If you are hoping to make money out of your betting or are even considering becoming a professional gambler, it is crucial in this day and age to have the very best betting tools at your fingertips.

With the internet has come a huge amount of information and stats that can be used to inform the punter’s gambling choices, as well as a range of sophisticated aids such as betting bots.

Things have become very competitive and to make sure you have an edge over your fellow bettors, you need to make sure you have the best tools available.

So here we have a look at the best betting sites. Which sites should you use to help your betting? Which sites will give you an edge? And which sites have proved themselves a cut above the rest in gambling terms?

If you’re looking specifically for the best tipping sites, we recommend checking out our football and horse racing tipster guides respectively.

Below are our top 10 betting sites, starting at no.10 and working our way down to the top one.

10.  Oddschecker

It is pretty much compulsory if you are intending to do any gambling at all to make use of an odds comparison site such as Oddschecker. Just like if you were buying car insurance you would want to find the best price and not just lump for the first one you see, so it is with betting.

Remember that a bookmaker generally has at least a 10% edge over you before you even start. This is the “house edge” if you like. To make a profit over time you need to overcome this edge consistently – which is a tall order. So you need to maximise every little bit of value you can and if you are taking bad prices – or not getting the best prices to put it another way – then you may as well give up before you start.

There are a few odds comparison sites that essentially do the same thing – that is bring together all the odds from the major bookmakers in every major sporting event and all the various markets. Easyodds and Bestbetting are two of other popular ones, but as the original and best-known, oddschecker is our odds comparison site of choice.

9. Flatstats

If you are looking to bet on horse racing, then a good starting point is undoubtedly to have a look through some statistics. The great thing about the Flatstats website is that it gives you a whole range of different options to look at in terms of stats on racing and an absolute wealth of data.

So for example you may want to look at a particular trainer’s record over the last five years – let’s say Aiden O’Brien. You would enter his details and then receive a massive amount of data on his record – and crucially his profitability – broken down by a whole range of factors such as course, distance, going, class, jockey, handicap/non-handicap, odds range and so on.

So you can break things down in terms of which metric has the best return and focus on that if you wanted to. There are also lots of systems people have devised themselves that you can use in addition to finding your own.

Having a resource like Flatstats is a great way to find a different angle to all the other punters out there and hopefully find yourself an edge. Certainly a very useful betting website for the horse racing punter.

8. OLBG

A hugely popular site with punters offering a range of different betting tools, OLBG (which stands for Online Betting Guide) has been around since 2002.

It has grown to be of the biggest online betting communities, with over 100,000 members and a very active betting forum. One of the main features of the site is its tipping section, with free tips offered across a range of sports including horse racing, football, tennis and golf. Another popular aspect of the site are the tipping competitions, which you can join with prizes for the most successful tipsters.

There is also an active blog with regular betting articles and news and plenty of comments too. Plus there are bookmaker reviews, free bet offers and a host of other gambling info. As an overall betting guide and a place to interact with other punters and exchange views, as well as get some free tips or tip yourself, OLBG is a respected and useful betting site deserving of a place on this list.

7.  Soccerstats

Whilst not technically a “betting website,” Soccerstats can certainly be used to aid your betting and in our opinion it is well worth doing so.

In much the same way as with Flatstats for horse racing, Soccerstats has a veritable treasure trove of numbers that can be used as a basis for a betting strategy or system. We have already done a full review of Soccerstats here, but in short it has stats on over 100 leagues from around the world. The stats include just about every possible metric you could want for betting on football, from basic stuff like over/under percentages to times of goals, first and second half results, goalscorers and much more besides.

Again, if you are looking to bet on football, then giving yourself a statistical basis to your betting is likely to be of great benefit and gives you the potential to have an edge over other punters, which is ultimately what it is all about.

6. Racing Post

No list of top betting sites would be complete without mention of probably the number one resource for UK horse race goers, the Racing Post.

Whilst perhaps better known amongst punters for the daily newspaper version that adorns the walls of betting shops around the country and accompanies punters on their trips to the races, the Racing Post website is also an excellent resource for the punter.

With a great deal of information to draw including cards and results, plus stats on horses, jockeys, trainers and owners and their full records and betting returns listed, the website is the starting point for many people’s research on betting.

There are also paid subscriptions that include their tips from Pricewise Extra and the other top tipsters, plus the option to watch video replays of races and get more in-depth race reports. All in all as a complete UK racing guide, the Racing Post is a useful tool to have on your side.

