We have come to the end of our trial of The Win Picker and it has unfortunately not picked quite enough winners.
The service has finished 9 points down, which is certainly no disaster and represents just a 9% loss of the 100 point bank we used, but fails to live up to the results claimed on the website prior to the trial.
On the plus side, all selections are given at Betfair SP so there is the possibility of beating the published results if you shopped around and used best odds guaranteed bookies.
They did have quite a few seconds during the trial as well, so things could have turned out better with a bit more luck.
Anyway, here are the results for the trial in graph format:
Win Picker Results Graph
As you can see, it was in profit for most of the trial but then nosedived just at the end with a run of losers.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Very good, just two bets per day and all selections can simply be backed at Betfair SP.
Availability of prices: Excellent – as above, results are recorded at Betfair SP so you are guaranteed achieving the same results as those published.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was reasonably good at 32% – probably just needs to be a little higher in the long run to achieve sustained profit growth.
Advised Betting Bank: A betting bank was not advised but we used a notional 100 point bank, which was more than sufficient and with a 32% strike rate should be comfortable to cover drawdowns.
Subscription costs: Good value at £20 for 100 days.
OVERALL VERDICT: NEUTRAL
A final total of -9 points for the trial was disappointing, given the results published on the website for the period prior to the trial and that they were in profit for the most of the trial only to nosedive at the end.
However, it was certainly no disaster, and could have been better had there not been a whole host of second place finishes during the trial.
All results are published at Betfair SP, so there is also the possibility of beating those results with a bit of work.
Given these mitigating factors, we feel a neutral rating is a fair verdict for The Win Picker. Just need to pick a few more winners and few less seconds and this could be a profitable service.
There is a lot to like about this service – very simple to follow, all bets at Betfair SP and a good strike rate. It is still in profit for the trial, so certainly nothing to complain about here. But nothing to get too excited about either so far.
We have about 3 weeks left in the trial so let’s see if they can push on and finish with a flourish.
They have continued to be unlucky however, with a whole host of seconds lately, including one of today’s runners.
Things could be a good deal better with just a little bit of fortune, so hopefully the luck will turn and we will see an uplift in results soon.
We do consider this to be quite a promising service as it is very simple to operate and with results recorded at Betfair SP there is no chance of missing prices etc.
All selections are advised at Betfair SP, which means not only can you match the published results but it is super easy to follow and takes very little time to back the selections.
Prices are generally at the lower end of the spectrum at around the 4.0 mark, although some have been as low as 1.1 and some as high as 9.
So we are off to a solid start in the first month and let’s see if things continue in the same vein for the remainder of the trial.
In the meantime you can check out The Win Picker here.
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We have come to the end of our trial ofBonus Baggingand here are the results:
Profit/loss:
+£572
Bank Growth:
386%
Cost:
£27
ROI:
68%
Average number of bets:
Up to 3 per day until offers used
VERDICT:
PASSED
RATING:
Bonus Bagging – Final Review
Most of the products we have reviewed here at Honest Betting Reviews have been tipsters of various descriptions so it makes a nice change to review something a bit different likeBonus Bagging.
The system takes advantage of the free bet offers bookies throw our way to try and lure us into becoming new customers.
Normally you have to wager a certain amount first before the bookies will give you a free bet, meaning if you lose that initial stake and then your free bet, you could be out of pocket.
However, the system author, Mike Cruickshank, has designed a way you can set these bets up so they are risk-free. So these offers do become genuinely free bets.
We have tested the system over the last three months and can confirm it certainly works – essentially it involves using Betfair to lay off the bets that you place with the bookies.
We have made over £500 – in fact £572 to be precise – taking advantage of these free bets over the course of the trial, which is good going considering the bets were completely risk-free.
There would be the possibility of making more than this but then we already have accounts with some of the bookmakers the system uses.
However, there were also some bookmakers we had not heard of before so even if you are an experienced gambler we expect there will be offers for you to take advantage of.
Ongoing Offers
Ultimately you will run out of offers to use, but then Mike e-mails out ongoing bookie offers – i.e. offers where you already have a bookie account rather than for opening a new account
Our experience during the trial was that we made around £200 per month out of these ongoing offers, so we estimate this is what you could make per month on an ongoing basis from the system.
“No-Brainer”
For such a low of price of £27, it is something of a “no-brainer” as they say to purchase this system. As long as you don’t already have accounts with all the bookmakers out there, you will make a profit from using it and you should be able to make a few hundred quid for minimal effort.
And even if you do by chance have accounts with all the bookmakers, you can still take advantage of the ongoing free bet offers that Mike e-mails out.
