Friday saw the release of the very latest SBC Magazine, featuring our incisive reviews of 3 hither-to fairly unknown tipsters with great profit records. Read all about it here

There is no getting away from it – 2015 has thus far been an outstandingly profitable year for betting on horse racing, especially for those SBC members following some of the top racing tipsters we recommend.

Evidence of this can be found in our extra special ‘Racing Tipster Profit Report’ released earlier this week, which contains the full results details for 29 of the very best racing tipsters that proof their advice to us.

All 29 have been reviewed in-depth by our team of experts at various points over the past 9 years, with 11 of them achieving a much sought-after ‘Hall of Fame’ award for their tipping prowess!

…And so to help illustrate the kind of profits these top tipsters are making, I wanted to share some key stats on just 4 of the 29 based on their 2015 record to date, including 1 that provides tips for free. Each of the 4 have great long-term records but have really stepped it up a notch this year with a combined profit of £5,226 AFTER fees.

This profit figure is based on using a £2000 Betting Bank for each tipster which I have used below to illustrate just how much real-world profit you would have made with them in 2015. Needless to say, you don’t need £2000 to get started (far from it) but it is a good comparison figure to work from – if you would prefer to follow with a £500 bank for example, simply divide the figures by 4.

2015 Top Racing Tipster #1 – Key Stats

Performance: 400 bets, 808 pts staked, 156.6 pts profit @ 19.4% ROI
Betting Bank Growth: 125.3%
£2000 Betting Bank Profit: £2506

Cost:  £49.97 for 1 month, £139.97 for 3 months and £399.97 for 1 year
SBC Member Cost: £120 for 3 months.

Tipster Notes: Since 2014, this tipster has made an eye-watering betting bank growth of 360% – making him one of the best for Return On Capital. £2000 invested on the 1st January 2014 would now have grown to £9,200 over this period.

2015 Top Racing Tipster #2 – Key Stats

Performance: 204 bets, 193 pts staked, 49.5 pts profit @ 25.6% ROI
Betting Bank Growth: 82.5%
£2000 Betting Bank Profit: £1650.00

Cost: Free
SBC Member Cost: Free as the wind!

Tipster Notes: One of the most in-form tipsters we currently track, having made a profit in each of the last 6 months of at least 20% ROI.

2015 Top Racing Tipster #3 – Key Stats

Performance:112 bets, 59.3 pts staked, 12 pts profit @ 20.3% ROI
Betting Bank Growth: 40.04%
£2000 Betting Bank Profit: £800.80

Cost: £77.95 for 3 months, £197 for 1 year and £377.95 for lifetime membership
SBC Member Cost: 20% discount across all membership terms

Tipster Notes: One of the longest-running tipsters out there, this service started out in July 2006 and has made a 951% bank growth figure in 9 years.

2015 Top Racing Tipster #4 – Key Stats

Performance: 369 bets, 1016 pts staked, 262.4 pts profit @ 25.8% ROI
Betting Bank Growth: 75%

£2000 Betting Bank Profit: £1500.00
Cost:  400 Euros for 3 months OR 400 Euros until an 80 pt profit target is reached (average stake per bet is 3 points)
SBC Member Cost: Same as above – no discount available

Tipster Notes: Another red-hot tipster having made 227 pts profit in the last 3 months alone at a ROI of 46.2%!! Also remarkably consistent having posted a profit in 17 of the last 22 months. Given the higher cost of this service, it is one for larger staking punters

£6506 Profit From All 4 Tipsters Combined

If running 4 different £2000 betting banks for each tipster (a total of £8000), for 2015 alone you would be sitting on a return of £6456.80 from the first 7 months of the year.

Even taking into account tipster fees for all 4 so far of around £1280 (although this may work out at considerably less if using the SBC member discounts), you still have a clear profit of £5226 to show for your work.

Ever mindful of the need to take into account tipster subscription fees, you can also find in our Racing Tipster Profit Report a comparative table outlining the total profits for each service AFTER fees have been deducted. Helping you weigh up the best racing tipster for you!

