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As this site gets bigger and the number of reviews we have done the number of emails I am receiving about which system I would recommend increases. Although on this site I have a number of positive and negative reviews the number of systems I receive or look at is much larger than what appears on site, this is because a lot of systems that I see I will not even attempt to use because they are really not worth my time.

With this in mind here is a quick run-down of all the systems I recommend for each genre:

US Sports (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL etc)

I have reviewed a number of systems for picking winners for all of the major US sports but in the end the only thing that produced profits long term were picking services with my favourite being Vestin Sports. Vestin Sports provides picks on all of the major sports and college sports with at least 15 picks a week on average. If you are looking for a US service then you should get involved with them trying out their $10 week trial.

Click here to visit the Vestin Sports site

Click here to read my full review of Vestin Sports

Lay Tipsters

There are simply a huge number of laying tipsters around now and I have the fortune (or misfortune) of checking out a lot of them. My favourite of all of them is Lay the Best, because they provide bets for a number of different sports not just the typical racing/football services that are common. So if you are looking for a lay system that provides picks for a number of different sports Lay the Best is your bet.

Click here to visit Lay the Best

Click here to read my full review of the Lay the Best service

However if you are looking for a lay service that solely focuses on Horse Racing then I advise that you take a look at Martin’s Better Betting.

Click here to visit Matin’s Better Betting

Click here to read my full review of Martin’s Better Betting

Horse Racing

If you are not interested in a laying service the I think Quick on the Draw is for you. Quick on the draw is a backing system which will have you backing a number of horses in a race with average winning odds of around 12/1

Click here to visit the Quick on the Draw site

Click here to read my full review of Quick on the Draw

Football (soccer)

If you are looking for a football system that you can follow yourself and make bets accordingly then I recommend you reading the Football Laying Code

Click here to visit the Football Laying Code site

Click here to read my full review of the Football Laying Code

Tennis

There are a huge number of bogus tennis guides on the net at the moment. Game, Set and Match Punter is an in-depth look at tennis and more importantly betting on tennis.

Click here to visit the Game, Set and Match Punter site

Click here to read my review of the Game, Set and Match Punter

Almost everyone enjoys a flutter on the horses every now and then. Even my church going grand mother will take a bet on the Gold Cup and the Grand National at Aintree. It is a fact of life. Some people enjoy a bet down their local bookmakers everyday while others will stay online and use betfairs in play trading to do their betting. Which ever way you do bet on horse racing you will find this article of use. In this article I am going to be identifying four great tips that you can use to increase the number of winners you pick and therefore the profits you see as a result!

1) If you see a horse in a handicap race carring more than one stone then you should think about betting on it. You will find that you will get some good odds on them because most backers will steer clear of them due to the large amount of extra weight they are carrying. However what you should think about is the fact that they would not have that much weight if they were not a good runner.

2) Back jockeys when they are in form. You will often find a jockey will win 3 or 4 times on the day. Especially if he is a big name like A P McCoy. When you see a big jockey like him winning a race in a day’s meeting then you should seriously consider backing him in the races that are coming later in the day. If you remember back when Frankie Dettori won a total of 7 races at the Royal Ascot. Imagine if you had backed him once he won the first horse, that would have been 6 races and 6 bets that you would have won, not bad.

3) The majority of races are won by horses that go off at 5/1 or less so remember this if you are going to be doing any multiples. 6/1 and 7/1 horses and higher will not be good selections for multiple bets.

4) Do not be put off by the price in the morning papers they are sometimes way off what the horse will go off on. I have actually seen a horses once that was evens in the paper that went off and won at 12/1. So keep this in mind when placing your bets.

The best way you can increase profits from horse racing is to use a proven tipster. The one I use is currently £500 in profit for the month and is only getting better! To find out what tipster I am talking about and to read a full review of their service then click here

Roulette sniper is a piece of software that has been programmed to help make profits from European Roulette as found on near enough every online casino site. It works by analysing the past results to determine what result is likely to occur next. It will then tell you what bet to place and what stakes to use.

For staking the software tells you to use a series of progressive stakes. As a direct result of this you may end up risking a lot of money in order to win just a little through your stakes.

The software is fairly easy to use and configure. You can tell it how long max you want to be playing for, how much you want to win, how much you are going to bet and what bets you want to place and then from then on the software will tell you exactly how to play it.

So as far as roulette betting software goes the roulette sniper is definitely one of the best.

However….

and this I will tell you for free; it is impossible to beat the casino at roulette. So with all of the progressive staking systems in the world and software predictions roulette is still a game of chance with the odds stacked in the casinos favour. Sooner or later a big losing streak is going to come and wipe out all of your profits. The only thing that I can say about this system is it will help to limit your losses and keep your winning streak going as long as possible until that big losing streak eventually hits you.

So if you are intent on playing roulette then you might want to grab yourself a copy of the roulette sniper but otherwise I’d steer clear of roulette altogether if I were you!