Plus Mike offers a no-questions-asked 60 day money-back guarantee, so you could always ask for your money back if you decided this wasn’t for you.
Can’t say fairer than that really, so we are happy to give this one a firm thumbs up and place it in the winning systems list.
N.B. Just a small note to say that a number of the offers only apply to people in the UK and Ireland, so if you live elsewhere you may not be able to take advantage of a lot of these offers.
You simply click a button requesting a new bet each time you are ready to take advantage of another offer and Mike will e-mail you exact instructions of both the qualifying bet and the free bet, including which bookmaker to use, how much the offer is for, the bet (e.g. horse race or football match) to place it in and even a link. Simples!
Here is an example:
You click “request bet” and Mike e-mails you saying place a bet of £10 on Hearts to beat Aberdeen at 3.0 with William Hill, then lay for the same amount at Betfair at odds of 3.05.
You then click “claim free bet” and Mike e-mails you saying back Man Utd to beat Man City at 3.5 for £30 free bet, then lay Man Utd at 3.5 on Betfair for £21.43 @ 3.55 (£54.65 to cover)
So on these bets you make £20.36 whatever happens!
This may look a little complicated if you are new to betting, but once you have done it a couple of times it is really easy. Getting the detailed instructions – and even the links to where you place the bets – makes it really simple to use.
What do I need to use this betting system? You would probably want £100 – £200 to start with. We used a bank of £200 for the trial and turned it into a bank of £772
It is a good idea to keep a record of all the new accounts you open, together with login details, the bets you have placed and so on.
Ease of use: Good – as we say, if you are new to betting it may look a little complicated but with Mike to guide you through it, you really can’t go wrong.
Customer Service: Excellent – Mike is always quick to respond to questions and deal with any queries you have.
Subscription costs: The product is available for a one-off fee of £27, which is excellent stuff and great value considering what you are getting.
Overall Verdict: Passed
This is a great little product and to be honest what else can you give it other than a passed verdict when it guarantees you profit?
How much you make will depend on how many bookmakers accounts you already have, but even if you have lots of account we expect there are a few here you won’t have heard of that you can take advantage of.
Plus there are also the ongoing offers which Mike e-mails out, so you should be able to make about £200 per month from those.
If it turns out you do already have all the bookie accounts or this is not for you – which we would say is unlikely – then Mike offers a 60-day guaranteed refund, so buying this product literally is “risk-free!”
We imagine most people should be able to make a few hundred quid at least from this product, and with such detailed instructions from Mike it really is made as simple as it could possibly be.
Sign up, grab your bonuses and then start thinking about how you will spend the money! 🙂
We are commencing a trial today of something a little bit different.
It is a betting system calledBonus Baggingby Mike Cruickshank.
As the name suggests, it involves utilising the many bonuses that bookies and casinos throw the way of the willing punter.
It is a very popular product and Mike has built up quite a large following over the years. We think it’s fair to say Mike is the King of bookie bonuses and has a wealth of experience on the topic.
On thesales page,it makes a bold claim that you can make £500 per month risk free using the system.
Sounds quite nice doesn’t it?
Just thinking what I could do with an extra £500 per month. Maybe join a nice golf club? Buy a new car? Move to a nicer pad?
Anyway, we will test this one out and see if it lives up to the hype and really can deliver £500 per month.
I am not sure how long it will take to review, it is often the case that the essence of a system can reveal itself fairly quickly and it is not necessary to run it for three months in the same way as you need to for a tipster.
It will be a question of how long it takes to test all the different options and how many bonuses there are on offer.
I suppose the advantage of a system like this is that supposedly you are not taking any risk so all we can make is profit. The bigger question will be things like how easy it is to claim the bonuses and whether there are lots of terms and conditions for using them.
We will get our teeth into this in the coming weeks and report back when we have got to grips with it and seen what it can do.
At the end of our trial of Value Racing tips we are pleased to report that it has been a successful trial, achieving 64 points profit at advised prices and 46 points at Betfair SP.
The return on investment for the trial was a very impressive 26% and the strike rate a solid 23%.
The profit growth was pretty steady during the trial, as you can see from the graph below:
Value Racing Tips Profit Graph
As you can see, a slight false start at the beginning but from then on it was very positive growth with a real jump towards the end.
The nice thing about this service is that all tips are simply 1 point win bets, so no crazy staking systems that you see with some other tipsters.
It’s easy to follow too with 2-3 tips per day and selections normally sent out the evening before racing, so plenty of time to get the bets on.
Looking at the longer-term results, the service has shown a high level of consistency, making over 350 points profit since its inception in November 2013. That means you would have made over £3,500 if backing to just £10 stakes or £35,000 if backing at £100 stakes.
