in ‘being right’ if it didn’t pay.

How does this relate to tipsters?

I use my personal experience as an introduction due to being reminded of that time when reading others’ observations of tipsters, their price recording and what their general role in the betting ecosystem is.

The SBC produced a Twitter thread discussing an element of it here, Quentin Franks wrote an article that referenced  it here, Luke Paton has provided his thoughts throughout his ‘Pro Punting’ series (including here) and there have been some heated debates on social media about tipsters taking stand out prices in early markets with low levels of liquidity.

Sporting Life golf tipster Ben Coley had a lengthy Twitter debate with professional punter and bookmaker Anthony Kaminskas about his record and taking early/standout prices

The truth is that every case is different. 

Most reputable tipsters with large follower bases (such as Hugh Taylor and Andy Holding in horse racing or Ben Coley and Steve Palmer in golf) have them for a reason. They are excellent judges with long-term records of profitability, demonstrating a tangible edge. They provide free tips that are available to all – there is an inevitability that the weight of money that results from their selections will move markets.

In addition to the well known names, there are countless others putting up fantastic numbers year after year on lesser known platforms, with many charging their customers. This group has expertise that is often just as impressive, but they provide selections for more obscure markets, don’t ‘sell’ themselves well, limit their member numbers or are less popular due to charging a subscription fee.

Some less scrupulous ‘tipsters’ have no such expertise, quoting mythical prices that are long gone before the follower gets there, solely relying on the ‘sea of blue’ on Oddschecker or claiming to have inside information that on closer inspection, amounts to guessing.

Finally, there are the relative newcomers to the tipping world who are benefitting (or suffering, depending on how you look at it) from what Joseph Buchdahl has referred to as tipster ‘survivorship bias’. They have hit some positive variance and, believing that their luck is skill, are convinced that the good times will continue. Once their number of bets increases to become more statistically significant, they won’t.

Despite the importance of making these distinctions, the honesty and integrity of the tipster (or the service they provide) is almost immaterial. As followers, before we even consider that, we have to ask ‘What is the point of a tipster?’

There can be more than one answer, but for the purpose of this discussion, I will simply assume that they are there to provide profitable tips for their followers. This sounds straightforward, but after looking twice, it is anything but.

‘On paper’ vs practical betting

Tipsters are often asked this question and a common answer is that their job is to find selections with a positive expected value (or EV), quote prices and communicate this, often with some reasoning or insight, to their followers. The implication here is that anything that happens after that has nothing to do with them. They have no control over the market or over what other people or organisations do. Their job is done.

On the face of it this sounds reasonable, but it has little utility in the real world.

The first reason for this is price sensitivity. With even modest volumes of money being placed on the same selections (and more often than not, into illiquid markets), followers will be lucky to get close to the quoted price before it collapses. A tipster can have an edge of 20% to their recorded prices but if said prices contract by 20% or more minutes after release, are they providing any kind of service for people looking to follow them in?

The second, and more serious problem arises if followers do get the prices. Bookmakers are sensitive to these bets and will restrict or close accounts that place too many of them. If following a tipster results in not being able to place a bet on their selections (or any others) moving forward, are they providing something of value? 

If these are the realities of following any given tipster, I would argue not.

A better way

In fairness, this is a conundrum for those involved. Tipsters with the largest followings. who provide their work for ‘free’, are victims of their own success. Impressive historical records and prominent platforms mean that their advice will always result in large volumes of bets being placed on the same selections. Prices will contract. To compound this, there is also evidence that bookmakers will watch out for their bets being released and cut prices before taking too much money on them and risking excess exposure. 

Despite this, there are things they could and should do to provide a more sustainable service for their followers. 

Firstly, they could wait longer for markets to mature before releasing their selections. Examples of this could be waiting until 10 or 11am before releasing daily horse racing tips or until Wednesdays before releasing golf tips for a Thursday start.

The reason for this being a net positive for their followers predominantly relates to exchanges. Liquidity on these platforms increase as events draw nearer and waiting longer would have two substantial benefits. Firstly, followers would have an alternative outlet to place their bets if they didn’t want to (or couldn’t) use bookmakers.

