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An Introduction to Using Cryptocurrency for Online Betting & Exploring Bet105

Posted on by Josh P

In SBC Magazine Issue 148 (January), we took an in-depth look at Bet105, an emerging crypto-based bookmaker, on behalf of SBC members.

Today, I want to dive deeper into what makes Bet105 so intriguing and the growing role of cryptocurrency in betting.

First of all, if you’re curious about how to get started with crypto for betting, I’ve put together a brand-new step-by-step guide that is freely available for everybody to read on the SBC website.

This guide walks you through everything from purchasing crypto to making smooth deposits and withdrawals – all from a betting perspective. There are several advantages to using it when compared to regular currency – all of which is explained in the article.

Exploring Bet105

One firm that only accepts crypto for betting is Bet105, an up-and-coming firm which is classified as an offshore bookmaker – one that operates outside of traditional regulation.

Offshore bookmakers aren’t new. Well-established names like BetOnline and Betcris/Bookmaker have built strong reputations by offering competitive odds and welcoming sharp bettors. They also differentiate themselves from traditional markets by focusing on cryptocurrencies for deposits and withdrawals due to the aforementioned advantages vs. fiat currencies (i.e. £, $ and €)

While Bet105 share these characteristics, what sets them apart is their willingness to accept players from regions where many competitors do not, including the UK and other parts of Europe. They put the onus on you as the individual to understand the rules and legality of betting from where you are based.

Those behind Bet105 are respected figures in the betting industry, with several well-known professional bettors publicly endorsing them in recent months.


Review & Guide Based On Real Life Usage

Given the interest in them, we put together a comprehensive review and walkthrough guide – based on six months of firsthand betting experience on the platform.

This exclusive SBC Member resource covers everything from what markets they offer, the competitiveness of their pricing and the pros and cons of betting with offshore bookmakers.

This last point is important as there are both risks and rewards that need to be addressed when considering an offshore bookmaker. We discuss all of this in great detail because there is a lot of interest in firms like Bet105 and it would be remiss of us to just pretend that our members (and bettors in general) aren’t weighing up all of these options with very little independent guidance to help them.

Horror stories (such as this one from Luke Paton) show the pitfalls of using unregulated books and how it can all go wrong. We want to ensure that if people do choose to use these operators, they have information to help them make the best choices.

Bet105 is the 2nd ‘Offshore bookmaker’ review that has been published for SBC members with a third site review (again another offshore bookmaker open to UK customers) scheduled for February.
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​Below you can see an example of some of the emails received recently asking us to look at Bet105
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Why People Are Interested In These Firms

This weekend’s betting markets provide a good opportunity to showcase why offshore bookmakers like Bet105 appeal to bettors.

Their overround (sometimes also known as vig, juice or margin – effectively their inbuilt edge) which is already very competitive, has been reduced even further for the Superbowl this Sunday.

So, you can take the Chiefs -1 at 2.01 or the Eagles +1 at 1.952, which are stand-out prices in the market and at the very least offer trading or arbing opportunities

This is how they compare to Betfair (after 2% commission) and Pinnacle:

Value like this is why they are proving to be so popular with bettors and why we are fielding so many questions about them.

Bet105 also have boosted odds this weekend in the FA Cup as well as La Liga – very often where they are best or joint best-priced with the likes of Pinnacle and the Betfair Exchange.
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So if interested in learning more about not only Bet105 but other options in terms of Offshore Bookmakers and Bet Brokers, then be sure to check out the reviews and guides now available with an SBC Membership.
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For those of you interested in regulated bookmakers, we also have extensive guides including our ‘Major Bookmakers’ guide, which features a rundown on 72 licensed firms you can use.

After all life betting doesn’t just begin and end with Bet365 or Skybet. There are many, many options available to smart bettors these days and SBC is here to help you educate, inform and explain who and where they are!

Visit Bet105

Disclaimer: Please note that signing-up with and betting with Bet105 (or any other Offshore Bookmakers) does not constitute an official SBC recommendation.