There has only really been one period of drawdown during the lifetime of the service, which was in the Spring of this year. Otherwise it is just been steady profit growth all the way.
Our only slight concern is the bank size suggested by the service. We recently had issues with two other Betting Godsservices – Big Race Bookie Busters and Serve It Up Tennis Tips – losing or virtually losing entire banks whilst we have been following them.
Well here you are advised to use a 50 point bank, but if you had joined on 9th March this year you would have lost that entire bank and more, as they dropped 57 points between then and 8th May.
So we would recommend at least a 100 point bank – or even 150 points if you wanted to be on the really safe side.
Other than that, we think this is an excellent service and as long as you use a sufficient bank this has great potential to make consistent long-term profits.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Fairly good – with 2-3 bets per day there is a little bit of work to do but as bets are normally sent out the evening before racing, there is plenty of time to get the bets on.
Availability of prices: OK – it is usually possible to obtain the advised prices or close to them if you take prices soon after tips are sent out. But even if you just use Betfair SP, the results are still very good, with 46 points profit made during the trial, representing a 28% reduction on the advised prices.
Strike rate: Not bad at 23% – there will be some losing runs and drawdowns with that kind of strike rate, so a little bit of patience will be required.
Advised Betting Bank: They suggest a 50 point bank but given that the service has suffered a 57 point drawdown in the past, that clearly is not enough and with a 23% strike rate it was never going to be. We recommend at least a 100 point bank or even 150 to be on the safe side.
Subscription costs: You can get a 30 day trial for £1 to start the service, then it is £49.95/month, £119.95 per quarter or £279.95 for life.
Although on the face of it the costs seem quite high, to be fair we have seen services charge more than that without having such good track records, so we think the subscription costs are fair.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
It’s been a very good trial here forValue Racing Tipsand we are very happy to give this a recommended rating.
Very solid, consistent results over a long period and a simple service to follow – we can’t really ask for more than that.
This service has proven it can do exactly what it says on the tin – find good value bets day in, day out. Sixty-four points profit to 1 point level stakes in 3 months is no mean feat.
Its long-term results show an incredible level of consistency too, with only really one drawdown period since November 2013 and the rest just solid profit growth.
The fact that it also makes good profit at Betfair SP is reassuring, so it is not just about exploiting bookies’ early prices.
As long as you use at least a 100 point bank, we see this one as a solid part of our portfolio and should provide excellent long-term profits.
If you are thinking about dipping you toe in the water before committing to the service then the nice thing is they offer a 30-day trial for just £1.
With an advised bank of 50 points, that means we have more than doubled the bank at advised prices and nearly doubled it at Betfair SP.
There is a great deal to like aboutValue Racing Tips,with all tips being 1 point level stakes, plenty of time to get the bets on and a very strong record established over the last two years.
We have just 10 days left in the trial but it looks like this one is heading for the winning systems pile, with bells on!
Check back here for our final review in a couple of weeks’ time.
A fairly quiet time forValue Racing Tips,with 1 point lost at advised prices since out last update on 2nd September.
However, at Betfair SP there has been a loss of 9 points since our last update, so a little bit of a gap is opening up between the advised prices and Betfair SP results.
We are now two months into the trial and here are the totals so far:
So still going along nicely and well in profit at both advised prices and Betfair SP, but we will keep an eye on the difference between the two as the trial progresses.
The positive run continues forValue Racing Tips,who have added another 16 points profit at advised prices and 13.75 points at Betfair SP since our last update just over a week ago.
So the running totals since the start of the trial are as follows:
We are just over half way through the trial now and have nearly doubled the bank, which is very good going. If they can keep up that form for the remainder of the trial we will be looking at something special here.
There have been some nice winners lately in the shape of Outlaw Kate at 14/1 (20.0 BSP) and Pleasach at York at 7/1.
We are about half way through the review now so will be interesting to see if they can continue this upturn in form and get close to the results achieved by stable companions Master Racing Tipster and Big Race Bookie Busters.
They got off to a good start, hitting six winners in the first nine bets and going 25 points up in rapid fashion.
However, a run of losers from the 16th to 22nd July put a bit of a dent in the positive start they had enjoyed. So now we are more or less back where we started.
You will notice a bit of a difference in the advised prices and Betfair SP results so far, which we will keep an eye on to make sure it does not become too much of an issue.
We have high hopes for this one as it has amassed over 300 points profit to 1 point level stakes in just over 18 months prior to our trial, which is pretty impressive going.
Anyway, we will continue to update results throughout the trial and let’s hope for a few winners this week at Goodwood – and beyond.