5.  Betting Gods

The modestly named Betting Gods is a tipster platform that basically houses a number of different tipsters in one place.

They have some fantastic tipsters who have proved themselves over a number of years, racking up hundreds of points of profit and thousands of pounds for followers of their services. The website is user-friendly and we particularly like the honesty and integrity of Betting Gods. Whilst many tipsters inflate their results by using crazy staking systems of 5 or even 10 point win bets, Betting Gods’s services in the main use 1 or 2 point bets, with the occasional 3 or 4 point bet.

In addition, when talking about how much the tipsters have won, they use realistic £10 stakes, unlike some other services that use £100 or £200 stakes to make their results look good, when in reality betting at that level is well out of range for the majority of punters.

If you are looking to make some money by following a tipster or even a portfolio of tipsters, then you could do much worse than going on the Betting Gods website and checking out what they have to offer.

4. Betfair

It seems a little unfair to do a list of the best betting sites without including the website that really changed betting forever – Betfair.

There is a lot of talk these days about “disrupters” in various industries like Uber, Airbnb and so on. Well Betfair surely merits that tag in the world of betting. It changed the game in a whole number of ways: allowing punters to play bookie and lay selections rather than just backing them; not limiting or closing the accounts of winners and creating a whole new genre of trading, in-running betting and “bots.”

Perhaps most significantly of all, however, Betfair forced the bookies to up their game. Previously the bookies had coasted along basically unchallenged, happy to offer their customers poor value, milk them dry and then close their accounts if they became a winner.

But when Betfair came along and started stealing a large portion of their customer base, the bookies become worried. Lots of punters started to ask “why should I bother betting with a bookie again?” So they had to respond and did so by offering improved odds, innovations such as best odds guaranteed and regular free bets for their customers.

The overall effect has been to give punters a better deal and so for that, plus the revolution it has caused in betting, Betfair undoubtedly merits a place on this list.

3. Bet 365

On the one hand we were slightly loathe to include a bookmaker on this list, but if there is one that deserves to be recognised as a standout in its field then it is Bet365.

There are a number of reasons why they are regarded as such a top bookie. Generally offering excellent odds, particularly on horse racing, even using an odds comparison site you will often find yourself back at Bet365. Then there is the sheer wealth of betting markets offers, especially on sports like football and tennis and including in-play opportunities. Add to that lots of live sports coverage streamed on the site and you have an all-round great online bookie.

The real piece-de-resistance of Bet365 though is the great offers they make to the punter. Starting off with the free £200 bets you get when joining – which is widely regarded as one of the best value new customer offers of all the bookies – you then have the regular £10 loyalty bonuses you get if you bet with them regularly, plus their Channel 4 races offers. Best of all though are the free £50 in-play offers, which are superb and pretty much unparalleled by any other bookie.

All in all then when you are talking about bookies, Bet365 are as Tina Turner would say, simply the best.

2. Profit Maximiser

Quite often here at Honest Betting Reviews we are asked “do any betting systems actually work?”

The frank answer is that they are very few that are actually guaranteed to make you money. Some work well for a while then become overused and lose their edge or the betting markets change and they no longer produce a profit.

One however that continues to work amazingly well and surely always will is Profit Maximiser. It is a matched betting system that brings together all of the bookies free bets and bonuses into one place and shows you how to turn these offers into genuine risk-free opportunities. So you can make literally hundreds of pounds per month risk-free from it.

There is great e-mail support, plus helpful training videos and a huge Facebook group of over 50,000 people who exchange info on the best offers and how to take advantage of them. Bookies offers are probably never going to go away because they need an incentive to bring customers in, so a product like Profit Maximiser is an essential part of your betting portfolio and well worth getting involved with.

1. Bettingzone

One of the best-known online tipping sites, the Bettingzone has been around since 2003 and has garnered quite a reputation for itself over the years. Part of the Sporting Life, it has amassed over 3,000 points profit since starting up and is undoubtedly one of the best free resources for betting you can find.

We did a full review of the Bettingzone here, in which we broke down its record by sport. It turns out that a great deal of their profit comes from golf, with their resident tipsters have smashed in numerous 100/1 shots over the years. For many years Dave Tindall was the chief golf tipster and he landed quite a few memorable touches including Matt Gogel at over 100/1. Now the golf team is headed up by Ben Coley who landed a massive win with 175/1 winner Marcus Fraser in the 2016 Malaysian Open.