It is important that you understand all of the risks that Offshore Bookmakers present, including whether or not such services are legally available in the country you reside in.

Each country and jurisdiction has different rules and regulations on how they are viewed and as SBC readers come from all around the world, ascertaining suitability and legality needs to be judged by each of you on an individual basis.

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⚽ Syndicate Edge – Our New Goalscorer Service From A Proven Source

Posted on by Josh P

Some markets are neglected by bookmakers and they think they are safe by placing massive overrounds on their books.

This is true in most cases but some secondary football markets like corners, cards and goalscorers are vulnerabilities for them – weaknesses that we can exploit!

That’s where services like Syndicate Edge come in and in an exclusive tie up with the SBC, the service is currently FREE for our members!

About Syndicate Edge

Run by a syndicate of football bettors that have been beating the bookmakers for several years, those behind Syndicate Edge use their independent pricing to find mistakes with bookmaker odds.

In recent months betting on their selections as preparation for this service, we have seen consistent 20%+ ROIs and to add some weight to these numbers, we have a personal betting record detailed on the Syndicate Edge page, with the following headlines:

  • 269 bets
  • Stakes (using a unit-win strategy) totaling £40,880
  • Profits totaling £11,708
  • A 28.64% ROI

All of this activity was based on betting with one bookmaker so whilst the ROI is higher than expectation (20%), the long-term returns would actually have been greater if using a wider range of bookmakers available.

Fair Policies

To keep the Syndicate Edge service sustainable, we have limited the leagues that will see bets advised and selections to those shared on the day of game, making it easier to get on as limits increase.

In addition, we are only quoting prices for our record if they are available with at least two of the following bookmakers or groups: Bet365, Unibet, BetFred, PaddyPower/Betfair, Ladbrokes/Coral, BetVictor and Skybet.

This means that if you have access to two or three of these bookmakers/groups, you should have no issues with getting money down.

Sign Up For Access/Learn More

You can learn more about the service via the Syndicate Edge Free Tipster page.

To get access to the service itself and its selections, you will require a paid SBC Membership.

Alongside Syndicate Edge, paid membership will also provide you with access to another excellent free service that is currently hidden away in our Members’ Area.

In addition, there are several other benefits to membership. You can read all about them here.

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

📰 SBC Magazine Issue #148: Tilt The Odds Reviewed. BUMPER ISSUE out now!

Posted on by Josh P

Today saw the release of the latest SBC Magazine (Issue #148) which is once again packed with information, news, intelligence and reviews to help you to make your betting profitable. Explore the SBC Magazines here.

The feature tipster review this month examines the Tilt The Odds racing service – and it’s a VERY detailed exploration (21 pages long) of just what their win-only strategy offers.

A unique platform, offering the potential to place LOTS of bets, both singles and multiples, our review highlights just where the value lies and the type of bettors it suits.

The detail in this review is where we think we stand apart: surface level analysis can hide all kinds of quirks and the only way to really get a clear and realistic picture is to drill down into the data and investigate. We want to be able to tell readers if the service will be suitable for them!

(Note – there is a special 60 day trial available for Tilt The Odds for SBC Members keen to test them out. Another benefit of being part of SBC!)

Also In SBC 148

Jose, a legend of the betting world joined me for a special 2-parter on the SBC Podcast, providing insight that will be useful for bettors everywhere. He really is a master when it comes to the practicality of betting.

In addition, we introduce two new football betting services who we have worked closely with to create sustainable and achievable returns. Lots of work has gone into making these offerings the best they can be – we explain how inside!

The magazine also contains two other previews and several stories from the betting world with our comments and commentary on them, making this the perfect one stop shop for everything you need to know!

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Clocking in at 63 pages long, SBC 148 includes:

  • A detailed review of the Tilt The Odds win only multiple strategy and what is needed to get the most out of it
  • A 2-part podcast with Jose covering everything from edges and networking through to CLV and the practicalities of getting on
  • An introduction to two new betting services that are currently FREE for SBC Members
  • Syndicates, unlikely alliances, bad bookmaker behaviour and much more in our gambling news round up
  • A Snapshot Review and a Six Nations Preview

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To have a good look at what SBC Members get, this video introduces changes to the area of the site for those with full subscriptions, providing you with a sneak peak of what is inside!

