🏇 Cheltenham: An Expert’s Guide From ‘No Foto Needed’

With Cheltenham upon us, preview nights, ‘tip lists’ as long as your arm and antepost portfolios (with past selections that are now non-runners removed!) have dominated the run up to the curtain raiser on Tuesday 12th March.

There is so much noise that finding quality content is tricky. To help with this, we have prepared some special content with four professional punters who have excellent Cheltenham records. All of them also tip, with special Cheltenham offers and exclusive discounts available with SBC Membership.

After our Andy Holding SBC Podcast release  yesterday, next up is No Foto Needed, the SBC Premium Tipster who has been in sparkling form so far in 2024!

To promote the service before Cheltenham, a 10% discount is available up to midnight on Monday 11th March. To access this offer, just visit the No Foto Needed page and follow the sign up instructions using the promo code CHELTENHAM. Please be aware that this code is available to everyone – both SBC Members and non-members alike! 10% will be knocked off any and every package available on site.

Here is an interview with the mysterious maestro where we quiz him about how he finds those long-priced winners:

1. Under the moniker ‘No Foto Needed’, you have an excellent ROI of  11% ROI from nearly 2,500 bets and 2024 has started brilliantly with nearly 50 points of profit delivered, with ROI running at 33.69% for the year. Can you summarise how you approach finding value in the racing markets?

‘On the National Hunt I will be honest, it is a lot harder than the Flat but I do stick to the same approach. The first thing I always do is check the possible pace in a race (you can see a free guide on this on the At The Races website). Once I have that, it’s very important to have a profile on all horses and because I only concentrate on the better class racing (0-120 Handicaps + over jumps and 0-70 Handicaps + on the flat), it does make it easier to keep on top of things.

When I use the word concentrate, keeping a Horse Tracker is key. I re-watch races every day and take notes on each horse I wish to put into my Tracker. That means that when they are due to run I already have an edge on the race. Not starting the race from scratch is always a help! 

I use my Racing Post account the most and it is money well spent because it’s very user-friendly. The main function for me is the Pro Card section, which covers an awful lot I want to see on the same page (Topspeed of their last six efforts, RPR, Postdata, Stats, and much more) and that’s before I click onto their form. The most important function there is re-watching the videos of their races. 

You could ask 10 people to re-watch a horse race and it’s possible you could get many different answers about what to take away from that race for the future. I’m saying this because most form students have different ways, opinions, and ideas about this sport and the key is to stick to the way you want to do it and listen to nobody else. That is of course if you have the time to do it properly (which you can take from me is at least 6 hours a day to keep on top of things!).

I know I got a bit away from the question, but when you’re clicking through a race, looking at the previous form of each runner here is key to find the right ingredients and make sure that are ticked. Flat=(Distance, Ground (check current weather), Pace, Draw, Grade of race, How the horse travels, Tracks, i.e. Course Form, Trainers Form, Time since its last run, and believe me there are many other nuggets I look at but those are the main ones for each horse I concentrate on. Jumps= ( Everything I mentioned on the Flat except the Draw of course, and you add-in how the horse jumps. I know the National Hunt will take longer to watch a previous race but the hours you put in will get paid-off in the long run.

So, to answer the question, when you do all of the above you will start to form a market in your head which leads to possible value that might be available on a particular horse you feel is over-priced compared to your own tissue prices.’ 

2. Do you have any pointers for those getting ready to pick their own selections for the action at Prestbury Park?

‘(a) If you haven’t already played Ante-Post on any particular contest it’s best to wait until the final declarations are out. They are out 48hrs in advance of the race which I feel is plenty of time, because I’m sure most punters would have studied most of the 28 races long before that and now they just have to go over the exact runners and riders in front of them, which shouldn’t take too much time. 

(b) Betting firms: when you are finalising your selections it’s mightily important you check Oddschecker before you place a bet. There is no doubt that many of the top firms will be trying to outdo one another, especially with Extra Places, Bigger Prices, Special Offers, Money-Back specials, If your horse finishes 2nd to the Fav etc. So bottom line, if you are in a position that you have different betting accounts, make sure you shop around for that extra value or those extra places.