Professional Help Making Money Betting On Horse Racing

 
The Smart Betting Club are pleased to announce that we have secured the exclusive rights to distribute betting tips as generated by the long-running ‘Fink Tank’ Football System for the 2015/16 season.

These tips are based on the football ratings built by Decision Technology (Dectech), who after several seasons of providing ratings for free online, recently announced their decision to withdraw their free publication from July 2015 onwards.

Mindful of the interest in this system from many punters, least of all SBC members to whom we provided all the profitable Fink Tank value bets for free last season, we have agreed a deal with Dectech, which will enable us to supply these value bets throughout the 2015/16 football season.

Thus, a new SBC Football Service will be launched prior to the start of the 2015/16 season, which will provide all ‘Fink Tank’ value bets for every single game across all 4 English Leagues (Premier League, Championship, League 1 & 2).

Full details on this service will appear on the SBC website very soon.

In the interim, if you would like to register your interest in this service, please do add your details to our special mailing list below. By doing so, we will notify you as and when this service launches.

Back at the end of last month, you may recall a special SBC offer, whereby anyone who joined our service during the final week of May would enjoy a 1-month free trial with 3 top racing tipsters for the whole of June. This was a unique deal to help celebrate the ongoing Horse Racing Bookie Apocalypse that has been a feature of recent SBC reports.

…And the great news is that with 29 days of betting down for June already – 2 of the 3 tipsters have made absolutely outstanding profits this month (with the 3rd showing a small loss) so anyone signing-up at the end of May will have enjoyed a very successful start to their SBC membership.

To put this into numbers – the best tipster in June has made a 49 pt profit from 46 pts staked(That’s a 106% ROI!!), whilst the second best tipster is up 13.90 pts profit from 102 pts staked (14% ROI). The 3rd service has made a small loss of just -13.8 points at a ROI of -2.10% only. Overall if following all 3 tipsters for free, June would have been very profitable indeed.

But this email isn’t to simply rub your nose in it for missing out on this offer – far from it!

Because we have agreed another deal with the 2 most profitable tipsters in June to run a very similar free trial offer for anyone joining SBC between NOW and Midnight this Sunday the 5th July.

That’s right – simply subscribe to SBC before this deadline and you can enjoy the free trials as detailed below from these 2 top tipsters (Plus not forgetting that you will also enjoy all the many benefits available to you as a Smart Betting Club member on top!).

Your 2 Free Tipster Trials….

Free 1 Month Trial With James Boyle Racing.

James has kindly agreed to extend his offer so that anyone who signs up between now and Midnight on the 5th July will enjoy a free 1-month trial of his excellent service. This trial will begin on Monday the 6th July for exactly 1 month.

Alongside a long-term record in excess of 24% ROI from 1100 bets since 2011, in June alone, James is the tipster who made a 49 pt profit from just 46 pts staked. That equates to an ROI of 106%.

What makes this performance even more special is that earlier in June, he actually was admitted to hospital to have his appendix urgently removed. Like a real trooper, James missed just 4 days of tipping and since his return (minus appendix) he has been firing winners in left, right and centre. This makes sense as the Flat is James’s real speciality, so its a great time to start following him.

Free 2 Week Trial With Northern Monkey Punter.

Northern Monkey is without doubt one of the most popular racing tipsters amongst SBC members and it’s easy to see why.  It’s a supremely easy to follow service with first class customer service, all of which combined with the 11.3% ROI generated since February 2010 on their bets, makes it a firm SBC member favourite.

Given its popularity, we have negotiated an extra special long-term offer whereby any SBC member can enjoy a free 2 week trial of this service at anytime whatsoever. There is no time deadline on taking up this offer as if forms part of our Tipster Savings set of benefits whereby SBC members can enjoy free trials and exclusive discounts on many top tipsters.

However, given the fact this is a service in excellent form, many of you may want to take up the free trial during July and strike while the iron is hot!

PLUS Exclusive Savings (Coming V.Soon) Morning Value Service.