Respect is also due to Ben Linfoot, whose Value Bet tipping column for the weekend and festival races has made over 300 points profit to date.

If you’d followed all of the Bettingzone’s tips since inception at just £10 per point, you would have made over £30,000 (presuming you could match their advised prices of course). Overall then, we feel it definitely deserves a place on the best betting sites list.

Here at Honest Betting Reviews we eagerly follow a large number of horse racing tipster in an effort to find the very best.

We scour all corners of the internet to try and find the most profitable ones – and not just the famous names that you see in the Racing Post but those who are less well known and who don’t necessarily have large marketing budgets to get their name out to the betting public.

What matters is whether they make money and if they are practical to follow – that is what we look for here on the site.

So you may be wondering, out of all the horse racing tipsters we have looked at, who are the best? Which ones should you consider putting your hard-earned cash towards following?

Well, here we put together our top ten list, starting with no.10 on the list and working our way up to the very best.

Top Ten Horse Racing Tipsters

So without further ado, here is our top ten list of the best horse racing tipsters around at the moment that you can follow.

Our ratings are based on a combination of looking at profit/loss, strike rate, return on investment, bet frequency and ultimately bank growth to determine the overall effectiveness of the tipster.

A large factor to consider is also practicality to follow – some tipsters may have very impressive records (like Hugh Taylor or Pricewise) but be impractical to follow as the tips get smashed in to such an extent that you would greatly struggle to make a profit from following them.

10. Morning Value Service

At number 10 is the Morning Value Service, which is run by a guy called Kieran Ward. It launched in 2011 and to date has made over 3,000 points profit – so that’s about 600 points per year on average.

The service has a high bet frequency, with 15-20 bets per day. The majority of these are sent out in the morning, with an update for the evening’s racing as well.

What we think is very interesting and impressive about the Morning Value Service – besides of course its amazing record of profit – is that you can actually still get good value at Betfair SP. In fact, during our trial we found that Betfair SP actually beat the advised prices, which is incredibly rare for a tipster.

That may be down in good part to the fact that Kieran limits the number of members – thus protecting prices.

It is quite expensive to join, at £320 for 3 months or £560 for 6 months, so you do need a reasonable bank of at least £2,000 we would say to make this worthwhile. But if you’ve got that kind of money it is definitely worth a look.

The service did endure a slightly tough second half of 2015 which is the only small minus point against it, but to be fair all tipsters are going to having small losing runs at some point and this one has otherwise been very impressive over a five year period.

9. Value Racing Tips

A highly consistent horse racing tipster, Value Racing Tips has been around since late 2013 and since setting up has made well over 400 points profit.

Following the tips at just £10 per point would have made you over £120 per month for the last two and a half years, which isn’t bad at all for a few minutes work per day.

All tips are simple 1 point level stakes, which is refreshing and means no crazy staking systems to inflate results as some tipsters do.

Prices are usually fairly obtainable, but even at Betfair SP we found during our trial a reduction of just 28% against advised prices, which is pretty reasonable.

A consistent record established over a good period of time, we are happy to include Value Racing Tips in our top ten list.

8. Tom Nelson Racing

Another high frequency betting service is Tom Nelson Racing, which comes from the highly respected Betting Gods stable.

The bet frequency isn’t nearly as high as the Morning Value Service and is more like 3-4 bets per day, but Tom’s record is very impressive as well, with just under 600 points profit accumulated since the service started tipping in June 2014.

That would work out at around £250 profit per month to just £10 stakes, which is a nice bit of extra cash in your pocket.

The service has managed a very respectable strike rate of just under 35% and there has amazingly been an 11-horse winning run for the service in the past.

The only small thing to note is that Tom’s return on investment isn’t quite as high as some of the other tipsters on this top ten list at 7%, but overall he is still a superb tipster and well worth his place here.

7. Profit Pony

Another top horse racing tipster is Profit Pony, which has built up a formidable total of over 1,000 points profit since starting up in 2014.

They have only had two losing months in that time, which shows remarkable consistency. Sadly our initial trial coincided with their worst month since starting the service, so we were only able to award a neutral rating. But we have continued to monitor things since our trial ended and results have improved considerably, with over 100 points being accumulated.

So bearing in mind the profits achieved before our trial and since, we think Profit Pony is deserving of a place on this list and would be a worthy addition to any betting portfolio.

