Quiet period?

Matched bettings at its end. Because of its simplicity its relatively easy for anyone to make money off it and as its become more popular its cost bookies money.

@jameslegg97 don’t lose faith! Totally get what you’re saying and where you’re coming from, but there are still numerous opportunities out there – accumulators, arbing, each way arbing, extra places, weekly offer clubs, multi accounts, casino offers, invite only offers, etc.

To some extent, it’s all about staying ahead of the curve to make profit – for example, everyone now understands and can do a ‘bet X get Y’ promotion, but can the same be said for acca insurance offers?

MB is dying in the old sense and tbh I’m happy it is because it became far too easy and people who never had a bet before were hoping on.
Now it’s people who used to bet before and actually understand betting, odds and the likes that are making money and that’s good because the bookies took enough money from a lot of us in the past.

Keep your head up and as someone said above, move out of the comfort zone.

Also the only way you can make things work is by trying them out practically for small stakes.

A lot of theories and methods are in this forum but the only way to apply them is to try it out. I used to find extra place offers at first really confusing and didn’t bother for months until it all went quiet. Hit 6th place in the grand national and since then it opened a whole new world.

If your scared about going in to other stuff do them for small stakes then look at your percentage ROI that is the key to everything. I remember being delighted I made 5 50ps from fiver each way bets when first working out ew arbs.

Good luck.

I always find this time of year quiet and a difficult time to be honest.
I go to my local William Hill and Coral’s shops for the company , that together with the fact that its warmer than my flat and I can get a free coffee.
I dont do match betting but the offers on money back events tend to offset some of my losses and make some bad days not as bad.

Does anyone know if it is possible to change my logon name as it doesnt look very good to others. I might come across as a lonely git but most of the time I am fine but it was over Christmas I felt it badly, everyone with their families etc. I registered one night after a few brandies and at that time the logon seemed appropriate.

Could you give an idea of how much profit you made in December Chris.
Could I do ew arbing just from the shops or do I need access online.

@lonelyatchristmas.

I don’t know if its possible to do the ew arbs as efficiently in shop. To get the best value you are trying to back and lay the win part for a very small loss or zero loss. Sometimes the opportunity to lay for this value only last seconds before bookie shortens their price.

I think you can look at them as value bets if you get on early enough. I don’t know if you had anything in the 13:00 at Lingfield yesterday but “Have a go Hero” was 50/1 which gives 10/1 to place in the top 3 in a race of 9 horses where 4 other horses were 80/1+ no hopers. So very good value in that. He was backed in to 20/1 and did place 3rd. But I think the trick is to get on early enough because these mid priced horses in bad e/w races will get backed in heavily every time – so you have to get them early. The only risk in getting them early is a non runner could reduce the number of places paid out and thus remove all value you had.

If you accept that you’re losing money and there is nothing wrong with that. If that’s your entertainment. I would just try to limit my losses to the price of comparable entertainment like the price of a cinema ticket or something. You might lose a little less money by spotting bad e/w races early and having a little punt on the 3rd or 4th horse.