Whilst the final tipster that formed part of our offer last month (Morning Value) was not able to repeat the profits in June (making a small 13 pt loss at around -2% ROI), they do at least have a fantastic record dating back to 2011 of 1700 pts profit at a shade of just under 10% ROI. They might not have hit their usual heights in June yet it won’t be long before they are back in the winning groove.

They will not be repeating their one-month trial option this month, but we are shortly due to announce an extra special discount on this service for SBC members only.

Grab Your 2 Free Trials.

So there you have it – 2 fantastic racing tipster services, both of whom you can follow for free courtesy of this extra special SBC offer.

Both of them have made excellent profits during June and most importantly longer-term and are a must for anyone keen to start making more money betting on horse-racing.

To qualify for these free trials, simply sign-up for either a Gold or Platinum Smart Betting Club membership today.

Don’t forget either that if signing-up before Midnight this Sunday the 5th July, you will get the free 1 month trial with James Boyle Racing.

There are no hidden costs or small-print to worry about – simply sign-up today for your SBC membership (Gold or Platinum) and we will do the rest.

The Horse Racing Bookmaker Apocalypse continues today with the release of the very latest Smart Betting Club Magazine (Issue 93), featuring yet more expertise to help grow YOUR betting profits.

If you have yet to make money betting on horse racing (or indeed you are looking for more help to improve existing profits) then the 3 major features in SBC 93 will assist you in this quest in a huge way!

This latest magazine accompanies Part 1 of our Bookie Apocalypse (May’s Tipster Profit Report) which detailed several top racing tipsters tearing the bookmakers apart.

Sign-up here to gain instant access to your copy of our latest magazine or read on for more details…

What’s Inside The Latest SBC Mag: 

More Betting Expert Secrets Revealed!

Exclusive Review 1): The full-time racing tipster with 484% bank growth in 15 months

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Read Our Incisive & Independent analysis on this top expert.

Exclusive Review 2): The flat racing expert up 23.3% ROI from over 1000 bets.

Plus how you can get 6 months for free in an exclusive SBC members-only deal.

Be A Part Of The Bookie Apocalypse

The instant you join you will be able to download both of these features PLUS access a whole load more expert reviews, strategies and interviews via the many other magazines & reports we have published in our 9 years operating the Smart Betting Club.

Not only this but as if taking up either a Gold or Platinum subscription you can also enjoy the peace of mind of our Money Back Guarantee if not satisfied once joining! Ensuring you can sign-up totally risk-free, with everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Read more on how SBC can help you make money betting

Tick…Tock…The clock is ticking if you are keen to take up our unique offer to enjoy 3 FREE 1-month tipster trials throughout the whole of June.

And because the 3 tipsters on offer are of such high quality, I am keen for you to enjoy this offer as it will provide a fantastic launch-pad into the world of making money betting on horse racing.

For those of you who may have missed our announcement of this offer last week, here is a quick re-cap on what is on offer.

More On The 3 Tipsters…

To help showcase just how powerful these free trials are, last week I shared details on who each of them are and just why we rate them so highly here at SBC. You can read that article here or simply check out the profit figures for each long-term as copied below!

TIPSTER 1: Northern Monkey Punter. 

TIPSTER 2: Morning Value Service. 

TIPSTER 3: James Boyle Racing.

Both the first 2 tipsters (Northern Monkey & Morning Value) are Hall of Fame rated, meaning they are highly recommended by us personally at SBC, whilst James Boyle is next-up on the SBC review radar.

All 3 are highly profitable long-term and much in demand amongst Smart Betting Club members so this really does represent an excellent starting point for anyone new to the world of successful betting.

Enjoy All The Benefits Of An SBC Membership

As well as these 3 FREE 1-month trials, as a member of the Smart Betting Club you will also enjoy a series of other fantastic benefits including…

• Full access to all SBC Magazines for the next 12 months
• Full access to all SBC Tipster Profit Reports for the next 12 months
• Full access to our 9 year back catalogue of Magazines & Tipster Profit Reports, featuring hundreds of tipsters reviewed and strategies for making money
• Full access to several profitable tipsters via the SBC Forum
• Massive savings on many popular tipsters via the SBC Discount Club
• A 30-day money back guarantee if not happy with your membership (Gold & Platinum only)
• Plus several fantastic bonus systems & guides to help your betting

Everything we do is geared towards making you as much money betting as possible, so if yet to take the plunge, why not sign-up before Midnight this Sunday the 31st May and see how we can help you.

