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Summer Soccer Special – 2 Betting Edges To Consider In Latest SBC Magazine

Posted on May 31, 2024May 31, 2024 by Josh P

The very latest SBC Magazine (Issue 142) has today been released and its a ‘Summer Soccer Special‘ – featuring two fascinating betting edges to keep you occupied over the next few months.

It’s the ideal starting point for those of you keen to try out SBC as part of our unique 75% discount currently available (Join now for just £15 before Monday night – read on for more information!)

The first review from Issue 142 focuses on the unique ‘Early Payout Tracker’ angle that readers of Rowan’s Bet Diary Blog will be familiar with,

Rowan has posted a ROI of 25,42% using it over the past 6 months and more than doubled his bank in doing so.

It’s a simple but VERY effective tool to highlight value on any football game using some specific bookmakers.

Our 2nd feature explores the pro punter offering a unique Antepost Betting Service.
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Another to have more than doubled his money this season, we have an exclusive SBC member video interview with him to walk through how it works and how you can take advantage of it.

Both these reviews and a lot more besides – news, advice, betting insight can be found in Issue 142, which alongside our ENTIRE back catalogue can be accessed the instant you join the Smart Betting Club.

Join For Just £15

You can join us and enjoy our special offer to save 75% on the cost of a SBC Quarterly Membership, meaning that you will pay just £15 if you sign up!

Using the special discount code (75PERCENT) will allow you to join and pay just £12.50 +VAT rather than the usual £49.99 + VAT) for your first 3 months with the SBC.

That’s £15 for a 3 month SBC membership and full access to all of Member Only content and our ENTIRE 18-year back catalogue.

If you wish to stay as an SBC member beyond the first 3 months, then future payments will be taken at the usual £49.99 +VAT rate.

Basically – it’s a special one-time deal that puts you first and gives you full access to the Smart Betting Club for 3 months at a bargain price.

​Click here to get started with instant membership​

Make sure you choose a Quarterly subscription and enter the discount code 75PERCENT to get in for just £15.

Please don’t delay as this special one-off 75% discount is only available until Midnight on Monday 3rd June.

How To Take Up The 75% Discount

1) Visit this link and choose a quarterly membership to the Smart Betting Club.

2) Enter the coupon code 75PERCENT and 75% will be discounted from the usual £49.99 price.

3) You’ll be a member, with instant access to everything we have to offer!

Please note – this offer will expire at Midnight on Monday 3rd June so make sure you sign-up ASAP to ensure you don’t miss out!

If you have any questions on this offer, you can contact me via pete@smartbettingclub.com or on Twitter/X @SBCInfo!

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Posted in SBC Magazine Tagged football betting, SBC Magazine, sign up offer

More Expert Betting Content Than Ever – How Our New Format Magazines Can Help You!

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Josh P

At the start of 2024, we decided to make a major change to how we deliver our SBC Magazines, which now not only contain our expert tipster reviews and profit reports, but all manner of informed betting content to help you win.

Inside each monthly magazine, you can find important news, opinion, podcasts, videos and information all designed to inform and provide what we term ‘betting intelligence‘ to keep you one step ahead of the bookmaker.

Allied that to our tipster reviews and ratings – which are designed to help inform you on who or what to follow to win at betting – we believe it’s the ultimate package for any aspiring profitable bettor.

Be you brand new to this world or a time served veteran winning punter, we have something for you!

Check out the 4 magazines from 2024 so far below and click each image to learn more about what is inside.

To gain instant access to all our magazines and expert content, just click here and follow the registration link.​

2024 SBC Magazines

April 2024March 2024
February 2024January 2024

Why Has The Magazine Format Changed?

Our SBC Magazines have always been central to what we do as this is where we collect our tipster reviews. We felt that monthly releases would improve things for members as they allow for plenty of time to digest each review and we can also include so much more content. Emails, blogs, reviews and reports can still all be read as they arrive but this way, everything is collected in one place.

