Ryan is a former mixed martial arts and kickboxing competitor. After finishing university he played online poker and taught English for a living in Thailand for a few years. Upon returning to England his focus has been on making a living from sports trading, betting and arbitrage. Over the course of 5 years he has managed to make a six figure profit using the strategies discussed on this site. Ryan runs the sports betting and trading website www.smartsportstrader.com
The world of football betting is extremely popular all over the world. However, the majority of people do not know how to implement the right strategies that will allow them to win in the long term. In this article, we will look at strategies that have been proven to find and information that you need to become a long term winner.
Follow Proven Tipsters
One of the easiest strategies to implement is to follow the tips of tipsters with proven long term winning records such as bookie insiders.
This strategy is great because, first of all, it requires zero skills. This means this strategy is perfect for everyone, including people who are brand new to the field of sports betting and have no actual strategies. By following professional tipsters, you can make sure to profit from other people’s expertise, using their knowledge and experience to learn and develop your own betting.
Matched Betting
Another great strategy that has been proven to work in football betting is matched betting. The term “matched betting” simply means that you can make a guaranteed profit from bookmakers’ free bets and promotions. In other words, this strategy takes advantage of bookmakers’ free bets and promotions to guarantee a profit to bettors.
To use this strategy, all you have to do is find a bookmaker-free bet and place your qualifying and lay bets. This strategy might seem confusing at first, but after a little bit of practice, it will become much more intuitive and simple.
Track Your Bets
This might sound obvious and even a little boring, but the truth is that keeping a record of your bets is a great way to increase your long term profit. This is because keeping a record is a great way to stay up-to-date with your own betting practices and strategies and to always know what worked and what didn’t. By keeping a record, you will know which bets you won, which you lost, and the amount that was at stake for your bets. You will also be aware of your overall profit and the bookmaker you used for each bet.
Tracking your bets is vital if you want be a long term winner with sports betting. It can help you hone and find your edge in the markets.
Use Multiple Bookmakers
Making use of the all the available bookmakers you have at your disposal is vital to a winning football betting strategy.
Getting the best odds you have available to you with every single bet can be the difference between a winning strategy and a losing one. Think of it this way if one employer offered you £15 an hour and another £18 an hour to do the same job. The pick would be obvious right?
Taking the best odds available is an edge in the sports betting markets. Don’t be lazy, make sure you open multiple bookmaker accounts and take advantage of better odds/promotions/boosts.
Don’t Bet With Your Heart
Every bettor has a favorite team, of course.
At the same time, it is not always a great idea to bet only based on personal preferences. Avoid placing bets based on emotions, and make sure to be as analytical as possible when it comes to bets. Betting on your favorite team when it has no chance of winning could feel like a betrayal, but if your goal is to make a profit, you must learn how to be impartial. There will be bets in which your favorite team will be the winner, but that might not always be the case. Because of this, one of the best things to do is to remain impartial, make sure to not let your emotions lead the way, and be analytical instead.
Specialize To Find An Edge
Knowing your niche is another really important factor in becoming a winning football bettor that uses profitable strategies. In this case, knowing football like the palm of your hand is definitely the way to go. By knowing the sport very well, you will be able to read any bet with more understanding than the average bettor, and this will give you some leeway in every bet you place.
Look at lesser know markets such as corners/cards/half time markets. Specializing in these markets can allow you to find golden strategies that win long term.
Have you ever thought of making sports betting a professional endeavor? The idea of leaving the daily 9 to 5 grind and making big stacks on the regular sounds appealing. Many have tried, some persisted and became big, but most fell short and failed. That said, what separates successful professionals from casual bettors?
In this article, we will briefly explain what makes a professional bettor professional. What practices they make that separate a profitable hobby from a long-term career endeavor. Read more below and see what it takes to be a professional.
Tracking Anything And Everything
One thing you need to understand about professional sports betting is that most gaming or gambling industry professionals understand the importance of data. Any information they can access gets tracked, recorded, and considered for their strategies.
For example, If you’re just betting for fun at the NBA, you might just check one line like Fanduel odds on NBA betting lines or trends on online forums. But for a professional, they go deeper than that. Specifically, professional bettors take all kinds of information, from favorable betting lines to forum insights and social media activities.
Betting Mindset For Losses
One critical thing that further separates a professional from casual bettors is how they interpret losses. For a casual player, losing a bet might be a big deal, and they often change their priorities from enjoying the event to getting back their losses. This strategy is flawed at best because it creates a flaw in your betting strategy. Which can further increasing your losses.
On the other hand, professionals are generally unbothered with losses. When you take sports betting to the next level, you are sure to leave a trail of losses throughout your journey. So, for them losing is just part of the process. Instead they take time to review and understand the mistakes, rarely concerning the losses accumulated.