📰 New Racing Tipster Profit Report: Best To Follow In 2025 (And Beyond!)

Posted on by Josh P

Today saw the release of our latest Racing Tipster Profit Report which documents the ongoing performance of well known and previously reviewed services such as Andy Holding Speed Figures, Learn Bet Win and Bookie Bashing.

Tipsters’ performance can fluctuate over time and in an ever changing betting world with volatile markets, keeping an eye on this is more important than ever. This is why we produce these reports – to keep on top of who has maintained their edge.

Independent from marketing spin or the selling of dreams, we combine the objectivity of data and our more subjective intelligence to serve one purpose – finding the best tipsters for our members.

Sign-up for membership to get instant access to this report and our full back catalogue

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Clocking in at 23 pages long, this report includes:

  • Up to date headline results for a plethora of services including 9 SBC Hall Of Fame greats (there have been two new ‘inductees’, our 5 Premium Services and several others
  • Profit, ROI and ROC tables to compare the very best tipsters against each other
  • Commentary on important ‘user experience’ information such as odds attainability and the workload needed to follow tipsters in
  • Our intelligence and thoughts about developments since the last report, looking at items such as customer service, policies that tipsters use and performance

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To have a good look at what SBC Members get, this video introduces changes to the area of the site for those with full subscriptions, providing you with a sneak peak of what is inside!

Gwdihw Racing: Analysing This Betfair SP Tipster – Explaining Our New Metrics

Posted on by Josh P

In our SBC Magazine for November, Issue #147, we took a look at Gwdihw Racing, a Betfair SP tipster that is free to follow.

From our usual analysis point of view, this presented issues as for the first time we were looking at a service that didn’t have Closing Line Value as a metric we could look at. I.e. we couldn’t benchmark performance against Betfair SP as that is what it used!

With that in mind, we introduced a few more bits of analysis to help us explore not only Gwdihw Racing but Betfair SP and exchange-based tipsters themselves. We talked about it in SBC Podcast #82 but thought that sharing a little more detail in this email would be useful too!

An Evolution In Betting

Before discussing those metrics, it is worth discussing why a Betfair SP tipster is so attractive to punters, especially successful players.

Account restrictions, high margins on early prices and bookmakers’ unwillingness to lay racing bets have made it more difficult than ever to make sustainable profits from the sport.

As John, Gwdihw’s operator, discusses here, profit and loss to bookmaker prices can often be illusory:

 

Gwdihw avoids all of these pitfalls by taking on the toughest of lines – Betfair SP. Outside of pure Profit and Loss figures, here are two of our newer metrics that we introduced to analyse the service…

A/E and PRB

Actual/Expected is a great way to test whether a system or strategy is performing beyond bare profit and loss as it weeds out unsustainable approaches and tests the selection process against market expectation.

This will be tethered to P&L for the most part (especially at Betfair SP), but as Josh points out in the review, a record can mask unsustainable approaches when big winners skew the overall figures – we introduce A/E to assess Gwdihw’s approach.

Another way to assess a racing tipster is Percentage Of Rivals Beaten (or PRB). Here we took each selection’s position in the market at the off and compared that to where they actually finished, providing more context to how the bets were performing.

Advanced Analytics & Adaptations To Suit The User

Another item of discussion in the review was staking, something that John had identified as an area of possible improvement himself.

Using our Advanced Analytics, we compared the flat staking that John uses to measure his bets against a unit-win staking to deepen our understanding of performance:

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Why did we do this? Well a flat staking strategy can place a massive premium on certain longer priced horses if they are staked to the same level as an odds-on favourite so a more blended strategy can be deployed to even this disparity out.

As you can see here, it also provides the opportunity to approach a strategy with lower drawdowns and a less volatile betting journey.

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A full review of Gwdihw with all of this analysis (and a lot more!) is instantly available with a SBC Membership and different sign up options are available here.

