Tipsters

The Latest On The 7 Top-Rated Football Tipsters

Posted on by Mike

It’s officially entering ‘squeaky bum time’ as Alex Fergusson likes to call the run into the end of the season. There is lots of talk about relegation 6-pointers, title-deciders and whether or not Fernando Torres could even finish his tea, let alone any of the myriad of chances missed since he joined Chelsea.

So with the football season entering its most exciting phase, it’stime for an update on the performance of the 7 top football tipsters that we monitor. This is something we started back in October with further updates in November & January to prove to all of you – just how good the best tipsters actually are.

There have been occasional ups and downs along the way (just as with any football team) but the cream has been rising to the top this season and overall the picture is as rosy as Sir Alex’s cheeks after a cheeky wee dram!

So without further ado here are the latest results of the 7 tipsters up to the end of February.

Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only. ROI also means’ Return on Investment’ which is the total profits divided by total stakes.

To quickly recap, the first 5 services above are in our Hall of Fame, whilst tipsters 6 and 7 are rated just beneath that in our ‘Recommended’ section.

Six out of these seven tipsters are performing generally very well, with perhaps the best performing being Service 7, with the highest ROI figure so far. This is closely followed by Services 1 through to 4 who are all making a profit to a high standard.

The only disappointment so far has been Service 5, which from the 60 bets so far has struggled to make a profit. Considering they have only advised 60 bets so far, you could say that they have ‘games in hand’ to make up for this. Ultimately though unless their performance picks up they are likely to be relegated due to not meeting the high standards we expect.

All combined though these 7 tipsters are hitting their straps with a profit of over £9000 to £50 stakes from the 1517 bets they have advised this year. The Return on Investment figure here is key as well, which is 10.16% combined. Effectively this means that for every £100 staked so far this season, you would have made £10.16 profit. This is a very healthy profit on your betting turnover.

Naturally we wouldn’t expect everyone to follow all of these services at the same time, but it does give you an idea of the potential here.

Gunning for Promotion

Alongside tracking the performance of these tipsters, we also continuously review and report back on a number of up and coming services, all of which are gunning for promotion into the top rated list.

There are currently 5 very interesting football only services that have been attracting our interest this season as they strive to prove themselves worthy of a future recommendation. Their profit and loss details for this coming season are listed below…

We are seeing some very impressive performance from four of the five services listed here and they will certainly be pushing hard for a recommendation from us in the future. Safe to say that it’s certainly looking very promising that our football tipsters list will only expand and grow in 2011/2012.

Find Out How You Can Benefit

With all these stats in mind, people often ask us when the best time to start betting is! Should they wait until the start of a new season? Well our answer is always START NOW!

That is because no-one can second guess when the optimal starting time for making a profit betting is so the sooner you start, the sooner you embark on your own profitable journey!

If you have yet to join us here at the Smart Betting Club, hopefully this season’s exact profit and loss figures have helped to reveal the exact picture of what these football tipsters could have made you.

If you are keen to find out all the details on all the football tipsters above, their identities and how you can start following them, all of this is available as a Smart Betting Club member.

You can also gain access to all our reviews of recommended services that cover many different sports such as Horse Racing, Golf & Tennis. Football betting is just one strand available to those of us who bet to make a profit.

See what all the fuss is about by taking up a Smart Betting Club membership today.

An Update On The Football Tipsters To Follow

Posted on by Mike

With just over half the football season now gone, it’s high time I updated you all on the performance of our top-rated football tipsters since the 2010/11 season began back in July.

Those of you reading the blog lately will have seen my racing tipsters update and might think that is the only sport we monitor here at the Smart Betting Club, but don’t be mislead – we also report upon lots of football tipsters, many of whom have an excellent record of success.

What’s more it’s open to all to follow and much to the chagrin of Andy Gray and Richard Keys – that includes women! Incidentally I think I have found a replacement for these 2 chauvinists in the form of Ron Manager – although he may be a bit too highbrow for Sky Sports!

This post is also an update on my blogs from October and November, where you can see the progress of these 7 tipsters featured below throughout this season.

Jumpers For Goalposts

To quickly recap first, I have been listing the exact performance from 7 different services, all of which we recommended to follow back when the 2010/11 season started in July.

The first 5 services below are in our Hall of Fame, whilst tipsters 6 and 7 are rated just beneath that in our ‘Recommended’ section.

