How To Make Lucky 15s Even Better!

Posted on March 27, 2014December 13, 2019 by Mike

In this special article, guest author Thomas Randall talks us through how you can make your lucky 15 bets even better!

Online bookmakers hate taking Lucky 15s and here is why.

The bet was actually withdrawn from betting shops many years ago only to be reinstated when customers left chains in droves to go to independents that still accommodated it.

So wait a minute, I can hear a few of you saying ‘what is a Lucky 15 bet’?

A Lucky15 is a series of bets that covers 4 selections (usually on horses). It consists of 4 singles, 6 doubles, 4 trebles and an accumulator, 15 bets in total, hence the name.

Ok, so what’s so great about that? The beauty of this bet is the way it is marketed by the bookmakers. Because 15 bets is a lot of cash to lay out (especially if they don’t all oblige, most bookmakers offer a consolation of double the odds for one winner only in your 4 selections and some like Betfred even offer treble odds).

Exploiting A Lucky 15 Bet To Your Advantage

There are many shrewd ways of exploiting these consolations in the Lucky 15 bet to your advantage as a punter with an online bookmaker.

The first way which is quite well known is to do the Lucky15 each-way with all the selections in races where the place terms are weighted in the punters favour.

For example, a Lucky 15 where all the selections are second favourites in non-handicap races of 8, 9 or 10 runners where the favourite is a very skinny price (6/4 or shorter). The shorter the price the favourite is in fact the more advantageous the place terms become for the punter in that type of event.

Place the bet as late as possible checking which horses are likely to go off second favourite by monitoring Betfair. Also, make sure none of your selections are non-runners because you will not get a consolation (double/treble odds one winner or placed selection) if one or more of the four selections fail to take their chance.

Another Way To Maximise Your Lucky 15 Returns

There is another way of using Lucky 15s that is pretty ingenious as well and it works on slips that pay double odds for a consolation as well as treble (but treble is much better). It goes like this…

When you pick your four selections out try to find one more horse as well but instead of doing a Lucky 31 (A Lucky31 is similar to a Lucky15 but with 5 selections consisting of 5 singles, 10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 four-timers and an accumulator) do 5 Lucky 15s permed in the following way.

Ok, You have picked 5 horses A,B,C,D,E. Next take 5 Lucky15 slips and write them out the following way

Slip 1- 4 selections A,B,C,D that’s 15 bets

Slip 2- 4 selections A,B,C,E that’s 15 bets

Slip 3- 4 selections A,B,D,E that’s 15 bets

Slip 4- 4 selections A,C,D,E that’s 15 bets

Slip 5- 4 selections B,C,D,E that’s 15 bets

Ok, that is 75 bets so far.

Let us suppose we had done a £1 Lucky 31 instead. That is £31 total outlay obviously, and if only one selection wins which is probably the ‘average’ result for punters on a typical day then you get treble the odds for that selection. If your winner was only say 4/1 then you’d of got treble odds making it 12-1 and your return £13.

However you could instead divide your original outlay of £31 by 75 and have 5 lucky 15s with a unit stake of 41.333 pence permed in 5 slips.

Now look what happens if you only get one winner. The 5 slip permutation with one winner will have that one selection in four of the slips. For example, if A is your only winner it appears in slips 1,2,3 and 4.

If A was a 4-1 winner then if you got double the odds a winner in your Lucky 15 you would get back 41.333 pence at 8-1 on 4 slips or £14.88 which is more than £13 is it not?

If the shop you go in pays treble the odds (such as Betfred) then you would of received 41.333 pence at 12-1 on 4 slips and that is £21.49, which is getting towards double £13 is it not?

There you are ladies and gents all you need now are the right selections and you can start hammering those bookmakers!

Thomas Randall is a professional sports trader and betting consultant. For more information from Thomas on how to get the better of your bookie contact thomas.randall@hotmail.com

Special £10 Smart Betting Club Discount Offer

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Mike

To celebrate the release of our 2 new Expert Betting Reports (The 2014 Betting/Tipster Awards & The Latest SBC Magazine) we are offering you the chance to save £10 on the cost of a Smart Betting Club membership between now and Midnight on Saturday.

It’s all part of an extra special ‘flash sale’ where you can gain access to the full Smart Betting Club service with £10 off and see for yourself what all the fuss is about!!

To take advantage of this offer, simply enter our special coupon code ‘A3FF’ when prompted on our membership sign-up page and £10 will automatically be deducted off the price of subscription.

…But be quick as this offer is only valid until Midnight this Saturday the 22nd February, after which time the £10 saving code will expire!