Budgeting Mindset
If there’s anything that further separates the gap between professionals and casual players, it’s bankroll management.
For most casual bettors, bankroll management may be the last of their concerns. At some point, you might be focused on getting big wins using large stakes regardless of whether you can afford it. Regardless, most casuals have varying degrees of understanding and preparation when budgeting their finances. But for professionals, they are inclined to an analytical and prepared approach.
Professionals see sports betting as a complicated chess game where strategy matters, and those that come well-prepared can win big. In this case, they already set out their estimated budgets weeks before the game. They do this by checking all available lines and doing math on their betting and wager minimums. After that, they estimate their budget based on the type of bets they want to take and how much they will lose.
And for emphasis, professional bettors only bet on what they can afford to lose. Losing everything is more likely to happen whenever you’re gambling than earning a profit. Professionals understand this, so they make all the necessary preparations to maximize every dollar spent on the betting lines.
Performance Over Fun
Professionals don’t bet for fun; they take sports betting seriously and value performance over enjoyment. This is not to say that they dread sports betting and leave nothing to enjoy; it only means that they value winning bets and performance while betting.
We think this goes over to the idea of emotions influencing your decisions. In most sports betting guides, emotion is a significant influencer on your decisions, and most casual bettors lose bets due to the lack of control.
That’s why most professionals avoid alcohol and sports betting. Instead, they stick to their plans, regardless of whether they enjoy it or not. And besides, after winning some wagers on your betting session, most professionals have fun and enjoy their profits.
At the end of the day, what you prioritize affects your betting journey. And for professionals, having fun is the last part of their list.
Goal Setting And Future Planning
Full-time bettors set various goals in mind, and they create multiple strategies focused on achieving those goals. Whether they’re aiming for the big bucks or higher win rates, their goals are often realistic, and it takes years to achieve them,
This type of planning requires a strong mindset and determination to become a professional in the betting industry. Applying multiple strategies and financial disciplines puts them closer to their goal.
Takeaway
Sports betting is a lucrative entertainment available for most. It caters to both casual and aspiring professionals to gamble towards winning big, and this article covers the variables that need to be considered as a professional bettor.
In summary, professionals calculate, sometimes cold, and value performance over anything else. Nevertheless, these are people with dedication and wit who take a journey that should be admired by many aspirants in the field. If you want to take a shot at being great at sports betting, then the traits mentioned above can help you out.
October brought month 79 in the “Making a Million Challenge.”
Results haven’t been great the last few months,
July – +£1062
August – +£48
September – -£1318
So I was hoping for strong month to turn things around, Let’s see if that happened.
Value Betting And Trading
This month I really put more focus and analysis on value betting. Last year this was a huge earner and the results haven’t been replicated this year.
Value betting comes in two forms, one is just picking off slowing moving odds with soft bookmakers and occasionally exchanges. The second way is reading market movement and preempting the big moves across the board. When all bookmakers move their odds one way.
Below is an example, I bet Cambodia at 1.99 and its closing odds were 1.59.
Beating the closing line is a great indicator of long term profit. By reading the market I can beat the closing line around roughly 65% of the time.
It terms of beating the closing line. This month went really well and I felt like I uncovered a few new angles. In terms of results, beating the closing line didn’t mean shit.
October was a terrible month for the FTS systems that I run with a total loss of –£1459 being made after 104 bets.
Not a huge amount to say really, it was just a really bad month. didn’t matter if the system was lay the draw, back the draw, back home teams, unders/overs etc. Sometimes in this game you are going to lose and you can accept it or bitch about it (I will accept it in this section then bitch about it later)
Bets And Beers Telegram Group
Bets and Beers had a strong month in October.
I follow the lay the half time draw method and this performed really well in the last weekend. However given how rough this month was going I took the last weekend off betting. Also I had been capping my lays at odd of 3.5
Which is not something I would usually do however I felt I need to reassess things and wanted a break from results.
Football trading club was low volume due to the international break. My overall results being poor had me stop following the home value system and double chance. Long term the football trading club is very profitable but at the moment I want to focus on my own strategies to turn things around.
Hit a few profitable casino winners and MMA betting was profitable this to lessen some of the damage in other area’s
A profit of £326 was made from this section.
October 2023 Total
Bets and Beers – £60
Value Betting/Trading – -£801
FTS – -£1459
Other – £326
Total Made In October
-£1874
Overall Profit Since The Challenge Began
£181,011
Thoughts Going Forward
The curse of the new house continues, I thought it was cute when my wife suggested my record losing month was due to “feng shui” or “new spirits” in the house.