It is our belief that following these tipsters (especially the top 5) will make you a tasty profit over the course of a full football season! And the stats prove this too…

Below is the updated table on their latest performance since July 2010 when the new season began.

(Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only).Note that ROI = Return on Investment which is the total profits divided by total stakes.

We are really pleased with the figures produced since July with 6 out of 7 services all making a profit of a good standard. Combined at just £10 stakes, your profit would be over £1500 and at £100 stakes this rises to over £15,000.

If following a combination of these services, you couldn’t have failed to make a profit since July and it goes to show how strong an area football betting can be. Although only if you have the right tipsters to guide you – which is where we can help you!

Staking Strategically!

Of course, in reality, it doesn’t make sense to simply lump £50 on every bet as each tipster has a different strategy. Some like to bet regularly and frequently, whilst others work more selectively and you need to tailor your staking to work most efficiently. Therefore we adjust the amounts we place per bet based upon each service and its strategy.

In our example below, you can see that Service 1 has advised 289 bets this year in contrast to Service 3 (only 35 bets) so you would want to follow them with different staking amounts.  For example – in the table below we have £40 on each Service 1 bet and £130 on each Service 3 bet.

Check out one such suggestion for an optimised way of following these 7 tipsters together and what you could have made in the table below.

By using this sensible money management and employing what we call betting banks, you can make your betting much more efficient.

We help advise all SBC members on how to do this themselves – It’s easy to do and can make a world of difference! We have plenty of information available to explain this in an easy to follow fashion once you join.

Find Out More About How We Can Help You

If you are keen to find out all the details on the 7 football tipsters above, their identities and how you can start following them, all of this is available as a Smart Betting Club member.

You can also gain access to all of our recommended services that cover many different sports such as Horse Racing, Golf & Tennis.

Each month we also report back and review all the latest tipsters that have appeared on the scene so you are always bang up to date.

See what all the fuss is about by taking up a Smart Betting Club membership today.

How To Judge Just How Potent A Tipster Really Is

Posted on by Mike

Those of you who have spent time researching and following different betting tipsters will know how difficult it can be at times to know exactly how much money they can make you. This is because tipsters (especially the Arfur Daley types) often use many different misleading calculations in order to show their own results in a good light.

The good news is that help is at hand as I want to unravel a few such dodgy tipster practices and also show you one calculation we use here at the Smart Betting Club, which gives you the straight facts on any tipster.

Let’s start off with the ugly side of tipster reporting with a few classic examples of misleading figures that some of the worst tipsters use…

  • Selective Results Reporting
  • Claiming the past 3 months results will have made you £5000, when the 3 months prior to that may have lost you £8000! 
  • Poor Return For Your Investment
  • Claiming to have made £1000 profit, however you would needed to have risked £100,000 in order to make that.
    Ridiculously High Stakes

    Tipsters that work to £500 per bet to try and make their profit figures look more impressive.

It can be a jungle out there trying to find the right tipster but one way to ignore these misleading stats is to use a simple calculation called Return on Capital.

Capital One

Return on Capital (or ROC) is a really effective measure that translates how much your money has grown in relation to its starting point. It is a simple percentage figure, which is very easy to calculate – even Robbie Savage could work it out!
Although if Robbie does join us here at SBC, he will see we also produce the ROC each month for every service we monitor.

To explain ROC, say for example you put £5000 into a high interest account and at the end of the year you had £6000. Well your profit is £1000, but your ROC is the percentage increase, which in this instance is 20%.

(To get this figure simply divide 100 by your starting amount – £5000 and then multiply by the profit – £1000).

Sadly, these days you are very unlikely to get anywhere near that amount of ROC from £5000 in traditional savings accounts.

This is why more and more people are turning to alternative ways of investing their money – such as through betting, where with the right people guiding you, the ROC can be very appealing.

The ROC From Our Best Services

To help explain how useful ROC is a bit further, I am going to show you the exact ROC amounts for each of the 9 top-rated racing tipsters we recommended in 2010. If you have yet to do so, you can see all the profit figures for each of these tipsters at this blog post, but in the table below are the exact ROC figures.

To unpack this table further, we recommend a betting bank figure for each service (2nd column) and next to that you can see the points profit for 2010 that this service made. In the final column is the exact Return on Capital amount in percentage terms.

The top performer was Service 7, with a whopping 455% increase in 2010. To put that in financial terms, if you had started the year with £5000, this would have become £27,552 by the end of it.

