Football Betting

Avoid Football Betting Frustration With This Simple Solution

Posted on by Mike

It’s fair to say there can be nothing more frustrating when betting on football than backing a team at a big price you fancy to do well, only to see them pegged back by a late equaliser.

After all, it can be the difference sometimes between losing the bet entirely or a 10/1 winner, with no middle-ground for ‘nearly being right’. Imagine being a punter with a 12/1 bet on West Brom to beat Chelsea a few weeks back – that sickener of a last-min dubious penalty for the home team will have cost you big time!

It’s a similar concept to that of last week where I tackled the age-old racing question of each-way or win only bets. The good news is just like as racing punters we can hedge our bets and go each-way, so too can we with football betting thanks to the Draw No Bets markets, which when done right, can actually be quite lucrative.

Sometimes they can even be more profitable than simply betting to win as I will detail shortly, but first of all a quick explanation about these markets for those unfamiliar… Continue reading →

Football Betting Stats: Why This Season Has Been So Strange (& The World's Worst System!)

Posted on by Mike

This weekend sees the start of the 1st round of the FA Cup, which is always a good point to reflect on the first few months of football betting action this season.

…And if you like a few other punters I have spoken to this season have had a tough start to the season betting-wise, today I have some really interesting stats that might well help you! (plus details on possibly the worst football betting system)

With the help of the Winbobatoo football service, I have compiled betting data for the season so far, which show a huge bias depending on whether you have been backing predominantly home or away football teams.

For example, if this season you had simply backed every single home side in the top 5 English leagues and the SPL, you would actually be showing a 21.93 pt profit (at single 1 pt stakes) and a Return on Investment of 4.01%!

This is because there have been 7% more home wins this season than last with 46% in 2013/14 compared to just 39% in 2012/13.

Conversely if only backing away teams, you will have made a 68.01 pt loss (-13.36% ROI) with the key stat that there have been 7% fewer away wins this season compared to last (27% compared to 34%). Continue reading →

How To Get 11.09% Better Odds Football Betting

Posted on 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 →

8 Expert Football Betting Tips

Posted on by Mike

It’s been a long hard summer for us football fans, with good betting opportunities few and far between, yet finally the beautiful game returns in full this Saturday with the start of the English Premier League.

Before you place any bets this weekend, I wanted to share with you our 8 Top Football Betting Tips (as put forward by a variety of punting experts) to help you bash the bookies.

Each tip has been compiled based on the advice supplied by the football experts interviewed in our recently released 2013/14 Season Football Tipster Guide.

1) Don’t Bet On What’s Popular

Doing what everyone else is doing can often be a pointless exercise and some would go as far as suggesting that you can’t make money in the long run backing “popular” bets. It might be psychologically re-assuring to read lots of people agreeing with a bet you fancy, but in reality the fact that lots of people want to back something means you are unlikely to be getting a value price.

There’s a reason most bookies list their top 10 most popular bets on their homepage. Be your own person, learn to truly ignore what everyone else is saying and don’t be afraid to go as far against the grain as you find comfortable to go. Continue reading →

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 →

Rocket Scientists Look Away – Football Betting Made Easy

Posted on by Mike

When I tell people about my gambling activities, their reaction usually follows a three step pattern:

  1. Concern for my well being.
  2. Intrigued that you can actually make money betting.
  3.  Laugh and say it all sounds a bit complex to them – They’ll stick to betting on the horse with the funniest name in the Grand National.

But you don’t need a degree in rocket science to make money, especially with football betting. In fact I’ll prove it to you….

An Easy To Follow Football Tipster

Take for example the football tipster service we reviewed in our latest Smart Betting Club magazine (published earlier this week), which is simplicity itself to follow.

They are a long-established football match-ratings and betting advice service who have developed a huge database on the sport. You can follow them in 2 ways…

  1. Follow some of their established football systems and pick up their tips each week. OR
  2. Use their database and ratings to build your own football systems.

The focus of our review was on two of these established football systems, both of which have excellent results and are extremely easy to follow. Allow me to reveal more… Continue reading →

3 Ways To Follow This Proven Football Betting System

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Last night’s 1-0 win for QPR over Chelsea may have been a shock to some, but for those of you following our Free Proven Football Betting System – the ‘Fink Tank’, it was the latest in a line of big priced winning bets that its put forward.

Added to other recent winners such as Aston Villa to beat Liverpool and Sunderland to beat Man City, this free proven football system is on course for its 3rd consecutive profitable season in the English Premier League.

Since the start of the 2010/11 season, from 845 bets selected, it has generated a £92.68 profit at £1 level stakes. Increasing stakes to £25 per bet would have taken your profit up to £2,317.00 as the table below indicates:

Fink Tank

The great news is that you can now follow the Fink Tank yourself in 3 different ways…

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5 Top Footy Tipsters To Grow Your Betting Bank With

Posted on by Mike

If there is one thing we are known for at the Smart Betting Club it’s our Hall of Fame of the best tipsters to follow – effectively those proven to make you money betting.

But just exactly how do we come up with these top rated tipsters? And more importantly…how can you do the same and quickly sift the tipster wheat from the chaff?

Well one very straight-forward way to do this is by looking at ‘betting bank’ growth…or as we term it ‘Return on Capital’ or ROC. Allow me to explain why its essential to finding a good tipster and just how our 5 top footy tipsters stack up against it. Continue reading →

Free Download: Sample Our New Football Betting Tipster Guide

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To help showcase our newly released 2012/13 Football Betting Tipster Guide we have put together an extra special sample edition for you to download for free.

To pick up your free version, simply visit https://smartbettingclub.com/football/ and enter your email address at the top of the page. We will then send your copy by instant return email.

This sample guide gives you an insight into the following…

  • Our top football tipster tables – see how much you can make by key calculations such as ‘best percentage betting bank growth’,  best on a budget, best for low work & best for high stakes.
  • An interview with top football tipster ‘The Football Analyst’ and his new season expectations, expertise and most over/under rated teams.
  • The football system up £73.30 to £1 level stakes in the Premier League for the last 2 seasons.
  • The SBC ratings that can help you choose the right footy tipster.
  • Our guide to understanding Asian Handicap betting.
  • Plus how to claim your £10 Free bet for the new season and much more besides.

Visit https://smartbettingclub.com/football/ and pick up your free sample copy today

6 Top Tips For Avoiding ‘Mug’ Football Bets

Posted on by Mike

Unless you have been living under a rock this week, you won’t have failed to notice the fact the English football season gets back underway tomorrow, and with it the chance to make money betting once again.

But did you know that less than 3% of all gamblers actually make a profit from their betting? Or written another way – 97% either break even or make a loss?

It’s a sobering stat and goes a long way to explaining just why it is key to have the right information and guidance when it comes to betting. Without it, you are likely to form one of the 97% that lose.

To help you become part of the 3% elite, YOU need to know two things.

1) What to bet on; and more importantly
2) What not to bet on.

As punters, we often waste so much money on bets that we should quite simply just avoid.  Today I want to help you identify these bets with the help of our new season Football Betting & Tipster Guide. In this we interviewed 10 of the best football brains for their help, tips and expertise on the new season ahead.

One of the key questions I asked was: “What kind of bets – however attractive they seem on paper – should SBC members avoid at all costs?”

Here then, without further ado are my top 6 tips on avoiding mug football bets (the type the 3% of winning punters don’t touch!) for the new season: Continue reading →