Top 3 Tipsters of 2025
As the year draws to a close, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at our Top Tipsters of 2025.
It’s been a year packed with unforgettable sporting moments that will live long in the memory.
From Rory McIlroy finally completing the career Grand Slam with an emotional victory at The Masters, to England’s Lionesses once again conquering Europe with a triumphant Euros campaign, it’s been a year of high drama and plenty of talking points.
Add to that Europe reclaiming the Ryder Cup in a fiercely contested showdown, along with countless twists across football leagues, major race meetings and championship fights, and it’s been a vintage year for fans and sports bettors alike.
Against that backdrop, we’ve taken the opportunity to look back at which tipping services genuinely delivered in 2025.
We think it’s important to firstly say that in compiling this list we’ve had a look not just at headline profit numbers but how obtainable prices are.
As we mentioned right at the start of the year, price availability was going to be a key focus of ours going forward as there’s no point a tipster talking about making “hundreds of points in profit” if you can’t actually achieve that in reality.
It’s also important to look at the strike rate and ROI (return on investment), to give fair comparisons between services and get a sense of winning rates and the rates of return on money risked.
With that in mind then, let’s take a look at the top tipsters of 2025…
The Contenders
Originally we had wanted to make this list just a top 3, but that proved more difficult than expected!
In a good way though – there have actually been a number of really strong performers this year so whittling it down to just three has been quite tough.
So we wanted to highlight some of the services who nearly made it onto the podium and are definitely worthy of an honourable mention before moving on to the top three.
That being said, who has performed strongly enough to make it into our contenders list?
Premium Boxing Tips
Well first up we have a service that is one of the most consistent we have come across.
Just year after year of cranking out the profits – and 2025 was no exception.
The service in question is Premium Boxing Tips.
Run by a chap called Greg, this is a long-time favourite of ours and one we originally reviewed way back in 2019.
It is pretty simple to follow with just a few bets a week normally.
This year it made a very healthy profit of 38 points, achieved at an ROI of 9.45%.
The stand out stat though is the strike rate, which was an excellent 70% this year.
This is high win-rate service, tipping largely at odds-on.
So it means lots of winners with losing streaks normally short, which is what we like to see!
And 2025 was just another in a long line of profitable years – in fact every year since the service launched has been in the plus column:
Consistency doesn’t get much better than that!
Scottish Confidential
Next up on our contenders list is football service Scottish Confidential.
Football is a notoriously hard sport to profit from and so when you find a tipster that does produce long-term gains it is worth paying attention.
As the name suggests, this is a service that focuses solely on Scottish football and we first reviewed it back in 2022, with an update provided last year.
Their concentrated approach on football north of the border has paid dividends, with total profit to date sitting at close to 200 points.
This year was an excellent year for the service, with over 30 points made at an ROI exceeding 15%, which is no mean feat in football betting.
Another tipster that is simple to follow with just a handful of bets per week, we think it is due some praise as the only footy tipster on this list amongst a litany of failed football services we have looked at over the years.
Bet Sage
A service we are currently reviewing, this horse racing tipster has had an excellent 2025 with 181 points made this year.
It’s another tipster with a long established track-record of consistency, amassing over 1,600 points profit in total now since inception.
The tips are mainly sent the evening before racing which means they do tend to shorten in price. As our review has shown, the profits at BSP have been quite a bit lower.
For those with bookie accounts though Bet Sage is a top service and it has been a stellar year for them.
Top 3 Tipsters of 2025
Okay so let’s get on with the serious business now and take a look at our Top 3 Tipsters of 2025…
3. Bookies Enemy
Coming in at number three is another long-term favourite of ours that has had a cracking time in 2025 and that is The Bookies Enemy.
With a monster 230 points profit made in 2025, it was a banner year for this horse racing tipster.
They hit a particularly hot streak over the Summer, with 83 points profit in July, followed by 89 points in August and then 53 points in September.
That now puts them on over 1,100 points profit in total since 2017, one of the best totals in the industry.
Quite a large proportion of the tips are sent out the evening before racing, so again price availability is a challenge.
However, even allowing for some price depreciation would still have left you with very handsome returns from following this service in 2025.
2. Edwards Tips (Golf)
A service we originally took a look at in 2022, this combined golf and snooker service is one of the most successful sports tipsters in the business and performed very well again this year.
In particular it was the outright golf tips that shone, with a sterling 39 points profit made at a whopping ROI of 33%.
The headline P/L is slightly deceptive however as Mr Edwards tips at very low stakes – often 0.1 pts e/w for example.
So using more standard 1pt e/w stakes you would be looking at around 394 points profit – an outstanding effort. That included a number of huge winners at prices of over 100/1.
As those accustomed to golf betting will know however, prices on long-shot outsiders can disappear quickly so achieving that total would be a challenge in reality.
Again though, even allowing for some price depreciation, you would still have done very well indeed from following the golf tips this year.
The snooker tips had a rare underperformance with a small loss made this year, but the long-term snooker results are still excellent so hopefully 2025 was just a blip.
And there were some very unlucky near misses – including two huge outright picks that both lost in deciding frames in finals!
1. Andy Holding
It’s probably no surprise to long-term followers here at HBR that our number one pick for 2025 has to be Andy Holding Tips (which are available via the Oddschecker Plus Premium service).
It’s not just the headline numbers of 230 points profit made in 2025 – nor the 313 points profit made in our trial at a superb ROI of 31% – that stand out.
It is that crucial factor of price availability that makes this our number one tipster of 2025.
Unlike many other popular tipsters, Andy:
- Tips on the morning of racing – when there is much more liquidity in the markets and bookies are less likely to limit your accounts;
- Achieved an excellent Betfair SP in our review: 241 points profit versus the 313 points at advised prices;
- Or taking prices an hour or two after tips are posted still produced around 270 points profit in our review.
This is what we call proper tipping.
A lot of tipsters who tip early – whether that’s the evening before racing on the horses or on a Monday in golf – are essentially taking advantage of illiquid markets and mistakes the bookies have made in their pricing.
That is fair enough and a valid approach that can still produce long-term profit.
However, it does leave those following the tips subject to both price movements and account restrictions.
With Andy tipping on the morning of racing though, you are much less at risk of either of those things.
And even if you do suffer account restrictions with the bookies, you could switch to Betfair SP and still do very well indeed!
So the advertised profits (or close to them) are very much achievable and the service is viable for the long term, unlike some that may have a limited shelf-life due to account restrictions.
This is a service we have followed with our own money in 2025 – and are very pleased we did!
We like the data-driven approach of the service, with Andy relying on his own speed ratings which are then combined with race reading and more traditional form study.
The results during our trial were very consistent, with a smooth profit curve achieved throughout and minimal drawdowns.
To be honest there isn’t much more we can ask from a tipster – other than he keeps it going during 2026!
So that concludes our top tipsters of 2025. We hope you enjoyed it but please let us know in the comments below if there are any tipsters we left out who you think should be in there!
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