(c) Many horse racing followers think that Cheltenham is a very stiff track- but keep this mind- the first two days the races are run on the Old Course and there are many tight turns around the galloping track which has a major outcome on results at times- mainly because hold-up horses get poorly positioned, especially if the pace up front is not too strong and they have so much ground to make-up on the leaders before they turn for home.

On the 3rd and 4th days the horses run on the New Course, which is the stiffer track of the two, mainly because there is a long run when they jump the third-last over the hurdle track to the second last which makes the climb-up the stiff run-in that more demanding. On the Jumps Course the bends are not as tight as the Old Course which makes it a proper test.

(d) Handicaps: with many firms paying Extra Places on these contests it could work out in your favour, because we all know most trainers/connections will be targeting these events from many months ago and they are ultra-competitive, so every extra place you get can pay dividends considering most of the runners will be 100% fit and trying to win and the odds should be rewarding.

Mentioning trainers,  the same names pop-up every year in the winner’s enclosure in these tough handicaps. Here are a few to concentrate on when you are narrowing down the fields to a selection (yes, they are well-known to us but it’s important to remember these guys have the best percentages over the past 20 years in these kind of races): Gordon Elliott, Paul Nicholls, David Pipe, Dan Skelton (mainly hurdles) Jonjo O’Neill, Willie Mullins, Nicky Henderson, Kim Bailey (mainly chases), Joseph O’Brien. Of course, we see them win races on a daily basis but they are masters at doing it on the big stages so please give extra attention to their runners, even if the recent form of the horse is not that colourful. 

(e) When you are looking through the form book, a horse that has previous form at the track has a massive advantage in certain races. If you go over the past results, you will see plenty of horses that had solid form at Cheltenham )but more importantly form from Cheltenham Festival’s) stand head and shoulders above most criteria and this repeats in most of the results every year at the Festival.’

3. Do you have a favourite Cheltenham winner which stands out, where everything went as you expected or you landed a juicy priced winner?

‘There are loads of great memories, but none more so than trying to crack those very difficult handicaps when you land on one at a huge price and it goes off shorter and gets the job done. The one I loved more than others was in 2014 (can’t believe it’s 10-years-ago!). The horse in question was Savello- trained by Tony Martin at the time – for the Grand Annual, I tipped it up at 40/1 went off at 16/1 and “Mr Cool”- Davy Russell passed the post first which was amazing scenes.

There were many Ante-Post bets that went our way also- two that will always stick in my mind. Un De Sceaux (2015- Arkle), tipped-up in November, at 7/1, wins at 4/6f in March (by 6L), and one a little more recent Envoi Allen (2020- Ballymore), tipped-up in October at 8/1 wins at 4/7f in March (by 4.5L). 

Those thoughts (well in advance) are always good for the any tipster, when their opinion clearly turns out to be correct having spotted the talent of an animal very early in their career, getting the rewards at massive odds compared to the SP.’

4. There are a lot of races with short-priced favourites this year. Will you be looking at every race or will you ignore races where you think a horse ‘just wins’?

‘There are races I know already I won’t be getting involved in, not because of a short-priced Fav but because I know they are very difficult to narrow down for one reason or another. The few I won’t be looking at are the Kim Muir, the Cross Country and the Foxhunters.

Regarding the races that have short-priced Favs, yes there are ones that if the same horse turns-up from their recent form they should win- Constitution Hill, Ballyburn, El Fabiolo, Lossiemouth look certain to win barring mishaps but the other 21 races might need a lot of form studying that may work out to be well rewarded.

I want to make sure I mention this well-known saying- “a 2/1 winner at Cheltenham is the same as a 2/1 winner at any other track”. So please remember, Cheltenham will always throw-up strange results and don’t up your stakes just because it’s Cheltenham. There will always be better betting opportunities at the same odds against weaker rivals in the very near future.’