Secondly, the bookmakers, who increasingly use Betfair et al to inform so much of their own pricing, would be less sensitive about taking bets. The extra liquidity and market activity up to that point would provide them with a level of reassurance, especially if their prices were not ‘stand out’ or a vehicle to provide an arbing opportunity for players who like to operate that way. 

The nature of markets becoming more efficient as any given event draws nearer means that the EV (Expected Value) of selections would most likely fall if they did this. The ‘ricks’ or ‘low-hanging fruit’ would already be taken. Despite this, these tipsters’ track records and demonstrable edges suggest that they have a superior understanding of the market and could still be profitable, albeit to a lesser degree. The example of a 20% edge referenced above may well drop to 10 or 12%, but if the contraction fell to less than that then these tipsters would be providing more overall value to the majority of their followers.

Another option for this group could be to revise their advice, with an emphasis on avoiding stand out prices. A policy of ‘odds availability at three major bookmakers on Oddschecker’ or a ‘no lower’ guide for pricing and recording would again decrease EV, but would provide a more realistic opportunity for followers to get bets down. With stakes being placed across different operators, liabilities would be spread more evenly, making large price contractions or account issues for taking prices less likely. 

Some of the most successful tipsters have tried some of these ideas to no avail. Bookmakers react and even pay for subscriptions to tipster services and use the analysis to alter their own pricing.

The question that the tipster and we, as followers, have to ask here is what do we want from the interaction? Quick price grabbing, beating the SP and (most likely) profiting are all great in the short term but, as discussed above, have consequences for future betting. 

Would you rather take a lower return in exchange for a more sustainable service? Would you rather have a ROI of 20% that lasts 3 months or a ROI of 10% that lasts 3 years?

An example of good practice: Punting Pointers

As I stated above, every case is different, but there are ‘headline’ tipsters in major publications who are doing things a little differently to provide extra value for their followers.

Punting Pointers, a daily horse racing tipping column in Sporting Life written by the duo of David Massey and Rory Delargy, is one such service.

An example of Punting Pointers advice from 15/12/22

Tips are released later than most (typically after 10am each day and at 11am for their ‘Members Extra’ selections on Saturdays and Sundays), with slight nuances to help their readers.

Selections are often provided with price alternatives e.g. ‘General’ if the price is available across the board or with precise options e.g. 11/1 4plc (SkyBet), 12/1 3plc (Bet365, Paddy Power). If a drift is expected, horses will even be advised at SP (or BSP). 

To help further, minimum prices are provided to indicate a level where the selection stops being a value proposition.

The column also highlights horses that the duo considered but haven’t selected (with reasoning). This provides an extra level of insight and betting opportunity for those who want them e.g. ‘We liked X but he has been backed in overnight. We would only get involved at 8/1’.

All of this is accompanied by not only sound explanations for their selections, but a commentary on how they think races will play out, contextualising the value that they feel they have found.

The differences between the Punting Pointers column and some other widely read free tipster write-ups may well be small, but the follower is clearly at the centre of what they do – they employ simple practices that would be beneficial to followers of all services if they were common.

What are other expert tipsters doing?

For clarity, all of the tipster services referenced in the last section are ‘free’ (we will come to why the word ‘free’ is not always what it seems later on). 

Tipsters who charge their customers have an altogether different relationship with the people who follow them in. This is a two-way transaction – expectations are understandably higher. In their professional lives, these tipsters have one, clearly defined role – make profits for their subscribers.

There is an inevitability that the financial transaction affects how these tipsters operate. If they quote unattainable prices, are disingenuous in their record keeping or make selections that limit (or end) their followers’ ability to get bets on, their model will not work – people will not pay for it. The service would become obsolete if it had no sustainability. 

As a result, there are innovations from these services that help both potential and current followers, providing examples of good practice along the way. Some, like membership caps, pure exchange betting or requests to avoid Betfair for a set period after bet release are all useful, but are not realistic for wider use in the tipping industry. 

But some are.

