Betting can often feel like a solitary game and it’s rare for any of us to regularly talk about our punting in an honest and transparent way, if at all (booming on social media doesn’t count!).

Rowan Day’s Bet Diary Series does just that, with his highs, lows and everything in-between covered in his excellent weekly posts on his usage of tipsters to make a profit betting.

(Something he has been doing using SBC’s recommended tipsters for a very long time!)

Follow Rowan’s Real Life Betting Journey

Below are some excerpts to show why this series is so popular as Rowan gets into the weeds on the ups and downs of how he makes a long-term betting profit.

In this post from September 23rd, Rowan had a good week:

‘It’s felt a little while in the coming, but on Friday I had the first four up in a Bookie Bashing Lucky 15 sourced from the Early Pay Out Tracker for the first time this season. Decent prices too, and that one bet provided a profit equal to 24.7% bank growth, and has pushed the ROI for the month to date up to 37.3%. Sadly, each and every other day for this strategy was a losing one, but I can live with that when we get winners such as this.

Sys Analyst carried on the good work done this month. Only in action on the Friday and Saturday, a nice winner at just over 11/1 on the Exchanges and a 20/1 place at a bookmaker ensured more profit. It’s been beautifully steady this month, and long may that continue. Actually, “steady” doesn’t do it anywhere near justice. Bank growth this month is currently 22% and the ROI is 172.4%. Let’s upgrade “steady” to “bloody spectacular”!’

This week’s post is a little less optimistic but Rowan always deals with reality head on:

‘…to be honest, I’d snap your hand off for “not great”. The word I would use instead to describe the past seven days or so, is the title of this post!

We all know these spells happen from time to time, but it makes them no less painful to endure when they do. It’s been a horrible week, with not one tipster or strategy used generating any profit, and a number producing a pretty sharp loss. Diversification is supposed to stop such acute sharp, short term swings, but every now and then, the principles of diversification get trampled on and destroyed.’

Real Life Betting

As you can tell from these examples, Rowan lives and breathes his betting, reporting the wild variance that can come with following any tipster or system.

He has been doing this for a long time so he knows ‘the game’ but I still find it fascinating (and refreshingly honest) when he articulates the joys, biases and paranoia that can come with serious betting for profit.

‘Have I found the new Patrick Veitch?’, ‘Has this tipster lost his edge?’ and ‘Does everyone else feel this way sometimes?‘ are all questions that I have asked myself after 20 years of serious punting so it is great to know that someone else has too!

In addition to this, Rowan’s posts also discuss things like:

• New tipsters, strategies and angles that have come into the SBC or the general market
• Account restrictions
• Shop betting and dealing with the ‘beady eyes’ when taking that value
• Rowan’s thoughts on developments in the gambling world
• A lot more besides!

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For those of you interested in reading the Bet Diary you have two options.

Option 1 is to simply visit the Bet Diary link each week to read Rowan’s posts. He blogs on the Bet Diary a few times each week.

Option 2 is to click here and join the Bet Diary Saturday email list, where every Saturday we collate all of Rowan’s latest posts and send them direct to your inbox!

(Note – after you click that Option 2 link, you should receive an email notifying you have joined the Bet Diary Mailing List. If not then you can sign-up for free email updates here.)

Every one of Rowan’s pieces is also kept on this page if you would like to go back and read through the archive!

Betting doesn’t have to be a solitary game when you can read the thoughts of others – this is the perfect opportunity to do just that!