Here at Honest Betting Reviews we like to keep an eye on services after we have completed our final review of them and not just forget about them.
This particularly applies to services that have received a positive rating, because it’s important to ensure they are still producing positive results and justifying the original stamp of approval we gave them.
In that spirit we are taking a look at Premium Boxing Tips again, which is a service we reviewed back in 2019 (please see below). They kindly kept on sending us the tips after our original review ended so we have been able to continue proofing their results.
So over two years later, how have they been getting on – and do they still deserve the PASSED rating we awarded them back in 2019?
Results Update
Well we are pleased to report that they have remained profitable, adding another 66 points profit since our original review ended.
That means in total they have made 183 points profit since we started proofing their tips, which is well worthy of a continued PASSED rating.
The long-term ROI stands at a more-than-respectable 14% and the strike rate is very good at 66%.
The subscription costs are very reasonable at just £19 per month or £208 per year so you can’t complain from that point of view.
Although the profit has been steady rather than spectacular over the last couple of years (as shown in the profit graph below), any profit at all is commendable and when you take into account their ROI and strike rate stats the service actually stacks up pretty well against any other in terms of long-term performance.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Having followed Premium Boxing Tips for going on for two and a half years now, we are happy to maintain our PASSED rating of it, as the service has made a profit of 183 points in total since we started following it with a high strike rate and solid ROI.
Well worth checking if you are into your boxing, or even if you aren’t!
Premium Boxing Tips is only the second boxing tipster we have reviewed here at Honest Betting Reviews. Whilst a lot of money is gambled on the big fights in boxing, it is still quite a niche sport in betting terms when compared to the “big two” of football and horse racing.
However, perhaps that is a good thing because it opens up the potential for angles to exploit and value to be found where others aren’t paying so much attention.
That certainly seems to be the case with Premium Boxing Tips in any event, with an excellent profit of 117 points made during our trial.
That was generated with a return on investment of 40%, which is absolutely top-notch.
The strike rate was also a very healthy 76%, meaning long winning streaks and short losing ones, so really there was nothing not to like about the service!
Here you can see how steady the progress was during the trial:
You can tell from their very detailed write-ups that accompany the tips they really know their stuff, with an exceptionally in-depth knowledge of boxing.
Most of the tips are accumulators of doubles, trebles or four-folds (which they refer to as parlays) and they advise which bookmaker to place the bets with – in most cases it is Bet365. A lot of the fights are not the really big clashes like Joshua v Povetkin etc but lesser-known figures.
Overall it’s a pretty simple service to follow though and with results like these there is no question that this receives a PASSED rating – with bells on!
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out well before the fights are due to start, with some accas spread out over a few weeks. With an average of just 4 bets per week, there isn’t too much effort involved in following the tips either.
Availability of prices: We didn’t have too many problems getting the advised prices, most of the bets are advised with Bet365 but there are other bookies to choose from if you don’t have an account with them.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 76%, which is excellent and meant healthy bank growth during our trial.
Advised Betting Bank: We didn’t see any bank recommended but used a 250 point bank for the trial, which seemed adequate to us given the strike rate and staking.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are very reasonable given the results achieved at just £19 per month or £208 per year.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Boxing is still quite a niche sport in betting terms but that opens up opportunities to find value for those in the know and Premium Boxing Tipsclearly demonstrated during our trial that they are in the know.
With an excellent profit of 117 points at a return on investment of 40% this passes our trial with flying colours.
So if you fancy a bet on the boxing or just want to add a high quality tipster to your portfolio, then Premium Boxing Tips certainly fits the bill.
So far here at Honest Betting Reviews we have only reviewed one boxing tipster in the four years we have run the site.
So it’s nice today to have another tipster to review and that is the aptly-named Premium Boxing Tips.
This is a service that’s been going for over three years and the results published on their website for that time look very good.
In that time they’ve made over 440 points profit at a return on investment of over 15%.
What we really like about the results though is the steady profit graph. This is the kind of smooth progress we love to see from a tipster:
If they could repeat that over the course of our trial (and beyond) they would certainly be a tipster worth adding to the portfolio.
One of their expert tipsters says that:
“I’ve been an avid follower of boxing for many years. The advent of fights broadcast and downloadable over the Internet has allowed me to study the sport in greater depth. I started gambling on boxing seriously around 8 years ago.”
Well that dedication seems to be working well based on the results published on their website but let’s see how they perform under a live trial.
So we will run our normal three month trial of this service and will report back here regularly on how things are going.
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We have reached the end of our five month trial of Betmarkets.io and wanted to wrap up our thoughts on our review.
This is one of those situations where we are giving our verdict on two separate things really – one is the platform itself and the other is the tipsters we followed.
Before we get onto both of those though, just a quick recap on what Betmarkets is all about:-
Essentially Betmarkets is a tipster copy platform. It bills itself as the “Etoro for betting” and if you have ever used that service, it is a very apt description.
Basically you choose from a variety of tipsters across a range of sports, all with verified track records. You choose how much money you want to follow them with and then their bets are replicated automatically on your account.
You just pay 20% of any profit a bettor makes you, there are no other fees or subscriptions to pay.
Betmarkets Platform Review
So that’s what Betmarkets is all about. In terms of the platform itself, we think it’s a great idea and one of the most innovative breakthroughs in the betting world for quite some time.
As we said when opening our review:-
– It takes the time and effort out of following a group of tipsters as the bets are placed for you automatically
– No more missing bets because you didn’t get an e-mail/Telegram message in time
– No rushing to get the advised prices before the odds move against you
– Being able to select a portfolio of tipsters with verified track records
– Use of “sharp” bookmakers as well as exchanges
– All bets are tracked in real time so you can see exactly how each tipster is doing
And we can say having tested Betmarkets for five months, all of that is true. It operated very much as expected and is simple to use.
How it Works
Here’s a look at how it works and how you can go about selecting your tipsters (or “bettors” as they are called on Betmarkets).
Firstly, you can take a look at the various bettors on the platform by clicking “Discover” in the left-hand sidebar:
This brings up lists of the top tipsters based on their “featured” ones, “most copied,” “highest return” and so on.
Here’s a list of those bettors with the highest return (all time):
You can then click through and filter the tipsters by sport, category and timeframe.
Here are the top soccer tipsters for the last 12 months, for example:
It’s all very user-friendly and gives you a variety of options for choosing which tipsters you want to follow. From that point of view it couldn’t be much simpler really.
Once you have spent some time going through the tipsters and choosing which ones you would like to follow, you need to allocate some funds to following them.
Here is an example of the football tipster Grzegorz P:
You can choose how much you would like to allocate to the bettor in question and then you can choose your risk approach – 1.0x, 1.5x or 2.0x.
It then tells you the likely bet sizes and monthly profit/loss estimates.
So in the example above, if we allocated €100 to this bettor using a 1.0x approach, then our bet sizes would be between €1 and €3 and the estimated profit/loss would range between -€11.02 and +€17.48 per month.
If however we decided to go for a 2.0x risk approach, our bet sizes would be between €2 and €6 and the estimated profit/loss would range between -€22.05 and +€34.95 per month.
This is a feature we really like about Betmarkets. Firstly the fact that all this information is displayed clearly so you have an idea of how much you are going to be risking and what the range of returns might be.
Secondly, that their allocations are fairly conservative. We have used some copy trading apps in the financial trading world which allow very high risk in relation to the funds you have, leading to a strong likelihood your bank will get wiped out. They do this because they take the other side of your trades, effectively betting against you. So they are quite happy to see you go bust.
This isn’t the case with Betmarkets – quite the opposite in fact. They make profit when you do, i.e. when a bettor makes a profit for a given period. So they have an interest in making sure safe risk levels are used and people don’t wipe out their banks too easily.
In terms of how the placement of bets worked, this all seemed to operate very smoothly and we didn’t see any issues of bets failing to be placed or anything like that.
The only issue we did experience was noted in one of our review updates below, with one of the bettors Danny chasing his losses and becoming somewhat erratic. This could happen with any tipster of course, but is perhaps worse on a platform like this because the copying is automatic whereas if you were following a tipster manually you might notice a bit earlier.
In any event, it seems to have been an isolated incident and didn’t make much of in impact on our overall experience on Betmarkets. If you have a portfolio of 5-10 bettors (or more) with an even allocation spread across them then hopefully something like this shouldn’t affect you too badly.
OVERALL VERDICT – PASSED
Overall we would say we were very impressed with the Betmarkets platform. It’s an impressive piece of technology and takes a lot of the hassle out of following tipsters. It gets a definite thumbs up from us.
Tipster Results
Looking at the results of the tipsters we followed, sadly it wasn’t such a positive story. From a starting bank of €1000, we finished €291 down.
We followed six bettors in total and their individual records were as follows:-
Bettor
Sport
Profit (€)
Filip H.
Football
-67.68
Radek M
Football
-49.53
Nishi K.
Tennis
-13.66
Mikel S.
Esports
-6.39
Neil M.