What you see is what you get

Transparency is the most obvious common feature that the best paid services share. There is a clarity about what to expect, helping prospective followers to decide if the service is suitable for them. Don’t have bookmaker accounts? Not for you. Can’t get bets on relatively quickly? Won’t work. Want low volatility? Sorry, our average price is 20/1 and we have long losing runs.

The SBC have detailed analysis to aid potential followers before purchasing a subscription. This table helps readers to narrow down their search by presenting the realities of following any Premium Racing tipster.

This is a massive help. There are literally thousands of potential sources of tips to choose from – knowing what to expect before investment (in time or money) streamlines choosing the right one.

Another feature is the analysis provided alongside past records. Users can assess performance by different metrics. Return On Investment (ROI), Return On Capital (ROC), points profit and returns at BSP are some of the simpler ones; drawdowns, P-Values, odds availability after certain intervals, Monte Carlo simulations and volatility are some more complex measurements. 

If you observe most widely read tipsters, you will normally see points profit and, if you’re lucky, ROI. Without extra context, this provides next to nothing. Points profit might well stand at 150pts – impressive, right? Well it’s not if the profit is reliant on a 500/1 winner with the rest of the record being terrible. ROI could be 50% – have you found the best tipster in the history of the world? Maybe, but not if returns are reliant on one bet winning or a very small sample.

In another example of ‘good practice’ from the free tipping world, Daryl Carter of www.gg.co.uk produced an extremely detailed report on his 2022 performance & how this will shape his plans moving forward. It is well worth a read and can be viewed here. Daryl has also provided similar updates after each calendar month in 2023.

By incorporating even the most basic of wider metrics, followers can quite quickly ascertain the quality of a service and its suitability for their betting, helping them to sort through the seemingly infinite pool of sources to choose the right punting advice for them.

Two common themes I would like to return to here are timing and price. As referenced when discussing the relative outlier, Punting Pointers, there are practices in the ‘paid’ tipping industry that could quite easily be employed by tipsters across the board. Minimum prices, an avoidance of stand out prices, a consideration for how mature the market is, recording without Best Odds Guaranteed and an acknowledgement of exchanges are some and they are all positives that could enhance services with relatively little adjustment.

Seeing some of these basic, easy to employ practices become ‘norms’ within the tipping world could happen overnight. They take little or no time, are easy to understand and can be presented alongside tips as they are without issue. Why they are not common is what we as followers have to try to work out.

The Elephant In The Room: Motivations

Above, I roughly categorised tipsters into four groups:

  1. The most popular ‘free tipsters’
  2. The ‘other’ experts (most of whom charge)
  3. The ‘less scrupulous’
  4. The ‘survivors’

After observing all four, I would only accuse the third group of doing anything untoward. 

Despite this, we have to consider more than just the motivations of those who write the content. 

This section has little to do with the tipster, but more to do with the organisations they work for, how they are funded and what their motivations are.

Oddschecker, At The Races, The Racing Post, Betfair and Sporting Life are a handful of the larger ‘hosts’ for tipsters. Away from a few laudable exceptions, they don’t employ many of the most basic best practices for tipping discussed above. Why?

The answer may well be that they can’t. Their income doesn’t come directly from you, the end user. It predominantly comes from advertising, affiliate deals and tie-ups with bookmakers. Some of them are even owned by bookmakers (either entirely or in part). 

Your eyes, clicks and data are what is for sale here, not tips

Could an Oddshcecker tipster recommend a minimum price considering that the main feature of their website is comparing odds and clicking through to bet on the best one available? 

Are Racing Post tipsters likely to recommend the Betfair Starting Price (or BSP) for horses that they think will be undervalued in the market at the off without an incentive for their publication?

Would any of these publications consider a later release time for tips to provide better value for followers if that meant a smaller pool of visitors to their websites?

The obvious answer to each of these questions is ‘no’. 

This is not a criticism of any of these organisations as they, like all of us, are acting in their own self-interests, trying to maximise their income. The key thing to consider here is that factoring motivations into our search for sources of tips is key. 

What is the point of a tipster?

Above, I settled on a simple answer to the question ‘What is the point of a tipster?’, stating that they should provide profitable tips for their followers.

