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Top 8 Betting Articles From 2013 So Far!

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In this week’s column, we have rounded up the most popular blog articles from the first 7 months of the year so far…

1. The Bookie Tricks To Watch Out For!
Bookmakers love to pretend to be on your side, although the reality is often quite different…After all – they only make a profit when you lose! So to help you understand them better, here is a list of 6 bookie ‘tricks’ to watch out for.

2. Yet More Bookie Tricks Uncovered & Why They Hate Us!
The second part of our ‘bookie tricks’ series with even more secrets revealed…plus why they hate us at the Smart Betting Club.

3. How To Find Winners (And Avoid Losers)
Betting successfully is about being skilful not just lucky (although a bit of luck is always welcome!) and it’s the same for tipsters. Check out the results of our tipster ‘luck simulator’.

4. The Diamond Racing Tipster With 290.1% Bank Growth
Extracts from our review of the GT Tips service and how it achieved nearly 3 times betting bank growth in a 2 year period.

5. Rocket Scientists Look Away – Football Betting Made Easy
The deliciously easy to follow football tipster and their 2 very profitable football systems. Combined, both systems have made over 550 pts profit from 4300 bets.

6. Interview With Pro Gambler Peter Green
An exclusive interview with profitable gambler – Peter Green and how he went from mug punter to perennial winner by following the right tipsters.

7. Are You A Victim Of The Betting Odds Conspiracy?
Most punters don realise they are victims of a betting conspiracy where they bet with the wrong bookmakers and miss out on the best odds. Find out how you can change this…

8. The Best & Worst Racing Bookmakers
Check out the results from our Independent Bookie Guide, where we reveal the top 7 and worst 3 racing bookmakers out there.

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6 Tips For Next Football Manager Betting

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The traditional football season may effectively come to an end this weekend with the Champions League final,  but there is one betting market just starting to hot up – Next manager betting.

At the time of writing, 4 Premier League clubs in Everton, Man City, Chelsea and Stoke are looking for new managers, whilst rumours continue to swirl about those in charge at Wigan, Arsenal, Fulham, Newcastle & Swansea. Before we know it, nearly half the clubs in the entire top flight could be changing manager, and that’s before we consider other high profile clubs abroad such as Real Madrid and PSG.

…And for the shrewd gambler, this means only one thing. Potential winnings to be made in the extremely volatile Next Football Manager markets.

Likewise for those that are unprepared, these markets can be the ruin of you, so knowing the “who”, “what” and “where” about betting on next managers is key.

So to help you with this, I have put together an updated 6 point guide to help steer you in the right direction for betting on next manager markets. Continue reading →

Are You A Victim Of The Betting Odds Conspiracy?

Posted on by Mike

As punters these days we can bet on pretty much anything we like from the existence of Aliens being proven (33/1 to happen this year) to the winner of the Eurovision song contest, where nearly £1million has been matched at Betfair already! (It’s safe to say that Terry Wogan’s wig will be trending this weekend too!)

There is however one thing that binds us all together as punters: Bookmakers.

Love or hate them, there is no getting away from the fact we simply can’t bet without them. Yet choosing the right bookmaker to bet with is critical and can make a massive difference to your profits…(and sometimes whether we make a profit or not in the first place!).

Yet our own research at the Smart Betting Club indicates that the majority of punters are actually betting with the wrong bookmakers!

This finding is based on the stats from our 2 independent bookmaker guides (#1 on Football and #2 on Horse Racing), where we found that when it comes to the worst bookmakers…. Continue reading →

Double Up To Double Your Betting Profits

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Over the years there have been many famous double acts… Laurel & Hardy, Torville & Dean, Shearer & Sheringham and not forgetting of course – Howard Webb & Manchester United!

In betting, pairing two good bets as a double act can be a great way to increase your returns, but there is obviously some extra risk. For those not aware, with a double bet, you need both bets to win instead of betting on single outcomes. As this is less likely to happen, the odds are much bigger than betting on singles. Allow me to explain in a bit more detail.

Lets take a couple of football fixtures from this weekend as an example to help showcase how it all works in practice:

So, if you think that Aston Villa to beat Fulham and Wolves to beat Huddersfield are both 50/50 shots, then the odds in theory should be 2.0 (evens).

If you are able to get anything above 2.0 (evens) on those matches, then you’ve got a value bet and should make a profit in theory.

A quick check at the odds available at the bookies shows that both Wolves and Aston Villa are available at around 2.20 (6/5).

My options if I wanted to back both are as follows:

  • 2 Single Bets: Back Wolves & Aston Villa at 2.20 as 2 single bets. Potential profit if both win: 2.40 points.
  • 1 Double Bet: Back Wolves & Aston Villa at 2.20 as 1 double bet. Potential profit if both win: 3.84 points

If you continue to back enough 50/50 shots at 2.20 then your long term profit will be a 10% Return on Investment (£10 won for every £100 staked).

As a comparison,  if you placed those exact same bets just as doubles, your return on investment rockets to 21% (£21 won for every £100 staked).

Would You Swap Bigger Profits For A Lower Strike Rate? Continue reading →

From ‘Fun Betting’ To ‘Pro Betting’ In 5 Easy Steps

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If you are anything like me, then chances are you first started betting as a bit of fun. Perhaps by backing your favourite sports team or having a bet in the Grand National at work.

I started off as a teenager by doing the pools with my gambling-happy Granny, helping her to select the best football bets every Saturday morning with a bacon butty and a cup of tea. Once I was old enough to bet myself, I then started doing weekly accas at the local bookies. Most of the time they lost (and always seemed to be just 1 result that let me down!) but when they did win it was fantastically rewarding…and it hooked me to find out more.

I got a major kick from backing my own judgement, taking on the bookie and felt a real sense of achievement when I got it right and made some cold hard cash!