Football
-47.82
Danny D.
Esports
-106.22
So as you can see quite a sorry tale, with all six bettors making a loss.
In that sense, we would probably fail these tipsters, although Mikel S didn’t do too badly and in fairness to Neil M, he operates his own tipping service (which we have reviewed previously and given a strong passed rating to), the prices he obtained for Betmarkets were worse than those his members would get, meaning these results don’t accurately reflect his tipping skills. In fact we understand Neil is no longer on Betmarkets for this reason.
In any event, it was quite disappointing to lose nearly a third of our betting bank on Betmarkets. Perhaps we were just unlucky in the bettors we chose, or weren’t very good at picking them 🙂 Although we did spend a lot of time going through betting markets so maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves.
Anyway, hopefully if you have a go on Betmarkets you will have a bit more luck in the bettors you follow. For us it didn’t work out sadly but we will keep an eye on Betmarkets for any really promising tipsters who crop up on there and may re-enter the platform as some point in the future.
Sadly this trial is not going as we had hoped. The platform is a great piece of technology, it just looks like we’ve been a bit unlucky with the tipsters we’ve chosen to follow.
Interestingly however we’ve seen Jon Roberts of Football Advisor has now joined the platform as a tipster. Jon is a well-respected figure in the industry and we have positively reviewed two of his services – Predictology and Football Advisor Lays – so it is good to see him on Betmarkets.
We imagine they will continue to add prominent tipsters to their list as the platform grows because it is a great tool for bettors as we say. Just need our own results to turn around soon…
Betmarkets is a tipster copy platform where you can automatically copy the bets of professional gamblers. It can be thought of as an “Etoro of the betting world.”
Sadly since we joined the platform in December it’s just been steady losses for us, with a further €145 lost since our last update.
That means we are now €202 down for our trial overall from an initial deposit of €1000.
Half of the losses so far are down to a bettor called Danny, who it seems went somewhat off the rails. We received an email from Betmarkets on the 3rd February stating:-
“As the subject describes, this email is about Danny’s latest behaviour within our platform. Throughout the weekend, Danny showed signals of tilting / chasing his recent losses after a period of poor performance (although his overall results are still above average): he placed bets straight after losing others and his amount staked per bet increased as well.
This is not the first time this happened with Danny, so we decided to temporarily exclude him from the list of bettors that new users can copy and we recommend you to stop copying him for the time being considering the recent behaviour.”
We took their advice and stopped copying Danny, replacing him with Radek M.
It is obviously disappointing this occurred and it could happen with any tipster, although perhaps if you were following tips manually in the normal way you might have spotted it sooner.
Anyway, hopefully that is an isolated incident and none of the other bettors will engage in such behaviour. Let’s also hope for a swift turnaround in fortunes for the bettors we are copying.
Betmarkets is a tipster copy platform where you can automatically copy the bets of professional gamblers. It can be thought of as an “Etoro of the betting world.”
It’s been a bit of a slow start to our trial of Betmarkets however, with a loss of €45 made so far after one month of following five bettors on their platform.
That loss is from a starting bank of €1000, so is “no biggie” as they say, representing just 4.5% of the bank.
With a review like this you are kind of looking at two things – one is the performance of the bettors you choose to follow and the other is the platform itself.
Whilst the performance of the bettors hasn’t been great so far, we have to say the platform itself is excellent and has worked exactly as it should with bets placed automatically and results updated in real time. The information is presented in a very clear, user-friendly way so you can see things like betting history, ROI, open bets etc at the touch of a button.
We do see big potential in Betmarkets in the long run, we just need the bettors we are following to get going and start making some profits.
We are starting a review today of an exciting and innovative new betting product that we think is one of the most disruptive breakthroughs we have seen in the betting world in quite some time.
The service in question is called Betmarkets and essentially it is a tipster copy platform. It bills itself as the “Etoro for betting” and if you have ever used that service, it is a very apt description.
Basically you choose from a variety of tipsters across a range of sports, all with verified track records. You choose how much money you want to follow them with and then their bets are replicated automatically on your account.
Here are Betmarkets explaining the concept themselves:-
As they say, you just pay 20% of any profit a bettor makes you, there are no other fees or subscriptions to pay.
We really like this idea for a number of reasons:-
– It takes the time and effort out of following a group of tipsters as the bets are placed for you automatically
– No more missing bets because you didn’t get an e-mail/Telegram message in time
– No rushing to get the advised prices before the odds move against you
– Being able to select a portfolio of tipsters with verified track records
– Use of “sharp” bookmakers as well as exchanges
– All bets are tracked in real time so you can see exactly how each tipster is doing
We have been waiting for some technology like this to come along for a while and whilst there have been one or two attempts at it previously, this looks like the real deal and we are very impressed by what we seen of the platform so far.
So we have deposited €1,000 into Betmarkets and selected five bettors to follow based on their 12-month and overall records. A couple of these names were already familiar to us from other services we follow so we know these are top tipsters.
We are quite hopeful this can turn into a form of “passive income” for us, producing regular returns on auto-pilot without us having to do anything.
That’s the dream anyway, we will see if it turns into reality during our review! As usual we will provide regular updates on how things are going here.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a relative newcomer to the betting scene, with bouts being priced up by the bookies only fairly recently compared to sports like horse racing and football, which people have been betting on for over a century.
As such, there are relatively few tipsters covering MMA but a few have started to spring up in recent times.
We started this review during the original covid lockdown last year, as MMA was one of the first sports to get going again after everything shut down.
It’s quite a low volume service with only a few bets per week and some weeks with no bets when there is no MMA action going on.
So we ended up running the trial for a whole year to get a good enough sample size of bets and to take into account the reduced schedule due to covid.
After 12 months the service finished with a profit of 22 points, with a decent strike rate of 60% but a low ROI of 3%.
They were actually doing much better than that earlier on in our trial, going around 70 points up at one stage:
Things tailed off somewhat from that high, but they always stayed in profit throughout our trial.
Overall it was a reasonable effort, but obviously not something to get overly excited about after a year of tips.
In the end we think this narrowly deserves a PASSED rating, in that it still finished in the green and is the first profitable MMA/UFC service we have completed a review of, so may be of interest to those who follow the sport and are looking for some tips.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are provided by e-mail, normally in the morning of that night’s action. There are normally just 5-6 bets per week, mostly at the weekends so it’s a fairly simple service to follow.
Availability of prices: We didn’t notice any issues in terms of obtaining the advised prices.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 60%, which is a good level and meant plenty of winning bets throughout the trial.
Advised Betting Bank: We couldn’t see a specific betting bank recommended for following this service but used a 100 point bank for the purposes of this review and that was never in jeopardy.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs at the time of writing are free for the first 10 days then £19 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
We followed The Notorious Tipster – UFC for a full year to get a really good look at the service and have a large enough sample size of tips to judge it properly.
After our 12 month trial it finished with a profit of 22 points, which isn’t bad. We always say any service that can generate a long-term profit is worthy of praise and this has managed to do that, so we narrowly award it a PASSED rating.
For those with an interest in MMA/UFC it could be worth checking out.
It is coming up to a year since we started this review so will be looking to wrap things up shortly. We normally like to have at least 100 bets – and preferably 200 – as a sample size before completing a review and we have achieved that now with over 200 bets recorded for our trial.
This trial started off very promisingly going over 65 points up at one stage but has hit a bit of a slide in recent times, so we hope they can turn things around and get back to winning ways again soon.
As mentioned in our recent update for another MMA service we are reviewing, there hasn’t been much action lately as the UFC took an extended break over xmas/new year.
Things are back and rolling now though so hopefully they can kick on and continue the good results achieved for our trial to date.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as apparently Tipstrr don’t have all the fights available.
Anyway, this has been quite an extensive review with over seven months of results so we will be looking to wrap it up shortly.
We have been impressed with the consistency of this service so far, with all but one month being profitable and the one month that wasn’t profitable less than a point was lost so you could call it break even really.
That consistency is what we like to see and long may it continue for them.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available.
One of the nice things about this service is the high strike rate, with a large number of the bets so far having been successful. Just a small number of bets each week make it straightforward to follow too. All good stuff.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available.
It’s been a very smooth ride so far with this service and the strike rate has been impressive. Long may it continue.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available.
Either way though good to see the excellent results over the last month, let’s see if that continues.
Just a note to say that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available. He says he always raise a ticket and sometimes they fix it and sometimes not. However, our results reflect the exact tips we received by e-mail from James so we are happy to record those and will continue to do so. We hope that Tipstrr can fix the issues at their end so they are able to record the correct results.
Anyway, a solid start here and hopefully they can kick on.
It’s been a solid start to our trial of MMA expert The Notorious Tipster – UFC, with a profit of 7 points made since we started following the tips at the beginning of May.
Just a note to say the staking we have used for our results is that given out by the tipster in his e-mails to us, which is a little different to the staking listed on the Tipstrr website, who we believe have a standardised staking system across their platform.
