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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!

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Dear Friend,

I’m going to be a little bit direct in today’s email, so excuse my blunt approach…but I feel it is vitally important as it surrounds the reality that is betting for profit and the difference that genuine expert advice can make.

To help explain my point – I want to discuss first of all the generally accepted statistic that approximately 1.5% of all punters who bet actually make a profit from their betting. Or to put it another way just 1 person out of every 75.

Whichever way you look at it – it’s a fairly damning statistic and one which goes to show how difficult it is to win when betting, especially when doing so on your own.

If, however, you then compare this 1.5% stat to the results of our 2016 Awards Report, whereby 85.1% of all voting SBC members made a profit from their betting in 2016, I think you might be able to see the point of this email.

What’s more this 85.1% figure is a 1.5% increase on the same question from last year, indicating a gradual improvement on performance figures obtained by SBC members.

46.3% Making 5k+

To find out just how much profit the 85.1% who voted made, we also asked them to categorise just how much they were up or down in 2015.

It turns out that the most popular profit category was for those making £10,000+ profit with 28.7% of all who voted making this five figure sum. Next up was those up between £5,000 and £9,999 profit with 17.6% falling into this category.

Combining these top two categories effectively meant that 46.3% of all who voted actually made a minimum of £5,000 profit last year. Not bad at all.

Here is the full breakdown of results warts and all (including the losses some punters made) from 2015:

Why Not 100%?

As much as we would love every single one of our members to make a profit, let’s be realistic. Not everyone is going to make it work. As a member we give you all the tools you need to make a profit, but it still comes down to your discipline, perseverance and yes, a little bit of luck.

Still, 85.1% of SBC members compares very nicely to the 1.5% general public stat and just goes to show the difference that our tipster reviews and ratings can make.

All of the results in this email were based on a straight-forward poll where we asked SBC members to honestly answer just how their betting fared last year. Each member could only vote once and no incentives were offered for answers to ensure they were 100% fair and accurate.

The full results of this poll have been published in our 2016 Betting & Tipsters Award Report, where as a service we took the pulse of just how last year fared for our members.

Allow Us To Help You Betting

If you are keen to follow in the footsteps of some of our members and vastly increase your chances of making a profit from your betting, then do consider a Smart Betting Club membership.

You can also sign-up today and enjoy the peace of mind that our 30 day 100% money back guarantee will bring you – ensuring you have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Last Friday saw the release of our much anticipated 2016 Tipster Betting Awards Report, which included your votes for the Worst Bookmaker… and here are the results!

Voted for by both SBC members and you the general public, this award (or should we say wooden spoon!) is designed to highlight those bookmakers falling short of the standards we demand as punters.

Whether it is offering poor value odds, shoddy customer service or simply not letting you get your full stakes on – you voted in your droves in what was a very competitive category!

So, without further ado, here is how you voted:

Boylesports Spoilsports

Top of the heap for 2015 as your worst rated bookmaker was none other than Boylesports, who picked up 21.9% of the vote to cement their position as a bookmaker many punters love to hate. They are the recipient of our lovely wooden spoon worst bookmaker award!

Not far behind in the rotten bookie stakes was the winner from the last 2 years, Stan James, who notched up 20.3% of the vote to suggest they still have much to do to convince punters to use their services.

And finally, the bronze award winner was a relative newcomer to the worst bookmaker stakes –Ladbrokes about whom 15.1% of you ranked as the pits. Considering they didn’t feature even feature in the top 8 worst bookies last year – that is quite a fall from grace.

Other contenders worth a mention here include the likes of Betfred, Racebets, Bet Victor &Skybet who all polled a considerable number of votes.

Avoid The Worst…

As well as helping us have a bit of fun at their expense, there is a serious side to this award – namely to help raise awareness of the bookmakers often not worth bothering with.

One of the main reasons these bookmakers are rated so poorly is due to their notoriety as firms that both limit stakes and close accounts for anyone with even a modicum of ability.

Should you for example bother opening accounts with Stan James and Boylesports if you expect to win money betting? In my opinion it is often not worth the time, unless you are keen to take advantage of new account opening offers or simply keen to try to win as much as you can, while you can.

In terms of our own tipster reviews, we regularly mark tipsters down who quote and settle bets to top prices available with the likes of Stan James and Boylesports. Very often, such prices are a work of fiction as in reality they are not available to all but losing punters. It’s high time the likes of the Racing Post and other media publications considered removing them from any tips or odds comparison tables they produce. It might cause a reduction in advertising revenue but it would be to the benefit of all punters.