How To Bluff Your Way To Sports Betting Profits

Top tips to improve your betting profits, impress your friends and bluff your way to professional betting.

Betting can be a social activity, with groups of friends sharing the exploits of their weekend accumulator or lumping on in the final race of the day during a beer fuelled day of the races.

Professional betting can at times feel the opposite of this. It can be a lonely affair for the dedicated punter who updates his spreadsheets and tries to keep a level head and ignore the more emotional aspects of betting.

So how do you balance a professional approach with not feeling like a stick in the mud?

How To Bluff The Weekend Acca

The weekend coupon is a bookmaker’s bread and butter. For many groups and sports teams across the country, the simplicity of ticking numerous teams on the coupon is a bit of fun and like the lottery offers the chance of a big pay-off from a small initial stake.

A typical weekend coupon

The problem is that, like the lottery, the weekend acca is stacked heavily against you. By offering such easy betting, the bookie often offers poor odds. By taking multiple bad bets, you’re multiplying the poor value and therefore the likelihood of you earning money in the long run.

So how can you play the weekend acca and keep your betting sanity?

Good Acca v Bad Acca

Few professional punters play weekend accumulators, but there is a way to stick to your rules and even increase the chance of that unlikely jackpot.

It of course comes down to choosing the right bets. Taking multiple bad bets will multiply your poor value, but taking multiple good bets will increase your value exponentially. This is not exactly rocket science as the summary below explains:

Bad Acca: Backing five short priced teams because “they’ll win” and the combined odds are more attractive than the individual odds.

Good Acca: Backing five or more teams at various odds because their odds are bigger than they should be, not just because you think they are ‘bankers’.

You’re not aiming for that particular acca to always win, you’re aiming to win money in the long run.

Finding The Right Bets Part

So how do we source the right bets? Using one of the recommended tipsters that we proof in the Smart Betting Club is a great place to source such bets, especially using our bespoke combo method. If you’re on a budget though, there are some good free options available.

Decision Technology’s ‘Fink Tank’ System

One option is to utilise the excellent FREE Fink Tank ratings made available via Decision Technology.

Here’s how to spot the big value bets:

1) The ratings display an estimated probability of an outcome such as Aston Villa to win at 44.7%.

2)  To convert percentages into odds, take 100 and divide it by the percentage.

3) 100 divided by 44.7 is 2.37.

4) So the ratings are saying that the odds should be 2.37, but you can get 2.47.

5) Result! Aston Villa is a value bet!

You then repeat the process for all the outcomes – you can get the full methodology free here. It’s all free, but can be time consuming, so to save you the bother, we provide weekly value qualifiers on our member’s forum.

We also identify Asian Handicap value bets, with our AH+15 Value system providing a 100% return this season to date.

In fact one member recently landed a 58/1 six fold by backing the selections! Now that’s a good acca strategy!

Get more details on the SBC Fink Tank System here.

More Ways To Find The Right Bets

If the Fink Tank method sounds too complicated or if you want even more ideas, then there are some other options we’d recommend.

Twitter Accounts To follow:

The excellent Pinnacle Sports recently put together a neat summary of the best soccer/ football Twitter accounts to follow for your football betting. Here’s a quick summary:

• @InfostradaLive
• @OptaJoe
• @SimonGleave

Get the full list of recommended Twitter accounts here

One account not mentioned is @footballformlabs who put up some excellent analysis on Twitter and in their weekly newsletter. Picking out some of their recommended bets from the free email is a neat way to shortlist your bets for the weekend. You can sign up to their free email here.

Football Myths & How To Avoid Them

Another way to avoid making a bad weekend acca is to avoid following one of football’s many myths.

The more that radio talk show hosts bang on about myths like ‘bogey teams’, the more you can be sure that the idea of a bogey teams is another football myth.

