Betting Underground is a complete step-by-step betting guide that starts from square one and includes strategies and systems not only for horse racing, but also virtually for all other sports – Baseball, Basketball, US/UK Soccer, US Football, Tennis, Cricket, etc.. Betting Underground is suitable for anyone who wants to make quick money on Betfair or on other bookies whether they are novice or seasoned punters.

I have just bought the system in question myself this morning and here are my thoughts on it:

For starters the number of exit pop-ups on that site was totally annoying and gave me the initial impressions of stay away scam, but I realise this is a viable marketing technique and I am here to do a review so I am continued on and bought anyway.

When I got to the thank you page I was pretty impressed to find that I had not only the main guide but then individual guides for each sport and 4 bonus guides to choose from. However what I later learned was that all of the individual sports guide were take directly from the main guide and only made into a seperate guide for ease of access I would expect.

The systems themselves are extremely basic and a lot of the time just well known and proven to not work systems (Martingale anyone?). I think the line that summed up why I will not be recommending this system to anyone is this:

Thus you bet the winnings from the previous game on the next game as well as in the Let it ride strategy.
If you are going to be successful 15 times in a row, you have the winnings paid out and start over.

Ah yes the let it ride strategy, a well known and profitable strategy indeed (sarcasm). Seriously though I can never recommend a guide that recommends the use of the ‘let it ride’ strategy, more over for 15 times before taking the winnings.

The system that I have hinted at above is basically a complex way of laying off 0-1 in football (UK) matches. Which is quite funny as the system makes you place three bets on three different outcomes with the only outcome missing being the 0-1 away win. The example they have given results in a $9 win from $100 if it is not 0-1, where they then tell you to let the winnings ride for 15 wins.

I would like to say that foolish systems like this were uncommon in this series of systems guide but I cannot there is a system that says if the away team have a player sent off by the 75 minute mark back that there will be another goal. Where are the past results to show that this isn’t anything more than a guess? Surely the odds will change after a red card to reflect that there might be another goal so we will not be able to get value in the long run.

Let’s move on from football, let’s check out what it says about baseball. According to this guide there are only two ways of betting on baseball, The Money Line and the Over/Under. This is news to me, all of these years I have been betting on the Run Line (+/- 1.5 runs remember that one?)

Again with the baseball system the rules are merely guesses that probably influence a game and I can guarantee are already reflected in the odds. Take for example this gem:

If you hit upon powerful offences that have been scoring consistently against a strong ERA pitcher, it is best to bet on the offences team. Betting on the team totals is advisable as the offences will score high runs for their team.

So if a team has been scoring lots of runs we should bet on them to score lots of runs? What a ridiculous statement, this statement would be the greatest betting strategy ever if we assume bookies are idiots and do not take past form into account when setting their lines and making their odds. Obviously a team that has been hitting good pitchers for multiple runs are going to have shorter odds on any overs bet than a normal side. Thus negating any gap in the market and resulting in losses in the long run. Also I have still failed to see any proof that any of these systems work.

Right well I think I may have made my point about this system but as I don’t get to do this an awful lot let’s take a look at the cricket system. To be honest I was quite impressed that there was a cricket system as it is not the most popular sport going but people still do like to bet on it.

Ah that is unlucky, the two pages that they have on cricket are not infact systems they just tell you what the different types of bets are.

So I think you know where I am going with this but I am going to have to put this in my failed category. This system in its entirety does not expose any gaps in the market to make long run profits which is what a system is supposed to do. Instead it goes into great detail on the  types of bets you can make and then proposes a system citing the only proof as one example, if that, where it was profitable for them.

I would possibly have said it was a good read for the professional gambler as they could get a few decent ideas from reading over these people’s theories but I can’t possibly endorse paying £27 for a system that is going to tell you to let it ride.

Also a small thing that annoyed me, the entire site is advertised in £’s leading you to believe that this guide is aimed at UK persons but then all through the book it uses American betting terms (parlays, soccer etc.). As a dual citizen of both countries I had no problem understanding but a normal UK person would have some troubles trying to decipher what all of these terms meant when for all intents and purposes it looks targetted to him.

Click here to go to the Betting Underground Site

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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.

963

Which is a loss of 37pts which for me during this review means £37, however I can see how this picking service COULD profit in the long run, although it may not.

With this in mind and the fact that I have only been at it for a month I will have to say I cannot make a conclusive yes/no approved/failed verdict on this system.

Instead, because I know a lot of you still have memberships with them specifically those of you who were helping with the review of this product I am going to throw the verdict of this site open to the general public.

For those of you not yet with them but want to take part then please get yourself a membership here and comment away!

Just thought I’d share this that someone just sent over to me, they say they received it from the guys over at the ultimate sports betting system exposed.

From:	Steve (steve@expert-bet.com)
Sent:	14 September 2009 14:19:23
To:	<removed>

Hi,

My name is Steve and I’m a member of Mark Riley’s expert-bet.com team. I
have only this newsletter to tell you that I’m a first member who will leave
this team.

I’m a designer of this system and a lot more but some of members of expert
team are too greedy. and they just want cash, cash, cash…. I told them that
this system is designed only for major leagues and we should sell only
system to customers. Premium picks should be free for those customers.

But no, they want to test my system on other leagues – but they failed!!!
LOST MATCH TODAY!!!

There are only 20-30 such bets per year. But of course… why not to sell
more?? Well, NOT ME!!