If we revisit my early betting and imagine that I was a tipster would I, a relative novice. have been providing profitable tips? On paper yes – if you were quick, for a short amount of time and at the cost of removing your ability to use your bookmaker accounts. 

On paper does not mean reality. 

When we consider tipsters, we should look for more.

After reading through hundreds (if not thousands!) of tipster records and write-ups, I would suggest that two features – a sensible timing of tip release and an avoidance of stand-out prices should be the bare minimum.

Others, such as drawdown analysis, price changes after certain intervals, value on exchanges and volatility should all be considered based on our individual motivations as followers.

In conclusion, I would like to add the words realistic and sustainable to the answer I have given to the question What is the point of a tipster?’. It is still a simple answer, but it helps us to avoid those that won’t make us profit in the long-term. 

Is the SBC walking the walk?

This is by no means an advert for the Smart Betting Club as I found (and still use) many sources of information that are independent of the SBC before I had joined as a member and started doing work here.

Despite this, recent projects and SBC reports make it quite clear about how these practices are viewed by the SBC when assessing tipsters for members:

  • Some tipsters have been removed from the ‘SBC Hall Of Fame’ due to their tip release time
  • Other tipsters have had proofing terminated after taking ridiculous stand-out prices or refusing to acknowledge results that needed to be altered on their records
  • Newer tipping services are adopting many recommended policies such as ‘3 bookmakers on Oddschecker’ odds availability, ‘fair odds recording’ for tips that quickly contract in price and membership caps to provide the best value for members

These are just some of the things that are needed to sort ‘the wheat from the chaff’ in this unregulated and often illusory industry. Hopefully, they, like the basics argued for above, will become the norm over time.

 

 

 

SBC Podcast #52 🎧: David Lovell From The Bookmaker DragonBet

In the latest Smart Betting Club Podcast I am joined by ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’ David Lovell, who is one half of the duo that runs the independent bookmaking firm, DragonBet alongside his brother, James.

Immersed in the betting world from an early age thanks to their bookmaking father, John Lovell, both David and James have recently launched dragonbet.co.uk to go alongside their on-course bookmaking in Wales.

David provides a refreshing vision for what a bookmaker should be as we discuss the mechanics of running a smaller firm and how they differentiate themselves from the faceless corporate books.

You can listen to Episode 52 now via Apple / Spotify / Google / and all other major podcast directories (search Smart Betting Club)

In-depth Chat with DragonBet

In this episode, David and I discuss:

  • The Lovells’ history in bookmaking
  • The innovations that David’s father John introduced into the industry
  • How the Lovell brothers complement each other and have the right mix of skills to make their business work
  • The inspiration behind DragonBet, its Welsh identity and pricing up markets that no-one else does
  • ‘White Label’ bookmaking – how it works, its benefits and its drawbacks
  • Hosting casino and E-Sport products on the DragonBet website
  • The day-to-day challenges of running a bookmaker operation & the regulatory changes on the horizon
  • Managing sharp punters and how David views them differently from arbers or fast-feeders
  • On-course bookmaking, the benefits of face-to-face interaction with customers and the challenges that rail bookmakers are up against
  • The Lovell brothers’ future plans for DragonBet

David was a fascinating guest and it was so informative to learn about the bookmaking industry and day-to-day operations at an independent firm.

You can learn more about DragonBet by visiting their website or by interacting directly with David and James on their social media accounts (their Twitter handle is @DragonBetWales).

More on Firms Like DragonBet

Many of us have grown tired of dealing with the impersonal and incompetent service at larger bookmakers and here at the SBC we have been doing lots of work to profile firms like DragonBet and what they can offer smart bettors.

An SBC profile of DragonBet (and other likeminded bookmakers) is available on our regularly updated Independent Bookmaker page, providing a comprehensive summary of the different options available with these lesser known firms.

We also invite your comments and experiences on this page as we build up a dossier of helpful information for those of you looking to bet away from the main firms we all know about!

 

How to have a Fantastic Cheltenham Festival: SBC’s Top Tipsters & Strategies To Win With!