To help you avoid making bad accas and improve your betting in general, here are some of the most common football myths you should avoid following:

• Myth #1 Premier League Derbies Are Dirty Affairs: Actually the Premier League is the cleanest of all of Europe’s top divisions and there is on average just one more booking point per game compared to the Premier League average!
• Myth #2 Mid Week Champions League Fixtures Hurt Team Form: There is no significant difference in top team’s performances on the weekend after a mid-week Champions League game.
• Myth #3 The Existence Of Home Specialists: Are some teams massively better at home (or away) because they are a home (away) specialist? Nope! Home teams generally perform better than away teams, but any team over performing in the short term will just revert back to normal eventually. For example, in 2006/07 Liverpool, having gained 95% of their total points at Anfield in the opening 12 games, finished with an unremarkable 59% of their total points coming from home matches.
• Myth #4 There Are Bogey Sides: When a team goes on an extended run against a rival in head to head games, we’re often quick to label them a bogey team. Yet in the long run, these patterns are just random. Backing the bogey team because they’ve won all five of the last meetings will not increase your betting profits and may cause you to lose money.
• Myth #5 The Returning Gaffer Curse: Do managers returning to their old clubs hold an unfair disadvantage? You guessed it, nope!

By avoiding making your betting decisions based on what the talking heads are saying, you stand a better chance of making your betting pay. Ok you might come unstuck sometimes and your friends following the myths will have a chuckle, but in the long run you should be the one laughing all the way to the bank (or bookmaker withdrawal screen!)

In Summary – Good Luck

Successful betting is a long term game and with patience, playing the weekend acca can be a profitable angle.

Whether you continue to play the multiples to keep one over on your friends or a way to achieve the occasional jackpot we hope this guide has been useful.

For more ways to improve your betting profits, visit the Smart Betting Club today for reviews of the best tipsters, free tips and professional betting guides

This week we update the latest profits from the Fink Tank football betting strategy & 2 exclusive-to-SBC Racing Tipsters unveiled…

Our core mission at the Smart Betting Club is to give our members the best data on tipster performance and help punters sort the wheat from the chaff.

However, over the years we’ve uncovered some valuable betting information and like to offer these as bonuses to reward our loyal members.

One of these bonuses is access to our forum where you’ll gain access to some great FREE tipping threads from members and experts – including these two racing tipsters, ‘Greeneye’ and ‘Badrinath’ who have great records as follows:

• Greeneye: During his first 12 months tipping on the forum, this racing tipster expert has made a 8.34% Return on Investment from over 300 tips posted for free.
• Badinath: This well-connected tipster has been posting free racing tips on our forum since October 2014 with over a 10% ROI from his first 400+ bets..

You can follow the tips from both Greeneye and Badrinath either by logging into our forum each day or by requesting them for free via email (only available to Full SBC members only)

Fink Tank Results 2014/15

If Football is more your thing, then you can also follow the bets from our Fink Tank Football System on the SBC Forum each week.

It’s based around the excellent Fink Tank Football ratings, but with the added benefit of our detailed research into various strategies you can use to pinpoint value bets. Here are the results for our four key Fink Tank strategies so far this season:

ROI = Profit divided by total stakes | ROC = Profit on initial bank.

As you can see, three of the four methods are pulling in a profit this season, with the only loss being close to break even. The big hitter so far is our AH Value 15 Strategy, which has returned a 67% Return on Capital so far, or put another way – a £1,000 starting bank would now be worth £1,666.00 excluding the benefits of compounding.

Not bad for a free system! It would have paid for your SBC subscription many times over!

These results are encouraging, but they do also reveal two key lessons that we can learn from this season.

Lesson #1: One Season Does Not Maketh The System

The historical results for the AH value 15 system show that this season is no flash in the pan – if anything it is doing even better than it has in the past.

Here are the results for the system from the past six full seasons:

First you’ll note that last season made a small loss. Had we taken a very short term view of things we might have thought that this system was past its best and put it out to pasture liking an aging Premier League striker.