6. Racing Gold

A tipster that made over 150 points during our trial and has made 500 points profit overall, Racing Gold is based out of the Tipster Street stable and has a solid following behind it.

The service seems to have really improved its form from May 2015 onwards, making 300 points in the year following that month.

This is another tipster with a good number of bets to follow, with an average of 4 tips per day. A healthy strike rate consistently in excess of 30% means a good amount of winning bets as well.

The return on investment is 8% over the long term, which is commendable given the high number of bets and good strike rate.

Things have stalled a little bit early in 2016 but we like to take a long-term view of tipsters and with over 500 points profit amassed, Racing Gold is a high quality tipster and one we would certainly recommend.

5. All Weather Profits

Originally seen as a poor relation of its more glamorous cousin flat turf racing, all-weather racing has grown and grown in recent years to become a force in its own right and is now a major focus of betting for a number of professional gamblers.

One of those is the All Weather Profits service from the Tipster Street stable. Betting only on the dirt, they have managed to secure profits of 500 points since setting up in early 2014.

Each year so far has shown over 100 points profit, which is no mean feat. That has been achieved with a strike rate of 22% and a decent return on investment of 13%.

Perhaps what is most impressive though is that all results are recorded at Betfair SP, which means you could well beat the recorded results using early prices and BOG bookies. Very few tipsters record results at Betfair SP, so given this and the excellent results achieved to date, we think All Weather Profits is a top class tipster and well worth following.

4. Russell Blair Racing

Russell Blair had a cracking live trial here on the site, racking up over 200 points profit over the 3 month trial.

Starting out life as a Twitter tipster, Russell now has his own website and since setting up the website in April 2015 he has amassed over 900 points profit, pretty incredible stuff.

Prior to that, Russell won 3 online tipping competitions, underlining his credentials as a top-class tipster.

There are generally 2-3 tips per day, sent out the evening before racing. Prices do often contract quite considerably before the off, evidenced by the difference between the results at advised prices and Betfair SP over our trial, with the latter being about 100 points lower.

Overall though this is first-class tipping service and one that we certainly think should be part of a betting portfolio.

3. Master Racing Tipster

The Master Racing Tipster is a service we originally reviewed back in June 2015 and gave a 5-star rating to at the time.

Their form continued to be excellent beyond the end of our trial up to the end of 2015, during which he amassed over 250 points profit over the calendar year.

That took the total profit accumulated since the service began in March 2014 to over 400 points, which is superlative stuff.

What is even more amazing though is that the profits came at a return on investment of over 40% – almost unheard of in horse racing tipping circles over such an extended period – and a very decent strike rate of over 30%.

Things have been a bit more tricky over the first half of 2016, but it has not been a disaster by any means, more a case of treading water for the Master.

Looking at the overall achievements, we think the Master Racing Tipster has compiled a superb record and is well worth a place high up on this list.

2.  Racing Consultants

The Racing Consultants is a service run by two industry experts, Dave Massey and Rory Delargy. Now normally we avoid so-called “industry experts” like the plague, but these two did very well during our trial and have performed strongly since.

Over our three month trial they stacked up over 130 points profit – and the good news is that the results at Betfair SP were almost identical to those at advised prices, which is unusual for top horse racing tipsters.

Overall since setting up in June 2015, they have made over 500 points profit with an 18% return on investment, which is highly impressive.

We like the fact that they provide detailed analysis with their tips, so you know a lot of work has gone into them and there is sound logic behind the selections. Overall an excellent service and one we strongly recommend. 

1. Quentin Franks Racing

Most tipsters are content with having just one tipping service. But when you’re as good as Quentin Franks, why not have two?

The main Quentin Franks Racing service has been running since June 2014 and in that time he has amassed just short of 500 points profit at a return on investment of 18%. A look at his profit graph shows a very steady and consistent return built up month-on-month over more than 2 years.

That would be impressive enough, but Quentin also supplements this with his evening service for the next day’s racing, QF Value Tips. This service has made 170 points profit at a return on investment of over 20%, meaning combining the two services gives you over 650 points profit at a return of around 20%.

Amazingly consistent stuff, two successful services and month-on-month profit lands Quentin Franks up at the top of our list. Highly recommended.

So there you have it, our top ten horse racing tipsters – the creme de la creme as they say! Hope you enjoyed reading this article and find these maestros bring you some gambling success. Whilst most of the tipsters on this page are paid tipsters, you may also want to check out our guide to free racing tips as well.