Can I bet on golf on the betting exchanges and make a profit?

This is one of the most common questions I currently receive as punters making a profit betting on golf with bookmakers start looking to betting exchanges such as Betfair as a solution to get their bets on.

Usually this question is posed because bookmaker restrictions have started to bite, because as most of us are aware – if making a profit betting, bookmakers will eventually either close you down or limit your stakes.

Whilst golf betting does often extend your bookmaker account shelf-life for various reasons (variance, spread of winners vs losers, belief you got lucky), at some point it does become an issue if making sustained profits.

Which is where the betting exchanges such as Betfair come in, especially if betting on the PGA Tour where each week lots of money is traded on betting exchanges – who crucially do not limit or restrict winning accounts.

This is also all part of the journey as a punter. Win money with bookmakers first of all. Then migrate to Betfair once your accounts dry up for more scalable long-term options.

28.75% ROI & 551 POINTS PROFIT USING BETFAIR

To explore this question on golf betting exchange suitability, my team and I have run the numbers on the PGA Profit service if taking Win and Top 5 Betfair prices on his selections and comparing that to bookmaker odds on the same players if backed each way.

We gathered the odds for each market dating back to November 2020 at both bookmakers and Betfair as part of this analysis.

You can read the full breakdown in this free-to-read PDF but the headline news is that betting with Betfair is only slightly less profitable with a 4.98% ROI drop.

Here is how it looks:

To explain this table – we have 420 each way bets and 13 win only bets advised by PGA Profit since November 2020.

Over the course of these 433 bets, PGA Profit has made a 646 point profit with bookmakers, yet also a 551.47 point profit at Betfair Exchange odds.

The difference in ROI between the two is 4.98% with a 33.73% Bookmaker ROI and a 28.75% Betfair Exchange ROI

Suggesting that there is only a 4.98% ROI drop if taking Betfair’s Win market and Top 5 market odds VS placing these bets each way with a bookmaker.

READ THE FULL EXCHANGE VS BOOKMAKER REPORT

If this interests you, then you can read the full PDF on this analysis free of charge via this link.​

It explains more on the analysis we did and the differences between betting each-way with bookmakers and Win/Top 5 markets on Betfair.

For those of you totally new to golf betting, then I also recommend our sample golf-betting guide from earlier in 2022.

It includes details on 5 of the best tipsters and strategies we recommend, plus a full lowdown on how each of the SBC team fared betting on golf in 2021 (including the tipsters we used)

You can access it via this link:

​Download Your Free 2022 Golf Betting Guide​

The above link opens up a PDF file for download. If it doesn’t work – email me pete@smartbettingclub.com and I will send it to you instead!

Last week saw the release of our much-anticipated 2018 Best Tipster Guide and its publication has triggered a lot of questions from many of you exactly on how it can help you make money betting.

So, to help answer some of your most common questions on its release and how it can help you, I have put together the following FAQ.

Tackling everything on just what is inside the Best Tipster Guide it should help explain more on exactly how this guide is your ticket to betting success.

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Final Call – Fill In The SBC Restrictions & Closures Survey!

If yet to do so – make sure you fill in our 2016 Bookmaker Restrictions & Closures Survey before it closes on Tuesday the 9th August.

Featuring just 11 simple questions – your answers will help us to raise awareness of this issue – with a full analysis as to the depth of the problem due in our forthcoming FREE ‘Getting On’ report.

All who complete the survey can also enter a free prize draw to win a brand new Toshiba Laptop Computer.

You can read more on the survey and our planned report below…

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Take SBC’s 2016 Restrictions & Closures Bookie Survey

In my regular conversations with punters, one of the biggest issues often raised is the level of stake restrictions and account closures faced by many of them when betting.

For those unaware – certain bookmakers do operate a policy of either restricting the level of stake allowed or simply closing accounts from those punters they deem as ‘unprofitable’ – especially those betting on horse racing only. Some bookies are worse than others but after years of denying this problem exists, it is these days widely accepted as fact.

To get a handle on the depth of this problem, the Horseracing Bettors Forum (created by the BHA in August 2015 to represent punters interests) published their own findings recently which claimed that as many as 20,000 accounts had been closed in the past 6 months alone.

As useful as HBF’s survey was, I want to take this a step further and am inviting as many as you as possible to fill in our own 2016 Bookmaker Restrictions & Closures Survey, which I believe will uncover a lot more on this problem – including naming and shaming the very worst offenders.

