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Video Tutorial: How to Input Best Market Odds into the True Odds Calculator

This is the last in our series of video tutorials regarding the filling-in of data into the True Odds and Value Bet Calculator Excel spreadsheet. Here you will learn the input process of market odds from sites such as www.betfair.com into the...
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Oddsportal Archived Odds – Identifying and Correcting 1×2 Odds Errors

As we have mentioned before, one of our favourite sites for collecting historical data is www.oddsportal.com, and in our recent article about the concepts for football betting systems we outlined how to set-up an Oddsportal user account and...
A school of fish with 3 fish swimming against the stream / 3 Fische, die gegen den Strom anderer Fische schwimmen

Successful Football Betting Using a Portfolio Strategy

In principle, football results are randomly distributed but the outcomes of games can be predicted fairly accurately using statistical modelling. This is contrary to other forms of gambling loaded in favour of the house such as lottery and roulette,...
Business picture about analysis - gold coins with people on a sliding slope / Illustration Analyse - Goldmünzen mit Menschen auf einem Rutschhang

Football Roulette Correct Score Betting Strategy – 2011/2012 Season Paper Test Results

What’s The Score? After describing the Football Roulette – Correct Score Betting system, it is time to reveal the results of our first paper test. 30 teams were picked according to a popular selection process: 8 from the English Premier...
Close up of roulette wheel with football instead ball / Nahaufnahme eines Roulette-Rads mit Fußball statt Kugel

Football Roulette – Correct Score Betting Strategy

Methodical Correct Score Betting Claimed by many to be very successful, this simple football correct score betting system is based on the statistical likelihood of a certain event occurring. In casino roulette, there is a well-known method...
Solitary woman in front of a giant soccer screen / Einsame Frau vor einem riesigen Bildschirm mit Fußballspieler

Top Live Video Streaming Betting Sites for Watching Football Matches

I have been watching football matches at all levels for almost 40 years. Despite not having played the game at any significant level above school or works teams I can usually tell within a few minutes of watching a televised game how balanced...
Hand puts coins on money staircase / Hand legt Münzen auf Geldtreppe

Greening-Up In-Play at Betting Exchanges

Gambling ‘in play’ provides the opportunity of trading or hedging via betting exchange sites such as Betfair, Betdaq or Smarkets, where this type of strategy is known as greening-up (i.e. two or more transactions performed to produce a ‘green...

Utilising Soccerwidow’s Value Betting Spreadsheets: Lay in-play if the underdog scores first

There is a plethora of ways of utilising Soccerwidow’s Value Bet calculations to suit your personal strategy and interests. Here is another one of them… A Trader’s Point Of View – Day 3: 3 October, 2012 On 3rd October the Widow...

When to Back Instead of Lay Betting: Asian Handicap; Double Chance; Dutching…

This article explores the alternatives to laying at the betting exchanges in order to bet against a result. Every bettor should try to optimise the financial return from his/her risk, which means finding absolutely the best prices available. Of...
Business man adjuring a crystal ball / Geschäftsmann beschwört eine Kristallkugel

Utilising Soccerwidow’s Value Betting Techniques: A Trader’s Point Of View

A few months ago I was scouring the Net for advice on how to compile my own football odds and by fate, I happened to stumble across a great little site called www.soccerwidow.com. Being impressed with the information they made freely available...