To follow up last months record losing month with an even bigger losing month in October though hit pretty hard. It stopped being funny and at times I was asking myself ” Am I f***** cursed, what is going on?”
Teams chucking away 2 goal leads, smashing the closing line and seeing my team get a red card after 10 minutes etc. It did seem endless and it is the most frustrating period of betting career. However I know that bad runs can happen, especially when you are mostly straight betting. Trading you can reduce variance but my approach is 95% value betting.
After spending around 90% of my bankroll to move house, I have been staking fairly aggressively with a smaller bankroll and been burnt. Historically losing months have been very rare and there has never been two in a row before. So in that sense I don’t think was a terrible idea.
I lean that these last couple of months are a “black swan” and that it is just a patch of really bad variance.
Changes
On the flip side though I also have to consider that it isn’t just bad variance and my approach needs adjusting.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
This is the tough thing about betting, you can do the right things and still end up losing. When it comes to my value betting/trading I could look at the closing line and assess whether it was good or bad. Following other services this can be a little trickier.
I decided towards the end of the month to tighten things up. Bets and Beers and the football trading club I will put on hold until the new year. Look at where my bankroll is and then likely follow them with small stakes.
FTS I have a dedicated bank, which I will continue with until the end of season.
My value betting I actually think has improved this month. This downswing made me look at what I was doing and where I can make improvements. Which I have done.
What I can also do to reduce variance is trade out some liability on some of the bigger markets. Which when the market goes in my favour basically creates a larger value bet and can lower variance. Given that I can beat the closing line more often then I don’t, this is a profitable strategy.
This was something that I did much more of last year and due to over confidence/laziness haven’t done as much this year. Now I don’t think this is the only reason for the big differences in profit, up until the end of March last year I still had some of the big soft bookmakers left. However it could definitely help smooth over these run months and future potential losing months.
Hopefully November and December can see a positive end to 2023 and I hope your betting in October went better then mine.
September brought month 78 in the making a million challenge!
After a breaking even in August and a below par year so far, I was really hoping to kick things into gear in September.
Did that happen?
Let’s take a look!
Value Betting And Trading
Really up and down month for value betting. Getting above £1k profit at one point then into the red before climbing back above 1k. Eventually hitting a string of losers to end the month with a small profit.
Value bets are mainly based on reading the market and looking to beat the closing line. The occasional value bet is made with remaining soft bookmakers.
Overall a profit of £437 was made after 250 selections.
Low volume for MMA betting with a total of 9 bets being made.
A profit of £184 was made from betting on MMA.
Only bet I didn’t really like this month was Yanis Ghemmouri. Which I jumped on without proper research not realizing that he was fighting a weight class above his usual weight. As soon as I saw him in the cage with William Gomis I knew it wasn’t going to be a good night.
Rookie mistake that I shouldn’t be making after so many years betting MMA.
Bets And Beers Telegram Group
Bet and Beers had a great month in September making just under 54 points profit. 57 of those points were made from full time lay the draw results.
Given that I follow lay the half time draw and was following the first half goal strategy my results were different.
It’s been a rough few months for the half time LTD and FHG methods. The drawdown has been about –£3000 with the timing of adding FHG to the overall portfolio not being the best.
Following Bets and Beers has been profitable this year with the total profit being £500.This profit is made to £50 stakes however so it is around 10 points up overall.
If I had followed every Bets and Beers strategy I would be up 217 points. Dropping my stakes to £10 to account for the larger lay odds would have seen me being significantly better off.
By only following the system which suits the odds I like to lay at (around 3.0 max) it’s cost me. However two months ago this obviously looked very differently with my results hitting +£4000.
Going to continue just following the HTLTD until the end of the year. Look at where my bankroll is and reassess things then.
FTS started off profitable in August with a profit of £407 being made.
In September however things swung the other way and a loss of -£690 was made from 11 systems. Not a huge amount to write about here. Going through the staking for 11 systems would take too long however they are based on the FTS software which uses historical results and various models/from to find profitable trends.
Football Trading Club
Football Trading Club is a service that I reviewed recently and historically has been very strong. However to carry on the recurring theme it had a tough month.
I follow the home win selections and home double chance selections pre match. Also I take the occasional in-play bet when I am around at the computer and they come through.
Pretty frustrating month with one or two partially matched bets going on to win and every in-play bet I made losing. Again it just seemed to be the run of things in September. Overall the Football Trading Club is showing consistent profit long term and I won’t be changing anything.
So there is quite a bit more that I followed in September. These strategies tend to be much lower volume then everything else. Combining them makes more sense then going through each one individually.