Copies of bookmakers account are mine, system is mine, 100% truly sure
picks are mine… I don’t need to steal others people money! I’m a honest guy
and my name won’t be under expert-bet anymore!

What should you do?
Definitely ask for refund! Or you can try your luck with them.

But did you solve the problem? No. You lost. It is true there is always up
and down with sports betting but with reliable tipster you should make a
very good profit.

Who am I? You will 100% hear for me in near future! I will open my own
service with REAL one and honest service!! My only problem is web design and
how to build up a website. I’m a sport bettor, not a web designer. But I
will solve this problem in a week or two…

All premium members if you want to get into REAL HONEST SERVICE and if you
want to follow my personal picks, advices, insiders please e-mail me to:
player79@gmail.com
Just drop me an email and you will be on my personal mailing list! You will
only get all information’s about my honest service.

I want to help you to make money – which you lost with expert-bet!

If you don’t reply to me I wish you all the best in your betting future.

e-mail: player79@gmail.com

Regards,
Steve

Not sure what to make of that but it sure as hell makes me trust that system a whole lot less!

Upon purchase of this service you are given access to their members area which includes all of the picks, all of the past picks, a members forum and a lot more. The best thing about it so far is that in the forums there are countless other members discussing their own picks so there is a nice community aspect to this service.

Anyway I have opted for the email selection service so I will receive all of the picks straight to my email address and as always this review will go on for 30 days to see if the selection service is profitable.

All the picks are based on a starting bankroll of 1000 points and the first bet (Croatia to beat Belarus Sep 5th) came in with a 56 point profit, so all subsequent posts will see the bank starting from 1056.

Let’s see how it goes.

http://www.footballmaestrosystem.com

ah well if anyone has any news or any other systems for me to take a look at feel free to comment below!

With this in mind I decided to get the Soccer Magic Matrix which on its sales page promises:

Soccer Magic Matrix will provide you with the most powerful advantage for placing bets….build-up your profits and generate even more lucrative bets.

Upon purchase I was quite disappointed to find it was a basic bet calculator with a few advanced functions which really only helped with Dutching your bets.

Although I do actually like the functions the calculator can do I cannot condone the price tag that has been attributed to it. Although if you have £60 to spare it would be a handy accessory. However for those that do not want to shell out this kind of cash I recommend you check out http://www.betcalc.com/ to get you hands on a large number of free calculators.

There are basically 3 stipulations that must be met in order for a bet to be placed and they are outlined within the book. Because there are generally quite a few selections that can be made a day I am only going to do a weeks ‘in-play’ review of this guide.

My general feeling before I review this guide is that it will work because it seems to have some good theory behind the selection and the author must have done his homework prior to release. check back for my in play review of Football Laying Code

Oh yes forgot to mention as well the guide is based on placing bets in the goal minutes market in betfair but it will work for any betting exchange.

The guide comes with 2 staking systems to maximise profit but for the purpose of this review I am just using basic level stakes.

Day 1:

Not a big footballing day today considering it is a tuesday, but  I have 1 bet placed and two bets where the odds are just out of the limits set by the rules of the system. However I am expecting the odds to shift majorly on the run in to kick off so we shall wait and see what happends and I will post the results here.

2 bets ended up qualifying and both bets were successful resulting in 2 points profit.

Day 2+3:

Another 6 qualifying bets in the past 2 days, probably could have been more I just didn’t check the games of the teams I had never heard of, some crazy Norwegian teams etc playing. All 6 bets were successful resulting in a further 6 points profit.

Final Review

I kind of got bored making bets on matches I had absolutely no interest in, so since the start of the premiership I have just been backing those and foreign teams I actually knew something about.

Anyway from a total 21 bets there were only 2 losers resulting in a total of 11 points profit or £110 before betfair commission!

Anyway this system is going in to the recommended systems as I can tell it will make nice returns over the course!

Review by Jack

As the new Premier League season is about to get underway we are looking for new systems and pick services to review. So if you are thinking of purchasing one of these but want to see how we rate it before hand then get in touch (mike at topbettingguides.com) or post a comment on this thread.

Also anyone who owns a product and wants us to review it for them then do the same. This post will be updated with the systems we are testing on an ongoing basis so check back to find out more!

*UPDATE*

We are going to be testing the following products:

Soccer Magic Matrix – Click here for finished review

Football Laying Code – Click here for in-play review

As always if anyone else wants to review the product with us just get in touch! Any more products you want reviewing just get in touch as well

Once you purchase you are required to download the football minister software onto your computer so you can be supplied with the picks each day, now as I have reviewed a number of sports tipsters I thought this was a very over-complicated method of providing tips.

Now on one of the days that I was getting tips I was forced to be on my computer at 5 different points throughout the day, hardly the ‘only a couple of minutes a week is required’ as stated on their website.

So basically this is just a sports tipping service with a sophisticated method of providing picks. The complicated nature of receiving the picks will be completely worth it if the picks provided pull through. Upon purchase of the software it is preloaded with past results which show amazing profits (to be taken with a pinch of salt I reckon).

The selections I received through my evaluation period were mainly odds on favourites so a very high strike rate was going to be required to turn a profit.

The system during my period with them turned 46 bets out, of those 46 only 26 were successful. Considering the odds on nature of these bets I ended up with a 34.30 loss whilst betting £10 as they advised.

Overall I cannot endorse the Football Minister as it shows no sign of being able to turn a profit unless their picks drastically improve.