Getting On: A Comprehensive Bookmaker Guide From The SBC

Betting with the odds in your favour is what the Smart Betting Club is all about but it does come with issues and account restrictions or closures are close to the top of most people’s lists!

With that in mind, we have many resources to help with getting on and our Major Bookmakers Guide has proven to be very popular since we developed it last year.

A Regularly Updated Guide

This resource is the perfect place to find alternatives to the Bet365 and Paddy Powers of the world as we have documented seventy-two bookmakers that are fully-licensed and operating in the UK & Ireland. Many are household names but some are not.

There have been several additions and edits made to the original page since it was first published and this provides SBC Members with a one stop shop to find new operators that they may not have had accounts with before.

When a new operator opens or we learn something new, these pages are where we will document key information. This includes:

  • Any parent company or relationship that the bookmaker has with other entities (e.g. Coral and Ladbrokes are both part of Entain; Paddy Power, Betfair and Sky Bet are part of Flutter)
  • The markets that the bookmaker offers, with notes on spots where they are a good source for particular value
  • Correlations with restrictions/closures, odds, places and the markets offered by bookmakers in the same group
  • Any personal or widely documented experiences that are worth noting (e.g. issues around getting paid)
  • Other notes that we feel will help you to decide if they are a firm that is of use to you!

Other Guides Inside!

In addition to our Major and Smaller/Independent bookmaker guides, we also have plenty of further resources in the SBC Intelligence section, with information about brokers, tipsters that are usable on exchanges and a wide array of educational materials.

The evolution that is crypto betting, templates to help with bookmaker disputes and a lot more is currently in the works to make the SBC your source for help in all aspects of profitable betting.

Sign Up For Full Access!

To get instant access to all of this as well as all of the other membership benefits discussed here you will need a paid SBC Membership.

Options to sign up can be found here and if you have any questions about what we do and how we can help your betting, please get in touch!

Are You A Victim Of The Betting Odds Conspiracy?

As punters these days we can bet on pretty much anything we like from the existence of Aliens being proven (33/1 to happen this year) to the winner of the Eurovision song contest, where nearly £1million has been matched at Betfair already! (It’s safe to say that Terry Wogan’s wig will be trending this weekend too!)

There is however one thing that binds us all together as punters: Bookmakers.

Love or hate them, there is no getting away from the fact we simply can’t bet without them. Yet choosing the right bookmaker to bet with is critical and can make a massive difference to your profits…(and sometimes whether we make a profit or not in the first place!).

Yet our own research at the Smart Betting Club indicates that the majority of punters are actually betting with the wrong bookmakers!

This finding is based on the stats from our 2 independent bookmaker guides (#1 on Football and #2 on Horse Racing), where we found that when it comes to the worst bookmakers…. Continue reading

The Independent Guide To Horse Racing Bookmakers

If you are looking for independent advice to help you make money betting then the newly released 4-Part Horse Racing Bookmaker Guide from the Smart Betting Club is here to help.

With over 80% of surveyed Smart Betting Club members reporting a profit betting on horse racing, this guide helps report on the critical topic of the right bookmakers to use (and also those to avoid) to help achieve this.

Featuring the results of a wide-spread survey of SBC members, plus the expertise of the SBC pro gambling editorial team, this unique racing bookmaking guide is available free to all new subscribers the instant you sign-up.

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The 4 part guide reveals:

  • Part 1: The SBC Racing Bookmaker Survey – Find out just who the best and worst rated bookies actually are (and why! – read our members comments) Plus….
    Ratings for 19 different horse racing bookmakers.
    – Details on which racing bookies – a) Close accounts, b) Restrict accounts and c) Allow you to bet via them without issue.
    – How much SBC members are winning betting on horse racing.
    – The independent bookmakers to consider.
    . Continue reading