I will admit it stung a little bit and its the longest period I have been without making a profit (3 months) since the challenge began. After last year which was a record winning year (Just under £40k profit) it looks very likely that this year will be the lowest yearly total since I started.
Variance has been a big part as it always is.
In both last years record profit and this years likely record low profit. My approach in both years has largely been the same.
My wife believes that since moving house the feng shui is off in my work area. Which is why the last 3 months haven’t been great. I laughed this off but writing this 5 days into October and I’m already sitting at around -£1k.
Feng Shui? Voodoo? Gypy Curse? Possibly.
My value bets are still consistently beating the closing line, so in theory these results have to turn eventually. It is tempting to make changes when things aren’t going right but I will wait until the end of the year before doing anything.
Hopefully you had a better September the I did, see you next month for the next update.
My intention was to put out up post last month but with summer holidays, kids, work etc. I simply forgot.
July was a fairly quiet month with only the summer leagues and the womens world cup to bet on. Which meant that it was a pretty low volume month.
Overall a profit of £962 was made.
August saw the return of a big leagues and an expectation on my part to finish the year strong.
Let’s dig into it!
Value Betting And Trading
It was a strong month for value betting and nice to have the return of the bigger football leagues. Which provides more opportunity. The lower English leagues tend to be good sources and the advantage of being able to get down at local Betfred shops is also a positive.
Overall a profit of £2503 was made after 270 selections.
If you want learn more about value betting I recently put up a video going through how to get started!
MMA Betting
Bit of a nothing month when it came to mixed martial arts.
In previous updates I could fit in every single bet to show you from Bettin.gs but since the update I can only give you a snap shot.
After 13 bets a profit of £169 was made.
On a side note the updated bettin.gs is excellent and if you are looking for a free way to track your bet, I recommend it.
Bets And Beers Telegram Group
Bets and Beers has been one of the most consistent services that I have ever followed. Very few losing months and and my graph pretty much only moved one way.
Until this month.
August also saw the addition of selections in the first half goal market. Which I decided to follow by placing a bet at odds of 1.5 and looking to get it matched in-play. This basically doubled my liability on each game.
It proved to be a bad timing to double my stakes.
A loss of -£1550 was made after 140 bets.
Despite a bad run I won’t be changing anything. Historically results are strong, drawdowns have happened in the past and following the system long term has made money.
FTS Systems
August saw the return of the major football leagues which also meant the return of FTS.
This season I am running 10 systems.
After a successful 2022-203 season, I wanted to increase the amount of volume as my stakes are roughly the same as last year. Having recently bought a house, I’m not in the position to increase stakes so volume is the other way to look at increasing profits.
A profit of £407 was made.
My Trading/Betting
My personal trading/betting was something of a car crash this month.
Not a lot of volume but lost fairly consistently this month. I do like to take on an away team that’s leading by 2 goals and it just didn’t come off this month. Most of the damage came backing Gent when they were 11 against 10 versus Servette at home. Even though the odds were short, I thought they offered value.
They ended up blowing a lead and getting eliminated in extra time.
A total of -£550 was lost from 21 trades.
Everything Else
So there is quite a bit more that I followed in August. Which in future I will start to separate, however being slightly short of time I will put them together as they tend to be much lower volume then everything else.
Football trading club is a service I have been tracking for a while and started to back their home value selections in August alongside a few of their in-play alerts. Only managed 2 casino offers in August which both lost.
I run one system on football bet data which threw up a couple of losing selections. Selections will increase for this system as the season goes on and more data is collected. Judging by my end of month total the selections that I followed from free tipsters also lost this month.
A total of -£931 was made from this section.
August 2023 Total
Bets and Beers – -£1550
Value Betting/Trading – £2503
MMA Betting – £169
My Trading/Betting Football – –£550
Misc – -£931
Total – £48
Total Made In July and August
£1110
Overall Profit Since The Challenge Began
£184,203
Thoughts Going Forward
Got to admit that I found August really frustrating.
After making just under £40k profit last year, there was an expectancy on my part to hit a similar figure this year. Which just hasn’t happened.
Despite maintaining similar stakes and using the same strategies the results just haven’t been as good. I do think that last year I ran on the positive side of variance and perhaps this year is balancing things out. August started really strong with £2500 profit made in the first 10 days and then to see a final figure of £48 did piss me off.
At the end of the day though bitching and whining doesn’t help. Sometimes it just requires some patience, as long as your approach is good.
There are things I can improve.
Following the likes of matchbook insights and Asian Connect tipster for example without tracking them properly is silly on my part. The analysis always seems very good but I probably should not be staking them the same as I do with proven strategies.
Ultimately there a lot of things I should be grateful for. Having good health, decent relationships with family/friends, security, a house over my head. Feeling pissed off about not winning enough money from sports betting seems petty and kind of dickish.