5. Cheltenham is seen as the pinnacle of the National Hunt season but we still have lots of big races yet to come. What are you looking forward to most in the remainder of the season?

‘It`s a great question, mainly because not all the best horses meet each other at Cheltenham. We still have Fairyhouse, Aintree, Punchestown, Ayr and Sandowns’ Festivals yet to come this term and I’m sure there are a few more T.V weekends not mentioned (Newbury and Haydock spring to mind) where we can still use our team of horse trackers from previous meetings that need to run before the season is over in a few months’ time.

So, it’s another way of reminding everyone that yes, Cheltenham is a fantastic 4-day spectacle. but it’s not the end of the season, far from it. The few horses that are lucky enough to run well there we will have the chance to see them again, but will they be the same horse after a gruelling test at Cheltenham when they arrive at Aintree or Punchestown later in the season? All that is ahead of us and I am one who can’t wait!’

🚨 NEW REVIEW ALERT: Andy Holding – The UK’s Most Well Known Horse Racing Tipster?🏇

Andy Holding is one of the most well known and respected horse racing tipsters in UK betting circles.

William Hill Radio, regular podcast appearances and a daily Oddschecker column have propelled him into this position and as the feature review in the February SBC Magazine for February, we have published our findings from proofing his personal tipping service, Andy Holding Speed Figures.

Alongside our review, a unique and *considerable* discount has also been made available for all SBC Members, with subscriptions using our discount code costing just £25 – a saving of £14 a month!

This means that if you sign up with SBC today and avail this offer to join Andy’s service, you will save the cost of an annual SBC subscription in just under 8 months – and that’s before you use anything else that we have to offer!

What Does The Service Do?

Tipping makes up a portion of what is on offer at Andy Holding Speed Figures, with the majority of our review looking at performance, odds movement, advanced analytics and how this all compares with what gets released for free on Oddschecker each and every day.

Alongside that, this service offers much more, including:

  • Speed Figure sheets that are a great source of information to find your own bets
  • A weekly blog that highlights horses of interest
  • The ‘Irish Racing Podcast’, where Andy discusses any racing from the Emerald Isle when there are meetings

We will be following up with a fresh SBC Podcast in the next month or so, which will give me a chance to quiz Andy about his methods, how he identifies edges and all things betting when it comes to the sport of kings.

For those of you who want a preview, in this interview, Andy joined friend of the show, Simon Nott, to talk about his betting and tipping:

Is This For Everyone?

Like with any tipster service, workload, variance, price sensitivity and access to bookmaker accounts are all questions that need answering when considering whether said service is suitable for you.

We discuss all of these issues in our review, with our advanced analytics and commentary making it very clear who this service will work for, who it won’t work for and how to maximise any subscription to benefit from what is on offer.

One thing I can share is this – Andy Holding Speed Figures is more than a tipster service – the wealth of information that comes with a subscription can help you find your own selections too!

Sign Up To Read This Review

To read our review of Andy Holding’s service and all of our expert content, you will need a Smart Betting Club membership, with different subscription options available to view here.

This will provide you with instant access to every report we have ever written, alongside a wealth of other benefits including discounts to services like Andy’s.

With Cheltenham approaching we will be as active as ever helping our members to profit from their betting, with some excellent offers and promotions already in the works.

🚨Golf Betting Club, Meet The Smart Betting Club🚨

We couldn’t have chosen a better week to introduce our newest Premium Service: Golf Betting Club as they struck early in 2024 with a 40/1 winner from one of their in-play selections on Sunday!

The Sentry was a tricky tournament to open the year but one tipster service spotted something before the weekend started with an in-play write up and selection for the eventual winner, Chris Kirk:

Golf Betting Club

This is what you can expect from Golf Betting Club

The brothers who operate the service, Neil and Duncan Campbell, do things a bit differently, with ‘traditional’ pre-tournament bets accompanied by 3-ball selections and in-play value bets to make this a ‘4 day a week service’!

This means that instead of getting just one email or notification on a Tuesday or Wednesday with bets, you can expect several messages with value bets throughout any given tournament at the end of each day’s play.