Either way the results have been good to this point so let’s look for more of the same going forward.
One of the first sports due to come back after stopping for the coronavirus pandemic is mixed martial arts – specifically the UFC. They have three events planned for 9th, 13th and 16th May in Florida and all eyes will be on them to see if they can make it work with the health protocols they have put in place. The schedule starts with UFC 249 which has some top-quality fights lined up.
So it couldn’t be a better time to start a review of a UFC tipping service. The tipster we are taking a look at today is called The Notorious Tipster – UFC and comes from the Tipstrr platform.
Although they have only been tipping on the platform for a short time, their results look impressive so far with a profit made in each of the three months since they began.
The strike rate to date is a very healthy 70% and the return on investment strong at 26.5%.
Staking varies between 2 and 6 points and tips are normally sent out on the morning of the fight around 10am (UK time). Most of the tips are on the outright fight winner which makes it pretty simple to follow.
The good news is that you can currently get a 10-day free trial of the service which covers the three big fixtures coming up.
With MMA becoming more popular around the world there is also more interest in betting on it so it’s good to see some promising tipsters on the sport emerging too.
We will be watching this service (and another we have lined up to review) closely, particularly now when it’s one of the first major sports to get going again!
As ever we will record results here so check back in to see how they’re getting on.
Over the years we haven’t come across many good US sports tipsters and in fact haven’t found any successful ice hockey (or just hockey as it’s known stateside) tipsters.
So when we came across the NHL Betting Master from the Betting Gods tipster platform, we were eager to check it out as results looked very good coming into our trial.
And the trial started off reasonably well, but just as things were starting to get going, covid hit. Like most sports, ice hockey was largely halted, including the NHL which is this service’s main focus.
They continued tipping through those difficult early months of covid in the various leagues that did keep going like Russia and Belarus.
We wanted to give them enough time to prove themselves once the NHL returned to full action however, so ran a (very) extended trial of almost 18 months.
Sadly though despite all that additional time, the tipster couldn’t get back to winning ways and finished our trial 43 points down.
That represented almost half the betting bank, which was somewhat disappointing given they were over 90 points up earlier on in our trial.
One thing we remarked on during our review updates was the staking being quite variable at between 1 and 10 points per bet, which also made the results a little volatile. Ideally we like to see more simple staking, e.g. 1 or 2 point stakes. We understand that sometimes there is greater confidence in a selection, but such large variation does tend to mean the results end up reflecting the large stakes to a significant extent.
Perhaps surprisingly in this case, it was the nine and ten point bets which actually fared worst, losing a combined 85 points for our trial, whereas the 8 point bets and below made 41 points profit. So there could be an argument for using level staking with this service.
In any event, we can only judge a service on the staking used so in this case unfortunately with a loss of 43 points it’s a FAILED rating for the NHL Betting Master.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are provided by e-mail, normally in the morning (UK time) between around 6am and midday, with an occasional tip in the afternoons. There was an average of just 1 tips per day during our trial so it’s a very straightforward service to follow.
Availability of prices: We didn’t notice any issues in terms of obtaining the advised prices.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 46% which is pretty solid in itself but wasn’t enough to generate a profit during our trial.
Advised Betting Bank: A 100 point betting bank is recommended for the following the service, which seems reasonable to us, although with staking of up to 10 points, a 150 point bank could be used to be on the safe side.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs at the time of writing are £1.99 for the first 15 days then £37 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: FAILED
Ice-hockey tipsters are a rare breed so were intrigued to see how this tipster got on under a live trial. We ended up running a very extended 18 month trial to take the long covid break into account and to give them a fair shot at proving themselves in their main league, the NHL.
Unfortunately though at the end of our trial they finished 43 points down, so it’s a FAILED rating from us for the NHL Betting Master.
We have mentioned the staking of this service in previous updates as it is quite aggressive at up to 10 points per bet. Interestingly the higher stakes bets haven’t produced better returns however, with the 9 and 10 point bets actually producing a loss of 66 points for our trial.
The one point bets in contrast are 6 points up, so these things don’t always turn out how you would expect in terms of the higher staking producing better returns.
It’s quite remarkable that after over a year and 300 bets, we are pretty much back where we started at even for the trial!
That period has encompassed the difficult times with covid, disruption to the schedule and a long hiatus in the NHL, which meant they were betting in other leagues around the world, so it has been a very unusual time obviously. Now with a bit more stability hopefully they can kick on and at least finish our trial in profit.
We have run this review for longer than normal but we felt with the NHL so disrupted by covid we wanted to give the service a chance to prove itself when the NHL was back up and running as normal.
We have that now so it’s all systems go and let’s see if they can get back to winning ways.
We commented last time that they seem to struggle a bit with the non-NHL leagues from around the world and that is being borne out with their results lately.
Thankfully then the new NHL season is due to get underway on 13th January so not long to wait until their speciality is back on again and hopefully they can get back to winning ways.
With the NHL season now finished they are back to tipping in other leagues around the world, which may explain the dip in form. When the NHL returned after the covid break their form really picked up with some strong profit made, so that appears to be their forte – as the name of the service suggests.
We don’t know when exactly the new NHL season will start but it will be after 1st January 2021.
We have mentioned the staking before, which is quite variable with this service at between 1 and 10 points per selection. They recommend a 100 point bank when following the tips but perhaps a 150 point bank would be more appropriate given the staking.
Either way it’s good to see the recent progress for them since the NHL returned.
We remarked last time that with the NHL finally back in action it might see a return to form for the NHL Betting Masterand so it turned out to be, with a nice 28 points profit made since our last update a month ago.
That means he is now 55 points up for our trial overall.
Staking is quite variable with this tipster, with between 1 and 10 points used per bet so it’s important to bear that in mind and ensure you have a big enough betting bank. They recommend a 100 point bank for following the service but we think a 150-200 point bank is probably more appropriate with the level of staking used.
Either way though it’s been good to see the recent results now the NHL is back.
Thankfully the NHL is now finally(!) back underway after a very long break so it may take a bit of time for the form to settle down and things to get back to normal, as has been the case for many sports since the restart.
Hopefully though once it does the NHL Betting Master will get back to the kind of form shown prior to the covid break and give the bookies a thorough beating again.
The good news is the NHL is due to restart in early August with a 32-team playoff tournament with the Stanley Cup to be awarded in October.
This tipster has been making do – and doing pretty well – with ice hockey from places like Russia and Belarus whilst the NHL has been suspended due to covid, but no doubt will be looking forward to getting back to tipping in their bread and butter: the NHL.
We look forward to that too and hopefully seeing them get back to the kind of form we saw early in our trial and before which was very strong.
As mentioned last time we want to wait until the NHL is back up and running before judging this service because at the moment they are betting on other leagues in places like Russia and Belarus but are really just treading water. So we will continue to monitor and hopefully won’t have to wait too much longer for the NHL to return.
Although they initially did very well tipping in other leagues whilst the NHL has been in lockdown, that has recently gone the other way and now they’re pretty much back where they started in mid-March.
It’s probably best to reserve judgement until the NHL is up and running again and they can get back to their bread and butter, as it were.
On that front a firm date for the league’s return has not been confirmed yet, but with full training camps not due to return until at least 1st Julyit looks like we are in for a bit of a wait in any event.
As mentioned previously, even though the NHL itself has been suspended, the NHL Betting Master is still using his knowledge of ice hockey to provide selections in other leagues such as Belarus and Russia which are continuing unabated for the time being.
There is no firm date for the return of the NHL yet, but the most aggressive possible timeline is 15th May for players to return to training, followed by some exhibition games in June and then the season to restart in July. As with most other sports, we’ll just have to wait and see whether that proves possible.
Even though the NHL itself has been suspended, the NHL Betting Master is still using his knowledge of ice hockey to provide selections in other leagues such as Belarus and Russia and has been doing well in those leagues so far.
How long those leagues continue remains to be seen but the for the time being it’s good that he has been able to find some profit from them whilst they are still in action.
The nice thing about this service is that it’s very easy to follow with just one bet per day on average and you can use Betfair to often beat the advised prices.
Let’s see if the recent run of positive form continues.
It’s been a rough old time lately for the NHL Betting Master, with all of his previous gains for our trial wiped out over the last month or so unfortunately.
With a loss of 52 points since our last update, he is now 10 points down for our trial overall.
It’s a very easy service to follow with just one bet per day and the results so far have been very encouraging so we are hopeful this is going to be a really top service. Early days yet obviously but the signs are good.
With the legalization of betting in some American states you are starting to see more US sports tipsters popping up, which is encouraging to see.
Up until now though we haven’t come across any good ones, or any good enough to pass a trial here at Honest Betting Reviews in any event.
However, that might be about to change with the latest service we are going to take a look at, namely the NHL Betting Master.
The results for the last year during which they have been proofing to Betting Gods look fantastic and we have been following the tips for the last few weeks and been very impressed too.
Over the last 12 months they have made £3,194 profit to £10 stakes and made an average monthly profit of £266. That has equated to a more than trebling of the advised 100 point betting bank.