Click here to visit the roulette sniper

Football is without a doubt the most popular sport around to have a spread bet on. The reason behind this is mainly the popularity of football and also the added excitement that is brought to a game when you have a spread bet on it.

Spread betting effectively rewards you for being right and the more right you are the more you will see rewarded to you in terms of profit. Take for example you think the game between Manchester United and Queens Park Rangers (Hypothetical example) will be high scoring. In this circumstance you will buy the total number of goals spread say at 2.5 for say ten pound. Now say the final whistle goes and the final score is 4-2 to Manchester United. Here you will have won £35 as each goal over 2.5 is worth £10 to you. Now say that the score was an astonishing 7-5 to Manchester United. You will have won £95. So your prediction of it being a high scoring game is worth more the more correct you were about that statement.

So as you can see from the previous example the more correct your feelings about a particular game turn out to be the more money goes into your profit. Now that is all well and good but how can you use this to make a killing from spread betting on football? The real key to achieving this is to realise the psychology of spread bettors.

The majority of spread bettors are thrill seekers; they love the feeling of a spread bet and like to play it out to the end. This is good we can use this. Now because most spread bettors are like this they are more likely to buy a spread than sell it. Why? Because what is more entertaining/exciting? Wanting a goal to go in or not wanting a goal to go in? Exactly.

So because of the psychology of the thrill seeking gambler we can deduce that most spread bettors will prefer to buy. Now how is this helpful? Well if more people are buying the spread than selling it what would you do as a spread betting company? You would raise the spread wouldn’t you! Now what we are seeing is an artificially raised spread because of thrill seeking gamblers, not high spreads because of real sporting circumstances.

And it is through these artificially raised spreads that you can make a killing from spread betting. If you want to learn more about Spread Betting and profiting from spread betting I recommend you read the Spread Professional. It really helped me a lot when I was getting to grips with all the jargon associated with this form of betting and it will really help you to.

Click here to visit the Spread Professional

As you are most likely aware the invention of the betting exchanges around a decade ago swept in a new era of betting, especially when it came to horse races. Betting on a race became so much easier as all you needed to do was get online and get betting. But that wasn’t the only thing the exchanges brought to the gambling world, they also brought the ability to lay or as some call it the ability to be the bookmaker.

Also for those of us currently residing in the UK it meant that we had to get our heads around decimal odds. However being able to lay horses was the real big thing to come from the exchanges. It meant that we, the betting public, could now make a decision as to whether a horse will win or not and if we did not think it would win instead of backing another horse as we would normally do we could lay it off. This was a totally radical new way of betting and one that has only gotten more and more popular since it’s invention.

The best thing people say about laying horses is that it is much easier to select a loser than it is to select a winner. That is to say if there were a 10 horse race it would be much easier for you to pick a horse that will not win the race than for you to pick a horse that will win the race. As we can see here you will undoubtedly have a much higher strike rate than ever before and you have the chance to start making the big profits like the bookmakers have been doing all along.

The drawback with laying horses to lose is that you have to put up with the liability involved if the horse does win. Take for example you lay a horse at 5.5 on the exchange to make a profit of £100 and it wins you will have to pay out £450 to the person who took you up on the bet. It is probably important to point out now is the reason why betfair is so popular is because it boasts higher odds than most traditional bookmakers.

On betfair the prices are said to be standardly 20% higher than at a traditional bookmaker. This means that you are still not in the same boat as the bookmakers as they are laying things off at considerably lower odds than you are. All of this is still not including the commission charged by betfair also!

Even after all of the disadvantages I have just mentioned I still love lay betting and I will tell you why; you do not have to do it for every race! Sure the bookmaker is compelled to offer odds for every horse on every race but you don’t have to, you can pick and choose and it is this reason and this reason alone why there is money to be made in laying horses

Just ask the boys over at Lay the Best what I am talking about, in the past 3 years lay betting has given them the chance to make over £80,000. Don’t believe me? Check out their results page for yourself by clicking here

When people begin to bet on horses they will often make the selections themselves based entirely on the limited knowledge they have about horse racing. This very often leads to losses which then cause a lack of interest in the betting game, which is sad. Other times the newcomer will have some perserverance and decide that the problem lies within himself and not with the races themselves, which is correct. The question now for the newcomer is whether to start using a system or using a tipster while he gains knowledge about this illustrious sport.

There are literally thousands of horse racing systems available while only a few are actually of any value, so any newcomer should make sure to find some positive reviews of any system he tries out before shelling out any money on them. A good system will not only outline some rules and staking plan that the reader must adhere to but must also teach the user why he is doing this, otherwise a newcomer will just be blindly following along without learning anything whatsoever. Imagine in school if they had just told you the answers without the working out, you would never be able to move on to more advanced learnings would you!

Finding such a system that provides you with winners at the same time as it is giving you some foundationary knowledge on the sport will be hard, it will become a sort of trial and error with numerous systems which could be very expensive. The more astute punter will realise that genuine and up to date information is required to find a regular supply of winners. With this comes even greater obstacles, gaining such credible information can take years of research and networking within the social tiers of racing before you come to have the knowledge that some of the more die hard race enthusiasts have.