The service has been running since November 2013 and since that time has amassed just under 300 points profit. So that’s £3,000 profit if you’re using £10 per point or £15,000 if you were using £50 per point.
The strike rate is a pretty healthy 22% and the return on investment is also good at 20%.
We have had great success recently with two other Betting Gods tipsters, in the form of Master Racing Tipsterand Big Race Bookie Busters, who both smashed our previous records for a 3 month trial and now sit atop our tipster table.
Whether Value Racing Tips can live up to those heady levels remains to be seen, but just good solid profit is all we are looking for really.
Looking at the past results it seems the bet volume is a little higher than the other two services, being around 3 bets per day, but staking looks to be a fixed 1 point level stakes so fairly straightforward from that point of view.
Here’s hoping for a hat-trick of winning services from the Betting Gods stable as we kick off a mid Summer review of Value Racing Tips.
We will update results periodically during the trial, but in the meantime you can check outValue Racing Tips here.
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It has now been four months since our trial of Value Football Betting concluded, so how have things been going for them?
Well, sadly as seems to be a theme at the moment, things have not been going very well.
They have lost a large potion of the profit gained during our trial.
During our trial we remarked that they had changed the way they provided tips, going from Kevin (who runs the service) offering his tips, to a selection of “Daily Best Bets” produced by their database and a “£30k challenge” to try and turn £1,000 into £30,000 in 3 years.
Well they have changed things slightly again. It seems part of the Daily Best Bets – the Half Time bets – have been dropped and it is now just the match odds and goals bets.
The progress of those two has not been too good unfortunately. Here are the totals since our trial ended:
Daily Best Bets
Match Odds: -5 points
Goals Bets: -45 points
Total: -50 points
So bearing in mind that they made 78 points profit during our trial, the daily best bets now sit at +28 points overall after seven months.
£30k Challenge
The £30k Challenge is slightly down after seven months, sitting at a reduction from a starting bank of £1,000 down to £914 now. That represents a 9% decrease in the bank so far.
Results Analysis
We think one of the main problems with Value Football Betting is that they keep changing what is offered with the service.
It started off with Kevin providing his own tips, but then that was dropped and the Daily Best Bets were introduced, which had three different types of bets.
Then the “£30k Challenge” was introduced and part of the Daily Best Bets was dropped.
We appreciate that some services need to adjust how they provide tips, but there is a danger of tinkering too often so that people become confused or find it difficult to follow the service. We think Value Football Betting do need to settle on their chosen methods and stick with them rather than making more changes for the time being.
This aside, results have also been disappointing since the trial ended and the Daily Best Bets have fallen to just 28 points in profit whilst the £30k Challenge is £86 down.
Conclusion
Taking into account subscription costs – which we note have fallen from £37 per month when we did our trial to £27 per month now – you would barely have made a profit from following the service over the last seven months.
It is a service to keep an eye on because we believe it does have potential, but for the time being we recommend a watching brief until it has established a longer-term track record of success.
This has been a challenging review to conduct, primarily because the service has changed its offering and introduced a number of new things since the trial started.
The main offering – and the one used for the table above – is the e-mail service containing Kevin’s (who runs the service) bets for the day.
However, they have changed the way service operates since I started and it appears there are better options available than following just Kevin’s tips.
Below are the main aspects of the service that are available now.
Kevin’s Selections
As mentioned above, these selections from Kevin, the owner of the site, which are sent by e-mail each day. The bets are focused mainly around the both teams to score and over/under markets.
At the end of the trial, we are 4 points up for these bets, which isn’t too bad but nothing to write home about.
These bets come from a database of statistical analysis the service has constructed, covering 17 different leagues from various countries. The database comes up with value ratings for every match in these leagues.
From this the service then picks out those bets that have the highest value ratings, which are the “Daily Best Bets.”
You are not advised to back all these selections – however doing so would have actually produced very good returns, as we detail further below:
Daily Best Bets Results:
First Half – Profit +2 points
Match Odds – Profit +22 points
Goals bets – Profit +54 points
Daily Best Bets Overall – Profit +78 points
This is a very good total to have amassed from 3 months of bets on football. The volume of bets would be high if backing all selections, so you could narrow it down to only backing some of the selections (e.g. just the goals bets).
£30k challenge
This is an experiment Kevin is running to try to turn £1,000 into £30,000 in three years by betting on football. It started on 1st April 2015 and so far is 4 points in profit.
Trading Room
There is also the opportunity to join a forum on the site and follow the trades that Kevin makes. These are mainly based around the correct score market and seem like sensible strategies, but I have not managed to make any significant profit from them as yet so am not convinced they are a surefire way to become a professional trader or anything like that.