Eleven out of twelve months so far have been profitable, which is obviously a superb level of consistency.
The return on investment (ROI) is a whopping 35%, with a very high strike rate of 48%, which are some of the highest combined metrics we have seen from any tipster.
Normally when you have a high strike rate approaching 50%, it is very tough to also achieve a high ROI because you are tipping at low odds, often around evens, where picking up value is tough.
So typically you would see an ROI around 10% if a tipster had a strike rate around 50%. Somehow though this tipster has managed to hit achieve over 30%, which is quite remarkable.
Like we say we’ve been following the tips since early November and have been mighty impressed. Not just with the profits made (over £200 to £10 stakes), but the consistency and the ease of following, with just one bet per day normally and being able to place them on Betfair – where we’ve often been able to beat the advised odds.
Of course it’s very early days so we shouldn’t get carried away and that’s exactly where our review comes in – to look at the longer-term performance.
So we will kick off the review formally today, although will record results from when we started receiving tips on 9th November.
As you can probably tell we are quite excited about this one given the overall package; let’s hope they can deliver the same kind of consistency during our trial – and beyond.
eSports have grown in popularity immensely in recent years and now attract large audiences and interest from fans around the world. As with just about anything these days, if it’s a popular pastime or pursuit, then you can often bet on it too and that is the case with eSports.
We have to say we are not too familiar with eSports and haven’t watched it before, but it is becoming quite popular as we say, particularly with the younger generations.
It’s not something we would necessarily think would be easy to bet on either, as essentially you are wagering on how different players perform playing video games. Of course it may be possible to develop an edge in some way, so we wouldn’t rule it out.
The eSports Betting Guru is a service that hoped to have such an edge and make a profit from betting on eSports. The tips are provided by a chap called Dan, a full-time data scientist by day using those skills to also pick out some solid eSports betting tips across various games including CS:GO, League of Legends, DOTA and Overwatch.
The service launched with quite a lot of fanfare and expectations were set quite high.
However, after six months of following the service, sadly those expectations weren’t fulfilled and it ended our trial with a loss of 50 points.
That represented two thirds of the betting bank, which is obviously quite a worrying amount.
The service went into loss very early on in our trial and never recovered, steadily falling further as our review went on.
At the current time the service is closed to new members, so we wonder how much longer it may continue operating in any event.
Either way though, unfortunately the eSports Betting Guru receives a FAILED rating from us after a disappointing trial.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are provided by e-mail and come in at different times of day. There are an average of around 1-2 tips per day so it’s a pretty straightforward service to follow.
Availability of prices: We didn’t notice any issues in terms of obtaining the advised prices.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 50% which is pretty solid in itself but wasn’t enough to generate a profit during our trial.
Advised Betting Bank: A 75 point betting bank is recommended for the following the service, which suffered considerable damage during our trial with two thirds of it being lost. We think a 100 point bank would be more appropriate here.
Subscription costs: The service is closed to new members at the moment so there are no subscription costs available.
OVERALL VERDICT: FAILED
eSports is a relatively new phenomenon and has grown in popularity in recent years. As with most popular pastimes and pursuits these days, there is now the option to bet on it too.
The eSports Betting Guru service came into our trial with high expectations but in the end failed to make the grade unfortunately with a loss of 50 points made, meaning a FAILED from us.
It has also been a quiet month in betting terms with only 18 tips advised, but unfortunately that selective approach has not resulted in positive returns so far.
They have now lost over half the advised 75 point starting bank so could do with turning things around before we start getting towards the bank-wipeout stage.
The bet volume has been quite low lately, probably due to a lack of action over the Xmas and new year period but the last few results have been a bit more promising so let’s see if that’s a sign of things to come.
Bets are recommended with a range of bookies including the “sharps” – Pinnacle, 188Bet, Dafabet etc, as well the “softs” like Bet365, William Hill etc.
This service was introduced with quite a lot of fanfare and expectations were high so it’s been a bit disappointing to see the results so far, but it is still early days and plenty of time to turn things around.
For those not familiar with it, eSports is basically competitive video-gaming. It involves competitions in various video games between professional players, individually or in teams.
It has grown hugely in popularity in recent years and (before the covid pandemic at least) had stadiums full of people watching the biggest contests.
We have to admit it’s rather unfamiliar to us and we have never sat down and actually watched a live eSports game (or match?) but it’s all the rage with younger folk these days we understand.
We always say though we don’t mind what a service bets on as long as it has shown an ability to give those darn bookies a good bashing and the service we are taking a look at today has certainly done that.
It is a specialist in eSports betting and is causing some serious waves in the betting community.
The service is called the eSports Betting Guru and is based at the reputable Betting Gods tipster platform.
The tips come from a chap called Dan, a full-time data scientist by day using those skills to also pick out some solid eSports betting tips across various games including CS:GO, League of Legends, DOTA and Overwatch.
The strike rate of the selections to date is 66% and the total profit stands at 68 points since Dan started tipping in June.
That has been achieved with a return on investment of over 15% and the bank has nearly doubled in just four months which is very good going.
So those results look pretty stellar and there has certainly been a great deal of excitement about the launch of this new tipster, with spaces for the tips filling up fast.
Let’s hope the long-term results match that excitement and we see some steady, consistent profits. We will launch our trial today then and please check back here for updates to see if that turns out to be the case.
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Trade On Sports (or TOS for short) is a trading platform and community that uses stats to generate both pre-match and in-play bets.
They cover a number of sports including football, tennis, cricket and US sports, but for the purposes of this review we concentrated on their football trading, whilst also monitoring their US sports bets.
Football Strategies
We ended up running a two-year review, which is one of the longest we have ever run here at Honest Betting Reviews. That gave us a chance to proof a huge number of bets (over 1500 in fact) and to monitor a number of their systems and strategies, which evolved quite a bit over the time we followed the service.
The bedrock of Trade On Sports is their stats database – known as the “Gamestate App.” This looks at inplay odds on Betfair based on goal times and current State (time/score) of the match, looking for value opportunities. In essence the app establishes what the chances of there being more goals in a game are based on past data. It then calculates what the odds should be and if there is value to be had.
Strategies are generated from this, either as alerts in their Telegram groups or for members to find themselves using the App.
The beauty of this is that you can place all your bets/trades on Betfair, so no bookies are needed. This is great news for those who have suffered bookie restrictions.
The main strategy we followed was the HT Overs Bot, which is one of the Telegram alerts and is a strategy looking for games likely to have goals in the second half. For this strategy you bet at HT that there will be one more goal (e.g. it is 1-0 then you back over 1.5 goals) at odds of 1.6, which are normally hit around the 70th minute.
The HT Overs Bot performed very well during our trial, notching up £5,120 profit to £100 stakes – or 51.2 points profit. Ironically though it actually suffered badly after the covid break and TOS no longer recommend following it, until crowds return at least.
In the meantime they have developed a number of new strategies, one of which is taking the opposite approach and backing unders at half-time. This is for two goals ahead, so for example if it is 1-1 at HT you back under 3.5 goals. That made 23 points profit during the six months we followed it, which is good stuff.
The Trade On Sports team have also introduced some new football strategies more recently which we will continue to proof, but so far look promising. The “two goals ahead” strategy in particular looks encouraging with over 45 points profit made so far from around 230 bets at a return on investment (ROI) of 20%.
All in all then if you combine these strategies then the profits really start to add up and we have to say this is one of the best in-play trading services we have come across. As mentioned earlier, members can also generate their own strategies and selections from the Gamestate App. So there is really a huge amount of value there waiting to be tapped into, it just depends how much time you have available to make use of it.
In addition there is now the option to automate the strategies via BF Bot Manager (which is an extra subscription cost on top, plus you will need a VPS unless you want your PC running all day and night) so if you’re really pressed for time you can just set those up and let them run in the background. It’s pretty impressive how far TOS has come since we started this review!
All of the Game State App strategies are available with TOS’s Silver Football membership, whilst the Gold also includes their pre-match trading app which we didn’t fully proof results of but looked pretty useful.
Ratings & Bets Membership
The other aspect of the service we took a look at was their ratings and bets in football and other sports, notably American sports.
These are just straight-up normal bets to be placed before the event rather than in-play bets/trades. They performed very well too, generating the following returns:-
So we think well worth adding those bets to your subscription, either separately or as part of the Platinum membership option.
Tennis Membership
Unfortunately we didn’t get to take a thorough look at the tennis membership or proof the bets/trades, but looking at the official results since they started shows a profit of around 85 points.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: After you sign up you are able to log in to the TOS members section where you get access to the Gamestate Application and links to the Telegram channels where the alerts are posted. If you turn notifications on you will then get an alert to your phone or desktop when there is an in-play bet to place.
The pre-match bets are sent by e-mail and Telegram as well like normal tips.