This survey features 11 simple questions, should take you no more than 2-3 minutes to fill in and your answers will help us to reveal:

• The best & worst bookmakers when it comes to restrictions and closures;
• Which sports and markets suffer the most restrictions;
• The type of punters being restricted and how your staking amounts, bet frequency and method of betting impacts this;
• The best & worst bookmakers as rated by you;
• What tactics you can employ to help avoid betting restrictions

Why you should answer the survey (Plus how you can win a Toshiba Computer for doing so!)

First of all, be assured that you can fill in the survey completely anonymously – thus allowing you to say exactly what you think and share your experiences honestly. Most bookmakers view the Smart Betting Club as a major nuisance given our work helping punters make money betting (and consequently help the bookies lose it!) so you can be assured no details will be shared with them.

The complete findings from this survey will be revealed in a special FREE Report due to be released later on this year. Granting you full access to all of these results PLUS exposing the truth about bookmaker restrictions and closures to a wider audience. We ran a similar survey back in 2013 although this time we will be publishing our entire findings for free on the SBC website for all to view.

As the Smart Betting Club is 100% bookmaker independent, we are happy to name and shame the worst culprits (as well as highlighting those offering a good service) and will do so in this forthcoming report.

All who complete the survey can also enter a free prize draw to win a brand new Toshiba CB30 Chromebook. A superb laptop computer with a 13.3” screen, Celeron 2.16 GHZ processor and 9 hours of battery life – ideal for betting with!

Once you finish the survey you will be invited to enter the prize draw with the lucky winner to be revealed once the survey closes.

Help Spread The Word!

To make the survey is as impactful as possible, we want as many punters as possible to fill it in so your help in getting the word out on this will be essential!

The simple truth is that the more punters taking part, the greater the interest level will be from the powers that be in its results.

I also have held discussions with journalists from a number of major publications and broadcasters who are very interested in what this survey might uncover.

So once you fill it in, please feel free to share the survey link with your friends via Text, Email, Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp – however and whichever way you choose to do so!

‘Getting On’ – Free Report Tackling This Huge Issue

This survey is the pre-cursor to the release later this summer of a specialist SBC Report ‘Getting On’, which will be published for free.

The goal of the ‘Getting On’ report is not only to raise awareness of this issue but to tackle it from all angles including:

• Behind Enemy Lines – An exclusive interview with a bookmaker representative on restrictions, why they impose them and how it looks from their side of the fence;
• The bookmaker ‘profiling’ software IEsnare AKA ‘Reputation Manager’, what it is, why it impacts you and how you can remove it from your computer;
• Interviews with major movers and shakers in the betting and bookmaking industry – their views on the issue and its potential solutions;
• Legislation and the Australian minimum bet laws explained – How you can demand a similar model is introduced in the UK;
• Guidance from expert punters on the tactics they use to enable them to get their bets on despite restrictions and closures.
• The sports & markets you need to focus on for profit in today’s betting world.

Look out for more details on the release of this report later and the findings of this survey later this year.

You can also check out more on my take on this issue via a number of articles and interviews in which I have been involved previously using the following links.

BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC News
Gambling Insider Magazine

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The very latest Smart Betting Club Tipster Profit Report has just been published, featuring the updated results, ratings and rankings for 59 of the best tipsters that my team and I have uncovered in 10 years of independent analysis.

And to help showcase how this latest report can help YOU with YOUR betting, I have put together a special video to outline exactly what’s inside it and what all the fuss is about.

Click the video link below to see me explain all!

How Our Tipster Profit Reports Can Help You!

Let The SBC Team Help You…

Hopefully this video will help to answer some of the common questions I am often asked in terms of how we track tipsters and just exactly how these reports can help you.

Whether it be via access to our Hall of Fame (those tipsters we firmly recommend) or examining our in-depth reviews for each of the 59 tipsters included in this report, if you are interested in betting for profit with tipsters then this report is an essential starting point.

Tracking and monitoring tipsters is what my team and I do all day, every day so why not let us help you with your betting by instructing you on which ones you should follow.

Full details on some of the top tipsters discussed in this latest Tipster Profit Report can be found on the SBC Blog.

If you are keen to get started then sign-up for your instant Smart Betting Club membership today and let my team and I help you make money betting!