Of course they are by far and away the top performers, but still any of Services 3 through to 9 would have made at least 23.72% up to 147.27% ROC.

Much more than any bank is going to offer you in the current economic climate!

And if you find yourself approached by a tipster claiming results that look too good to be true, be sure to ask them about their own Return on Capital. If they don’t know what this is or refuse to answer, then you may well have dodged a bullet!

Find out More

If you find these kind of stats helpful then you will love our monthly Tipster Report, which gives you the latest ROC for around 35 of the very best tipsters out there. We also calculate other useful figures for you, such as Strike-Rate, ROI and our very own power ranking, which we call ROI+.

All of these stats are provided for the most recent month, past 6 and 12 months as well as all-time performance. You have every possible stat to make the most accurate and informed choice as to the tipster(s) that will make you the most money!

Sign up today for instant access with a Smart Betting Club membership.

A Year in Racing Tipsters

Posted on by Mike

 

With the start of the New Year, it’s an optimal time to update you all on the progress of the 9 Hall of Fame racing tipsters I have been blogging about in the past few months, which you can also familiarise yourself with via my 2 previous articles from November and December.

The big question therefore now that 2010 is done, is just what the exact figures were for the full 12 months if you followed each racing tipster in on every bet they supplied that year.

That includes betting in all types of races, weather, courses and conditions and with all manner of race distances, jockeys, trainers and form to consider.

My Granny might be able to make a profit over 10 bets simply by sheer luck, but over a full 12 months and a large number of bets – it takes real skill to eke out a profit.

2010 IN FULL!

Here in full therefore are the complete statistics for the 9 racing tipsters services that are part of our Smart Betting Club Hall of Fame…

(Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only).

As this table reveals there has been some outstanding results from this group of tipsters, with Service’s 3, 6 and 9 all achieving a Return on Investment of over 20%. What this means is that for every £100 you risked, you would win back at least £20 in profit. In fact 8 out of these 9 have all made a profit with only Service’s 1 and 2 making a small loss and profit respectively and so letting the side down slightly.

Here at the Smart Betting Club, many of our members follow these tipsters together and combined all 9 would have made £9124 at just £10 stakes. On a basic points profit level this equates to 912.4 pts over the full year from 6838 bets at a ROI of 13.83%. Whichever way you look at it, the profits have been very strong and we have no reason not to expect this to be replicated in 2011.

A Storming December!

Those of you who have been following these blog posts may well be keen to know the final progress since I last updated on the 6th December (Read here). How exactly did the 9 tipsters fare in the last month of the year? This is especially relevant when you consider the arctic conditions across much of the UK, which made punting very tricky at times.

Well the answer is that despite the weather, the majority of tipsters actually thrived and ended up posting a fantastic profit in December as these stats reveal…

Easily the most outstanding performer in December was Service 3, which picked up a 24.4 pt profit from the 24 bets advised at an amazing 131.89% Return on Investment. Noticeably 5 more tipsters also made a ROI in advance of 20%, with only Service 1 and Service 9 posting a loss.

Once again if we combined all 9 into a Racing Tipster portfolio, the returns are outstanding with a 28.86% ROI and over £4610 at just £50 stakes from 373 bets.

Horses for courses – Sensible money management

Of course, in reality, it wouldn’t make sense to simply lump £50 on every bet. Some tipsters have a higher strike rate or bet turnover than others meaning you’d burn through your money prematurely unless you set up a proper betting bank.

For example in the whole of 2010, Service 7 advised 3654 bets, whilst Service 3 only gave out 259. It would be wrong to place the same amount of money on each bet so  we adjust the amounts we place based upon each service and its strategy.

For example – in the table below we have £80 on each Service 3 bet and £25 on each Service 7 bet.

By using some sensible money management and employing what we call betting banks, you can make your betting much more efficient.

Below is an example of the type of staking and subsequent profit levels we would suggest for each service this season.

The average stake works out to be around £70 per point risked. The total profit via this method for all 9 services would be £35,450.64 and you would also have the peace of mind that you are staking correctly on each service.

Now we’re not suggesting everyone should follow all of these racing tipsters, but it does give you an idea of the importance of varying your stakes depending on the service.

Help Is At Hand

If you are not familiar with the idea of a betting bank and are keen to find out more, than help is at hand as a member of the Smart Betting Club.

As a new member you can access all our beginner’s advice on money management, which contains easy to follow guidance on how to apply all of this to your own betting.