This was all very well and good…apart from just 1 problem. I didn’t get it right often enough and I quickly found that I was losing money regularly from my betting.  Losing money week in week out just wasn’t fun anymore and more importantly, wasn’t sustainable.

Needed To Make My Betting More Professional

I quickly realised that if I wanted to change this, I needed to learn everything I could about the industry and go from ‘fun betting’ to ‘pro betting’.

Thankfully I learnt by my early mistakes and now on the back of my own success betting, over the past 7 years I have been able to set-up and grow the Smart Betting Club as a way of helping others like me ‘graduate’ from betting for fun…to betting for money.

If you are in a similar position and keen to take your betting up a notch or ten, I have put together my 5 Easy Steps on going from Fun Betting to Pro Betting… Continue reading →

From 'Fun Betting' To 'Pro Betting' In 5 Easy Steps

Posted on by Mike

If you are anything like me, then chances are you first started betting as a bit of fun. Perhaps by backing your favourite sports team or having a bet in the Grand National at work.

I started off as a teenager by doing the pools with my gambling-happy Granny, helping her to select the best football bets every Saturday morning with a bacon butty and a cup of tea. Once I was old enough to bet myself, I then started doing weekly accas at the local bookies. Most of the time they lost (and always seemed to be just 1 result that let me down!) but when they did win it was fantastically rewarding…and it hooked me to find out more.

I got a major kick from backing my own judgement, taking on the bookie and felt a real sense of achievement when I got it right and made some cold hard cash!

This was all very well and good…apart from just 1 problem. I didn’t get it right often enough and I quickly found that I was losing money regularly from my betting.  Losing money week in week out just wasn’t fun anymore and more importantly, wasn’t sustainable.

Needed To Make My Betting More Professional

I quickly realised that if I wanted to change this, I needed to learn everything I could about the industry and go from ‘fun betting’ to ‘pro betting’.

Thankfully I learnt by my early mistakes and now on the back of my own success betting, over the past 7 years I have been able to set-up and grow the Smart Betting Club as a way of helping others like me ‘graduate’ from betting for fun…to betting for money.

If you are in a similar position and keen to take your betting up a notch or ten, I have put together my 5 Easy Steps on going from Fun Betting to Pro Betting… Continue reading →

New Year’s Resolution: Top 5 Tips To Make Betting Pay In 2013

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If like me and approximately half of the population then the start of January will have seen you set some new year resolutions, as we look to get fitter, stop smoking or most likely if you are reading this – Make Money Betting.

The sad fact is that most of us give up on our resolutions after only a few weeks, and if making money betting was your goal, this can often be a costly exercise filled with losing bets, especially if attempting it on your own.

So to help with the goal of betting successfully in mind, today I wanted to share my 5 top tips to making your betting new year’s resolution stick!

SBC’s 5 Top Tips To Making Your Betting New Year’s Resolutions Stick
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New Year's Resolution: Top 5 Tips To Make Betting Pay In 2013

Posted on by Mike

If like me and approximately half of the population then the start of January will have seen you set some new year resolutions, as we look to get fitter, stop smoking or most likely if you are reading this – Make Money Betting.

The sad fact is that most of us give up on our resolutions after only a few weeks, and if making money betting was your goal, this can often be a costly exercise filled with losing bets, especially if attempting it on your own.

So to help with the goal of betting successfully in mind, today I wanted to share my 5 top tips to making your betting new year’s resolution stick!

SBC’s 5 Top Tips To Making Your Betting New Year’s Resolutions Stick
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Top Nine Betting Articles From 2012

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To help kick-start your betting for the New Year, we have rounded up the most popular betting articles from last year for you all to enjoy. Below are our nine most read betting articles from the SBC Blog…

1. Under/Over Goal Betting Explained
One of the most popular bet formats for football is the over/under goals market with the most popular under or over 2.5 goals. Includes a full table on all common goal lines including 1.75, 2.25 and 2.75.

2. How Good Are Tom Segal & Pricewise Extra?
Earlier this year we examined the record of Pricewise Extra and its chief tipster Tom Segal. Find out just how it stands up to scrutiny.

3. How To Bet On Corners Part 1 & Part 2
Many people are turning to new ways of profiting from football betting and one such niche angle is that of corners betting. Read our 2 part guide on all aspects of how to do it.

4. How Good A Golf Tipster Is Steve Palmer?
Before the start of the Open in July we scrutinised the Racing Post’s top Golf tipster Steve Palmer betting record for the year.

5. Six Top Tips For Avoiding Mug Football Bets
We asked 6 of our top football tipsters for their best advice on how to avoid ‘mug’ football bets – the type that pay for the bookies to go on holiday. Read their full advice.

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Why Skrill (Moneybookers) Is Vital For Those Serious About Betting

Posted on by Mike

Online betting has grown massively in recent years, but how you ‘deposit’ and ‘withdraw’ funds can often be complicated and extremely frustrating, even at some of the big name bookmakers.

Not only this, but if you use your debit or credit card to deposit funds, then you often find:

  • Large transaction fees for depositing with certain credit or debit cards
  • Lots of hoops to jump though in verifying your bank details
  • Delays in your funds reaching your account
  • It makes a real mess of your bank statement (lots of ins and outs)
  • No way of separating your betting from your everyday banking activity

That last point is crucial and is the reason why a large proportion of gamblers  set-up new bank accounts solely for betting purposes.  Being able to manage your finances and having visibility of all your betting transactions in one place is a ‘must’ for any punter.

Skrill Great For Betting Accounts

The good news is that a tried and trusted solution to all these problems is available in the form of a company called Skrill (formerly called Moneybookers) who offer a one-stop, easy solution for gamblers. Continue reading →