An email I received from one member
following last weekend's football fixed odds results (w/e 02
February 2008) has highlighted
the fact that a lot of you are letting a small fortune slip
through your fingers!
This relatively new member emailed me
to express his delight at getting a return of £490 from our double
result forecasts (to £1 stakes). He went on to say that we were all
only minutes away from a profit of £2,400.
Well the fact is, the minimum
return anyone should have got last weekend was £607.50 (to £1
stakes). And, had Birmingham not conceded a goal a minute from time
against Derby, the minimum return would have been £3,200!
When I pointed this out to the member,
he readily admitted he's a bit of a lazy punter and tends to place
all his bets with
Bet
365.
But he has now made a late New Year's resolution to shop around for
the best odds!
Every single one of you should follow
his lead because the difference it will make to your profits by the
end of the year will be phenomenal!
To make it as easy as possible for you,
links to the bookmakers providing the best overall odds for each
category of forecasts will be included in all our emails.
In recent years all our profits have
been calculated at
Ladbrokes
odds. This was for two reasons. The first was because, of all the
high street firms, they offered the best minimum odds of 7/2 on our
double result forecasts. As long standing members will remember, the
best minimum odds for this bet used to be 4/1 with
Coral.
But when the bookmakers finally cut the odds for this bet,
Ladbrokes
provided the best overall
value.
The second reason was, in the days
before Internet betting became popular, most of our members placed
their bets in their local high street shop. Therefore, for
simplicities sake, we calculated all our bets at
Ladbrokes
odds rather than recommend that all members visit several shops to
place each different bet.
However, from now on, all our profits
will be based on the odds provided by the bookmaker offering the
best overall odds as recommended in our emails. After all, unlike in
the old days when you had to be super fit to dash from one bookmaker
to the next, it's not exactly hard work to click on a few different
websites!
Where the bookmaker offering the best
odds is a relatively unknown or foreign firm, such as
Expekt
who are offering the best odds this weekend on a lot of our bets,
our profits will be based on the second best odds provider. Although
there is certainly nothing wrong with betting with
Expekt
or other such firms, I do appreciate that a lot of members will be
reluctant to open an account so, to be as fair as possible, all our
profits will be based on odds offered by well known bookmakers.
To highlight the difference placing
your bets with different bookmakers will make to your overall
profits, just take a look at these examples from this weekend's
forecasts. (w/e 09 February 2008)
All examples are based on £1 stakes and
assume all forecasts win.
Best 6 Homes
Best Return: £139.51
with
Expekt
Worst Return: £102.84 with
Ladbrokes
Best 5 Homes
Best Return: £114.80
with
Expekt
Worst Return: £95.04 with
Sky
Bet
Double Result
Forecasts
Best Return:
£3,445.31 with
Blue
Square
Worst Return: £2,522.00 with
BoyleSports
Trebles
Best Return: £10.25
with
Expekt
Worst Return: £9.26 with
Ladbrokes
I'm sure you will agree that, with the
huge potential difference to your overall profits from the best to the
worst bookmaker, it's well worth making the monumental effort to
move your mouse and click on the correct link!
If you have any questions or comments
then please don't hesitate to contact me personally.
Kind regards,
Dave
Syndicate Administrator