The learning curve for understanding it all is low and once you have a grasp on it, you could see your betting improve exponentially just like many of our members.

Also, if you’re keen to find out all the details on the 9 racing tipsters above, their identities and how you can start following them, all of this is available as a Smart Betting Club member.

We place thousands of pounds ourselves each week following these tipsters so as always we put our money where our mouth is.

Sign up for a Smart Betting Club membership here today.

The Latest On Our 9 Top-Rated Racing Tipsters

Posted on by Mike

With snow falling all across the UK and horse racing only taking place at the likes of Kempton and Wolverhampton last week, no doubt many of you who enjoy betting on the sport of kings (like me) will have been kicking your heels in the past few days.

Whenever this happens I find it the perfect time for a bit of a catch-up and reflection on just how my own betting is going. Therefore I wanted to update you on the latest performance of the 9 top-rated racing tipsters that we monitor and report upon at the Smart Betting Club. To quickly re-cap, these 9 tipster services are all currently in our Hall of Fame – that is fully recommended by us as worth following with your own money.

You can find my original article on the racing tipster performance between January and October here and with the publication of our latest Smart Betting Club newsletter (#55 out last Tuesday), we have all the stats from November to share with you.

That leaves us with 11 full months of racing bets over all types of weather, courses and conditions to check out so let me show you the latest…

November at a Glance

First off a look at how these 9 recommended tipsters fared this November, which isn’t always the easiest of months given the transition from flat to jumps racing.

(Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only).

It was another profitable month, with 8 of the 9 services active (Service 3 resumed on the 1st of December) and 5 of these 8 making a profit. At £10 stakes, the return overall would have been £348.70, which converts to £3,487 at £100 a bet.

The standouts from November were Service’s 2, 4, 5 and 6 who all made a Return on Investment of 29% or more (this basically means that for every £100 staked, you win £29 profit). The biggest loss of the month came from Service’s 6 and 7 although as we will see shortly, they have been on fire for most of the year, so we can forgive them one bad month!

The Scores on the Doors

Of course, we should never read too much into just 1 month’s isolated performance figures as what matters most is that these services produce the goods over time.

Here at SBC we are only interested in those tipsters that can repeatedly make a profit for our members, year in, year out. Anyone can get lucky over a short space of time and bag a few winners, but real skill only becomes obvious over time.

On a side note, does anyone remember the test once carried out, which compared the performance of tips picked by uber-dodgy tipster Derek ‘Thommo’ Thompson against that of a tortoise? It’s become a bit of an urban myth but apparently the tortoise actually won, which just goes to prove the point about getting ‘lucky’ over a short number of bets.

With this in mind, check-out the long-term performance of all our 9 top-rated racing tipsters since the start of 2010.

Combined, these racing tipsters on the whole of performed very well, with a clear consistent profit from 7 of the 9 services. Each tipster has their own methodology, some advise multiple bets each day, some a handful each week and it goes to show there are many ways to skin a betting cat!

The only disappointments are Service 1 and 2, although both of these performed very well in 2009 and are perhaps best considered ‘very patient’ options. With a number of newly reviewed racing tipsters pushing hard for a Hall of Fame space, the pressure is on them to improve before too long.

Find Out More…

If you are keen to find out all the details on the 9 racing tipsters above, their identities and how you can start following them, all of this is available as a Smart Betting Club member.

We place thousands of pounds ourselves each week following these tipsters so as always we put our money where our mouth is.

Sign up for a Smart Betting Club membership here today and gain instant access to all our information.

Our Top-Rated Horse Racing Tipsters

Posted on by Mike

In the last few months I have been blogging on the details of our 7 top-rated football tipsters that we monitor as part of our service. You can find my latest blog post on this here.

However, here at the Smart Betting Club we don’t just monitor football tipsters as we proof all manner of services focusing on sports as diverse as Darts, Tennis and NFL.

Along with football though, it’s horse racing tipsters that make up the bulk of the services that we actually monitor. Racing, after all is synonymous with betting. So just how profitable have our top rated racing tipsters been? Well let me show you…

The 9 Best Racing Tipsters We Recommend

At this moment in time, we currently recommend 9 different racing tipster services in our Smart Betting Club Hall of Fame.

A Hall of Fame ranking effectively means we give that service a full recommendation as one you can trust to join with  own money. We don’t just talk theory here as we follow most of these tipsters with our own cash so know what we are talking about.