Availability of prices: The only football strategy where we noticed any difficulty in getting the advised prices was the unders, which is understandable as on smaller leagues there isn’t great liquidity and lots of people wanting to get on unders will push its price down. So on those alerts we tended to get a tick or two lower on average than the advised price. As the other alerts are for backing overs, the price is moving out with time decay anyway so there was less of an issue.
With the HT Overs Bot you can set it to match at 1.6 or a price-point around that. We found that drip backing overs at 1.6, 1.75, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.5 worked very well as there are lots of games with late goals.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the HT Overs Bot was 67% which is pretty good as the implied chances of 1.6 are 62.5%, meaning they had an edge over the market.
Advised Betting Bank: We used a 40 point bank for the HT Overs Bot but a 50 point bank could be used if you wanted to be on the safe side. Either way though the banks would never have been in danger at any stage of our trial.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs vary depending on which package you wish to go for. The Football Silver package, which includes the in-play football strategies, costs £25 per month where as the Football Gold Package which includes pre-match modules costs £39.95 per month. The ratings and bets are £14.99 per month whilst the complete package containing everything (Platinum) is £44.95 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Trade On Sports is an innovative betting and trading service covering a range of sports. For the purpose of this review we concentrated on their football strategies, but also monitored their bets for US Sports.
The main football HT Overs Bot made over £5,000 profit to £100 stakes which is impressive, although it is currently on hold for the moment pending the return of fans to football matches. They have a number of other promising strategies though including their Unders Bot which made 23 points profit for our trial.
The US Sports bets have also performed very well, generating in excess of 100 points profit in total.
We therefore have no hesitation in awarding Trade On Sports a PASSED rating. It is one of the best – and very few – services we have found that has demonstrated an ability to make a profit from in-play markets on Betfair and for that alone it is definitely worth adding to your portfolio.
Fortunately the HT Unders Bot (results available in the second tab of our spreadsheet) has been picking up the slack, adding 15 points profit since our last update and sitting 22 points up for our trial overall. So that would be £2,200 profit at £100 stakes.
It is worth noting with the Unders Bot however that it is normally tough to match the advised odds, even if clicking through to the market immediately after the alert is sent and usually you have to take 2-3 ticks lower than the quoted odds. Even taking that into account though it only makes a couple of points difference to the overall results so you would still be well ahead.
We mentioned last time getting the automation set up but unfortunately that has proved a little trickier than expected. Hopefully we will get this set up in time for our next update.
The HT Unders Bot has also struggled a little with 2 points lost since our last update but it is still 7 points up for our trial overall (results are in the second tab of the spreadsheet above).
The good news is that automation for TOS strategies is now available, so we are just in the process of setting that up. It involves an additional subscription to BF Bot Manager (although there is a free trial if you haven’t used it before) and you will need a VPS if you want it to operate 24/7 without having to leave your computer on all the time.
Anyway, we will report back more on how the automation works and how it is going in our next update.
A bit of a step backwards for the HT Unders Bot however which has lost 3 points since our last update but sits 9 points up for our trial overall (results are in the second tab of the spreadsheet above).
We are eagerly awaiting the automation option which should be available soon we understand.
We are also monitoring the new Lay Overs Bot, which involves laying the overs for two goals ahead at HT – e.g. if the score is 1-0 at HT, you lay over 2.5 goals (effectively you are backing the unders).
So far this system is 12 points up since starting up in late May. You can see the results in the second tab of our spreadsheet. The alerts are only for the 1-0 and 1-1 scorelines and ignore early goals.
It is often a challenge to get the advised prices for these alerts though as the odds normally move a few ticks instantly, so we will endeavour to record the prices we actually get rather than the advised prices to give a fair indication of achievable results.
Either way though this new Lay Overs Bot is looking promising and would be great to have another tool in the TOS amoury.
There have been no selections since 11th March with football having stopped obviously. There are reports of some European leagues planning restarts in May/June, which would be great if true but we will wait and see. The Premier League clubs would apparently lose £750m in revenue by not finishing the season so will obviously be doing everything they can to complete the season, presuming they can do so safely of course.
What joy and excitement there will be when football finally does return though, whenever that ends up being!
(Please note signing up to the Silver football membership will give you access to the HT Overs Bot, plus other features).
There are some very exciting developments going on aswell, with the Trade on Sports team looking at automating the Bot selections – and the tennis bets – via BF Bot Manager.
If that works it would be a great addition to the service in terms of both saving time and making sure you don’t miss any alerts, as they can come in at all times of day and night. They are aiming to have a live version available in early March so watch this space.
We mentioned last time about the pre-match trading alerts and those are now coming through. Basically they alert you to where the odds of a team may drift or come in a few ticks before kick-off. We haven’t been able to track these alerts unfortunately as a large number come in, again at all different times.
However, it is worth bearing in mind if you are going to follow them that you need a pretty big bank as trading £100 for each game for example would only give you a few quid profit per trade, so to make it worthwhile (or comparable to profits from the HT Overs Bot at least), you would probably need to stake around £1,000+ per game. And if there are a few alerts coming in at around the same time, then clearly you need a decent amount available in your Betfair account to cover them all.
If you are going to follow the pre-match trades, whatever you do make sure you don’t allow your bet to go in-play! The last thing you would want is to risk losing the whole stake for the sake of £10-£20 profit.
Anyway, good to see lots of new developments happening with Trade On Sports and things are looking very positive for the future.
As you may have seen, Trade On Sports scooped the award for Best (Other) Sports Service 2019 in our recent Members’ Choice Awards and the HT Overs Bot has been the bedrock of their success.
However, there are quite a few other elements to Trade On Sports’ service, including a pre-match trading tool which is about to start sending alerts for matches to trade (like the HT Bot), other football trading alerts, tennis trades and tips for US Sports. We haven’t been able to track the results for all of these as have been concentrating on the HT Overs Bot but we are sure these elements all offer value as well.
As we say the pre-match trading alerts are due to be introduced shortly so hopefully we will be able to include news on those in our next update.
The last couple of months have been very instructive as to the value of adopting a long-term mindset in betting. In October there was a drawdown of £760 at one point which was tough to take, particularly if you had just joined the service. There was a drop-off in memberships at that point as some people obviously could not handle the losing streak and gave up.
However, those who stuck around were richly rewarded as things got back to winning ways in November, with those losses more than recouped and more profits made so far in December.
The service has proved itself conclusively with over a year’s proofed results in our review comprising over 850 trades. Inevitably there will be occasional losing streaks as with any system but if you can adopt a long-term mindset and learn to handle the drawdowns the rewards have been tremendous.
One thing to ask yourself if you are getting really anxious and upset during a drawdown is whether you are staking too much money on each selection. A run of 5-10 losers in the course of a couple of weeks is possible – indeed likely – in just about any system and if you staking sensibly it should not bother you at all.
For our part we would recommend a 30-50 point bank if following the service, so for example if you have a £1,000 starting bank that would mean risking £33.33 per trade if operating on a 30-point basis.
As we say, with sensible staking like this a few losers now and then should be water off a duck’s back and not bother you at all.
Another possible approach would be to stake a fixed percentage of your bank on each selection, e.g. 2-3%. We haven’t crunched the numbers on this but expect you would now be sitting on an extremely tidy profit, well above the amount for level staking we have used for our review.
Anyway, just a few thoughts from us on how to approach things but the main point is that results have been excellent for this service and the odd drawdown now and then is to be expected and successful traders/gamblers don’t let it affect them.
As we say, it’s rare for the Bot to have a losing month so it’s come as a bit of a shock for members, but a reminder that having a large enough starting bank to withstand the losing runs and some patience is important when following any system.
They recommend a £5,000 bank if you are betting at £100 stakes so in that context if you joined at the start of October although you would be over £400 down that would still represent less than 10% of the bank which is a small amount in the grand scheme of things.
Anyway, let’s hope October was just a blip and they’ll be back to winning ways in November.
Yet another good month for Trade on Sports’ HT Overs Bot, with an additional 6 points profit (or £640 profit to £100 stakes) made since our last update.
That means they are now 55 points up for our trial overall (or £5,520 up using £100 flat stakes).
We have now been following the HT Overs Bot for a full year and the results have been excellent. We often say the holy grail of betting is consistency and the Bot has demonstrated remarkable consistency over the past year, steadily churning out the profits month after month. You can’t ask for much more really, with over five grand profit made from £100 stakes. It is one of the best footy betting/trading tools we have come across in some time.
Last time we mentioned the pre-match trading tool. We have followed a few of the live webinars with Pete which have been interesting, although there are a very low number of trades indicated from them – often just one or two, which isn’t really enough action in itself. Those with the time to use the tool themselves could find more trades of course, but it would be good if this could be turned into an alert service as well given that it works so well for the HT Overs Bot.
We will see what other things the team at Trade on Sports develop in the coming months, as it’s really a treasure trove of information and we feel the more of it they can automate for members the better.
Although the overall results were very good, it was actually a very up and down month with a run of seven consecutive losers early on in the month – the most the bot has had since starting up – followed by 12 straight winners. There was then another bad run over the weekend which just dragged the results down a bit unfortunately.