Overall
Whilst things have chopped and changed a bit since we began our trial, overall the results have been very good for Value Football Betting. Their main database, from which all the selections are ultimately derived, does seem to be able to identify value selections.
The total of 78 points profit for the Daily Best Bets is a very impressive return and there aren’t many football services out there that are able to match that.
With the other two main offerings – Kevin’s bets and the 30k challenge – both also being in profit it is a service I am happy to recommend and will form a valuable part of my portfolio going forward.
We now have around 8 months of results forProfit at the Races so we thought it would be a good time for an update.
Here are the monthly totals since our trial finished on 9th June 2015:
Month
Profit/loss (points)
June (from 9th onwards)
-19
July
-3.63
August
-20.24
September
7.97
October (to 20th)
9.88
TOTAL
-25.02
It has been a disappointing run since the trial ended, with the service dropping 25 points. That means since our trial commenced in March, the service is now 8 points down overall.
Unfortunately we do not think a service that is down after 8 months of proofed results merits a continued place on our winning systemslist, so this one is downgraded to a neutral rating.
We do look for services to continue to perform consistently over a long period and to show monthly profit as far as possible.
Regrettably Profit at the Races has had quite a few losing months and with a losing record overall since we started following it about 8 months ago, we feel it leaves us little option but to downgrade the service.
However, a total of 8 points down overall is no disaster and with results recorded at Betfair SP, this is a transparent and simple service to follow.
We therefore consider that a downgrade to aneutral ratingis a fair verdict.
It’s been a solid trial for Profit at the Races here at Honest Betting Reviews.
At the end of the three month trial period, they have finished 17 points in profit. Any profit is welcome so we are pleased with that, but things were going quite a bit better early on in the trial, reaching nearly 50 points in profit at one stage.
And just after the trial finished, they landed a 25/1 winner (sod’s law I think they call that!) so perhaps we were a little unlucky with timing.
The services focuses solely on All-Weather racing, so selections have been much fewer since the flat season got under way in May and quite a few days there are no selections at all at the moment.
It’s very easy to follow though, with selections being provided in the morning by e-mail and you simply back them all at Betfair SP.
Here is a graph of the performance over the course of the trial:
As you can see, it started off in storming fashion, booming up to nearly 50 points profit, before falling all the way back down to zero and then recovering once again to be in profit at the end.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Very good – bets are provided in the morning (UK time) and you are instructed to place them at Betfair SP, so very quick and easy to follow.
Availability of prices: Very good – as above, the services records results at Betfair SP so you can guarantee getting the same results as they publish.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 18% so patience will be required to deal with losing runs.
Advised Betting Bank: A 100 point betting bank is advised, which seems reasonable. We were never in deficit during the trial which was good, but with a fairly low strike rate you should expect some losing runs along the way. Our longest losing run during the trial was 22.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs aren’t too bad at £29.99 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Overall I am pleased with the results of the service. It does exactly what it says on the tin – simple, easy to follow and profitable.
I think we were a little unlucky with timing as just after the trial finished they landed a 25/1 and a 7/1 winner, so results could have been even better.
But as long as they continue to be profitable over the long run then this service warrants a place on our winning systemslist.
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It has taken us a bit longer than expected to get over the 100 bet mark in order to properly evaluate this tipster, but we have finally reached that target so can now round up our review ofServe It Up Tennis Tips.
It has been a somewhat disappointing trial forServe It Up Tennis Tips,who have ended up 16 points down after 5 months of tipping.
That represents a 31% bank loss and -7% return on investment, which are not quite up to the standard we have come to expect ofBetting Gods services in general.
But more worrying for us was the considerable drawdown experienced during the trial. Here are the results in graph format:
Serve It Up Tennis Tips Results Graph
As you can see on the graph, at one point we were 46 points down and with a 50 point bank advised, that represents a 92% loss of the bank.
This is far worse than any service should endure and we have to say again highlights an issue with the size of betting banks being advised by some tipsters.
For a service that tips in up to 10 point unit stakes, 50 points was frankly never going to be enough. We think a minimum 150 point bank should be advised, given the drawdown experienced during the trial plus the unit staking.
We do feel we have to come down hard on services that don’t advise sufficient bank sizes to cover their own drawdowns, so this service gets a failed rating from us unfortunately.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Good – there are only around 5 bets per week so minimal work is involved and with tennis being a very liquid market on Betfair, there was not much of a problem getting the bets on.
Availability of prices: Good – as above, prices were generally freely available via either Betfair or the bookies. However, sometimes prices were not given with tips and the results published on the website were not always correctly updated.
Strike rate: At just 29%, the strike rate was somewhat below what would be required for the service to make a profit when tipping at these odds.