CELEBRATING OUR 2 NEW EXPERT BETTING REPORTS

This special £10 off deal is to celebrate the 2 Expert Betting Reports newly available to all SBC members as detailed below. Click each image to see a larger version.

Grab Your Copy Immediately (And Access Our Entire Back Catalogue Too)
You can pick up your copy of both these Expert Reports the instant you join our service at the Smart Betting Club and with a £10 discount if doing so between now and Midnight on Saturday its a great time to sign-up.

Your £10 Coupon Code: To take advantage of this special £10 discount, simply use this coupon code: A3FF when prompted at the sign-up page. You will then be able to join at the discounted rate.

How to improve your betting success rate from 2% to 77.9%

Posted on February 12, 2014August 21, 2014 by Mike

I imagine that most of you will have heard the well worn stat that suggests only around 2% of people who place a regular bet actually make money from their betting.

This 2% figure is commonly accepted sum these days with even less than that actually making anything resolving even a second income.

So why exactly are so few people making money betting you may ask?

Well the simple answer is that its tough, especially if you are betting independently and without help or experts to help guide you along the way.

Which is where the Smart Betting Club comes in as a recent survey of our members proved with as many as 77.9% of all respondents claiming to have made a profit betting in 2013.

Yes that’s right – 77.9%. Nearly as many as 4 out of 5 voting members which compares very nicely to the 2% or 1 out of 50 in the non-SBC world.

All of which is proof I like to think of our service’s genuine ability to help your betting.

Evidence SBC Can Substantially Help Your Betting

This is a fairly straightforward and blunt email as I think these figures deserve your attention if serious about improving your betting.

Some of you might ask why is it not 100% of all SBC members?

Well, this is because its realistic as even with the best will in the world, not everyone will follow the right instructions and guidance. Would you really believe me if I said 100% of all SBC members made a profit last year? No and nor should you!

How much money did these 77.9% of members make you might ask? After all, even if they made £5 profit this would count!

Well we grouped answers into 4 categories and the most popular was the 29.5% who made between £1000 and £4999 profit.

Second most popular were the 22.1% that made over £10,000 profit with a further 13.7% a profit of between £5000 and £9,999. Only 12.6% made a profit up to £999 in 2013.

We also think this breakdown is quite impressive too as it means 1 in 5 members who voted made over 5 figure sums of money in 2013 and over 35% over £5000.

Not bad for the effective daily cost of just 21p to be a member of the Smart Betting Club.

A Genuine Honest Poll

And before you ask, all these results were based on a straight-forward poll where we asked SBC members to honestly answer just how their betting fared last year. Each member could only vote once to be 100% fair and accurate.

The full results of this poll will be published in our upcoming 2014 Betting & Tipsters Award Report,where as a service we took the pulse of just how last year fared for our members.

Allow Us To Help You Betting

If you are keen to follow in the footsteps of some of our members and join the majority who win, then its a great time to join us at the Smart Betting Club.

This is because we have a special dual report release coming up this weekend featuring our 2014 Betting & Tipsters Report, which reveals the best tipsters, experts and resources as voted for by our members.

Not only this but we will also be releasing our very latest SBC magazine this weekend, including new reviews of 1 fantastic football and 1 racing tipster we have uncovered.

All of which is covered by our 100% risk-free money back guarantee if not satisfied after you join – now you can’t say fairer than that. Why not try us today and chance your arm at making 2014 a successful year betting with our help.

Join the Smart Betting Club today

5 More ESSENTIAL Tips To Get Your Betting In Shape For 2014

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Mike

According to the flyer posted through my letterbox by my local David Lloyd Gym this week, research indicates that most people give up on their New Year Resolutions after just 9 days.

So if you had vowed to improve your betting in 2014, there is a good chance you might be on the verge of quitting, given that today is the 10th of January.

If that includes you then to follow-up my article last week on getting ‘betting fit’ in 2014, I have 5 more essential tips to share on making this your best ever punting year yet!

1) Be Realistic!

If I am honest, it’s highly unlikely you will go from nothing to making fortunes gambling in the space of a few months.

There are people making fantastic sums of money betting (Over 1 in 5 SBC members admit to making over £10,000 betting in 2013 according to a recent survey we ran) Yet they have often built up to that standard over a period of time.

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Your 5-Step Betting Profits ‘Personal Trainer’ Plan for 2014

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Mike

3 days into the New Year and if you are anything like me, chances are you have already taken yourself off to the gym to try and burn off some of the extra calories piled on over the Christmas period.

January is always a bumper month for gym owners, but the sad reality is that most people signing-up to get fit will never stick it out and give up within the first few weeks, out of pocket and out of breath climbing the stairs!

