Background
I thought I should give you all a bit of information about my background.
After all, what qualifies me to be giving out betting tips? For all you guys know, I could be one of those weird chaps you see in all dirty boozers spouting off about football. You know the sorts.
By day I am a 25 year old Chartered Accountant working in Corporate Finance in London. It’s dull. Very dull. But it allows you to get a mortgage and it doesn’t suffer from unforeseeable injury time goalkeeping gaffs. So for the time being, I am conforming with British society in the never ending battle to get rich.
Prior to entering the wonderful world of Corporate Finance, I was a professional poker player.
Not the flamboyant WPT/millionaire type whose lifestyle people romance about. The 60 hours a week in front of 3 computer screens type. The 3 cans of red bull a night type. The not going out on a Saturday as you know it will theoretically cost you over £250 in lost income before you even begin frittering away a further £70 quid on 9 too many beers, a kebab and a taxi type.
It isn’t as much fun as it sounds. But at the time you could make a lot of money, completely tax free. The online game has tightened up a lot over the last few years, however the money can still be made if you are good enough. But it is tough, and only the real jersey cream at the top are still making a healthy living worth all the sacrifices.
Before this I was a part-time poker playing, full-time drinking student completing a Mathematics degree at University.
All my life I have been a keen sports fan and pretty good with numbers. I seem to have been able to balance all of the above to become an above average sports gambler. A strong understanding of mathematics, probability and variance is needed to consistently make risk based decisions which will allow you to beat the bookies.
It isn’t easy. That is why almost every bookie across the country turns a profit each and every year.
However, just like in the poker world, whilst there is still a never ending supply of betting “fish” pumping money into the market backing Fernando Torres to score a hat trick every week, there will always be a few risk neutral sharks around able to pick up the scraps that the slightly flabby, lazy bookmakers leave lying around.
From now on I am going to share the majority of my betting tips with the masses. Not all, but most. It’s called a free lunch, not an all you can eat buffet after all.
Unlike a lot of tipsters and similar blogs I plan on giving detailed explanations of why I am making the bets in question when I have the time. And they won’t be the “Team X are cracking at home, so I am backing them” type explanations. Me thinks that Ladcrookes probably thought about that when they priced the market after all…
Along the way I plan on hopefully keeping you entertained with some of my more random musings and will try and throw in a portion of banter every now and then. But not often. I’m pretty low on banter these days to be honest, times are hard.
Hasta la vista.