Such a ranking takes time to achieve with often a minimum of 12 months proven success, a strong professional operation and ease of following some of the main requirements.

Below you can see the exact performance from all 9 of our Hall of Fame racing tipsters since the start of 2010.

(Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only).

What This Table Tells Us

The vast majority of services have seen some outstanding performance, with Service 7 in-particular making some fantastic profits via their very busy approach. They average around 400 bets a month and at simple £10 stakes you would have made over £5,350 during this period. Many of our members follow this service at more than £30 a point, which would work out at over £16k this year alone. Thanks to our recommendation, Service 7 now operates a waiting list policy, but spaces open up quickly and it’s SBC members who are usually at the front of the queue because we are the only place to recommend them.

Service 7 does take the focus due to its high bet approach but the best Return on Investment service is actually number 9, with 24.28%. What the ROI figure means is that for every £100 staked you would win £24.28 back. Not far behind on that front is Service 6 with a 22.13% ROI and Service 8 with 18.99%.

All combined if you had followed the majority of our recommended services you would be showing a substantial profit. The only slight letdowns have been Service’s 1 and 2, which are both very long-term tipsters, which will reward those most patient. We are confident both of these will pick-up before long.

Find Out More…

If you are keen to find out all the details on the 9 racing tipsters above, their identities and how you can start following them, all of this is available as a Smart Betting Club member.

We place thousands of pounds ourselves each week following these tipsters so as always we put our money where our mouth is.

In our most recently published SBC Issue we also shared our beginner’s strategy on money management, which contains easy to follow guidance on how to best follow these tipsters.

Not sure where to start? How to follow most effectively? How much to stake?

All of this and more in answered in this Issue and it’s a great time to get started.

Sign up for a Smart Betting Club membership here today.

The football tipsters to follow & how to follow them

Posted on by Mike

October was a crazy month even by football’s high standards. We had the Wayne Rooney contract saga, Liverpool’s high court drama and of course the news that Francis Jeffers has signed for Australian side Newcastle Jets*.

*Ok, the last story is big only in Australia, a place where Mark Bosnich is considered the Antipodean equivalent of Alan Hansen!

One constant has been the performance of the best football tipsters that we monitor and report back on here at SBC. Those of you who read my blog post in early October (read this here), would have seen just what a good start to the season it had been for them.

The big question is then…how have they fared since my last update?

Tipster update

To quickly recap first, the first 5 services below are in our Hall of Fame, whilst tipster’s 6 and 7 are rated just beneath that in our ‘Recommended’ section.

Here is the updated table on their latest performance since July 2010 when the new season began.

(Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only).

Combined, the tipsters are really hitting our straps with a profit total in excess of 125 pts and already over a £6000 profit at £50 stakes. Service 3 has been truly excellent from the 14 bets advised so far and has the best ROI record, whereas Service 4 has the best points profit return.

ROI = Return on Investment. Total profits divided by total stakes.

Horses for courses – Sensible money management

Of course, in reality, it wouldn’t make sense to simply lump £50 on every bet. Some tipsters have a higher strike rate or bet turnover than others meaning you’d burn through your money prematurely unless you set up a proper betting bank. Instead we adjust the amounts we place per bet based upon each service and its strategy.

Service 1 for example has advised 259 bets this year in contrast to Service 3 (only 14 bets) so you would want to follow them with different staking amounts.  For example – in the table below we have £40 on each Service 1 bet and £130 on each Service 3 bet.

By using some sensible money management and employing what we call betting banks, you can make your betting much more efficient.

Below is an example of the type of staking and subsequent profit levels we would suggest for each service this season.

The average stake works out to be around £90. The total profit via this method for all 7 services would be £7,211.07 and you would also have the peace of mind that you are staking correctly on each service.

Now we’re not suggesting anyone should follow all these football tipsters, but it does give you an idea of the importance of varying your stakes depending on the service.

Help Is At Hand

If you are not familiar with the idea of a betting bank and are keen to find out more, than help is at hand as a member of the Smart Betting Club.

In our most recently published issue we shared our beginner’s strategy on money management, which contains easy to follow guidance on how to apply all of this to your own betting.

The learning curve for understanding it all is low and once you have a grasp on it, you could see your betting improve exponentially just like many of our members.

Also, if you’re keen to find out all the details on the 7 football tipsters above, their identities and how you can start following them, all of this is available as a Smart Betting Club member.

