Rules-based systems do hold a certain appeal. You know the sort of thing…. apply four magic filters to a long list of football matches, bet on the games that you end up with and you will make money. Well, that’s the theory at any rate. And its appeal arises from its apparent simplicity… though of
BetHawk has been trialled twice at Lay Back. Lucy ran the first trial from 11th July 2013 to 27th February 2014, placing 2,703 bets and banking 159 points of profit. The second was carried out by Stephen from 5th February 2016 to 7th February 2017, this time placing 5,776 bets and returning 696 points of
Value betting is an increasingly popular, if notoriously elusive, idea. The underlying principle sounds somewhat unlikely: in short, a value bet means the market has got it wrong. You have value when the quoted odds of your selection winning are longer than they ought to be. Or, put another way, ‘value’ means you’ve bought a low-risk opportunity for
I’m currently on holiday in Brittany, and therefore doing as little trialling as possible. However, I have been approached by a chap called Matt to test his service and simply cannot resist getting involved. The reason why is that I have come across Matt before – and believe we share fundamentally similar principles about betting.
I’m genuinely dazzled by Betfair. Nobody regulates its prices and yet the markets are astonishingly, almost mysteriously efficient. Take, for instance, the Correct Score market on a match such as Arsenal v Stoke this weekend. If we list the Betfair odds on the various potential scorelines that could deliver an Arsenal win, then convert them to
If there is one issue that unites all punters, it’s the thorny one of bookmakers closing their accounts.Yes, there are sensible steps you can take to try to protect them – but even then some bookies just seem to do irrational things, including closing accounts that have only just opened. Perhaps unsurprisingly therefore, the one thing I
It seems a long time ago since I started testing FRT Gold. I wrote my opening article back in July and was very enthusiastic about what I expected to see from this professional-looking service. Then — how often does this happen with a new system? — there followed an almighty anti-climax. Month #1 was poor and month #2 was
Hello again, David here with the conclusion of my trial of Banker Bets. It’s not been the easiest of trials, with my initial optimism gradually being eroded by a series of setbacks. The latest one was documented in my report on October’s performance, which saw me finish in the red to the tune of £70 after 261 bets.
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