Overall though you have to say the results have been excellent with nearly £5,000 profit made since we started following the bot.
Some people have asked about the Quick Response bot but our analysis suggests it is not profitable to lay the draw with. It might be profitable to use it in the same way as the HT Overs Bot (i.e. backing another goal at 1.6), but there isn’t enough data on that to draw any conclusions yet.
We are also starting to investigating their pre-match trading tool which looks quite interesting so will report more on that in our next update.
These results are based on odds of 1.6 at 65 minutes, although the average seems to have been trending a little lower than that lately, but either way the results have been very good and solidly consistent throughout our trial.
With a high strike rate of 72%, this is proving to be a top system for betting on football in-play and long may it continue.
As mentioned last time, the odds of overs in a number of the games selected by the bot is quite low these days, often around 1.16 at HT, meaning by 65 mins (when entering the bet) the odds are often lower than 1.6.
So whilst we have been using average odds of 1.6 to record results, the actual average may be closer to 1.55, which would mean the total profit for the bot during our trial would be around 25 points. Either way though that is still a very nice amount of profit with such a high strike rate (around 70%) so you can’t complain.
Of the other bots they are testing, the HT 2 Ahead looks the most promising from what we can tell, with around 26 points profit made so far if backing two more goals at 61 minutes.
Trade On Sports have some live webinars planned soon to demonstrate some of their live trading and explain how some of the tools on their platform work, so those should be interesting.
We will report back on how they go, together with how the bots are doing, in our next update.
*We say “estimated” because essentially we are using a best guess of what the average odds of over 1.5 goals at 65 minutes are in the selected matches.
As alerts come in at all times of day and night it has not been possible to track the odds live, so we have had to do our best to estimate what that average odds would be.
Up until now we have assumed 1.6, but after tracking more of the odds live lately we believe the average may be closer to 1.55.
There are a number of Dutch matches and selections from high-scoring leagues where the odds are quite a bit below 1.6 at 65 minutes.
So if you took the average odds at 65 minutes to be 1.55 then the overall results would be 24 points up rather than 33.
That is still very good going whichever way you look at it though and with the high strike rate of around 70% this has been a very consistent and impressive performer.
Some people take a different approach and just request odds of 1.6 and then leave the bet to either be matched or not, which would mean some of the results recorded as winners on our spreadsheet would not have been matched – and conversely some recorded as voided would have been winners. Overall it would probably even itself out so we doubt the results would be very different doing it that way.
Anyway, they have also been testing some additional bots which have recorded some very promising results so we expect them to go live shortly.
Their bots operate in the Summer leagues as well so there are still alerts coming through, although of course not as many as during the main season as there are fewer fixtures.
The results on our spreadsheet are for backing the bot’s selections at 65 mins at average odds of 1.6, although there are other ways you could trade the selections (e.g. dripping them at 45, 60 and 75 mins). Some members have studied the different ways of following the bot and it appears the option we have recorded of backing at 65 mins is the most profitable.
There are also some other bots in beta mode which are showing a lot of promise, one which is over 50 points up and another two which are more than 20 points up each, so these are looking very good indeed.
Just to clarify that with the “bots” they have developed you still have to place the bets yourself, it is just that the bots are scanning the markets to find the opportunities.
Perhaps at some stage in the future they will have an auto-trade option, but for the time being you get the live alerts via the Telegram messenger app, which is straightforward to set up and follow, and then place the bets yourself.
All in all then we are really liking the look of Trade On Sports so far and think this is a very promising service.
*Correction – please note this previously stated the total profit was 25 points but there were a couple of errors in our spreadsheet that have now been corrected.
We have been taking a look at Trade On Sports for a while now and there is a lot to take in about the service.
They have a whole variety of features you can use, including:
– Stats Databases
– Chat Rooms
– Bets in a variety of sports including tennis, NHL, NBA and more
– Live in-play alerts for football
– Prematch to inplay stats
– And more besides
It can be a little overwhelming at first and difficult to know where to start.
However, the main feature at the moment in our opinion is their live “GameState Bot” which gives alerts at HT in football matches where it expects at least one more goal.
This has been operating since the start of October and has made substantial profit since starting up.
There are different ways you can follow the alerts, but it seems the most profitable is to put in a bet at the next goal up (so if it is 1-0 at HT, to back over 1.5 goals) at odds of 1.6, which on average gets matched at around the 65th minute if there are no goals up to that point.
Following this method has produced over 22 points profit (or £2200 to £100 flat stakes), which is pretty good going.
They have a number of other bots in live beta testing which are showing promise. One in particular involves betting that there will be at least one first half goal and has already amassed over 50 points profit.
There are also tennis bets sent out each day for players to lay and back and these are around 15 points up for the year so far.
Overall then we have been quite impressed with Trade On Sportsso far. The TOS Gamestate Bot has delivered very good profits so far and there is lots of potential in their other strategies under development.
It still feels a little like a work in progress rather than the finished article, but the service certainly seems to be going in the right direction.
Recently we have been spending more time looking at trading services rather than just tipsters and betting systems.
That’s because increasingly we are seeing that trading offers some advantages over traditional forms of betting.
Firstly, trading normally involves using the exchanges rather than the bookies, thus offering an attractive option for those who have had their bookie accounts restricted.
Secondly, with pre-event betting it can be difficult to find an edge with markets being so efficient these days. But once you go in-running, events can unfold in fast and unpredictable ways, offering the potential for the shrewd trader to find value by reacting quickly to how things are changing.
Thirdly – and in a related way – prices can fluctuate wildly in-running, meaning there is the potential to capitalise on these swings and make a decent profit from well-executed trades.
So with those advantages in mind we are looking at a relatively new but promising trading service called Trade On Sports.
The site is co-run by the respected Pete Nordsted, who some of you may know from his previous ventures including Premier Betting and numerous books on gambling he has published.
Together with some professional traders Pete has put together a range of resources for sports trading.
At the moment Trade on Sports covers 3 services:
• Trade on Tennis • Trade on Football • Ratings & Bets
You can join each service separately or you can join the Platinum service and receive everything. As a member you get access to a wealth of data and statistics via their apps, chat groups on Telegram and alerts for in-play trades on the relevant sports covered.
We have been following the service in a personal capacity for a while so decided it was about time we got a formal review going to record some of our findings and results.
Apparently they have some new software in the works for tennis trading so hopefully that will be available soon.
In the meantime though there is lots for us to get our teeth stuck into for the purposes of the review.
We will report back here soon with our initial findings on the trading services on offer and results achieved.
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Tee and Serve Tips is a golf and tennis tipster from the Betting Gods stable of tipsters. It is quite a rarity to find a service tipping in both golf and tennis – in fact this may be the first one we have reviewed. They are both quite genteel sports though and probably share quite a lot in terms of stats analysis, course/surface form etc so it’s not too surprising a combination.
The tips are provided by a chap called Chris who is a professional tennis and golf bettor. Every day (and most nights) he reviews player form, stats, betting markets and seeks out the best value golf betting and tennis betting opportunities for his members.
We began our trial not long after the service was launched on the Betting Gods platform and have followed it for a full 12 months. The service only stopped for around a month due to covid so we have around 11 months of tips and a very good sample size of over 1,000 bets.
Chris is quite a fan of multiple bets, with doubles, trebles, trixies and the like being a common feature of the service. That can provide some big winners (and did during our trial!) but also tends to produce some volatility too.
And it is this volatility that is one of the main aspects of the service to be aware of. As whilst the overall profit of 49 points for our trial was good, there were some wild swings over the 12 months we followed the tips. They went from 50 points down at one point to nearly 200 points at another, and many points inbetween!
It is probably illustrated best in the profit graph below:-
As you can see, a bit of a roller-coaster ride there! Unfortunately the form just towards the end of our trial took a rather sudden dip, but Chris has shown the ability to bounce back strongly with a few big winners so he may well do it again soon.
Really the question with this service is whether you have the stomach to cope with the big ups and downs. If you do then the results were pretty decent and you should be rewarded with a few nice-priced winners, as we saw during the review.
Overall we are happy to award the service a PASSED rating as a profit is still a profit and just under 50 points is not to be sniffed at. As we say though, it can be a bumpy ride at times so just beware of that if you are thinking of signing up.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: There are quite a few bets with this service and a good proportion of them are multiples, plus tips come in at different times of day, which means it is a little more tricky to follow than some other services. However, we wouldn’t say it is too onerous by any means.
Availability of prices: Most of the time the prices held up well and we didn’t experience any problems in matching the advised odds on the whole.
Strike rate: The strike rate during the trial was 32%, which is good in itself, but there were some losing runs of up to 150 points, so a good deal of patience is required if following the service.
Advised Betting Bank: An 250 point bank is advised for following the service, which we think is about the right level for this service.
Subscription costs: The costs are £1.99 for the first 15 days then £37 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Tee and Serve Tips is a golf and tennis tipster who likes to go for multiple bets (doubles, trebles, trixies etc). They had a real roller-coaster trial with us, going nearly 200 points up at one stage but finished just 49 points up in the end.