We place thousands of pounds ourselves each week following these tipsters so as always we put our money where our mouth is.

Sign up for a Smart Betting Club membership here today.

The football tipsters to follow & how to follow them

Posted on by Mike

October was a crazy month even by football’s high standards. We had the Wayne Rooney contract saga, Liverpool’s high court drama and of course the news that Francis Jeffers has signed for Australian side Newcastle Jets*.

*Ok, the last story is big only in Australia, a place where Mark Bosnich is considered the Antipodean equivalent of Alan Hansen!

One constant has been the performance of the best football tipsters that we monitor and report back on here at SBC. Those of you who read my blog post in early October (read this here), would have seen just what a good start to the season it had been for them.

The big question is then…how have they fared since my last update?

Tipster update

To quickly recap first, the first 5 services below are in our Hall of Fame, whilst tipster’s 6 and 7 are rated just beneath that in our ‘Recommended’ section.

Here is the updated table on their latest performance since July 2010 when the new season began.

(Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only).

Combined, the tipsters are really hitting our straps with a profit total in excess of 125 pts and already over a £6000 profit at £50 stakes. Service 3 has been truly excellent from the 14 bets advised so far and has the best ROI record, whereas Service 4 has the best points profit return.

ROI = Return on Investment. Total profits divided by total stakes.

Horses for courses – Sensible money management

Of course, in reality, it wouldn’t make sense to simply lump £50 on every bet. Some tipsters have a higher strike rate or bet turnover than others meaning you’d burn through your money prematurely unless you set up a proper betting bank. Instead we adjust the amounts we place per bet based upon each service and its strategy.

Service 1 for example has advised 259 bets this year in contrast to Service 3 (only 14 bets) so you would want to follow them with different staking amounts.  For example – in the table below we have £40 on each Service 1 bet and £130 on each Service 3 bet.

By using some sensible money management and employing what we call betting banks, you can make your betting much more efficient.

Below is an example of the type of staking and subsequent profit levels we would suggest for each service this season.

The average stake works out to be around £90. The total profit via this method for all 7 services would be £7,211.07 and you would also have the peace of mind that you are staking correctly on each service.

Now we’re not suggesting anyone should follow all these football tipsters, but it does give you an idea of the importance of varying your stakes depending on the service.

Help Is At Hand

If you are not familiar with the idea of a betting bank and are keen to find out more, than help is at hand as a member of the Smart Betting Club.

In our most recently published issue we shared our beginner’s strategy on money management, which contains easy to follow guidance on how to apply all of this to your own betting.

The learning curve for understanding it all is low and once you have a grasp on it, you could see your betting improve exponentially just like many of our members.

Also, if you’re keen to find out all the details on the 7 football tipsters above, their identities and how you can start following them, all of this is available as a Smart Betting Club member.

We place thousands of pounds ourselves each week following these tipsters so as always we put our money where our mouth is.

Sign up for a Smart Betting Club membership here today.

The Changing Of The Tipster Guard

Posted on by Mike

In last Friday’s Weekend Wager column I touched briefly about the changing of the guard when it comes to the world of betting tipsters and its something I am keen to unpack further via this blog.

That is because in the 4 and a half years that we have been running the Smart Betting Club there have been massive changes for good when it comes to betting using tipsters.

And as here at SBC we are often termed as helping uncover the Good, The Bad & The Ugly of betting tipsters, I will use this well used phrase to explain it all better to you…

The Bad – Fast Cars, Women & Swimming Pools!

Now the first type of tipster I want to talk about is undoubtedly the worst – the glossy leaflet brigade!

If your only experience of tipsters in the past has been via the glossy brochures that hit your letterbox, it’s no surprise if you have been scared off previously.

The promotions have common themes, often with a chap standing in front of a Porsche (although always in a car showroom!) and images of women in bikinis and pictures of a bundle of cash. All of which is designed to turn your head and get you excited enough to fire some likely sounded geezer £999 + VAT for the dubious privilege of his tips.

These glossy leaflets have now moved onto the Internet, where such tipsters and systems are churned out on a regular basis and the evolution of this uber-dodgy approach continues. At the SBC we report back on all such dubious promotions to our members so they can avoid them like the plague.

The Ugly – Unfair, Unclear & Out Dated

Moving on to the ugly, we have the old school brigade of tipsters who are far from transparent and that use outmoded methods of supplying bets.

Here I am talking about premium phone lines, shady claims of insider information, betting coups and of course –skulduggery when it comes to sharing official actual results.