How Will The Content Be Different?

Each magazine will still contain at least one headline review . in addition, we will also include key emails we have shared, new services (e.g. our new free service, Account Agent ) and an overview of the month’s news in the gambling world.

A monthly magazine also provides us with a great opportunity to tackle and answer key questions on betting that our members have.

For example, we have recently explored topics like banking and the practical reality of which banks to use and how to try and avoid being flagged for ‘too much betting’ by your bank.

How Can It Help Me?

Our in-depth reviews will be the same as ever, with detailed results analysis, betting bank recommendations and more complex mathematical modelling all feeding into a conclusion.

January’s golf special is a case in point – we covered every angle, from each-way betting and following tips through to more complex modelling and playing win only on exchanges. Whatever your circumstances, reviews make it very clear how (or if!) a service is suitable for you.

Alongside this, our articles, analysis, member questions and news will give you a well-rounded document to read, each and every month!

Can SBC Really Help My Betting & Is It Possible To Make Money Betting With Tipsters?

This is a regular question and quite rightly too. It’s important to ask about just how realistic it is to make money betting using the information we publish.

What I can tell you with the upmost certainty is that those of us who work at SBC live and breathe betting profitably.

We have real life skin in the game and long-term profitable records that allow us to run SBC and also bet extensively.

The reviews, information and expertise we gather operating the Smart Betting Club feeds directly into our own betting, which in turn feeds into how we can help our members with our content.

Of course, it’s not as easy as joining SBC today and making a fortune tomorrow.

It takes time, patience, resilience, expert advice and a bankroll of sorts to win at betting but if you are looking for the right kind of professional help, give us a try!​

Further Questions & Sign Up Options

If you have any further questions about our new magazines (or anything else we do) then you can get in touch by replying to this email or by reaching out to use on social media @SBCInfo.

We have multiple sign up options, with quarterly, bi-annual and annual subscriptions all available for you to choose from here.

With our brand new magazine format and plans afoot for even more excellent content in 2024, we would love for you to join us. We are so confident that you will love SBC Membership that we also offer a no questions asked money back guarantee!

Like I said, if you have any questions, please get in touch!

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Posted in SBC Magazine Tagged SBC Magazine, sign up offer

The Name’s Agent… Account Agent! Working To Keep Your Bookmaker Account Profitable For Longer…

Posted on February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 by Josh P

Here at Smart Betting Club we showcase tipsters and services that can help you bet profitably.

Whilst this is great, and propels our members towards success, it is not all plain sailing! Account restrictions bite if you make too much profit and bookmakers have come up with ever more ingenious ways to detect (and stop) winners.

Our newest service – Account Agent, which is free with every paid SBC subscription, has a solution!

Introducing Account Agent

​Account Agent is a simple to follow service that looks to fool the AI and traders at the major bookmakers by camouflaging your sharp action in amongst other bets.

Below, I will explain how, but if you would like to listen to Josh and I talk about this concept then you can do so in the latest Betting Clever Podcast (you can scroll to 17:20 if you want to listen to the specific section – the rest is great too, though!). I explain the benefits in this short clip:

How It Works

Account Agent uses a ‘three-pronged’ approach to help maintain your accounts, with each of these strategies designed to:

A) Look recreational (i.e. a loser even though you are the opposite!)

B) Not set any alarms off with the bookies

C) Break even (or even make a small loss) over time

The three prongs can be summarised as:

  1. ‘Amateur bets’: neutral value bets that will not arouse any suspicion with bookmakers. They are not designed to win or lose any money, but to camouflage your other ‘winning’ action by betting into the most liquid of markets.
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  2. ‘Hedge bets’ are an extremely useful way to ‘lose’ with soft bookmakers and transfer funds into a sharp bookmaker or broker account. By backing two sides of the market in a liquid, high-profile event, you can win what looks like a ‘mug bet’ or lose with the likes of Bet365 and win with a bet broker firm or sharp bookmaker such as Pinnacle.
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  3. ‘Accumulator bets’ are the third way to make your account look as appetising to the bookmakers as possible. Placing daily accumulators with lots of selections (12+) and small stakes is a great way to make you look recreational.