So it’s a PASSED rating from us based on the overall profit achieved but beware of the potential volatility if you are thinking of signing up.
The highlight of the last month was 33/1 winner Sam Horsfield at the Hero Open, but they have had plenty of nice doubles too.
It’s quite a volatile service so you need to be prepared for the ups and downs but if you can handle that then the results to date have been very impressive and it’s been well worth it.
They provide quite a lot of tips during golf tournaments on the two- and three-ball matchups, but unfortunately those have not done very well recently which accounts for quite a large portion of the losses.
On a more positive note, the main tennis tours are due to return soon, with the men’s ATP Tour resuming on Aug. 14 with the Citi Open and the WTA getting going again in Palermo, Italy from Aug. 3.
So hopefully with top class tennis back in action again it will herald a turnaround in fortunes for them.
With the PGA Tour back up and running they are providing the regular outright, threeball and twoball tips again which is good to see, as well as continuing the tennis tips on the minor tours while we wait for the main tours to resume, which hopefully won’t be much longer now.
The results here have been very impressive and this is looking like a top tipster in the making.
They’ve managed to amass profits recently despite having slim pickings to choose from, which is impressive stuff. The good news is that the PGA Tour returns next week at the Colonial with a stellar field lined up so that will provide some top quality action to get stuck into.
The main tennis tours aren’t due to resume until August but Tee and Serve are smashing it on the lower tours anyway so that shouldn’t be too much of an issue for them.
It’s been a good run recently for golf and tennis tipster Tee and Serve Tips, with a profit of 12 points made since our last update just over a month ago.
That means they are now 89 points up for our trial overall.
After taking a break due to the corona virus on 12th March, they recommenced tipping on 20th April and have done well since then, tipping solely on the World Exhibition Tour tennis – which is pretty much the only tennis or golf going on at the moment!
However, we shouldn’t have to wait too much longer for golf to return at least, with the PGA Tour due to recommence on 11th June at the Colonial and some lower ranking events in the meantime. There is no clear date for a restart of the main tennis tours but whilst the World Exhibition Tour rolls on that is providing plenty of action for the time being.
We said last time that things can turn around quickly with just one golf winner and that’s exactly what happened as they landed a tasty treble at the Oman Open at odds of 21/1, which brought in 91 points profit or £910 at £10 stakes.
With golf and tennis cancelled like just about everything else there have been no bets since 12th March and it’s anyone’s guess when those sports might resume. News announced yesterday that Wimbledon has been cancelled altogether this year is disappointing but not surprising. Rumours that the Open is going to be cancelled or postponed have been circulating so don’t be surprised if it follows suit. Will be get any golf majors this year? Maybe the Masters in Autumn, but everything really is up in the air at the moment.
Anyway, good to see Tee and Serve Tips bouncing back here and let’s hope the good form continues when golf and tennis restart, whenever that ends up being!
For people who joined in the last month it would obviously be a bitter pill to swallow, but with an advised betting bank of 250 points there is still plenty of the bank left and things can always turn around quickly with just one golf winner at decent odds.
Highlights of the month so far have been Brandon Grace winning the South African Open at 12/1, which netted a nice 36 points profit and quite a few tennis doubles, including Halep and Kenin both winning their matches 2-0 today which netted another 18 points profit.
It’s quite a busy service with lots of bets (over 500 selections for our trial to date), but so far it is looking well worth the effort in following.
That doesn’t tell the whole story though as it was actually a very up and down month for them, as they went over 50 points down at one stage before recovering with a great run at the end thanks to Jazz Janewattanond winning the Thailand Masters and some nice threeball bets at the Australian PGA.
At the same time they were also unlucky with a run of seconds including Louis Oosthuizen, Jon Rahm and Sebastian Munoz all narrowly missing out so it could have been a much better month.
All in all though it was a profitable month so let’s see if they can kick on in 2020.
One of the interesting thing about the service is that they focus very much on the 2-0 scoreline in sets on the tennis, so they must have a system that focuses on players who tend to win matches easily.
Having said that, the tennis bets will probably be a little more scarce over the next month or so as the main season has just finished and next season doesn’t get going until the new year.
However, there will of course still be matches going on, plus there are a few golf events left to play this season so should still be some good action to get stuck into.
It’s been an up and down first month of our trial of Tee and Serve Tips, a service offering both golf and tennis tips. At one stage they were 27 points down, but have recovered nicely to finish the month 1 point up.
There was a comment below that the profits have come almost entirely from golf rather than tennis. However, our calculations indicate quite an even spread between the two, although it’s certainly something to keep an eye on moving forward.
We are starting a new review today of one of the most promising tipsters we have seen in some time.
The published results show an average of over £800 profit per month to just £10 stakes for the last six months, which is quite incredible stuff.
With an ROI of 24% and a strike rate of 33%, the service is called “Tee and Serve Tips” and provides expert tips in golf and tennis.
Their tennis tips tend to focus on set betting, with a lot of 2-0 scorelines selected and doubles and trebles used for them. In terms of the golf they tend to concentrate on two- and three-ball betting but also have some outright tips.
Here are the monthly totals – just look at the consistency!
Given those results the service is proving very popular. So popular in fact when they launched earlier this week, the order form actually broke the demand was so high!
Will those results hold up under a live trial? Well we’re about to find out! If they do it really would be something special.
So let’s see if they can keep serving up those profits…we will update results here regularly so you can see how things are going.
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The Bookie Smasher is a mixed sports tipster from the reputable Betting Gods tipster platform. They tip in everything from football to Tennis, eSports, darts, basketball, Aussie Rules football and more.
It is a high strike rate service, picking selections in the 1.5 – 2.5 odds range in the main and looking to build a bank with a steady stream of winners and reducing the losing streaks and drawdowns.
That’s the idea anyway and coming into our trial the results looked very strong, with a profit of 130 points made at an ROI of 11%.
However, sadly things did not quite turn out as hoped for, with a loss of 30 points made over our six month trial.
That equated to 60% of the recommended 50 point bank, which is quite a substantial chunk of it.
They were one of the few services to continue tipping through the corona virus interruption in sport, still managing to find selections in e-sports and the obscure football leagues that continued to play through April and May.
They could be forgiven if their form had suffered during that period as it was tough for anyone to generate a profit whilst the world was in such a spin.
However, most of their losses were actually incurred before the covid break and they managed to hold pretty steady from March to the end of our trial. So we couldn’t really put the disappointing results down to covid.
In any event, after monitoring the tips for six months and proofing over 800 selections, which is a very substantial sample size, we are afraid it’s a FAILED rating from us for The Bookie Smasher. Losing 60% of the bank on top of subscription fees would be a tough pill for subscribers to follow so we couldn’t approve the service at this time.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are sent out via e-mail usually early in the morning (UK time). With an average of 4-5 bets per day there is a little bit of work involved in following the service but not too much by any means.
Availability of prices: We didn’t notice any particular issues in obtaining the advised prices. Bets are normally advised with a variety of bookies.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 56% which was a little bit below the 60%+ they were achieving prior to our trial and perhaps accounts for the dip in results.
Advised Betting Bank: A 50 point bank is recommended for this service but as mentioned above 60% of that was lost during our trial. In theory at the odds tipped at and with 1 point staking a 50 point bank should be sufficient, although perhaps a 75 point bank would just give that bit more leeway.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are reasonable at £1.99 for first 15 days then £27 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: FAILED
The Bookie Smasher is a mixed sports tipster providing selections in everything from football to Tennis, eSports, darts, basketball, Aussie Rules football and more.
Unfortunately they ended our sixth month trial with a 30 point loss, which equated to 60% of the recommending betting bank so it’s a FAILED rating from us for this service.
We wonder whether specialisation would be better as it’s tough to master betting on one sport let alone five or more so perhaps that would be something to think about for the future.
We have extended the review here to allow for covid-19 but will be looking to wrap it up shortly. Let’s see if they can have a late burst and get into profit for our trial.
Not a great deal of movement lately for multi-sports tipster The Bookie Smasher, with just a small profit of 2 points made since our last update a month ago.
That means they are now 29 points down for our trial overall.
With German football back they have been providing a few tips from the Bundesliga which have been doing pretty well so hopefully with the return of more of the top leagues over the next month that should provide more opportunities for them to move things forward.
They are still managing to provide tips on a regular basis, mainly on e-sports and football, which is quite an achievement given how little sport is on at the moment.
The good news is that the Bundesliga is due to recommence on 9th May with other leagues possibly later in May and into June. So we may have football back in just a couple of weeks, in a limited form at least.
Hope you are managing to stay safe and well in the meantime.
The Bookie Smasher is one of the very few tipsters still providing selections, offering tips in e-sports and the little bit of football still going on. We aren’t sure how much longer that will be viable but if they can find a bit of value here and there then good on them.
Either way let’s hope for a move in the right direction by the time of our next update – whenever that ends up being.