This unique approach is complemented by other good practice and offerings that set ‘GBC’ apart, including:

  • Only betting into mature markets: there is no cherry picking of Monday afternoon prices here – bets are put forward when liquidity is available. Usually this is on a Wednesday, with occasional earlier bets.
  • Fair ‘Tracked Prices’ that are available with multiple firms; standouts can be taken if you have accounts, but they are not used for record keeping.
  • Minimum Value Prices; if you don’t have the accounts or have missed bets before price cuts there is no need to worry. Minimum guide prices are provided.
  • Detailed write-ups and mentions. Neil and Duncan may highlight value that you may want to access to increase your betting bank turnover. If you want more bets, they are there to be had!

To learn more about this process, we have detailed how selections are arrived at, the Campbells’ inspirations and much more on the GBC’s SBC page. In SBC Podcast #25 you can listen to the brothers discuss their service with myself and a more up to date chat will be released soon!

The Record

GBC have been in operation since 2020 and over 4 years they have posted the following headline figures:

  • 3,471 bets have been advised
  • 5,359.5 points have been staked
  • Profit stands at 1,142.7 points
  • ROI stands at 21.32%

The unique in-play element of the service drives a lot of this profit, with spots like Chris Kirk adding to consistent and steady wins in the 3 ball and exotic markets. Here is what the ‘in-play’ returns look like:

 

As with the process, GBC’s page has more granular detail about this record and a bet-by-bet results sheet is available for you to study if you so wish.

SBC Members Get Discounts!

Monthly, Bi-Annual and Annual subscriptions are available for Golf Betting Club and as with many other tipster services, Smart Betting Club Members can obtain discounts!

Prices for Golf Betting Club are very generous already, but on top of some excellent value, you could save up to £50 with SBC membership as you can see below:

  • Monthly subscription: £45 + VAT
  • 6 Month subscription: £225 + VAT (usually £249; saving of £24 with SBC membership)
  • 12 Month subscription: £399 + VAT (usually £449; saving of £50 with SBC membership)

To access any of these brilliant offers you will need SBC Membership. Alternatively, you can sign up without membership and pay a slightly higher price. Details of all prices, alongside subscription links can be found by clicking here.

We will be releasing a new podcast with Neil and Duncan in the coming days where you will be able to hear more about this excellent sibling duo and how they make their golf betting pay.

In the meantime, please get in touch if you have any questions! You can do that by replying here or by messaging us @SBCinfo on Twitter (or X!)

 

Frankly, Excellent: 2023 End Of Year Update For Quentin Franks Racing

When the transfer window opened in January 2023, most managers were scrabbling around to find a replacement right back or a striker who could transform their fortunes.

Not us. Here at the SBC, we announced one of our biggest ever signings as Quentin Franks joined the SBC stable as one of our Premium Tipsters!

All Weather specialist with the results to prove it!

We say ‘one of our biggest signings’ as Quentin is approaching a decade of profitable tipping which has resulted in him being considered as one of the most respected judges in the industry.

Since he arrived, Quentin has delivered, with 168 points of profit and a 10.09% ROI recorded in 2023 up to the end of November.

As you can see from his long-term record, this is nothing out of the ordinary – there is a reason he is so highly thought of!

This remarkable level of consistent profits has led to 1040% Return On Capital (ROC) for those following Quentin in since he started his service, and when he joined SBC, we worked with him to make slight adjustments to the operation including:

  • a fair odds policy where prices are only cited if available with three major bookmakers
  • a fair recording policy where any dramatic early price drops are reflected in results sheets (along with Rule 4s and no BOG applied)
  • a membership cap to ensure that followers can get prices
  • a stipulation that followers cannot bet on exchanges in the 30 minutes following on from tip release

These policies have worked. Long-term followers (and Quentin himself) have commented that price sensitivity has dropped considerably, with members able to get advised prices with much more regularity than they could before.

We have increased the membership cap as the year has gone on, with small increments used to ensure that everyone gets a good deal!