So apologies for being petty and kind of a dick in this blog post.
Anyway thanks for reading, hope your betting/trading is going well, will be back next month!
The Football Trading Club is a service that runs via twitter, as the name implies it is a service that focuses on making money from the football markets.
This service is aimed at those that are looking to make a profit from the betting exchanges. Limitations and account closures have become more and more prevalent for those that dare to make a long term profit from bookmakers.
Which makes services aimed at profiting from the betting exchanges very appealing!
How The Service Works
Football Trading Club is very easy to follow. Once you have joined the service you get access to a telegram group where daily selections are sent out.
Then you simply log into your betting exchange of choice and bet the selections.
The service offers both pre match and in-play selections.
Football Trading Club Historical Results
In 2022 a total profit of £8,258 is quoted from 9 systems. A 6.88% return on investment was recorded.
Only the draw no bet system failed to make profit over the full year.
In 2023 so far a profit of £4,282 has been recorded from 15 systems.
The football trading club isn’t a service that stands still it is constantly evolving. Systems that don’t perform up to expectation are removed and new angles are always being looked at.
Overall the results over the last two years have been incredibly impressive.
Beating the betting exchanges is much harder then profiting from soft bookmakers. Making a 6.66% return on investment over a two year period is excellent.
You can view detailed results for football trading clubs 2022 results and 2023 results by clicking on the links attached.
If you would like £5 off your first month at Football Trading Club quote “SST1 when signing up”
I tracked 3 pre match systems for a 3 month period, staking a set £10 amount for each selection. From the start of April 2023 to the end of July 2023.
The 3 systems followed were home value draws, home win and home win lay the draw.
Let’s take a look at the results from home value draws first.
Over a 3 month period 233 bets were made and a total profit of £74.67 was made to £10 stakes.
Total Staked
£2330
Average Odds
3.32
ROI
3.2%
Next up is the home wins system.
The home wins system was also profitable over a 3 month period tracked at £10 stakes, a total profit of £54.42 was made.
Total Staked
£1050
Average Odds
1.53
ROI
5.18%
Lastly we have the home wins lay the draw system.
This system returned a profit of £236 after 101 bets.
Total Staked
£4052.90
Average Odds
4.94
ROI
5.8%
Football Trading Club Cost
Membership to the football trading club costs £20 a month, with longer term deals also available.
Payment is handled via paypal or bank transfer.
Thoughts
I have been very impressed with the football trading club. My results tracking the service mirror the official results very closely. Other review services are also reporting profitable results which makes me believe that the historical results are accurate.
There are multiple different aspects to the service, which can be a lot to take in. Sometimes advised stakes are changed, systems are removed/added and multiple approaches can be taken to the lay the draw system. However you don’t have to follow everything or even follow the advised staking if you are comfortable betting a different way.
One of the big positives to the service is that the man behind it Chris is always looking at new angles and testing out systems. Which means that if a new edge reveals itself then it will be added at no extra cost as a new system.
One of the most common questions I get asked is “how do you make money from the exchanges?”
A simple answer to this is to follow a service such as the football trading club which will pin point value selections for you.
Overall the service gets a recommendation from me and is a service that I will be following in my making a million challenge.
Football Trading Club Discount
If you would like a £5 discount on your first month with the football trading club. Quote “SST1” or let you Chris know you came through this site when signing up.
You can join the football trading club via twitter which I will link below.
Perhaps you are already trading the horse racing markets and are looking for a pre race trading strategy to take into the horse racing markets.
Could Caan’s guide be the answer?
Who is Caan Berry?
Caan Berry is Horse racing trader that has been on the trading scene for quite a long time.
From the Geeks Toy forums to his website/blog Caan has been writing about horse racing trading for many years.
He is also on Twitter and Facebook and frequently gives out back to lay trades and snippets of advice.
Endorsed by Betfair Caan Berry is one of the most prominent pro sports traders around.
What is in the guide?
First of all the guide costs £39 and is 118 pages long.
The guide is an overview of how the horse racing markets function providing a wealth of information which aims to help you make money from these markets.
It covers how to set yourself up for trading, alongside key factors that you should consider when looking at the markets such entry and exit points.
Caan Berry’s trading guide also gives you an insight into how you should use different approaches for different race types, odds ranges and price points.
Caan Berry Trading Guide Review – Conclusion
The guide is very well written and easy to understand.
Coming from a football trading background but having next to no knowledge of horse racing I benefited a lot from the information shared in this guide.
The information that I found particularly useful was in relation to how different races/time periods have different market environments.
This means that different strategies should be employed for different race types.
