Sporting Life, the website, boasts a 3000+ pts profit over the last 17 years and an impressive 214 pts profit for May this year. I could do with a couple of hundred quid each month so let’s see how they did it. Sporting Life tips section is the place to find the Recommended bets and they have a fully checkable archive. In this post I am going to delve into the various sections of the May 2021 to find out who or what made the money and who or what let the side down.
Beginning with the racing section there are a total of 7 different “tipsters”, For instance Weekend view deals with just ante post bets for the coming weekend and “Punting Pointers” generally has a selection each day.
As this is going to be a long-winded affair, instead of having reams of information, I am going to put their results into an excel spreadsheet and make it available to view at your leisure or if you wish to contact me I can send it directly to you.
Each spreadsheet will contain the following information.
1. Date
2. Selection
3. Advised Odds
4. Advised Odds Profit/Loss
5. S.P. Odds
6. S.P. Odds Profit/Loss
7. Result
I am adding the S.P. data as these selections odds tend to shorten considerably from the tips publication point to the starting gate. With this we can identify the tipsters the bookies fear just like the good old days of “Pricewise”
First up is “Punting Pointers” who has an overall profit of 6.85 points from 76 bets at advised odds for the merry month of May. If you had backed these at S.P. then you would have lost 3.78 points. At £2.00 per point gives an advised monetary profit of £13.70 and at S.P. a monetary loss of £7.56. Not bad for a months fun, but it doesnt end there! Next for the 3rd degree is Weekend View
Weekend View consists of Ante Post Bets for the coming weekend. Many people are wary of ante-post betting as it is an istant loss should the trainer withdraw his charge before final declarations. This said however the plus side is that there is often a much bigger price to be snaffled betting Ante Post. As with the punting pointers spreadsheet I will be including the S.P. results for the faint hearted who want to wait for race day.
Value Bets is the next “Tipster” and the advised bets are usually of a bigger price. Strangely though the advice is, more often than not, to place win bets and not E/W bets and more than one has placed at odds of more than 10/1. I have included in this spreadsheet the figures for backing each horse each/way and assumed the bookies paid 1/5 odds on a place. Doing this got a 1.3 point profit instead of a -6 point loss.
With the general “Tipsters” analysed I will move onto the brave souls who actually put their name to their selections. It seems that one or two may well need to keep their money in their wallet while there is one who does well putting his money where his mouth is.
Fran Berry seems to be the Irish specialist and achieved a loss of 2.94 points in May to advised odds whereas backing the selections at starting price gave a loss of 13.12 points suggesting that Mr Berry is perhaps a bit of a “pricewise” and some more research might hit upon some tasty “Back to Lay” opportunities.
Moving on to the next tipster for no other reason than he is next on the list is Simon Holt. Simon Holt is the most successful tipster in may with a massive 41.3 point profit to advised odds. Starting Price profit is significantly lower at 16.67 points profit for May. Backing to lay is definitely an option but pointless when the man is in such good form!
As with everything racing, these figures should not and don’t reflect a gaurenteed profit each month and more research should be done before blindly punting good money onto bad horses. That said however, betting is fun as long as you stay within your limits. Simon Holt advised a total of 38 points which is just over £1.00 per day working to 1 point = £1.00 that to my mind is fun. If you start working to £10.00 = 1 point then things are a little more serious.
Just as a pointer to previous months Simon Holt had the following gains/losses
April -20.5pts
March -16.25
February +1.38
January +4
As you can see not life-changing but up over the year so far, but how many of you would have followed him into May betting £10/point, and how many of you would still be with him at £1/point.
I will be posting which type of race he and the others seem to do well at and which to avoid. Follow me so as not to miss it and other factual snippets to hopefully enable you not to give too much money to the blood-sucking bookies!!
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