One of the best ways to stick at a fitness regime is to sign-up with a Personal Trainer, somebody who has the expertise and motivation to get you fit (and who you don’t want to let down).

And this is where the parallel with betting comes in, because if your New Year’s Resolution involves making more money punting, you can really benefit from an expert betting ‘Personal Trainer’….someone to help improve your betting fitness!

So whilst I can’t be there to place each bet for you or shout at you to do that difficult 66th sit-up, here is my simple 5-Step Betting Profits ‘Personal Trainer’ Plan for 2014 to get you started…

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Value Betting Explained – How ‘Shrewd’ Gamblers Win

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Mike

With the growing popularity of our Fink Tank Football System, over recent weeks I have been fielding a few questions on just how it (and many other tipsters and systems) actually make money betting.

So I thought today would provide a great opportunity to explain the concept of ‘value betting’ a little bit more and just how shrewd punters get one over the bookies regularly by using it.

As a great example of the type of question punters are asking, below is an email I received last week:

” Hi, I am a little confused as to your system and perhaps you could please clarify a point.

In your example of Arsenal v Norwich you refer to an away win by Norwich at odds of 8.0, and to back it with Totesport having the best odds.

Why would I back Norwich to win the match, when with virtual certainty Norwich will lose the match against Arsenal ?”

Well, this is a very logical question for many when starting off betting and it all revolves around the concept of ‘value betting’

In short, value betting basically means the bet you are placing is available at odds you consider to be too big. Continue reading →

How To Get 11.09% Better Odds Football Betting

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Mike

One of the most important things you can ever do to help your betting profits, is to make sure you always, always get the very best odds that you can take on any bet placed.

It’s one reason that over the past year I have been highlighting what I call the ‘football odds conspiracy‘ that costs so many punters (and something the betting industry consistently turns a blind eye to). As that article outlines, the simple act of placing your football bets with a bookie such as Pinnacle Sports could increase your odds by as much as 25%.

I want to take this one step further today by illustrating how you can squeeze out even better football betting odds, by using a simple odds calculator. If betting on the Spurs – West Ham game in my example below, you can get 11.09% better odds through this simple method and it’s something repeated countless times every weekend. Let me show you how…

Find Your Own Best Odds – Quickly Continue reading →

Earn 20% Cashback With A Skrill Gambling ‘E-Wallet’

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Mike

In today’s column I want to share a top pro gambler tip on how to keep all of your betting activity as organised as possible…and also how you can save (and make) money in the process.

If you enjoy a bet then the chances are you have at least one, if not several different bookmaker accounts, which although the right thing to do (after all the more bookies you use, the better the odds you can get), does mean it can be a nightmare keeping on top of it all.

One of the big problems with having multiple bookie accounts is that it also can mean your bank account becomes cluttered with constant deposits and withdrawals (hopefully more of the latter!). It can also be a slow and sometimes costly exercise to constantly use your debit and credit cards for betting.

Keeping track of your betting performance also becomes that much harder when its muddled in with your Council Tax and Tesco food shopping bills…plus of course, potential issues when it comes to explaining your betting activity to outsiders.

Indeed, a few years ago, I had a heck of a job convincing my Mortgage company as to why there was so much money coming in from the likes of Ladbrokes and Bet365 in my bank account! Thankfully they saw more coming in than going out, but it was the final time I used my current account for betting I can tell you.

An Easy Solution For Gamblers

There is one easy solution to all of this for keen gamblers – which is in the form of digital wallets (or e-wallet) services such as those offered by companies such as Skrill (formerly known as Moneybookers). Continue reading →

Kevin Pullein: Raining Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Mike

We have a special guest blog piece to share with you today from expert Scottish football tipster and scout – Greg Gordon, discussing the findings of a recent article by The Racing Post’s football guru – Kevin Pullein.

Greg has a proven record of making money from betting on Scottish Football dating back several seasons and is a renowned expert on the subject.

Its Raining Lies Damn Lies And Statistics

One of my members has just sent me a copy of a Racing Post article by the Post’s ‘esteemed’ number-crunching columnist Kevin Pullein on the relationship between rain and goals in games.

Click the image below to view the original article in full.

Sadly, like a lot of Mr Pullein’s grand generalisations it is likely to send many punters down the wrong track even though on closer inspection this rain analysis, if you’ll pardon the pun, really doesn’t hold much water.

Rather, I think this is a situation whereby Kevin Pullein, with lots of column inches to fill each week, has fallen in love with his findings and become determined to find a conclusion, whether a conclusion can be found or not. And that is always dangerous territory for betting judgements.

Through my work as a scout, I am only too well aware that in a football sense, wind is always a far greater impediment to goals than rain is. Continue reading →

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