The Very Best Tipsters for the Very Best Races

The Cheltenham Chatter has (hopefully!) reached it’s peak with just a few days until the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle will be met with an excited roar at Prestbury Park.

The ground, handicap plots, declarations and leaked marks have all been in the headlines but we have one objective here at the SBC – making profits from our betting!

With that in mind, we have collected some of the most suitable services for you to consider below and have concentrated on those that are best placed to help you make money at the Cheltenham Festival.

Free Tipsters

SBC Membership provides access to nine free tipsters and we have selected the three that we feel are best placed to help you profit next week:

  • Pricewise With PCB is a constant source of generously priced winners as Paul Chandler-Burns curates Tom Segal’s Pricewise tips, reading between the lines to adjust the bets take and tweak the standard staking plan. 92 points profit and a 12% ROI over the last 2 years suggests that the service is well worth a follow.
  • Kieran Ward 13/2 – 8/1 tips has a solid and consistent record with 10,143 bets providing 1,055 points of profit at 11% ROI. 12 years of proofing has seen just one losing year as an impressive profit chart keeps going in one direction – upwards!
  • Achievable Value is the newest member of the Free SBC Tipster ranks and a 6 month proofing period has shown a 10.43% ROI at BSP! This is quite the feat and we can report that the brains behind the service is disappointedwith these returns! Covering a wide range of races, Achievable Value is an excellent option for any bettor, especially those limited to exchanges.

Premium Services

Another benefit of SBC membership comes in the form of considerable discounts for the very best services. Of our 7 Premium Racing Services, we have selected two that have shown a considerable edge at Cheltenham before:

  • Optimum Racing, run by podcaster, Andrew Lowrie, promises to be ready for every chase race at the festival. This service’s specialism, selectivity & aim of a 20%+ edge before selecting horses makes it a solid addition to anyone’s portfolio. 8 years of proofing has shown a 165 point profit and a 23.3% ROI, all from just 508 bets. There is currently 20% off his service ahead of Cheltenham starting!
  • No Foto Needed is a hidden gem that keeps beating the bookmakers and exchanges alike. Over 1,600 bets has resulted in a 16.21% ROI to advised prices and remarkably, this figure grows to 25.62% when measuring selections against Betfair SP, making this an excellent option for all punters!

Additional Cheltenham Benefits

In addition to the snapshot of SBC offerings above, we would also like to highlight some other services that we feel are perfect for profiting at the home of National Hunt Racing:

  • Northern Monkey Punter has an enviable record at Cheltenham and has a two week free trial ready for SBC Members.
  • Bookie Bashing has so much to offer and their Horse Racing Tracker is perfect for exploiting all of the extra places on offer throughout festival week – SBC members can save 25% off their first 3 months of membership.
  • Learn Bet Win is an excellent tipping service with a superb record at Cheltenham – thanks to the extremely detailed analysis provided during the festival. Run by the professional punter Declan Meagher, it is a great way to turn losing into winning – you can hear all about it in SBC Podcast #47 where Declan talked me through the service. We also recently re-reviewed his service in SBC 131, where you can explore in-depth the edge he has and who it is suitable for.

Sign Up Now

With less than a week to go, the good news is that all of this and more is available to you with SBC Membership.

After signing up, you will get instant access to all of the free tipsters, premium discounts and discounted services that come with being part of our winning club.

3 month, 6 month and annual memberships are all available here – with the National Hunt season approaching it’s peak, now is the perfect time to get signed up and access what the very best tipsters have to offer.

 

Beating the BSP: Introducing Achievable Value

Eight free tipsters with combined annual savings over £850is a brilliant benefit of SBC Membership. How about nine?

Well, that’s what we have for you today as I would like to introduce a brand new horse racing tipster, Achievable Value.

This service has been proofing to us since September and, as you can see below, has recorded a very encouraging 87.71 points @ 10.43% ROI during this period.

Best of all – this is at Betfair SP (after commission) and based on 841 bets during this period.

To add a further boost to these figures, the brains behind ‘Achievable Value’ is disappointed with the performance in the proofing period as it is below his historical returns!