Along with Gwdihw Racing, you will also be able to access all of our historical reviews in our back catalogue as well as several further member benefits that you can read about here.

If you want to know how a SBC Membership can help your betting it is well worth reading this Case Study from our member, James, who details how he has made just under £20k using the SBC since (re)joining us in January 2023!

If you want to know more about what we do or have any further questions please get in touch!

📰 SBC Magazine Issue #147: Exploring The Tipster Up 8.78% ROI at Betfair SP

Posted on by Josh P

Today saw the release of SBC Magazine #147 and it is packed with information, news, intelligence and a review to help you to make your betting profitable.

A free Betfair SP (BSP) Racing Tipster takes centre stage in our review this month as we introduce some new metrics to assess a service that has made an 8.78% ROI from nearly 5000 bets.

Betting at BSP presents challenges, so we have incorporated some newer measurements to see how strong the edge is and whether it is sustainable. The whats, whys and hows are all discussed in detail inside!

Cryptocurrency and offshore bookmakers also feature prominently this month as I was joined by Alex ‘Pisky’ Piskopos for SBC Podcast #81. To follow up, we recorded a Members Only video to talk specifically about this medium and how to use it securely and safely.

Alongside these themes, we have all of our usual news, commentary, tips and tricks to keep readers informed and ready to do battle with the markets!

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Clocking in at 49 pages long, SBC 147 includes:

  • A full review of a free BSP horse racing tipster with tipster quotes and alternative following options presented
  • Accompanying metric and measurement analysis in a brand new guide
  • A podcast, a Members Only Video and a visit I made to another show
  • Cryptocurrency and offshore bookmaker content
  • Safer Gambling Week messaging madness from industry stakeholders
  • Our plans to support the wider betting community
  • Much more!

 

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If you want to learn more about the SBC then our members are probably the best people to listen to.

To read about the experience of someone who has been with us for just over a year, click here. If you would like to read a wider range of opinions, this page has some testimonials and this page profiles some wider case studies!

SBC Magazine Issue #146: A Bullseye With This Darts Tips Service?

Posted on by Josh P

Today saw the release of SBC Magazine #146 and it is packed with information, news, intelligence and a review to help you to make your betting profitable.

Darts is the focus this month and this timing is apt with the festive fancy dress and tournament season very quickly approaching!

The source of the bets for this review is Christian, the brains behind the SBC Hall Of Fame service Chasing Steamers, but his Darts service is a little different as price sensitivity and account longevity are not issues to contend with. The review outlines its very solid and beatable edge – with both soft and sharp bookmakers/exchanges an option.

Best of all – there is a significant SBC member only bonus offer if joining his Darts service, where you can get up to 6 months added onto your subscription for free.

The rest of SBC Issue 146 is packed with the usual gambling news snapshots, an Offshore Bookmakers Guide, SBC updates and our interactions with members – all in one place!

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Clocking in at 42 pages long, SBC 146 includes:

  • A full review of Betting Is Cool’s DartsH2H service with detailed staking analysis and more advanced analytics such as Monte Carlo simulations. Also a unique SBC member free month offer.
  • A news review in a big month for gambling, with proposed tax rises, donor debates and dodgy reporting all discussed
  • Detailed SBC Member Q & As with withdrawal woes, edge erosion and variance all on the agenda
  • Two podcasts, a Offshore Bookmaker profile and much more!

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With the US Election quickly upon us, I interviewed Zeus O’Dea in a politics special in one of two SBC Podcasts in October.

We will be watching the betting markets closely in the run up to November 5th and will provide live content via Twitter/X Spaces if we see a good opportunity to get some expert guests.

To make sure you don’t miss anything, following us @SBCInfo is a good idea as this is where you will find the most up to date notifications about what we’re up to!

Jam Packed SBC Issue: Explore The Betfair SP Racing Tipster (20% ROI) & A Lot More

Posted on by Josh P

The latest SBC Magazine (Issue 145) has just been published, and it is packed with information, news, resources and reviews to help you make your betting profitable.