Examples of trades are shared and the reasoning behind them is excellent and clearly written. The importance of a good trading mentality is discussed as are some thoughts about trading psychology.
Caan gives his email and offers support for any questions that you may have.
I feel this is pretty important as there is a lot to take in if you are new to the horse trading markets.
This guide was a great introduction into the horse racing markets. It has given me a much better understanding of how these markets function.
Ultimately this guide is an excellent resource for anyone looking to start trading the horse markets or for someone that is currently struggling with them.
Previously my only experience in the horse racing markets had been fromarbitrage betting.
However this guide combined with Caan Berry’s youtube videos have allowed me to start taking money out of the horse racing markets.
Which I previously had no experience or interest in.
Caan Berry Video Package Guide Review
After learning a lot from Caan Berry’s trading guide.I was quite excited when he announced his video pack follow up.
This follow up is in the form of an advanced video pack aimed at people that were already trading the horse racing markets.
Caan Berry Strategies – Video Pack Review
What do you get in the Caan Berry Advanced Video Pack?
The advanced video pack is presented as a online course. It starts off with a general overview of how to set up your trading environment and the general psychology behind being a good sports trader.
The course contains 22 modules.
The video pack contains 24 modules to work through.
Inside each module there are a number of videos breaking down the subject of each module.
Just as an example if you were to look at the scalping modules. There are seven individual videos that break down different scenarios and examples of scalping.
Content List
The advanced video pack is extensive and covers several subjects including
Course Introduction
Absolute Basics
Scalping
Market Situations
Best Execution
Risk Management
Morning Routine
Drifting Prices
External Indicators
Significant Change
Trading Tipping Services
Scalping Broken Down
Swing Trading
Multiple Styles
Genuine Money
Market Manipulation
Volatile Markets
Irish Racing
Backing To Lay
Greyhound Trading
A very positive factor to add is that the video pack is constantly being updated and there is new content being continually added.
This is all done for no extra cost.
The majority of the videos are of Caan Berry trading the horse racing markets and breaking down his reasoning behind each trade.
Caan does a good job of explaining his reasoning and goes into a large amount of detail for each module.
Is Caan Berry Legitimate?
With any internet expert you should always be careful.
However having been trading myself for a very long time and being active in various forums. I can tell you that Caan Berry has an excellent reputation.
Caan was actually used in a few promotional videos when Betfair were promoting their betting exchange.
This adds to his credibility as Betfair would not use someone that is not a legitimate trader.
Add to that his large social media following and the amount of valuable information that he has given out for free over the years.
Overall I think that when you put everything together you are getting expert tuition from an actual expert that profits from trading the horse racing markets.
Will I make money from horse racing trading after buying the Caan Berry Video Pack?
Ok, so to be clear this isn’t some kind of cheat code that will enable you to start making thousands of pounds in profit from the horse racing markets. There is no course available that will magically turn you into a highly profitable trader over night.
However what the guide and video pack will do is give you different outlooks on how to trade the horse racing markets.
This is really important as not everyone trades the same.
We all have different levels of comfort and trading styles that suit our personalities.
One important factor to consider, is that if your aim is to make money from the horse racing markets long term. This video pack could save you years of making mistakes.
Which in turn will save you a lot of money in the long run.
It will enable you to look at different approaches and find the one that suits you. Which you can then develop yourself through experiencing the markets.
(Here is an example of how I trade the horse racing markets effectively using knowledge gained from Caan’s book, video pack and time spent studying the horse racing markets.)
If I take my own approach for example. I am not comfortable scalping the markets.
I prefer to take a longer term approach and use swing trading. This video pack really gave me the basis to develop a profitable strategy that suited my own trading style.
Caan Berry Video Pack Review Final Verdict
At £147 does the Caan Berry Advanced Video Pack offer any value?
Anyone that is looking to trade the horse racing markets seriously will find that this video pack absolutely offers a lot of value. It is at a higher price point but you are basically paying for expert tuition in trading the horse racing markets.
This is a unique product that offers something that very few people are qualified to offer.
If I weigh up the cost of the course in comparison to the time it would take to learn all the information provided.
Then I think it is very reasonably priced.
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June marks month 75 in the “Making a Million Challenge.”
It was a month that I expected to be fairly quiet in terms of volume. Whilst there wasn’t as much to bet on this month, the betting gods smiled and in terms of profit it ended up being one of the strongest months this year.
Value Betting And Trading
Good month for value betting with selections popping up for international football, golf and even a few F1 bets.
Not a huge amount of bets with 87 being recorded but profit made this month was solid.
After 87 bets a profit of £1454 was made.
