How much exactly would you pay for a plain old cup of coffee at Starbucks?

• Nothing, I’ll make may own and I like tea anyway!
• £2.00
• £5.00
• £20.00

Unless you’re particularly desperate, most people will say either A or B. We all have similar ideas of the value of a cup of coffee and so do Starbucks. Charging £20.00 for a cuppa will soon put them out of business, but what has this got to do with betting?

Its All About Value…

Betting has never been more popular and with the Daily Express reporting this week that its likely to get even bigger thanks to Seb Coe and London 2012, more and more people are looking to understand the topic.

Plenty of people therefore are joining us at the Secret Betting Club for help and the biggest change I see in our members is when they stop thinking in just terms of what will win and start thinking about value bets.  Continue reading →

For anyone wanting to take their betting into their own hands, I have long extolled the virtues of developing your own expertise in a niche area.

In recent weeks I have talked about corners betting as one such area I have explored but your own expertise could be on anything from women’s tennis to greyhounds or darts to tiddlywinks!

If you know about a sport or niche market – you could be sitting on a potential betting goldmine to beat the bookies with.

This is because  bookmakers only have a limited resource pool in their odds compilers and the further you get away from the most popular sports & leagues, the better chance you have of getting an edge.

There is perhaps no better example of this than with the non-league betting expert Skeeve, who shared with us his top ten football betting secrets and advice. To showcase this in today’s blog post I have five of them to share with you. Continue reading →

Its fair to say that January can be a tight month at the best of times, so it makes sense to cut costs where you can.

So with this in mind we waited until this month to share with all SBC members our review of a little known FREE racing tipster service, which has been making eye-watering profits for the past 2 years now.

As our exclusive analysis reveals, this free to all tipster has made 115.16 pts profit from 249 bets at a Return On Investment of 36.85% in 2010 and 2011 – which is a huge profit.

To put this into financial terms – at simple £25 stakes, this would be a very handy £2,879 profit in 2 years. Who would turn that kind of money down these days?

To give you an insight into just how good this service is, below we have a number of extracts from our exclusive review for you to read. We have removed the services identity as this is for SBC members only, but it should give you a good idea of how good it is. Continue reading →

How This Simple Golf Strategy Made £8900 In 2011…

As a sport, golf can certainly divide opinions.

I quite enjoy spending a few hours hacking up the local pitch and put, but I know a good number of people who see it as a ‘good walk spoiled’.

One thing can’t be denied though – when attacked from the right angle, golf can be an incredibly profitable sport for betting no matter what you think of the sport.

With massive fields where even the favourite can be as high as 10/1, golf betting can offer rich rewards at big odds.

Of course, you need a strategy to make sure you’re able to pick up the bets with the biggest value. One angle I suggest you start with is course form. Here’s why…. Continue reading →

One of the best ways to make money when it comes to football betting is to specialise. That is – to drill down into ‘niche’ betting areas where the bookies are vulnerable as they simply don’t have the time to check the odds on every market.

For example, take a look at any Premier League football game with one of the major bookmakers. Each game often has a bewildering array of sub-markets beyond just the simple Team X to beat Team Y traditional bet. Then multiply those markets by the number of games in an average weekend – the amount of markets to bet upon goes into the thousands!

With so many markets the bookies get lazy and use computers and formulas to help them price up some of the more obscure bets – leaving them vulnerable to a shrewd punter with an eye for value!

One such area they are particularly vulnerable in and ripe for exploitation is that of ‘Corners Betting’, which a number of our experts at SBC have been tapping into of late. Which is why we have this first part of a 3 part guide on ‘how to bet on corners’ to share with you.

If you like this article, be sure to check out our full corners betting insight, including our full strategy to make it work and interviews with 4 corner betting experts in Secret Betting Club Issue #67. Continue reading →

It’s been an interesting festive period to say the least with the big teams  appearing to join Wayne Rooney in focusing more on the festive cheer than their hard working opponents.

Most of the top teams were over turned in the festive/ new year period with last night’s Man U defeat the icing on the cake. It’s been a bad period for Alex Ferguson, but the Fink Tank value system has had a cracking time. Here are some of the bets it picked out recently:

• Villa to beat Chelsea away at 14.8.
• Blackburn to beat Man U away at 21.0
• Sunderland to beat Man City at home at 7.0
• Fulham to beat Arsenal at 4.33
• Bolton to beat Everton away at 7.5
• Newcastle to beat Man U at home at 5.5

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If you are one of the legion of joggers I saw struggling around the local park on New Year’s day, I salute you!

If you’re still at it six months from now, you’ll not only be doing well, you’ll be one of the few who stick to their new year resolutions. These guys aren’t fitness fanatics or that different from anyone else – Their secret is to keep things simple and start with small, realistic goals to get them started. Cold and rainy outside? The successful few tell themselves they’ll go out for just 10 minutes, anything to get their feet outside rather than slip and give the training a miss.

It all starts with that one simple step.

It’s exactly the same when it comes to making money from betting. It’s too easy to dive in at the deep end or not get started because you think it’s too complicated.

This is where a membership to Secret Betting Club (SBC) comes in. We help you make that first simple step to making money from your betting.

It’s not the only step you’ll make, but it’s an important first step that most people miss.

And when it comes to making money betting your first step should be to… follow the top performing tipsters as outlined in the SBC Profit Report. Let me show you why… Continue reading →

In November’s Secret Betting Club magazine, one of the features were our  ‘plug and play’ strategies to apply for Half-Time football betting that historically we had found to be very profitable. You can read our original blog post about it here.

Therefore we thought it was well worth an update on just how they have been performing since then…

Our Half-Time Betting Strategy Results

Since the article was released on November 30^th, Results have been excellent, with half time results going the way of the longer term trends more often than not.

In total there have been 18 bets since that date, with a profit of 13.88 pts at 1pt level stakes.

This has brought the total figure made since the start of 2011/12 season to the following:

Bets: 79
Staked: 79
Profit: +31.74
ROI: 40%.

To put this into financial figures, at £100 stakes you would have staked £7900 and made a profit of £3174 from just 79 bets. Continue reading →

The festive football calendar is a tough slog for British teams with the packed fixture list offering a season within a season. It can make or break a campaign for the best and worst teams in the league.

This period can also bring a bumper crop of betting profits for those in the know. Indeed, many pro punters can make their season’s profits during this busy period as the result of some closely guarded insider knowledge.

To help unearth the secrets of the festive season, football expert and SBC contributor Greg Gordon has been picking the brains of the football analysts from Form Lab Black to reveal some of the best festive betting trends. Continue reading →

In his fabled ‘Art of War’ book, Chinese strategist Sun Tzu said

“If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win numerous battles without jeopardy.”

And so it is when it comes to the age old battle of Bookmaker vs. Punter, the more we understand about the enemy, the more we might be able to profit.

Which is exactly why in the latest SBC magazine, we feature an exclusive interview with a bookie mole, who helps reveals some eye-opening facts about how they work – and where we can take advantage.

To give you a flavour of this, I want to share with you a taster of what ‘John’ had to say with a few extracts from the interview… Continue reading →