End of year analysis

With 2023 nearly over, we have taken a deep dive into the statistics behind Quentin Franks Racing to provide extra detail for those considering whether it is for them.

This piece of analysis provides us with a large amount of insight as we take a look at the finishing position of Quentin’s selections, with their average prices:

Quentin Franks Racing: Finishing Positions & Average Prices* 

*99 denotes any data that was unmatchable in our databases

This year’s profits (168 points at 10.09% ROI) have been obtained from relatively ‘long-priced’ winners (0.2pts above the overall mean) and we can also see a higher overall average price for all selections in the table above.

The prices of those finishing 2nd and 3rd was also something that caught our eye. Both are longer than their respective means, with those finishing third being a full 1.56 points above the average.

With this being a win only service (where variance is inevitably high), this data tells us that the ‘close calls’ and ‘near misses’ this year were dramatic, with a much higher ROI (and profit level) very much within reach. For those of us who have followed Quentin’s selections’ race-by-race this year, this theory has definitely been borne out with so many long-priced runners coming close!

Find out more and sign up for 2024

Quentin Franks Racing’s service page expands on this analysis, providing information about the record, average prices, finishing positions and much more.

For a limited time only, another batch of membership places will be made available. You can sign up to this excellent service here.

We will keep this window open until the new spots are filled but please be quick, as previous opportunities to get signed up have been extremely popular!

As ever, if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Inside Information Tipster Review – Premium Racing Tips

Last Wednesday saw the release of the 2nd review from the latest SBC Magazine (Issue 137) which was our much-anticipated review of an ‘Inside Information’ led service and one that had attracted a lot of interest in recent weeks.

That interest was piqued by its mention on the recent SBC podcast and down to its quite frankly ridiculous sounding betting record with a 1204 point profit at 86.61% ROI from 696 bets since 2021.

The full record of this service up to Mid November 2023

In that episode, Josh and I discussed our take on the service to date and the fact that although we had proofed a large proportion of these bets (our proofing began in September 2022) we still had quite a few questions on its operation.

Yes, we had seen lots of these bets win and at big prices over the past 15 months, but exactly how sustainable are these profits?

Is it realistic to expect to make an ROI in excess of 86% year on year?

Could you also trust them with your money as you might a service that derives its profit from more traditional approaches to finding value, such as form study, market analysis or modelling?

Premium Racing Tips

Today I am happy to name the service in question – Premium Racing Tips, which you can find over at https://premiumracingtips.com/

I know a lot of you were keen to know their identity and to explore what they offer yourselves, and whilst I was loathe to share this information before we had published our 20-page review for SBC members, I am happy to do so now.

Now this blog post is not a recommendation of their service from us at SBC as the reality is that our review uncovered some issues that at this time, have raised enough concern for us to only post a ‘watch’ rating on this tipster.

Effectively this means to simply watch how the service develops before considering a subscription.

These issues were only uncovered when we really started to dig deep and perform our usual due diligence as we do on any tipster review.

Initially they focused on simpler things like what seemed to be sloppy results keeping, which actually understated their profits by a small degree. For example we found bets settled on the wrong date and an 11/1 winner actually missed off the results spreadsheet.

Yet then we raised questions about exactly what odds and terms bets were being advised and therefore settled at that didn’t get a straight answer. For example – the tipster recently advised a bet that you could take at 50/1 each way (first 4), 20/1 (first 6) or 14/1 (first 7). The horse ultimately finished 6th and was settled at 20/1 but we wanted to know what the official advice was as it wasn’t clear. If it had won, would that have been logged at 50/1? Or if 7th, would it have been logged at 14/1?

These type of scenarios didn’t happen all too often but it seemed the type of thing that needed clarity. Clarity that never came.

A Watching Brief Only

So with the SBC team having written the review, I then shared a near final draft with those at Premium Racing Tips who it is safe to say were not happy with it.

Exactly why has never been explained to me, but the upshot was that they were not keen for me to publish the review and asked me not to.