Both ‘Amateur’ and ‘Hedge’ bets are provided to followers in the Account Agent Telegram group to save you finding them for yourself whilst our in-depth guide sets out what type of accumulator bets to place.

All of this helps to prolong your accounts and as I mention in the podcast, if you can squeeze another £1,000 to £2,000 out of each bookmaker account, that can really make a substantial difference, especially if you do this across several bookmakers.

Learn More And Access Account Agent

For those interested in Account Agent, this page provides a lot more detail about the concept and how it works.

Here at SBC, we have been trialling the service since early December so we can also provide some extra tips and tricks if you would like to know more.

To get full access to Account Agent you will require a SBC subscription, with different options for memberships available to read about here.

Account Agent joins a wide range of betting resources on the site that aren’t ‘tipping related’. Our major and independent bookmaker guides, our bet brokers page and ‘The 5 Stages of Profitable Betting‘ are just a handful of further resources that help members with the practical side of betting.

If you have any questions about anything that we offer, please get in touch. In the meantime, enjoy meeting Account Agent!

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Posted in SBC Magazine Tagged 0% commission, Matchbook, matchbook exchange, sign up offer

Matchbook: The Best Exchange Option in 2024?

Posted on January 28, 2024January 28, 2024 by Josh P

Via this link, you have 150 days commission free to try out Matchbook in an exclusive SBC offer!

The founding of the Betfair Exchange at the turn of the century changed the UK’s sports betting landscape forever.

Peer-to-peer betting, the facility for regular punters to lay, trading, in-play markets, lower margins and no stake limitations were just some of the differentials that set this platform apart from the traditional bookmaker offering. It worked, with exponential growth characterising their first decade of operation.

Competitors to the behemoth struggled to compete and Betfair’s dominance is signified by the fact that many of us still use ‘the exchange’ and their name interchangeably (see also ‘the machine’!).

A merger with Paddy Power in 2016 may well prove to be the moment that things changed. 

Liquidity in key markets has dried up when compared to its peak, a sportsbook and casino products have diluted the original concept and, like most of the ‘soft’ bookmakers, the way in which Betfair has dealt with Source of Funds (SOF), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and affordability checks has caused consternation with both punters and layers alike (see Twitter/X for plenty of examples – we have had many complaints shared with us).

Matchbook: A Viable Alternative?

Matchbook are one of the challengers looking to take the Betfair crown.

As we will explore below, their internal analysis suggests that they now compete toe-to-toe with Betfair in certain key markets; they are even leaders in others.

In November 2023, SBC were provided access to some of Matchbook’s data which looked to benchmark their offering against key rivals using the two key metrics on exchanges – liquidity and price.

Since then, we have carried out our own research by observing markets for the best prices and liquidity alongside trading volume so that we could verify some of these numbers in real time.

More On The Upcoming Betting Clever Podcast (Out Tuesday 30th Jan)

All of this was in preparation for a chat with Ronan McDonagh (Head of Exchange at Matchbook)  that we recorded earlier in January. We asked him about these figures and how they were calculated before quizzing him on more general questions like where he thinks Matchbook are now, where they aim to be and how they are planning to get there. 

Alongside this, we also talked about issues that SBC Members and other bettors will want clarity on. Affordability, AML and SOF checks; successful players and how Matchbook will manage them; markets, commission, liquidity and unique products – all of these were on the agenda when we met.

It is clear that Matchbook wants new customers to look at their products and they have an extremely attractive sign up offer so that bettors can test the platform for themselves. As a reader of this piece, you can get 150 days on the Matchbook platform commission free by using this link and bonus code when registering.