You know the score, tactics such as

  • – Claiming winners at prices that may not have existed.
  • – Making lots of mentions of big priced horses so if one wins they can claim it was advised as a main bet!
  • – Tipping regular short priced faves that my granny could pick out.
  • – And the old chestnut…making up results!

Many of these tipsters are unfortunately almost household names in betting circles thanks to the cloak and dagger approach they employ. They are often expensive, hard to follow, unpractical and completely non-transparent.

They are thankfully a dying breed and are being replaced by the new breed of professional tipsters….

The Good – The New Breed

Finally we get to the Good and this is where we can help you out.

The tipsters we recommend here at SBC are always those that provide a genuine service, total transparency and proof of results, and whose results can be matched in reality.

This method of operating is 100% more professional and its why so many new people are investing their money in betting using tipsters. Email and text message supply of tips are the order of the day now and any tipster relying on premium phone lines to supply advice belong back in the 80’s with Gordon Gekko and Beta-Max.

Here at SBC we have some firm rules of what we expect from a tipster:

  • – Total transparency of results.
  • – Results also must be proofed and verified by a trusted source.
  • – Availability of odds.
  • – Easy to follow and pick up tips.
  • – Professional customer service.
  • – Sensible subscription fees.

We also take a dim view of any tipster who bases their profits on inside information because its often very unreliable as many such ‘insider’ contacts come and go.

Equally we dont recommend services who ask you to place money for you or who hide behind unproven results.

Through these (and other) rules we now have a fantastic list of proven profitable services that offer great betting advice, who we also follow ourselves.

So if your only experience with tipsters is with the bad and the ugly mentioned above, do check out this new breed that we monitor and report back on to all members. Thanks to the Internet, the standards we have set and a new tipster professionalism, the industry has moved on a huge amount in the last few years.

A Great Start To The Football Tipster Season

Posted on by Mike

With the international football weekend, it’s a good chance to have a good long look at the performance so far this season from some of the best football tipsters that we monitor here at SBC.

We currently recommend 5 different football tipster services in our Hall of Fame, with a further 2 services that are bubbling under this level. A Hall of Fame ranking effectively means we give that service a full recommendation as one to join and follow with your own money.

Our ratings are all judged over the long-term so you can be assured that this is no flash in the pan performance! We also take into account the ease of following any service and other aspects such as cost, odds availability and customer service.

So with all that in mind….the big question is how have our best rated football tipsters performed so far this season?

The answer is …very well!

Our 5 Hall of Fame tipsters combined (Services 1 through to 5) have been going great guns with 4 of them steaming ahead with ROI figures of over 17%. Only Service 5 has had a slow start although with only 14 bets so far this season, it’s very early days for them!

The other services (6 and 7) have also been performing well, with each making a very decent profit.

Check out the table below for the performance for 7 of our best football tipsters since July this year.  At Just £50 stakes per service, you would already be £5109 up!

(Please note – the actual names of each tipster have been protected and are available to full SBC members only).

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How Does This Compare To Previous Seasons?

Now if you are like me and take a lot of convincing when it comes to stats, you are probably asking….Sure that looks great, but how did they do before this season? What do the long-term stats say?

After all, we have all seen how politicians use and abuse statistics to prove a point, backed up by the classic quote “Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics”.

Well I can assure you that our best football tipsters are so chosen because they have kept up their form over many seasons. As we report back to all members on the latest stats each month in our monthly Smart Betting Club issue, you can be assured as well there is no Bernie Madoff style manipulation going on here!

To help prove the point that each of these tipsters also has performed well long-term, check out the table below listing their results from last season.

As you can see, over the course of the 2009/2010 full season, each of these tipsters made a large profit to a very good standard. The combined return was 360 pts, which at simple £50 stakes would have made you a £18,026.50 profit. The excellent start seen so far this season is definitely no flash in the pan!

How You Can Benefit

Many of the football tipsters listed here are followed by numerous SBC members who have benefitted from the reports and stats we provide to them each month.

We also know each of these tipsters are good as we place thousands of pounds ourselves each weekend following them too. We always put our money where our mouth is.

If you are keen to get started on your profitable betting walk, then these football tipsters provide a great place to start.

If you want to know more, including full reviews of each service and regular reports on their ongoing progress consider a full Smart Betting Club membership. By joining today you can get yourself set-up and following these experts in no time at all.