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Under dogs seem to be having a better year in 2023 when it comes to UFC betting. Which is usually where I find most value in these markets. After a small losing year in 2022 (-£442), 2023 has seen an overall profit of £2354.
In June there were 16 bets and a profit of £1944 was made.
Bets And Beers Telegram Group
Bets and Beers is a service that provides selection for lay the draw.
The service provides multiple approaches however I just use the lay the half time draw strategy. Staking £50 per selection.
In June a profit of £334 was made.
Everything Else
There was no FTS Ultimate selections this month due to the major football leagues not running. Outside of the above selections, I also bet a few free tipsters selections and in-play bets.
These bets produced a loss of –£637 this month.
June 2023 Total
Bets and Beers – £334
Value Betting/Trading – £1454
MMA Betting – £1944
Misc – -£637
Total Made In June
£3095
Overall Profit Since The Challenge Began
£183,193
Thoughts Going Forward
June was a better month then I expected. Some months you can put in a tonne of volume and work only to see a negative or break even figure at the end of it. Then other times you you do the bare minimum and the profit comes easily.
That’s the weird thing about betting, time spend working doesn’t always equate to making more money or even making money at all. It can be very frustrating and why a big part of this game is patience.
Got the house move done in June which meant the betting bankroll took a big hit. One of my initial goals was always to buy a house with money made from betting and now I’ve been fortunate enough to do that. My next goal is to bet more aggressively, scale things up and make some money that could lead to early retirement.
Now is a good time to prepare for the new football season. Football alongside MMA is really what I want to focus on going forward.
Having bet Tennis, Horses, Golf and numerous other sports over the years. I realized the sports I am most comfortable and confident in beating over the long term are the sports that I really understand. When it comes to betting larger amounts of money understanding the edge I have and reasoning for the bets makes it easier to handle the losing swings that inevitably come.
In comparison to following tipsters who bet in sports I don’t have a great understanding of. Where at times losing runs hit and you are asking “What the f*** is going on?”
FTS, Bets and Beers and FTC will be the services I will be using to take on the 2023/2024 football season. Thanks for reading, good luck with your own betting and I’ll be back next month with an update.
May brings month 74 in the “Making A Million Challenge.”
It was pretty poor month overall with a very small profit of £216 being made. To mix things up a bit and keep it interesting.
I will break down my results for the whole of 2023 so far.
Value Betting And Trading
First off we have value betting.
Value betting is placing bets with the aim to beat the closing line. Previously this was done mostly with bookmakers however now it is mainly on exchanges.
Alongside the occasional shop bet.
Looking at the graph you can that approaching close to 900 bets this strategy wasn’t in profit. The next couple of hundred bets it had a sharp rise in profit and then has been a bit up and down for the rest of the year.
Last year this was the most profitable strategy but this year its underperformed slightly. I think its just a case of putting in as much volume as possible. There is no real reason for it underperforming other then variance.
This year a profit of £4215 has been made after 1527 bets.
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Moving on to mixed martial arts betting, which has been pretty decent this year so far.
After 37 bets a profit of £1396 has been made.
Not a lot to add really. Don’t put a huge amount of volume through the MMA market, tend to try to pick what I think are the best spots.
Previously I had been sending out bets on Discord for free but haven’t the last couple of months. Mainly just due to not remembering and I don’t use Discord for anything myself, it’s just ben forgotten in the background for a while. Might set something up on telegram as I am pretty active there with other betting services.
Bets And Beers Telegram Group
Bets and Beers is a service that provides selection for lay the draw.
The service provides multiple approaches however I just use the lay the half time draw strategy. Staking £50 per selection, the first 70 selections were £20 stakes as I was still testing the service at this point.
Bets and Beers has run pretty well this year as you can see. Hitting £3500 profit for the year at one point before running in to a few losers in the last 150 bets or so.
A profit of £2890 has been made from 400 bets.
FTS Ultimate
ForFTSI run 4 season long betting systems. These are set and forget systems which are placed pre match. All of the systems are run on Betfair.
Let’s break down the results for 2023.
System 1 (Lay Draw), Stakes – £50 lay bet, Results = £901 (97 bets)
System 2 (Form based system) £50 to £100 lay bets, Results = – £1600 (185 bets)
System 3 (Poisson) £120 back bets, Results = £1875 (92 bets)
System 4 (Underdog System) £10 to £30 back bets, Results = -£329 (27 bets)
Total – £847
Everything Else
There are a few other strategies I use that are lower volume so I will just group them together.
This is casino offers, in-play trading and free tipster bets that I might place. All of these get added to my overall daily total but I am not always meticulous in recording them down.
It accounts for a profit of £2418.