Nevertheless, I pushed ahead as I thought it was fair, accurate and representative and I also weighed up the level of interest in the service alongside the number of subscribers to it already (including several SBC members who were already part of it) and felt I had a duty to put it out.

All told, during the concluding process of the review itself, my team and I actually ended up adjusting the planned published review 7 times based on changes from the service at the 11th hour. This includes those named as operating the service and its operation moving forward, their desire to include and then exclude a written interview and the fact their previously detailed spreadsheet of results online was replaced by summary of bet performance.

My team and I didnt get a sense that this was the most professionally run or stable service and as we said in the podcast – that was the key question for us. How sustainable and reliable are these profits?

So that’s where we are today – our very detailed review was published last Wednesday and for those of you wanting to know more about this service and our forensic approach to overviewing tipsters, you can read it with an SBC membership.

Ultimately I believe that only time will tell on this service in terms of its sustainability as a profitable tipster you can consider long-term. During the latter stages of the review process we saw enough to be concerned as to suggest members only consider a watching brief at this time.

It might be my team and I being overly cautious but it’s safe to say that given the amount of high-quality, well run tipsters available right now, there is no need to take undue risks with your money. Albeit none of them have an 86% ROI but then I do know that the services they offer are sustainable and they can be used with full confidence.

Perhaps in time the same will be said for PRT. I am looking forward to seeing how things develop on this one.

Pete – SBC Editor

 

 

 

📈 A New Generation of Tipsters – Chasing Steamers In Depth Review out now!

A new generation of tipster services are doing something quite different.

Artificial Intelligence, the capacity to process large data sets and the facility to scrape odds and data from sites like Pinnacle make following market moves a viable betting angle for those looking for a considerable edge.

That is exactly what the latest service under the SBC review microscope – Chasing Steamers – has done.

Chasing Steamers is a tipster we have been tracking all year and after building up a considerable bank of nearly 3,000 bets in a personal betting ‘snapshot’, we have been able to test out their their service and conduct our usual analysis in a full review.

This detailed review is out now and available instantly with an SBC Membership (You can also access a 15% SBC member discount on Chasing Steamers too!)

Chasing Steamers – How It Works

Although the technology behind Chasing Steamers may be sophisticated, the underlying principle is not.

When money arrives for a selection on the world’s largest sharp bookmaker, Pinnacle, you receive a Telegram notification informing you of everything you need to know, including:

  1. The selection name
  2. How much the odds have dropped
  3. What odds you need to beat
  4. The minimum odds required for a ‘10% value bet’

 

To profit from this information, all you need to do is back the selection with any bookmaker(s) who are a lot slower to update their odds.

So in the example above, Pinnacle have priced up this player at odds of 2.38, yet he is available with the likes of bet365 at 3.5 (Although Bet365 are used for comparison purposes – the reality is you can follow this service with a huge number of bookmakers)

Hundreds of varied betting records have been documented by Christian from Chasing Steamers and to add to the ‘evidence base’, both Josh and I had a period of profitably using the service in real time (with real money!) earlier on this year.

Sign Up For The Full Story (& A Discount!)

Chasing Steamers is a real way to grow a bank and with so many bets provided each day, week and month, it offers the opportunity to do this very quickly.

As with any service, you need to consider things like the amount of time you have available, the bookmaker accounts you have access to and how big your bankroll is before subscribing.

The full lowdown and our analysis of Chasing Steamers is available now with a paid SBC Membership in an 18 page review just published

Best of all, you can also enjoy a 15% discount on ALL Chasing Steamers subscriptions as an SBC member. Saving up to as much as £82.50 on a 12 month package with the service

Detailed reports, practical advice, member only content and considerable discounts are all examples of how we will help SBC Members assess this service but the benefits of membership don’t end there.

This page discusses everything that you can access with full SBC Membership – I would love for you to join us!

🎧Getting On With Sharp Bookmakers & Brokers: A Chat With Top Tipster, Skeeve

With our new 5 Stages of Profitable Betting, Bet Broker Guide and Exchange & Sharp Bookmaker Tipster resources all proving to be very popular, we have enlisted help from our community to provide further practical advice about maximising returns and accessing the very best platforms to place bets.

