This year started strong with January and February showing decent profits.
The sporting schedule is jam packed at the moment, with Euro 2021 this summer its going to be an interesting year.
During March we had Cheltenham festival which in previous years had been very profitable.
March brought me to exactly four years of running this challenge.
Although still far away from the £1,000,000 target it does show that having a few solid strategies does pay off in the long run.
Let’s take a look at results from March.
Value Betting, Matched Betting And Arbitrage
This month saw the Cheltenham festival which a few years ago was like Christmas for matched bettors. There were offers all over the place. Online and in shops, there were people that would make thousands of pounds in profit from Cheltenham when I first started.
Well I got crushed this year.
There were some decent offers available with Speadex in particular running a nice offer.
However I chose to value bet everything. Rather then cover the other side on the exchanges, in the hope that I would trigger a free bet.
A slight recovery was made at the end of the month.
But overall March was a pretty flat month for this set of strategies.
In March there were 407 bets.
A total profit of £157 was made.
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Advantage Play – Casino Offers
The second month in a row were volume was pretty low.
A few recurring offers were not running such the “Double Your Winnings” offer that Bet365 normally run.
Only got a few cashback and reload offers.
So overall things were pretty quiet on the casino offers front.
Again this month I didn’t branch out and actively look for new sign ups, however it does seem like there has been a reduction in decent offers the last two months.
Hopefully things pick up in April.
There were 61 offers completed in March
A total profit of £371 was made
Sports Betting Results
It was my own sports betting results which saved this month from being a pretty poor.
I continue to run well betting on MMA and was profitable with some in-play betting on football this month.
During March I made a total of 20 bet.
A total profit of £983 was made.
The Basketball Geek Results
March will be the last month of following the Basketball Geek.
Whilst it has been profitable following his selections.
He seems to be focused almost exclusively now on very small leagues.
Betting on women’s Russian basketball, Senegal basketball and Polish second division is going to burn accounts pretty quickly.
This month I did try following only the larger league selections and matches that were available on Betfair.
But as you can see volume was pretty low.
There were 18 selections in total.
A profit of £56 was made
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Free Tipster Experiment
March saw the continuation of the free tipster experiment.
The idea is to take the best free tips available from a number of different sources and see if its profitable long term.
Staking is very simple, I look to win around £50 for each selection.
It was an up and down month for the free tipster experiment but overall it ended in profit.
There were 212 selections.
A total profit of £296 was made.
Below is a list is a list of the tipsters used.
Nigel Seeley – Twitter, Trademate Podcast.
George Gamble – Twitter, Trademate Podcast.
Mark O,Haire – Twitter, Matchbook Podcast.
Demtrio Giotti – Smart Betting Club Free Tipster.
Lucky Pucks – Smart Betting Club Free Tipster.
Bassie Bets – Smart Betting Club Free Tipster, Betmarkets.
Neil Macdonald – Twitter, Betmarkets.
Lehotka Botond –Twitter, Betmarkets.
Miguel S – Betmarkets.
Sergio P – Betmarkets.
Trading
March was a decent month on the trading front.
Managed to build up a decent position on Francis Ngannou pre fight in his fight against Stipe Miocic. The idea was then to reduce my liability after round 1. Then completely exit the trade after round 2 were he was likely to start slowing down.
Ngannou put on a spectacular performance and ended up finishing the job in the second round via knock out.
Overall a total of £432 was made from trading.
Thoughts Going Forward
This year has got off to a great start, if things continue this way it looks like I could get over £30k in total profit made within a year.
Which would be a nice mile stone to get over.
Although things can change very rapidly in betting and a few poor months could make that look pretty unrealistic, time will tell.
There will be a new addition to the portfolio next month.
Which will be Neil Macdonald’s football picks.
Been tracking these since the 17th of February and also using Neil’s picks from Betmarkets for a while.
He tips in major European football leagues which have big liquidity.
So unlike the Basketball Geek odds don’t get hammered in minutes and I can use the sharps/exchanges to get my bets on fairly easily.
His long term record is excellent.
So I do think that going forward this will be a profitable addition.
Results For March
Value Betting, Arbitrage, Matched Betting –
£157
Advantage Play – Casino Offers
£371
Trading
£432
Sports Betting
£983
The Basketball Geek
£156
Free Tipster Experiment
£296
Total Made In March
£2295
Overall Profit Since The Challenge Began
£111,460
Remaining Target
£888,540
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HI Ryan,
I have one question about Sport Betting Result. I can see you place 20 Bet selection on MMA and In-paly Football and make £983 profit this month. Did you place this bet on Exchange bookmarker i.e Betfair, Smarket and Matchbook and Do you place on Soft bookmarker .i.e Betfred, Coral and William.
Good Luck for your journey to reach 1 milllion.
Thank You
Hi Sam
The majority of bets are placed on Betfair. For some of the props I use bookmakers.
It should be noted that was a good month but this month for example I am down around £800.