2023 Total (Up until June 2023)
FTS – £847
Bets and Beers – £2890
Value Betting/Trading – £4215
MMA Betting – £1396
Misc – £2669
Total Made In 2023 so far
£12,017
Overall Profit Since The Challenge Began
£180,098
Thoughts Going Forward
At this stage last year profits were double what they are currently in 2023. Which is a little disappointing as we always want to see progression. However with betting sometimes it requires some patience.
Strategies are very similar to last year with a couple of additions. Staking roughly around the same amount of money, so I think the difference is largely down to variance. I ran extremely well in the first 5 months of 2022 whilst in 2023 there have been a few slim months.
The season for all the big leagues has ended now and its a good time to look at finding new edges for the coming season.
I have been dabbling with football bet data for a couple of weeks which looks interesting and is something I will use for next season. Football Trading Club is another service I have been following for a few month, results have been very good and they provide selections for the summer leagues.
Profiting from the horse racing markets is something I want to get back to doing. Now it is quiet with football I am going to test out a few tipsters/services and might even get back to trading it if I can find the time.
If anyone has any recommendations, pop them in the comments.
April marks month 73 in the “Making a Million Challenge”.
It was a strong month overall, the major leagues start to get interesting as teams fights for championships/promotion/relegation. Which can see some big changes in odds movement week to week.
Let’s get on to the results for April 2023.
Value Betting And Trading
Value betting performed pretty well in March.
The month started very strongly getting close to a profit £3500 before a late month downswing took it under £2000.
Not a huge amount to say other then it was a solid month.
At this point a lot of my value betting is just repetitively looking for the same things in the market and making the bets. It is all aimed at beating the close line either through straight up value bets or pre-empting moves in the market.
After 343 bets a profit of £1862 was made.
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Having a bookmaker that will take my action on MMA has been a nice addition.
Akbet.bet is a newish bookmaker that’s looking to take sharp action. They also offer prop markets which is enabling me to get money down. Limits aren’t huge but it is nice just not to get closed or limited to pennies after a week or two of betting.
There were 9 bets for MMA in the month of April, a profit of £685 was made.
Casino Offers
Oddsmonkey have put more focus on exploiting casino offers recently. I decided to have a look at at what offers were available in the current market.
I only did 6 offers this month but ran very well and made a profit of £685.
Casino offers at one point were my biggest earner but in all honesty they can be very boring and some offers are quite time consuming.
Writing this in May I have been doing offers but cherry picking the ones that are high value and don’t take up too much time. Which for me is the best strategy.
ForFTSI run 4 season long betting systems. These are set and forget systems which are placed pre match. All of the systems are run on Betfair.
Let’s break down the results.
System 1 (Lay Draw), Stakes – £50 lay bet, Results = £241 (22 bets)
System 2 (Form based system) £50 to £100 lay bets, Results = –£775 (49 bets)
System 3 (Poisson) £120 back bets, Results = £876 (24 bets)
System (Underdog System) £10 to £30 back bets, Results = -£150 (8 bets)
Total – £192
Bets And Beers Telegram Group
Only playing the set and forget HTLTD system at the moment with bets and beers.
Along with a couple of the horse racing lays. I do however keep forgetting these as they are not as frequent.
At the end of the season will reassess the other systems he uses and look at setting up a bank for each.
Great results in April staking £50 per lay.
A profit of £1409 was made after 103 bets.
-£124 was made following the lay selections on horses.
In-play Betting And Trading
Decent month for in-play betting and trading. Hit a big winner at odds of 50 to win over £1k, which is a figure that I haven’t won very often from one bet.
Despite that one big winner the total profit for the month was lower then that figure. The 0-2 score line is one that I like to look at often. If the home team gets one back, the crowd get’s behind them and you usually see a late push for an equalizer.
A total of £742 was made from in-play betting and trading this month.
April Totals
FTS – £192
Bets and Beers – £1285
Value Betting/Trading – £1862
Casino Offers – £685
MMA Betting – £685
In-play Betting And Trading – £742
Total Made In April
+£5451
Overall Profit Since The Challenge Began
£179,858
Thoughts Going Forward
April marked the best month of the year so far. It was an odd one with a big of profit coming in the first 9 days of the month. Then I have gradually lost money day by day for the following 3o days (writing this 10 days into May where I have continued to lose).
Goes to show how volatile results can be with value betting/trading.
I am not doing anything different at all. The process is exactly the same however results have been vastly different. Think this is one of the key factors in winning long term, focus on the process and let the results play out over the long term.
Been doing this long enough now to know that results will turn again.
Still waiting to move house. Which means I won’t be changing much up betting wise or adding anything.
Should all be wrapped up within the next month which is decent timing as football winds down. Then can look at the bankroll and have a think about how to approach next season.
