20th April 2017
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Alex Hammond Tip of the Day | Sky Sports Tipster
I thought I’d try something a bit different today. Alex Hammond of Sky Sports offers a service which is extremely simple and, even better, completely free. I couldn’t help wondering whether her daily service represented a deceptively simple option… perhaps here was a winning tipster, hiding in plain sight. Welcome then to my trial of […]
Continue reading 9th December 2016
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Value Betting Made Easy
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 […]
Continue reading 18th November 2016
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Is Hedging A Better Way To Bet?
One of the oddities of betting is that it is almost everywhere regarded as a winner-takes-all business. For instance, most betting services aim to predict winners. Yep, even all these years after Betfair was founded, there are far more backing services than laying ones. And there are even fewer pure trading products. Of this latter […]
Continue reading 6th October 2016
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Get A Free Betting System… From The BBC?!
It has often struck me that most of the systems that we test here at Lay Back have been developed by one or two people as a maximum. Indeed, I’d go so far as to say there is something touchingly amateurish about the vast majority of betting systems providers. Many services really just start out as […]
Continue reading 24th April 2016
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A Great Source Of Free Arbs
Wouldn’t it be great if an odds comparison website listed free arbitrage opportunities in ascending order of value? And wouldn’t it be even better if you could then just click through to the games in question and put on your bets at the bookies? And in a dream scenario, wouldn’t it be cooler still if […]
Continue reading 16th January 2016
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Is Dutching Double Dutch To You?
Dutching is a betting technique that has long divided opinion amongst punters. Some see it as little more than an elaborate hoax. It offers potential for improved strike rates but at the risk that a single loser may wipe out a lot of slowly accumulated gains. However, exactly the same could be said of laying, which also tends to […]
Continue readingBuild Your Own Betting System With My Very Own Analysis Spreadsheet!
Many of the readers of my site tell me they have a good idea for a betting system. Or that they have an interesting variation on a commercially available idea. And they’re often right to be excited. But, in my experience, what often trips them up is knowing how best to test their new method. Because, although […]
Continue reading 19th October 2015
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Goals Betting – A Little Idea From An Unusual Source…
If there’s one thing I love about betting, it’s the ease with which you can experiment. I test other people’s systems all the time — it’s kind of the point of the site! — but, like everyone else probably, I always like to think I could do as well if I applied myself. 🙂 So: there’s an idea […]
Continue reading 25th June 2013
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Do Each-Way Doubles Offer The Road To Riches?
Maybe it’s just coincidence, but I seem to have received a whole pile of emails in the last few days about each-way doubles. They vary in the detail, but broadly they’re all asking whether each-way doubles offer a low-risk route to more of this stuff. So what’s an each way double anyway, and is […]
Continue reading 31st May 2013
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A Simple Daily Trade You Can Use For Steady Profits :)
As soon as you introduce the subject of trading, a lot of punters get worried. It just sounds so complicated. Isn’t trading really just a strategy for high rollers, or perhaps sophisticated City types who can understand and predict the vagaries of the market? Well, of course, it helps if you have access to a […]
Continue reading 13th February 2012
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4 Great Staking Plan Secrets!
Welcome to lesson 4 in my Back to Basics Betting Class! If there is one simple thing you can do to get better at betting, it’s to use a robust staking plan. There is no glamour to it, and very few systems providers explain it properly (except occasionally to go a bit mystical about […]
Continue reading 18th January 2012
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8 ways to stop bookies limiting your account
Continuing my Back to Basics Betting Class, a repeated complaint from successful punters is that bookmakers close or limit their accounts. You spend all your time perfecting your betting skills, and then you’re barred for using them. Is it really worth the effort?! The answer, I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear, is a resounding […]
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