Multi-sports tipster The Bookie Smasher is struggling to get going in our trial so far, with a further 20 points lost since our last update a month ago.
That means they are now 25 points down for our trial overall.
As mentioned last time there are a huge number of tips, with 450 bets advised for our trial so far. These come in a variety of sports and leagues so following the service does take a bit more work than most. Hopefully they can start producing the results to make that extra work worthwhile.
The bet volume is quite high with over 200 tips advised so far and they come in a variety of sports including football, ice hockey, basketball and darts. Most of the selections are in the major leagues but a few are a bit more obscure so take a little longer to find the markets.
Anyway, as we say a pretty even start to our trial, let’s see how they’re doing in a month’s time.
Today we are starting a review of an interesting new tipster who tips in multiple sports and has the encouraging title of “The Bookie Smasher.”
We hope that name proves appropriate over the course of our review and beyond, but looking at their published record the title might not be out of place.
Since starting up in May they have made over 130 points profit, all to one point level stakes. That equates to over £1,300 to £10 stakes or £3,250 to £25 stakes.
The strike rate is exceptionally high at 62% and since May the longest losing run has been just 6 bets and the highest drawdown on the bank has been just under 15pts (where as the longest winning run has been 17 bets). So these results look ideal if you are searching for a consistent tipster who regularly finds winners and has manageable staking.
Even with such a high strike rate the ROI is also solid at over 11%, which is good to see.
As ever with Betting Gods tipsters you can get a 7 day trial for just £1 to check out the service and see if it is right for you.
Tips are provided across a huge spectrum of sports from football and tennis to badminton and volleyball, which is an unusual approach as most tipsters usually just concentrate on one or two sports.
However, there are some very good multi-sport tipsters out there like Betting Bias and Sports Spread Betting, so we know it can be done to make a profit betting in multiple different sports.
Whether it proves to be the case for this tipster we will have to wait and see but certainly the published results to date look very promising.
So we will kick off a review today and report back in around a month on how things are going.
The trial started off so well but has sadly gone from bad to worse over the last couple of months. There have been some close calls which could have gone our way and seen the results looking much better right now, but that’s the way things go sometimes in betting.
Phil seems to really like the one team to be winning at half time and the other winning at full time, but not many of those bets have come in which has affected results.
Anyway, with rugby suspended for the time being like just about everything else, it remains to be seen when the action will get underway again but let’s hope it’s not too long.
It’s been somewhat of a mixed start to our trial of Phil’s Rugby Tips. Things got off to a very good start initially as we went over 90 points up after the first couple of weeks.
However, since the service launched its Six Nations Special, things have taken a bit of a turn for the worse with three losing weeks in a row.
Still, overall we are 42 points up for our trial so far.
It could be seen as “sod’s law” that once the service went officially live with the Six Nations tips things would take a downturn after such an impressive run previously, but that is how it goes sometimes unfortunately.
The good news however is that the pre-tournament picks for the Six Nations are still in reasonably good shape so hopefully we will see some profits there.
In the meantime if you are interested in joining for the rest of the Six Nations, please drop us a line at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide more info on joining Phil’s Rugby Tips.
If you’ve been following us for a while you will know that we have previously reviewed a professional rugby gambler/trader, Phil Worrall, who is very good at what he does.
During our previous four month trial Phil produced an excellent 162 points profit – made up of 136 points profit trading and 26 points from straight tips.
Whilst his in-running trading generated substantial returns, it was difficult to follow for some people so the team decided to discontinue it sadly.
However, Phil provided a tipping guide for last year’s Rugby World Cup which produced an excellent 48 points profit.
And he has recently re-launched his service as a pure tipping service with weekly rugby tips – and it has got off to an absolute flyer!
The first four weeks were provided free of charge on a trial basis and made a whopping 118 points profit at a return on investment of over 100%!
Then last week was the first week of the paid service and it continued in the same fashion, making a very nice 17 points profit.
So in total that is 135 points profit in just five weeks – pretty awesome stuff!
Together with the previous results achieved during our proofing of his various tips and trading, we would say Phil is in a league of his own when it comes to rugby betting. Now of course in gambling terms rugby may be more niche than other sports like football and horse racing which attract the majority of punters’ money but as we always say – if you can make money out of it we don’t really care what sport it is!
Six Nations Special Offer
With the Six Nations tournament coming up Phil will be focusing his attention on that big style, with a full tournament guide containing outright tips as well as weekly selections for the upcoming games.
For a £5.00 introductory offer you can get Phil’s Six Nations Tournament Preview with outright tips, plus Week 1 of his tips.
You can then decide to sign up for his tips for the rest of the tournament if you like.
After the Six Nations Phil will be operating his service year-round, with weekly tips for the big rugby fixtures of the week.
We will be proofing his tips here in our review as normal, but as we say with such a solid history we have proofed previously we would already have this as a “recommended” service. It will more a case of continuing to monitor results to see if they can hopefully maintain their level of excellence.
Anyway, if you are interested in signing up to the £5 introductory offer for the Six Nations, please drop us a line at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide more info on joining Phil’s service.
The US Sports Capper is a tipster from the reputable Betting Gods platform who specializes in a range of US sports including NHL, baseball and basketball, although over the last few months the focus has been mainly on baseball.
With the legalization of gambling in a number of US states, we expect there to be a lot more tipsters – or “cappers” as they are referred to in America – entering the market.
This one came into our trial with strong-looking results and we were hopeful of finding our first successful US sports tipster here at Honest Betting Reviews.
However, unfortunately after six months of following the tips we finished 29 points down.
Things never really got going sadly and we were down for most of the trial, with only a brief period of being in profit.
However, the 29 points lost only represented 19% of the advised betting bank, so it wasn’t a disaster or anything.
But with a loss made over the course of six months and when you take subscription fees into account, we have no option really but to award this a FAILED rating.
As ever we will continue to monitor the situation and if results improve there is always the possibility of revising our rating.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out at between 8am and 9am UK time, so plenty of time to get the bets on. There is an average of 2-3 bets per day, although some of these are accas (parlays) so will take a little longer to place than singles.
Availability of prices: We didn’t see any issue with obtaining the advised prices.
Strike rate: The win rate for the trial was 33%, which is a little below the long-term strike rate of 39%, which perhaps explains why it didn’t quite generate a profit over the trial.
Advised Betting Bank: A 150 point bank is recommended for following the service which we think is about right given the staking and strike rate.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are pretty reasonable at £1 for the first 7 days then £29 per month, £79 per quarter or £279 per year.
OVERALL VERDICT: FAILED
Our six month trial of the US Sports Capper finished with a 29 point loss, which whilst it wasn’t the end of the world and only represented 19% of the advised betting bank, was still a little disappointing.
In these circumstances it’s a FAILED rating from us unfortunately.
We have been waiting for this service to really take off but it can’t seem to get out of first gear. With not long left in our review now it’s going to need a decent spell to finish in profit for the trial.
Sadly after making a good fightback and almost getting back to even for our trial last time, the US Sports Capper has had a tough run lately and given back some of those gains.
Since our last update they have lost 19 points, putting them 29 points down for our trial overall.
Much like the Top NHL Tipster, we had high hopes this would turn out to be a profitable US sports service as we have come across very few of those to date, but unfortunately it seems to be going the same way as the NHL service.
Still time to turn things around though so let’s see if they can do that.
All of the bets at the moment are in the NHL, which is understandable given that the NFL and MBA seasons have finished. However, the baseball is due to get underway again in a few weeks so we may well have some bets in the MLB again soon.
The vast majority of the tips so far have been on the NHL, with a few on the NBA. Maybe there have been some unexpected results in the NHL lately because the other US sports tipster we are reviewing at the moment, the Top NHL Betting Tipster, has also been struggling recently.
In any event, it is early days so plenty of time to turn things around and get back on track.
The popularity of US sports – particularly NFL – has grown considerably around the world in recent years.
The Super Bowl for example attracts over 150m viewers worldwide and ice hockey is growing in popularity across Europe.
And with the recent legalisation of gambling in some US states, all of this means there are now more opportunities to gamble on – and hopefully make a profit from – US sports.
So on that note we are starting our second trial of a US sports tipster in the space of a week, after recently starting a trial of the Top NHL Betting Tipster.
The trial we are kicking off today is of an all-round US sports expert, the aptly-named US Sports Capper.
To us here in Europe the term “Capper” (or “handicapper”) is the US version of “tipster,” but whatever the parlance this pro certainly seems to know his stuff.
Since starting tipping in September they have made an impressive 180 points profit – or £1,800 profit to £10 stakes. That has been achieved with a superb return on investment of over 47% and a respectable strike rate of over 30%.
They mainly tip in baseball (MLB), hockey (NHL) and basketball (NBA), with the occasional tip in football.
The bets are mainly in the match odds and handicap markets, meaning it should be fairly straightforward to follow.
We started receiving tips on 14th January so will record results from then and will aim to run a standard three month trial with regular updates on this page.