Thankfully we have been able to take a long term view because we’re wary of a key lesson in football betting – One season does not maketh a system.

313 bets may sound a lot, but in football betting, it really isn’t. You need thousands of bets before you can really start to say if something is working or not.

The system works by picking out value, which usually (but not always) means the underdog. But in some seasons the underdog bites more than others. Some seasons the top teams steamroller the opposition, while in others they give something back. There’s no telling in advance what kind of football season you’re going to have which is why you need to see a football system and a football strategy over the fullness of time, not one snapshot!

Lesson #2: Asian Handicap Is Great…But

You won’t be surprised to learn that the AH value system uses Asian Handicap for its betting, while the Win Value systems use straight forward match odds.

There are some pros and cons to this as the historical summaries for each system show:

Asian Handicap betting means you can cover the draw more, with less frustration over those ‘near misses’. Maybe you fancy Leicester to beat Man City and they’re available at big odds.

If you use match odds, then you’re waiting on the big shock result, but if you use Asian Handicap, Leicester could still draw and you might get a result.

The downside is that the odds are much lower with Asian Handicap, you’re not going to land a big 15/1 or even 20/1 outsider that could see your results dramatically rocket higher. Nothing beats that feeling…except the feeling of steady profits that Asian Handicap betting can provide.

You might notice that whilst the win systems have a higher ROI (less betting required to make your profits), the ROC is lower. The upshot is that because Asian Handicap smoothes out your betting returns, you can stake more per bet than when betting win only.

This means the difference between a £3,556 profit if betting on the win 15 system, compared to £5,533.00 using the Asian 15 system. OK you might miss those big winners, but I know what position I’d prefer to be in!

Follow These 3 Free Tipsters Free With SBC

You can follow all 3 of these free tipsters (The Fink Tank Football System plus ‘Badrinath’ & ‘Greeneye’ Racing Tipsters) with a full SBC membership.

All 3 tipsters post their tips up on our members forum for free, plus both Badrinath & Greeneye also email you their tips.

I am always on the look-out for anything that can help punters increase their betting profits, so today I am delighted to reveal details on a unique low commission deal now available with the betting exchange – Smarkets – exclusively available to SBC readers & members.

Instead of their usual 2% rate, anyone opening a new account with Smarkets via our exclusive SBC link can now enjoy a special low 1% commission rate on bets placed during your first 2 weeks. This is in addition to the £10 welcome bonus available once you deposit and bet £20.

The standard commission for Smarkets stands at an already low 2% on all winnings, yet I asked them to do something special for Smart Betting Club readers & members keen to try them out. The result – this 2 week exclusive 1% commission deal, which is only available with us.

To take advantage – simply click this special SBC link and open an account with Smarkets. The lower 1% commission rate will automatically be applied for the first 14 days after opening an account.

Why Use Smarkets?

I get approached by a lot of bookies asking me to promote their services and the vast majority of them are either after losing gamblers and are simply wasting my time. When they find out that the majority of SBC members are winners, they quickly run a mile.

Smarkets are different as not only do they offer great value odds in a range of betting markets, but as an exchange, they actively welcome winners and offer a real alternative to those of you looking for a replacement for the likes of Pinnacle Sports.

I have used Smarkets for my own betting for several months and have been impressed by the value odds I have been able to achieve plus the service on offer. Bets have been settled quickly and any deposits/withdrawals made with no fuss.

The fact they are willing to offer this special low commission deal also sets them aside from all the usual tired bookmaker suspects.

Smarkets Markets

Smarkets cover a whole range of markets including Horse Racing, Football (lower league and European) plus other sports such as Tennis, Rugby & Golf.

Back in October I also conducted an in-depth interview with them to find out more on exactly what it is they offer. Read this here.

To take advantage of this offer, click this special SBC link and open an account with Smarkets. The lower 1% commission will automatically be applied to your account for the first 14 days

Sign up to Smarkets now and you’ll receive………

• 1% commission on all markets in your first two weeks
• Industry leading 2% commission (on winnings only) after that
• £10 refund on losses after you’ve deposited and wagered £20 (or currency equivalent)