Ronan and his team are also open to dialogue with users (both backers and layers) so getting in touch is definitely worth it if you have any questions that we did not cover (Ronan’s direct contact details are provided below). 

SBC Podcast #69: Betting Clever will be released on Tuesday 30th January, (available on all major podcast directories free of charge to listen to!) but before that, we thought that sharing some of the headline data from Matchbook would be of interest.

Here it is, with our notes and observations included:

What Is The Data Saying?

Horse Racing:

Matchbook data indicates that liquidity for horse racing is one area where they are competing well with Betfair. Liquidity in the 5 minutes before the off is deeper at Matchbook and also compares very favourably against Betdaq too. If you are betting in sizeable stakes, you will be able to get them down:

Pricing tells a slightly different story. The back prices on Matchbook were best 78.5% of the time over this sample, with Betfair being best 83.2% of the time and Betdaq being best 69.4% of the time. If you are a layer, then Matchbook is best (80% vs. 77% vs. 63.3% respectively)*. 

As previously mentioned, higher staking punters may well get better average prices with Matchbook, especially as they have depth in the ‘first three boxes’ and generally have competitive odds. 

*For clarity, if prices were the same in this sample, they were counted twice (or three times) for the label of ‘best’.

Mean averages don’t tell the whole story, however. We have noticed that these patterns don’t play out as consistently as you might expect.

‘Day racing’ consistently has better liquidity on Betfair, with the volume of traded money before this 5 minute window dwarfing the other exchanges. When it comes to evening racing, that pattern is often reversed and Matchbook regularly have larger traded volumes for these meetings, even after the disparities in recording are accounted for. 

This 5 minute window is a useful one to capture data but we wanted to know more about how these numbers looked prior to the late action ‘on the off’. This is something that we discussed with Ronan and he provided clarity about it in our chat so you will be able to hear more about this when SBC Podcast #69 is released. 

Another question we posed is why Matchbook doesn’t offer a ‘SP’ or ‘on the off’ price option, something that is very popular with system bettors and some of the tipsters that we work with. Ronan revealed that this is a question that frequently gets fired his way and you can hear about their plans for the future in this area in the podcast! 

Football (we refuse to call it soccer!)

The story is a little different with football. Betfair has the best liquidity by some margin and our personal observations and sampling indicate that this is the case in the days and hours before kick off too. 

Pricing is actually better at Betdaq for back bets in this market, with the lay side yet again being led by Matchbook:

Other Sports: NFL & Greyhounds

Liquidity for both NFL and greyhounds is now deeper at Matchbook than both of their main rivals, with Betfair offering the only real competition for sizeable bets. Ronan touched on Matchbook’s history of focussing on American sports in our chat, with further plans afoot to maintain this advantage.

Similar graphs comparing both price and liquidity for these markets are available to view underneath this body of text.

Special Offer: 150 Days Commission Free

As you will hear in our podcast interview with Ronan, Matchbook are keen to grow their customer base and, in turn, liquidity, which is good for everyone (competition = lower margins!). 

To entice those of you who haven’t used Matchbook before, readers of this article can now access the platform for 150 days without paying a penny in commission.

For the record, this is  the best introductory promotion  that Matchbook have ever offered and will cover events including Cheltenham and the European Championships, making it a deal well worth taking up!

This link will provide you with the right code to get onto the platform with the offer.

Get In Touch – Matchbook Personal Assistance

A theme of our chat was the ‘personal touch’ that Ronan and his team want to offer customers. Instead of dealing with automated systems or Customer Service Agents following a script, Matchbook want you to get in touch if you have any questions.

Ronan can be reached by email at ronan@matchbook.com or you can contact him on Twitter/X @irishro if you would prefer.

I have also copied some of the other images as per market liquidity from Matchbook’s study below for full reference!

 

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Posted in SBC Magazine Tagged 0% commission, Matchbook, matchbook exchange, sign up offer
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