What Can We Learn About The 2016-17 Premier League Season?
It’s worth analysing the previous season as it gives an indication as to how the current one is likely to play out. Let’s focus on the top end of the …
What Is Dutching? What Is Dutch Betting? (Arbitrage)
Dutching or ‘Dutch Betting’ is when you’re able to back more than one outcome in the same event to win the same amount whichever of those selections wins. Dutching can …
10 Biggest Problems Betfair Traders Face & How To Approach Them
Thinking of becoming a Betfair trader? There’s a bunch of issues that you’ll inevitably experience. It’s best to know about them from the outset. Here’s my top 10 list of …
Alternative Arbing — Middles, Negative Middles & Polish Middles
In sports betting, a Middle is an arb or ‘sure bet’ involving 2x Back bets on the same event. If the event ends with a specific result, you’ll profit by …
Staking Plans — What You Need To Know About Betting Bankroll Management
Don’t fixate on staking plans. They won’t improve the profitability of your strategy/system unless it already has an advantage or positive ‘edge‘. Verify that your selection method is profitable on …
Where Can I Find Free, Detailed Football Stats? (Football Analytics)
In previous posts I mentioned that you can download basic football stats from Football-Data.co.uk. However, this data doesn’t include much detail in terms of match analysis. In other words, it doesn’t …
Can I Make A Steady Income By Scalping The Betting Exchanges?
Scalping is a high-frequency process of placing bets on both sides of the market (Back and Lay) in order to profit from small price moments. Betfair scalping is considered a …
Swing Trading On The Betting Exchange (Basic Betfair Strategy)
Swing trading involves looking for a large shift in the odds and capitalising on the change. It’s hard to predict drastic price moves — but Swing Traders that master this …
What Is Sharbing? Does Sharbing Really Work? (Shop Arbing Explained)
Sharbing is the short name for “Shop Arbing”. A shop Arber is someone that’s able to successfully place arbitrage bets at high street Bookmaker shops (e.g. Coral, Ladbrokes, Betfred), and …
My Favourite Sports Betting Blogs — 10 Of The Best
Want to learn more about professional sports betting? Looking for a source of inspiration? Well you could firstly read my posts from the Professional Betting section of this site… Alternatively, try …
Good Strike Rate? — Verify Your Results Are Realistic
There’s a genuine buzz that comes from “getting it right” — especially when you correctly predict something against the odds. This often manifests itself in a winning gambler’s swagger. But …
Was The Winning Express A Scam? (BBC Radio 4 Interview)
Recently I was invited to talk on BBC Radio 4 to offer my knowledge on sports betting for a news report about a high profile betting investment fund named ‘The Winning …
Am I Really Winning? — Betting Variance In Action
One of the biggest problems in gambling is that people convince themselves that their winning streaks were more than just pure chance. But it’s not about what you’ve made before, or …
Why Is Making Accurate Football Betting Predictions So Difficult?
Are you trying to accurately predict football matches? It’s pretty hard, right? I recently wrote the post ‘The Basics Of Creating A Football Prediction Betting Model‘ where I described various data-crunching methods I’d …
The Basics Of Creating A Football Prediction Betting Model
Many mathematical methods can be used to create football prediction models. I’ve no doubt that you could spend years perfecting a ‘betting system’. But take it from me: applying statistics to sports betting is not …
Calculate Expected Value (EV) — The ‘Edge’ Of Your Bets
Calculating the Expected Value (EV) is an important, and relatively simple skill that enables you to ensure that your sports bets have a player advantage or ‘edge’. I’ll explain how it …
How To Make A Living From Sports Betting (2019 Edition)
Here’s a question that’s regularly asked: “can you make a living from sports betting?” The answer you’ll usually receive is a confident, flat-out “no”. Or a clique such as “it’s …
Be Careful When Placing ‘Early’ Bets With Low Market Liquidity
I’ve noticed that many punters are accustomed to backing multiple selections in one sitting e.g. the night before a race. For practicality reasons it makes sense; not everyone is able to bet when they’re …
The Minimum Requirements For Matched Betting (Bare Necessities)
Exactly what money, free bets, software & tools and services are essential for Matched Betting? What’s a luxury? Strictly speaking you only require the essentials of: Money Free bets, and A Betfair account. …
How To Resolve Disputes With Casinos & Bookmakers
Despite the UK government’s efforts to standardise and regulate the gambling industry through the introduction of the Gambling Commission, player disputes are surprisingly frequent. Resolving a dispute with an online Bookmaker or Casino …
The Traits & Mindset Of A Professional Gambler
What makes a professional gambler successful at what he does? Well, the strategy and methods play a huge part. Intelligence and analytical skills also help. But mentality and character traits contribute, too. Here’s 10 tips for …
Best Horse Racing Form & Stats Websites (Databases)
Sports punters analyse niche data items more than ever before. Horse racing pioneered the use of historical data analysis as a basis for predictions — but there surprisingly aren’t many good sources of ‘form’ …
Improve Your Betting With These Recommended Books
Here’s my top 3 books for sports betting. Each one serves a different purpose, and elaborates on the concepts that I write about on this site. 1. Sports Trading on …
Best Betfair Trading Software 2019 (Betting Exchange Tools)
Looking for the best Betfair trading software? No doubt you’ll come across the name ‘Bet Angel’ amongst a host of others. Bet Angel is a feature-rich, fast and reliable software …
A Punter’s Guide To Beating The SP (Start Price)
I’ve written several posts alluding to the importance of the Start Price (SP) and how it can be used to ‘measure’ the value in your pre-race bets. By incorporating my research & findings from …