Use The Best…

Alongside your votes on the worst bookmakers, in our 2016 Awards Report, you can also find details on just who was rated the best bookmaker – and those you should consider using for your own betting.

Not all of the best bookmakers are household names as some lack the marketing budget or ‘brand awareness’ of the UK high street giants, but often they can make a heck of a difference to your betting bottom-line.

Whether this be through offering better value odds or simply standing winning bets or accommodating shrewd punters, it’s well worth utilising their services.

Access The Full Awards Report

• The Best Horse Racing, Sports & Overall Tipster (Gold, Silver & Bronze)
• The Best Free Tipster (Gold, Silver & Bronze)
• SBC Members ‘Betting Hero‘ (The expert that inspired them the most last year)
• The Best Bookmakers as voted for by both SBC members and the general public.
• The Best Betting Website as voted by both SBC members and the general public.
• The lowdown on why 85.1% of SBC members made a profit last year from their betting.

In today’s betting world, there is one principle that you must stick to if you want to maximise your betting profits…and it’s one the majority of punters ignore!

I’m talking about punters who follow tipsters (as many very successful punters do) and their reaction when they are sent a hot tip.

The immediate reaction from most punters is to get their bet on immediately as they are desperate to be involved. Very often in doing so they grab the best price they can on the tips put forward.

We’ve all done it, and most of us continue to do it.  But this is exactly why so many gamblers fail to make the level of profit that they really should.

So what is this principle that can transform your betting performance overnight?

It is the principle of securing value. 

Securing value really should be the first and last commandment for anyone who bets, because if you are betting value in every single wager you strike, you will make more money.

And the greater the level of value you secure in each of your bets, the greater the level of profit you will makE.

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The power of value

Take a look at the following tables taken from a very successful horse racing tipster we reviewed in a recent SBC Magazine. It showcases how the odds on the tips they supplied moved after a period of time.

Over 90 bets we observed, the average odds for the tips supplied came in at 5.28/1. Yet what we wanted to find out is just what odds would be available after 15 minutes, 60 minutes and at SP.

As the first table reveals they shifted down to 4.94/1 after 15 minutes, 4.64/1 after 60 minutes and 4.03 at SP.

Now to some of you that might not sound too much, especially the difference between the 5.28/1 and 4.94/1 available after 15 minutes…yet you would be wrong.

As the next table reveals, the actually ROI difference is as much as 9.7% within this 15-minute time period. After 60 minutes it becomes 16.5% whilst at SP, you would actually make a loss.

The lesson we can learn from this is that if your bets don’t carry as much value as they should do, your ROI figures will shrink and potentially dramatically so.

You could ultimately turn a profitable tip into a loss-making one, simply by taking a bad price.

And once again we return to that key concept…securing value on your bets!

Punters making their betting pay

The above is one of the key lessons made clear in one of our latest series of Practical Punter Reports – as penned by semi-pro gamblers making their betting pay.

Sticking to these value betting principles is a tough ask sometimes, especially if you miss a winning bet due to the value not being there.

For many a gambler, there can be no worse feeling then missing a winning bet…and especially one that had been tipped up to you earlier on. You should have been on…yet you weren’t!

Yet if the tip is for 8/1 and only 6/1 is available – the act of taking 6/1 could end up costing you more in the long run.

However, as this latest Practical Punter Report outlines, by taking this approach long-term you’ll miss out on backing a lot more losers than winners, and the winners you do back will all be at prices carrying exceptional value.

The reward for such discipline is a much higher Return on Investment across your betting portfolio.

By simply walking away when the odds aren’t fully in your favour, you’ll be placing fewer bets…but making more money.

More tips and practical help in our Practical Punter reports

To make money betting you do have to think differently from the crowd and that is where our Practical Punter Reports can help.

Penned by experienced and successful punters, each Practical Punter Report is designed to showcase the reality of just how you can make money from your betting.

Whether it’s the tipsters making them money, how to keep bookmaker accounts open and unrestricted for as long as possible, or how to use the betting exchanges to maximise your betting profit, you’ll be receiving expert advice straight from the betting coal face.

These are real people making real money from their betting…showing you how they do it!

With either Gold or Platinum SBC access, you will have full and immediate access all past and future Practical Punter Reports – including our 2 latest reports released in January.