Horse racing is a sport where how you tip matters and our first tipster review looks at a service that does everything right.

Mid-morning bet release, a (very) fair odds policy and profitable on exchanges (20.91% at Betfair SP) – this service is young but looks very promising – we take a deep dive into the numbers!

Our other reporting from the month focuses on a SBC Premium Service Demetrio Giotti, who has started the 24/25 season with 4/4 successful tips.

We look at the long-term data, CLV, a challenging 23/24 season and a lot more for a service that is the perfect fit for anyone looking for a solid, scalable edge that can be utilised with sharp bookmakers such as Pinnacle.

We provide a snapshot of what’s inside below. If it sounds like it could be for you, then sign-up for membership to get instant access to SBC 145 and our full back catalogue​

SBC 145 includes:

  • A horse racing service review with an edge to both advised prices and Betfair SP: lots of boxes are ticked with this one and at just £15 a month, it is a candidate for anyone’s portfolio​
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  • A deep dive recap on Demetrio Giotti and one of the very best scalable edges
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  • Various podcast and Spaces content with the likes of Mads Kindberg Nielsen, Matthew Trenhaile & Lee Keys starring
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  • Video guides for the ‘Top 10’ services that can be used worldwide and Irish Cash Consortium

Alongside this, the magazine also contains our ongoing commentary on political developments on both sides of the Atlantic as bettors face some new (and old!) challenges from both operators and legislators alike.

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To have a good look at what SBC Members get, this video introduces changes to the area of the site for those with full subscriptions, providing you with a sneak peak of what is inside!

📰 SBC Magazine Issue #144: NFL Expert & When An Edge Isn’t An Edge!

Posted on by Josh P

Yesterday saw the release of SBC Magazine #144 and it is packed with information, news, resources and reviews to help you to make your betting profitable.

After publishing our Sports Tipster Profit Report in place of our monthly magazine in July, August sees us release two new tipster reviews and it is fair to say that they are very different!

One focuses on a service that is doing everything right – selective betting, consistent closing line value (CLV), profits and excellent customer service. The other is a little different – stand out prices, the use of concessions and ‘boosts’ and an edge that may be good on paper, but almost worthless in reality.

We provide a snapshot of what’s inside below. If it sounds like it could be for you, then sign-up for membership to get instant access to SBC 144 and our full back catalogue.​

Clocking in at 54 pages long, SBC 144 includes:

  • Analysis of a long-running NFL service which has a 13.39% ROI from 5 seasons’ worth of bets, with excellent CLV and viability on exchanges and with sharp books
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  • A review that looks at how not to do things, with a seemingly decent ROI needing several caveats attached to their record
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  • SBC Member Q & As, with practical advice provided by the SBC team
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  • A new SBC podcast, an international guest appearance and a new video guide for the excellent Monetos in-play football service

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To have a good look at what SBC Members get, this video introduces changes to the area of the site for those with full subscriptions, providing you with a sneak peak of what is inside!

Pinnacle Odds Dropper – Major New ‘Hall of Fame’ Service Review In SBC 143

Posted on by Peter Ling

The very latest SBC Magazine (Issue #143) has just been released, whereby we have a very detailed focus on Pinnacle Odds Dropper (or POD), a service that tracks sharp bookmaker moves to provide opportunities to profit from soft bookmakers (who are slower off the mark in adjusting their prices!).

Having used POD ourselves for several months and with a variety of benchmarked results to showcase, this review outlines just why we rate it of ‘Hall of Fame’ standard and how you can use it to eke a profit too.

Issue 143 of the SBC Magazine contains:

  • A full, in-depth review of POD based on our extensive experience using it.
  • Results breakdowns of the service, with real life users’ betting records analysed.
  • A video tutorial and walkthrough guide with Dylan, the service’s co-creator and owner.
  • Details on a significant SBC member discount on the cost of joining POD.
  • SBC News, with all of June’s key updates documented in one place
  • A comprehensive look at the wider ‘goings on’ in the betting world, with our ‘social media watch’ featuring some very interesting stories.

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