Advised Betting Bank: A 50 point bank was advised but clearly this was not enough as we were 46 points down at one stage. We would suggest a bank of at least 150 points.
Subscription costs: £19.95/month, £49.95/quarter or £129.95 for life
OVERALL VERDICT: FAILED
Any service that loses 92% of its advised bank is not one many people are going to stick with and for this reason alone, we feel we have to give a failed rating toServe It Up Tennis Tips.
The fact that they tip up to 10 points on some bets means 50 points was never going to be a big enough bank and this was borne out during the trial.
However, even leaving bank size issues aside, the end results for the trial were disappointing too, with a 31% loss of the bank and -7% ROI.
We have come to expect very high standards fromBetting Godsservices and unfortunately this one has not quite measured up.
So our search for a winning tennis tipster goes on…
We now have over three months of results forServe It Up Tennis Tipsand whilst that would normally be enough for us to write a final review, we only have 72 bets so far and we normally need at least 100 to draw any conclusions.
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It has been a superb trial forRacing Gold,who have amassed an excellent 158 points of profit at a return on investment of 23%.
It has been pretty steady and unwavering profit throughout the trial, as you can see from the graph below:
Racing Gold profit graph
As you can see, a very nice graph indeed. Things really grew fast early on, then went into a more gradual phase, before a bit of a drawdown and finally a nice rally towards the end.
The steady profit building was punctuated by a couple of superb days in the middle of the trial though.
On 26th July they advised 5 bets, all of which won at combined odds of 498-1. Now they don’t advise you back the tips in accumulators, so we haven’t recorded that accumulator in the official results.
However, we understand some members did back the selections in an acca and were celebrating pretty wildly after that one came in!
As if that wasn’t enough though, on 16th September they went and did it again, landing an even more incredible 1406-1 accumulator with all four selections advised that day winning.
Needless to say if you had backed that one, it was a pretty good day.
Anyway, getting back to the official results, what are our overall thoughts on Racing Gold?
The results have been excellent and we have no hesitation in giving this a hearty thumbs up. Any service that can make 158 points profit in 3 months deserves much acclaim.
With a very healthy strike rate of 42% (including the horses who placed), there is real potential to build a bank with this service.
Upturn in Fortunes
Looking back at the previous results prior to our trial, we are interested to note that things have really picked up in the last 18 months or so.
From when the service started in February 2013 until 15th May 2014, they had made 105 points profit.
Since then however, the service has taken off like a rocket and added 550 points profit to stand at over 650 points in profit in total.
We can’t verify the results before our trial started, but have no reason to doubt the veracity of the results as those recorded on the website have been exactly as given out in the e-mails since we have been members.
We understand from Tipster Street that there was a slight change of approach that could well explain the upturn in results, as the tipster decided to focus on certain courses and races depending on the time of year. Well, it certainly seems to have worked!
Points to Note
A couple of things to note about this service. Firstly, there was quite a difference between the results at Betfair SP and the advised prices. Whilst the advised prices made 158 points profit, at Betfair SP the total profit was 97 points, which is a 39% difference and a little higher than we would like ideally.
The prices quoted in the e-mails are those available at Betfair in the morning, but there isn’t great liquidity on Betfair at the time so you would probably be better off using the bookies prices.
Again we asked Tipster Street about this and they said they understand the liquidity isn’t always in the Betfair markets early in the morning, but the tipster does try to select races where there is better liquidity than certain other races. However they said they are considering a new pricing structure, so “watch this space” as it were!
A second thing to note regards the advised bank size to be used. With the recent debacle surroundingBig Race Bookie Busters– where a full 100 point bank was blown shortly after we gave them a recommended verdict –we are keenly aware of the need to ensure bank sizes are big enough to cope with the drawdowns and losing runs.
Although they recommend a 100 point bank for this service, it has actually endured an 81 point drawdown in its past, between September and November 2013.
We therefore think a bank of at least 150 points should be used and preferably 200 points to be on the safe side.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Fairly good – there is a little bit of work to do on your part, as there are on average 4-5 selections per day. You can just back all these at Betfair SP, but to maximise value it is worth spending some time shopping around the bookies for the best price.
Availability of prices: OK – as above, there is not much liquidity on Betfair in the mornings so best to shop around the bookies, where prices are generally fairly readily available.
Strike rate: Very good at 42% – that means lots of winners, shorter losing runs than most servies and the potential to build a bank relatively quickly.
Advised Betting Bank: As above – 100 points is advised but we think a 150 or preferably 200 point bank should be used.