It is at this point where most punters decide to turn away from horse racing systems and start to look at horse racing tipsters to find themselves a healthy stream of winners. However even here you will find obstacles blocking your path. What service should you choose? You will need a service that is showing winners and has been showing winners for quite some time, preferably at least one year. The reason why you should look at how long they have been around is that most services that are showing losses for more than 2-3 months will lost near enough all of the members, so any service that has been around for over a year must be showing some form of profits to still have members on the books.

As shown already using horse racing systems and horse racing tipsters to provide a steady stream of winners will require a hit or miss approach when determining which particular system or tipster to use. So how then do we decide whether to use the tipster or the system in order to get winners coming up as a regular occurence?

My answer to you is to use both. Why both? Because using both will help you master horse racing much faster. If you have a professional tipster feeding you information on horses you will be gaining up to date knowledge of particular horses and how they are faring. If you have a system where you are finding horses yourself you will be learning the mechanics of handicapping races and hopefully making profits.

Hopefully when you combine the two you will be able to spot winners based on knowledge of the particular horse and based on more scientific reasoning as taught to you by your system.

The service I am using at the moment is called Martin’s Better Betting. It has shown profit for the past year and is still going strong. Take a look at the review I made of it last November by clicking here or clicking Martin’s Better Betting on the sidebar under ‘Approved Systems/Picks’.

In fact there are so many systems that I have decided from now on to just not even write about the majority of the failed systems, this is mainly due to time constraints. I have therefore decided that systems and pick services will be going through a quality control type of process before I will even review them. This will hopefully free up more of my time so I can actually supply you guys with quality systems.

This means if you come here searching for information about a particular system and it is not here it means one of two things…

1) I looked at it and thought it was too crap to even mention

2) I have never heard of it

Either way if you are considering buying the system just send me an email and I will let you know what I think of the system in question.

For system owners this  means if you want me to review your system it needs to be able to stand up to common sense logic. For example I will instantly turn away any systems that claim to know the secrets to beating roulette.

If you want to get in contact with me then to get my opinions or help with a particular system just email me:

mike (at) topbettingguides.com

Happy Bankroll!

I have been betting now for more years than I care to
remember. I had always known about Spread Betting
but had never truly understood exactly what it was
and how it worked. That was until I read this guide:

http://www.spreadprofessional.com

Then just yesterday I was placing my very first spread bet,
truth be told I was nervous as hell mainly because for my
very first Spread Bet I had decided to bet on a match
where I had absolutely no clue what was going on! It
was a lower league Australian cricket match and I had
backed the total runs!

The game started well with the teams slogging balls
all over the park and I was happy as Larry. I was so happy
in fact that I decided to ‘close out’. Which as
SpreadProfessional taught me meant that I was guaranteed
a profit of 130 runs (at £5 a run you can see why I am so
pleased!)

Effectively speaking instead of having just a standard
bet on the outcome where I could have won maybe £20
I inturn made £650 because I placed a spread instead!
Obviously I am not expecting results like this everytime
but that money is going straight into the holiday fund!

So if you want to learn more about the opportunities
presented by Spread Betting I definitely recommend
you check out:

http://www.spreadprofessional.com

It’s a must read before you dive off in to the exciting
world of Spread Betting.

Click Here to Visit the Spread Professional Site

The review today is coming from the Lay The Best system. The current trend in betting systems seems to be laying tips and this service fits squarely into that bill. However unlike the other systems that I have reviewed already this system does lots of sports not just racing, making it the perfect service for the all-round sports bettor.

Sports that you will be laying off on include Football, Tennis and Horse Racing to name the main ones. Also every now and again you will be getting lays for American Sports like the NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB.

Lay the Best sends out two emails per day outlining the tips for the day, these tips are normally sent at midday and 7pm but may be sent out earlier if there are earlier events. In the time I have been with them I have not known them to send out emails past this time.

Now for the clincher, the results of my test of this system:

Number of Lays: 156
Number of Successful Lays: 106
Successful lay %: ~68%
Profit: £3276.43

That’s through the last 2 and a half months laying to make £100 profit every success. The results of my system are slightly different to their official results but not so much that should cause any problem, I put it all down to the odds changing as the event draws nearer

So as you can probably tell this system is going right into my approved section.

Martin’s Better Betting publishes one lay every day before noon and does not recommend laying any horse above 3.5 on betfair. I have been paper trading with them for past few months and would have made over £500, now since lowlay has gone down I have started to trade on betfair and have had similar results.

All of their picks are proofed so you can be sure that the results shown on their site are the actual results the members have received. And those of you looking for results here they are:

Not too bad are they? These are the results from putting them on for £100 a lay from Sep 08 to Nov 09. To get more up to date results click here and go to results

So Martin’s Better Betting is going into my approved category and I recommend that anyone looking to add a laying selection service into their betting portfolio to check this out.