Achievable Value’s Edge

Achievable Value is run by a professional horse racing veteran with positive results dating back as far as 2005. During this time, he has trialled various systems and strategies, honing the model that he has for you today.

This model was built to make a profit at Betfair SP, because like most shrewd punters, the tipster was long ago closed down by the bookies and Betfair SP is his only way to get bets on.

Hence the name ‘Achievable Value’ as the bets and odds are 100% Achievable!

The method behind Achievable Value’s success includes:

  • A concentration on horses in the ‘sweet spot’ odds range between 4/1 & 8/1
  • An internal handicapping system to identify undervalued horses
  • Video analysis of tracked horses
  • A constant refinement of strategies to keep what works and remove what doesn’t

To read more about Achievable Value, its record and the mechanics of how the service will work for SBC members, please click here.

SBC’s Free Tipsters

Achievable Value joins our other 8 free tipsters, who all provide excellent value for SBC Members.

Two of them – Kieran Ward’s 13/2 to 8/1 service and Pricewise with PCB will be providing their expertise during the upcoming Cheltenham Festival, making it the perfect time to get some free advice sent to your inbox each day!

In addition, we have experts on boxing, basketball and hockey with two further horse racing services that focus on their own niche markets.

You can see all of the results for each of our free tipsters in the SBC Free Tipster spreadsheet.

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To access all of these tipsters for FREE, all you need to do is sign up for SBC membership.

The savings made from one of these tipsters is identical in valueto an annual package, so if you would like to access just one of them, everything else that comes with membership will be a bonus!

 

Fresh Off The Press: The SBC’s Latest Horse Racing Tipster Profit Report

Here at SBC we have just released our new Horse Racing Tipster Profit Report, outlining our ratings and recommendations for the many different racing tipsters we proof and track.

With Cheltenham quickly approaching, this provides the perfect opportunity for you to sign up to the SBC and read all of our detailed analysis and commentary.

Inside, you will find updated results figures for each tipster, comparative league tables to help you pick out the best racing experts and our independent commentary to help you decide which tipsters you should follow in!

Changing Times, Changing Analysis

This report is a little different from what has come before it.

Bookmakers, markets and liquidity are changing all of the time and we have introduced even more assessment tools, focusing on providing the clearest possible picture of what services offer and how practical it is to follow them.

Fair Odds – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly!

One of the focal points of our reports, especially when it comes to racing, is our quest to highlight those racing tipsters who quote realistically achievable odds.

This is vitally important in this day and age as bookmakers ‘treat’ customers who take bets in weak, early markets to account closures and heavily limited stakes.

One bad example of this came in the form of a racing tipster we proofed (but refused to review given how they worked) who continues to tip bets into early, weak markets.

Tips are released at 5pm the day before racing – as soon as bookmakers price them up -and it is not rare to see a bet quoted and settled at 20/1, which has been slashed to 10/1 within minutes.

We have seen 20/1 winners logged that no-one will realistically be obtaining given how quickly the odds move. And if you do get on these bets, your bookie accounts won’t last 5 minutes.

When putting this issue to the tipster he simply shrugged and says its not his problem.

Hence why we won’t be reviewing – plus the fact he has listed a Dead Heat bet as a full winner for well over a month, despite our highlighting of the issue!

Adjusted Odds Tables

To combat this and fairly measure attainability, we have produced ‘adjustment tables’ that reflect tipsters’ odds at different intervals after they are released.

This paints a picture of which services are realistic to follow if you can’t get on straight away and which ones require ‘lightning quick clicking’ to get on. They look like this and provide a valuable summary of price sensitivity for each service.

More Than Just Profits Or Return On Investment

In summary, this Racing Tipster Profit Report provides our recommendations of tipsters that offer:

  • long-term edge and profitability
  • Realistic release times for bets so that followers can get prices without restrictions
  • An avoidance of using stand-out prices and fair odds settlement when prices change dramatically just after tip release
  • Membership Caps for those services where price sensitivity is an obvious issue

We feel that these expectations should be a bare minimum for all tipsters and have made this clear to all of the current or prospective we monitor, meaning that only the very best tipsters are recommended to our members.

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