Subscription costs: Excellent value for a service of this quality at just £4.99 for first month then £19.95/month, £39.95/quarter or £159.95 for lifetime
Some services of this quality charge upwards of £1,000 per year, so this is great value for a tipster with a track record like this one.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
This has been a great trial and we are delighted to place Racing Gold on ourapproved list– with bells on!
They have amassed 158 points profit at advised prices and just under 100 points at Betfair SP, which is a great effort in three months.
The longer term results of the service are also very impressive, with 550 points profit made in the last 18 months. How many horse racing tipsters do you know with that record? We would wager not very many.
Plus how many services out there can boast two accumulators at 500-1 and 1400-1 in less than three months?
And all that profit is with a simple 1 or 2 points staking system and over 40% strike rate.
Added to an amazingly low subscription rate and we believe we have uncovered a real gem here with Racing Gold.
So as long as you use at least a 150 point bank and spend a little time shopping around for the best prices each morning, we believe you will struggle to find many better tipsters than this.
It has been six months now that we have been followingBig Race Bookie Bustersso we thought time for an update.
Sadly the news it not good. In fact, it’s very bad.
You may recall that Big Race Bookie Busters (or BRBB for short) racked up a hugely impressive 195 points of profit during our trial which ended in June (see below).
Well unfortunately since then the service has done its best impression of Charlie Sheen in Terminal Velocity and taken a spectacular nosedive.
Here are the results since our trial ended on 26th June 2015 in graph format:
BRBB since 26th June 2015
That represents a 94 point loss and with a 100 point bank advised, it is nothing short of a disaster. If you had joined a bit later in July or August at certain points, you could have lost the entire bank.
Now that is tough to take and we were backing their tips with our own money, so felt this just as keenly as anyone else.
Of course the overall picture for BRBB is that they are still over 300 points up since the service started under a year ago, which is impressive.
But the loss of the full 100 point bank is something no service should experience. It goes without saying that the advised bank was way too small and we think the advised bank should be at least 200 points, if not 250 points given the recent drawdown.
That would put the overall results into a bit of a clearer perspective, with the service having more than doubled that 250 point bank in under a year and having experienced a 40% drawdown during that period.
So the question then becomes:
Does this service still deserve its approved rating and 5 stars?
Well clearly not the 5-star rating, that will have to be revised downwards.
Overall, it is always best to take a long-term view of betting and not to judge any service on a short period like a couple of months.
Since the start of our review, they are still over 100 points up, which is good.
However, we appreciate that anyone who has joined this service since our trial finished at the end of June will have lost their entire bank and no doubt given up by now – perhaps rightly.
No service should ever come close to losing its entire bank – normally that would be an automatic fail for us.
So with these two conflicting points of view, we think a downgrade to a neutral rating and 3 stars is the only fair conclusion.
We believe that for the service to regain its credibility, it should revise the advised bank to 250 points and this should be sent out to all new and existing members.
It may seem a little harsh to give a service that has produced 100 points profit a neutral rating, but we believe that it is crucial that the correct bank sizes are advised and this will serve as a warning to this and all other services to make sure this aspect is carefully looked at.
Conclusion
The wheels have come off in spectacular fashion for BRBB and it has been a painful experience for all those following their tips over the last three months. The advised bank should have been much higher than 100 points – we believe 250 points would be reasonable.
So it is a downgrade to a neutral rating and 3 stars, with a note that hopefully a more realistic bank will be advised for future subscribers to this service.
It has been an excellent three month trial for Big Race Bookie Busters, amassing a fantastic 195 points profit and nearly trebling the bank over the course of the trial.
That means if you had started off with £1,000, it would be worth £2,950 now.
Even at Betfair SP they managed 134 points profit and 134% growth of the bank, which is pretty exceptional.
We thought when Banker Bets nearly doubled the bank over the course of a trial it might never be beaten.
But now we have both Master Racing Tipster and Big Race Bookie Busters smashing their records and setting a new benchmark for tipping.
It’s a very simple service to follow – you normally have just one or two bets per day and as the name suggests, these tend to be in the big races. Tips are provided for both flat and national hunt racing.
There are detailed write-ups for the selections and you can see the thinking behind the tips. It is a traditional form-based approach, focusing on horses with a range of factors in their favour for the race.
During our trial they managed a superb 50% return on investment (ROI) and their long-term returns stand at just shy of 60%.
That is phenomenal going and we have rarely seen such impressive figures from a tipster. It will be tough to maintain these ROI levels in the long run but as long as they keep up the consistent profits then that is the main thing.
Here is a graph of their performance over the trial:
As you can see, they set off like a steam train and then continued to make steady profits throughout the trial.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Good – there are on average 1.5 bets per day so minimal work on the part of the subscriber.