Earlier in August, this SBC Member article was penned, providing an introduction to using Bot Software to place personal bets or follow tipsters effectively on exchanges.

Skeeve Chat

To learn more about betting with Sharp Bookmakers, SBC, Editor Pete recently discussed this with the tipster, Skeeve, who has been making a profit for himself and his followers using the likes of Pinnacle for several years.

You can listen to this in full via the audio link below, where Pete and Skeeve talked about:

  • Waiting for team news and tipping in the hour before kick-off
  • Liquidity and price sensitivity
  • Skeeve’s fair odds policy and how it is central to his operation
  • Quoting Pinnacle prices and bettering those odds with soft bookmakers, exchanges and even in shops!
  • Beating the market with both advised prices and at the closing line
  • Skeeve’s record by different metrics & his own tissues’ accuracy

Betting & Tipping Via Sharp Bookmakers With Skeeve

 

Skeeve is an expert of lower league football, with a profitable record stretching back 17 years. A veteran of the SBC Hall of Fame, Skeeve discussed his process in detail in SBC Podcast Episode #16.

He has also written for us in the past, with this guide giving punters of all stripes some pointers about what to do (or not to do!) if you want to make betting pay.

New Service Tier & SBC Discounts

Skeeve is unashamedly setup for the bigger punters out there – those of you at perhaps Stage 4 or 5 of your betting journey. This is why most of Skeeve’s members stake quite heavily, making the 75 Euro monthly fee well worth their investment.

To make the service more affordable for a wider audience, Skeeve has now introduced a second tier at half the price, with the only difference being that tips are released slightly later.

With this service being profitable at the Pinnacle closing line there is still plenty of value to be had with this new tier.

In addition, SBC Members can get sizeable discounts with a 250 Euro saving on core packages (down from 750 Euro per season) and a 50 Euro saving on the new ‘half price tier’ available.

This means that with SBC Membership, you could save more than an the cost of annual subscription with this discount alone!

Skeeve has proven himself as the lower league football expert with over 17 years’ worth of tips. I hope that you enjoy our chat and (as his SBC HoF title indicates) his service is well worth a look too!

SBC Magazine #134 is out now!

17.27%, 31.12% & 22.39% ROIs inside!

SBC Magazine Issue 134 has three very different services that have remarkable records.

Consistent double-digit returns are quite something and all of these services have just that – 17.27%, 31.12% and 22.39% ROIs are waiting for you inside. All three reviews can be read in full as a member of the Smart Betting Club.​

Inside SBC Issue 134 you will find:

Review 1: The tennis tipping service that has a 17.27% ROI, 2,530.54 points profit and 495% ROC from nearly 7,000 bets – with the majority of selections coming in the most liquid markets.

We discuss results, the practicality of following and how the service derives its edge alongside our usual detailed metrics. SBC Members can get 25% off all subscriptions!

Review 2: The daily ‘lottery’ horse racing multiple service which is perfect for those looking to land a big touch and make plenty of profit along the way.

Results without Best Odds Guaranteed currently stand at 31.12% from a sample that spans over 3 years. Those who have followed with the concession are currently sitting pretty on a spectacular 58.89% ROI!

We breakdown results, discuss the service’s viability without concessions and reflect on how smart bettors can mask their activity by acting like mug punters!

Review 3: The Irish racing specialist who uses a little black book of contacts to make consistent profits with both bookmakers and exchanges.

We examine a profit & loss record that has only travelled in one direction (up!), the 1,089 bet record and some of the intricacies of the service that add real value to the subscriber experience

Read NOW with a Smart Betting Club membership

You can read all 3 of these in-depth tipster reviews inside SBC Issue 134 (as well as our huge back catalogue of reviews and reports) with a Smart Betting Club membership.

Quarterly, Bi-Annual and Annual memberships are available here and with so many verified and profitable tipsters available on the site, this is the perfect time to sign up!