Availability of prices: OK – the tips do tend to get backed in, as evidenced by the 31% difference between results at advised prices and those at Betfair SP.
However, if you act reasonably quickly it is not impossible to get the advised prices or close to them. And even if you do just back at Betfair SP, the service still made 134 points profit over our trial, which is very good going.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was good at 35% – that’s if you include placed horses – or 15% if you talk only about winners.
Advised Betting Bank: They advise a 100 point bank, which seems just about OK. The staking ranges between 1 and 6 points for each selection, with the average being just under 3, so is quite high. If you are of the more cautious mindset you may want a 150 point bank just to be on the safe side.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are very good for a service of this quality at £4.95 for the first month then £29.95 per month, £74.95 per quarter or £199.95 for life.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
It’s been a fantastic trial forBig Race Bookie Bustersand there’s very little not to like about this service – simple to follow and consistent profits at a very reasonable cost.
To have nearly trebled the bank in three months is an outstanding achievement and they deserve great credit for that.
This one definitely goes on ourapproved listand we have no hesitation in recommending it. Get on board if you want to bust the bookies too!
Well it has been a longer than usual trial period for the Cricket Advisor, with a low volume of bets it took 4 months to get to the minimum 100 bets required to judge the service.
Unfortunately, as you can see from the results above, it hasn’t been a very successful trial and has finished 18 points down in the end.
That wasn’t a disaster, as it represented a loss of just 18% of the advised 100 point bank, so we have certainly had worse trials.
But on the other hand, looking back at the past results published on the website, the Cricket Advisor has been a long-term decline since September 2014, when he peaked at 45 points profit, down to his current level of -9 points.
So it is tough to recommend any service that hasn’t made a profit in over a year and is actually down over its lifespan.
Here are the results for the trial in graph format:
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Good – tips are sent out well in advance of the events and there are a variety of bookmakers you can use, or Betfair.
Availability of prices: Good – we found the prices were generally available and there was no real downward pressure on prices after the tips were released. Tips are generally in markets with good liquidity such as international matches, IPL and T20/county matches, which generally have very strong liquidity on Betfair too.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 36%, which in itself sounds good but in reality needs to be a little higher to make a profit at the odds they are tipping at.
Advised Betting Bank: The bank advised for the trial was 100 points, which seems more than adequate and was never in danger of being lost during the trial.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are quite high given the results, at £37 per month = VAT or £74 + VAT per quarter.
OVERALL VERDICT: FAILED
Sadly there are very few good cricket tipsters out there and this one didn’t quite produce the results we were hoping for.
The trial wasn’t a complete disaster by any means though and our bank ended up 18% down over the course of the trial.
Taken in the context of the longer-term results however, which show no profit has been made over the last year means the only verdict we can give this is a failed one and 2.5 stars overall.
So our search for a winning cricket tipster goes on…
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Well at the end of our trial of the Racing Professionals Flat Service, what can we say – other than it has been something of a sorry story for them over the last three months.
Sadly they have ended up with a 132 point deficit and have lost88% of the advised bank.
They do rely somewhat on picking some big priced winners, with past results showing winners at 100/1 and above, so they are perhaps just one big winner away from turning things around.
Unfortunately though, we can only judge a service on what is has achieved during our trial and with an 88% loss of the bank, it has been a disappointing run.
Certainly we would suggest that on the basis of this trial, a 150 point bank is not nearly enough and 300 points or more would be appropriate.
You should never get this close to losing your entire bankroll, although we suspect in reality after a drawdown like this most people would have stopped following the tips in any event.
Anyway, here are the results in graph format:
It’s been one way traffic – unfortunately the wrong way – for the majority of the trial.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: Very good – the tips are sent out by e-mail early in the morning and then all bets are simply placed at Betfair SP, so very quick to operate.
Availability of prices: As above, with all bets placed at Betfair SP, there are no issues around price availability.
Strike rate: With the strike rate for the trial down at just 10%, it was clearly well below the expected level for the service to make a profit.
Advised Betting Bank: The advised bank was 150 points, which was clearly not enough as we lost 132 points and 88% of the bank. We would think a 300 point bank would be needed given the drawdown experienced during our trial.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are high at £44.99 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: FAILED
There doesn’t seem to be any other possible verdict than failed with a 132 point loss and 88% bank decline.
This trial has shown once again that it is no easy ride making money in this game and some long losing runs can hit anyone, whatever their experience and level of expertise.
Hopefully they will hit a nice 100/1 winner soon and get back on track, but for the moment this one has to be added to thefailed systemspile.
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Results Update
17th July 2015
We are over two months into our trial of Racing Professionals Flat service so it is about time for an update.
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