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  • Full access to all of our independent SBC publications and reviews of services
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🎧SBC Podcast #54: 🎾James from Tennis Pilot on his service’s edge, building an AI system, bookmakers and more!

In the latest SBC Podcast I am joined by James, one half of the brains behind the recently reviewed tennis tipping service, Tennis Pilot.

English and Philosophy & Theology degrees at Oxford University may not be typical starting points for successful tipping services, but a shared love of tennis drove James and his partner Nicholas to bet using their combined expertise.

7 years, nearly 7,000 bets and a freshly built AI system later, we talk about the partners’ journey to success in a fascinating chat.

You can listen to Episode 54 now via Apple / Spotify / Google / YouTube and all other major podcast directories (search Smart Betting Club)

An in-depth chat with one of this service’s ‘Co-Pilots’

In this episode, James and I discuss:

  • Tennis Pilot’s inception, how the service has developed and what James and Nicholas have learnt along the way
  • Balancing working full-time with running a successful tipping service
  • Value – what is it and why is it so hard to identify?
  • Statistics and the different biases that can lead bookmakers to price matches incorrectly
  • How specialisation can provide an instant advantage over the market
  • Variables that help James to find expected value in matches
  • James’s masters thesis and building a machine-learning tennis betting system from scratch
  • Where to bet on tennis and the viability of different bookmakers and exchanges
  • Tennis Pilot’s 17% ROI from nearly 7,000 bets

Learn more

To learn more about Tennis Pilot, you can visit their website here or follow them on Twitter @TennisPilot.

In addition, we have recently published an in-depth review into the service’s performance that is available with a paid SBC membership.

Here, we go through Tennis Pilot’s 7 year betting record, assessing nearly 7,000 bets using our usual range of metrics including odds availability, performance in different markets, drawdown analysis and progressive reinvestment strategies (alongside many more!).

SBC Discounts

You can trial Tennis Pilot free for one month by visiting their website and following the link on their homepage.

Secondly, SBC Members can get a 25% discount on all of Tennis Pilot’s subscription options, saving you between £35 and £60 depending on the package that you choose.

This equates to up to 56% of your annual SBC subscription – another smart deal for our betting club!

Join SBC Today to read the full Tennis Pilot review and access this discount

🎾 ACE! Let Tennis Pilot Guide You To Profit!

Today I am going to make a racket as I serve up a tennis service that you will love.

Now that I have run out of tennis-related puns, it is time to talk about Tennis Pilot.

As the name indicates, this is a tennis advisory service that provides bets across all of the major global tours. Run by two friends who met at Oxford University, Tennis Pilot has over seven years of results that we have analysed closely for an extended period of time, in order to write a brand new detailed review about their service.

The Numbers

Since 2016, Tennis Pilot have put forward 6,769 selections with the following headline figures:

  • Profits stand at 2,530.54 points to advised variable staking
  • This return comes from stakes of 14,649 points, meaning that ROI stands at 17.27%
  • Odds average out at 8.25 (or 7.25/1) with a strike rate of 34.75%
  • Returns on the best tours with the highest liquidity are both approaching 20% (19.77% ROI for the ATP & 18.90% ROI for the WTA)
  • ROC for Tennis Pilot stands at 495% with £10 per point staking, returning profits of £25,305

An average of 60 monthly selections makes this a ‘low workload’ service but to get the best returns, a wide selection of bookmaker and exchange accounts is advised (with access to Pinnacle being a considerable advantage).

SBC Discount & Full Review

Tennis is quickly becoming a leading source of excellent tipping services and a sport that more and more SBC members are turning to in order to make a profit betting.

You can read our detailed review of Tennis Pilot and all our other recommended services, be it Tennis related or otherwise with an SBC membership.

By joining you will get instant access to a detailed report on Tennis Pilot’s performance, with profit breakdowns, price sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulations making up just a fraction of what is inside.

In addition, a 25% discount is available on all of Tennis Pilot’s subscription packages for SBC Members – meaning that the discount on an annual subscription would go a long way to covering your SBC membership costs!