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LetsCompareBets guide to spread betting and fixed odds betting

We want to help compare betting…..the clue is in our name! Lets Compare Bets brings our visitors a selection of guides to betting online. There is a lot of information on our site so you may like to bookmark LetsCompareBets.com (Control D). The editor of LetsCompareBets has provided a guide to various types of betting online.

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Spread Betting Explained

Spread betting is an innovative way to make online bets on sports to financial markets. Find our guide to spread betting with sports spread betting explained and financial spread betting explained. Most levels of experience are catered for.

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Fixed Odds Betting Guide

Traditionally fixed odds betting has taken center stage. Online fixed odds betting has opened this past time to the mass market. Making it easier than ever to make sports fixed odds bets or financial fixed odds bets online. Browse the site to find various articles about sports fixed odds betting and financial fixed odds betting.

For further reading and more explanation of spread betting or fixed odds betting visit our parent site at LetsCompareBets.com. Most recent posts can be found below and to the right.

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Compare private betting clubs

Let’s Compare Bets have reviewed three of the most established private betting clubs. Betting School, Punter Profits and Secret Betting Club all offer something slightly different. To compare what they have to offer use the comparison chart below. To get a full review of each betting club use the links within the table. Our editors recommendations are below the table. Feel free to add comments.

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Secret Betting Club review

Membership of the Secret Betting Club gets members access to regular issues of the Secret Betting Club publication and access to the Tipster Statistics Report. Compared to Punter Profits and Betting School, reviewed in earlier posts, Secret Betting Cub’s publication also aims to empower the betting enthusiast by providing the information necessary to produce a profitable betting system. The newsletter is published monthly and is available via PDF download. It tends to be more detailed than the equivalent newsletters available at other private betting clubs.

Rather than having a membership system or systems, Secret Betting Club’s Tipster Statistics Report aims to highlight the best tipsters at any one time rather than following select systems. This enables members to build a valuable betting portfolio. The argument is that a betting portfolio is needed to decrease the risk of any one system not performing and reducing the value of the betting bank. If different tipsters and systems are used it protects the member against loses and increases return on investment.

Secret Betting Club features reviewed

Punter Profits review

The focus of Punter Profits is UK Horse Racing. The editor’s back ground is in statistical horse racing research. Thoroughly researched and proven methods of betting are used to offer selections to members. These techniques are intended to aid members to develop their own unique systems. That’s the crux of any good betting system is that it’s unique. If it stays unique it should stay profitable. The idea of the private betting club is to share ideas amongst the few so that system rules stay fresh.

Similar to Betting School, reviewed in the previous post, Punter Profits has a forum where members can get together to share their research and results. It is a environment where ideas are pooled to enable members to get much needed information.

As a result of the shared experience of some of the most experienced members a collection of six selection methods are available as part of the service. The selection system uses a portfolio approach to help minimise the risk of poor returns. Proofed results of these systems are available. Although profitable over the long term results have been mixed. These should be seen as a guide to betting systems. Members are encouraged to use these systems to develop their own profitable betting selection rules.

Punter Profits features reviewed

Betting School a private betting club

Betting School was originally started to help gambling enthusiasts use the various betting guides, systems and strategies on the market. It was later developed into a forum for expert gamblers who share their techniques and secrets. Members of the Betting School insiders club regularly share information about the systems they use.

Some systems are offered to the public others are available only to members. This makes sense considering the effectiveness of any system is always diminished if used by too many people.

Contributors to Betting School include betting experts who have made a living from betting for years. Amongst others are the authors of successful betting manuals, including Profitable Trainer Trends, The Ultimate All Weather Report, False Favourites, Race Specialist, DIY Punting, Puntology, Pro Ratings. Betting School have selected a good choice for editor by choosing Steve Carter; an expect gambler who has made a living from betting systems from his villa in Spain.

Betting School review

Compare financial spread betting order types

Financial spread betting without orders would be very risky indeed. You may have noticed this message all over spread betting company websites “Spread betting, CFDs and FX are leveraged products and carry a high level of risk to your capital. It is possible to lose more than your initial investment. These products may not be suitable for all investors, therefore ensure you understand the risks involved and seek independent advice if necessary.” It’s worth comparing the spread betting order so that the risks can be reduced and the rewards amplified. Orders are triggered automatically so the trader doesn’t even need to be there. Let alone worry about the risk.

The word leverage here, means that the value of the bet can be worth more than the amount actually staked. It has a similar meaning when a company borrows money to boost profits. The company uses leverage. Spread betting works in a similar why. Say you decide to spread bet the FTSE 100. You buy the market at 1£ per point. The market rises 10 points by the end of the day. At the close of trading your spread bet will be worth £10. If you close your bet you will get nearly a £10 profit for only a £1 stake. That’s leverage. Of course it works the same the other way. It’s not only profits that get magnified it’s loses too: a reason why spread betting can carry a ‘high level of risk’. This leads us nicely to the point of spread betting orders.

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Multiple betting, is Betdaq really better than Betfair?

Multiple betting has long been popular with the betting public. Granddads far and wide have likely spent hours looking over racing newspapers and fine tuning multiple betting selections. Why, who knows! It’s probably the combination that small stakes can produce big gains. There is some work involved with getting the perfect multiple bet which probably makes it more satisfying: not to mention the immense excitement if the selections start winning. One after another, great! It’s fun. Multiple betting has now been adopted by the betting exchange: Let’s Compare Bets has uncovered the nuts and bolts of multiple betting on the betting exchange by comparing Betdaq and Betfair.

Betfair is the worlds leading betting exchange. It’s beyond the scope of this post to discuss why that is. There are other posts on the the Lets Compare Bet’s blog that compare Betfair to Betdaq. Cutting a long story short, suffice to say they got the technology right first and attracted more members. Fist mover advantage and a faithful following are some of the ingredients in their recipe for their success.

That’s enough of blowing Betfair’s trumpet. This post is here to help compare Betdaq to Betfair. You may wonder; why would you want to compare these two betting exchanges if Befair is bigger and better? As with many things, if you dig a little deeper that is not necessarily the case.

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World Cup betting results

The World Cup draws to a close and Spain are triumphant. Their first ever World Cup victory. Widely expected as the final result. In part due to the fact that a large part of the team have all played regular football at Barcelona.

The Spanish played well in what was a dirty game. The World Cup final was littered with yellow cards. One for De Jong’s karate kick on the chest of Xabi Alonso, which should have been a red card. Any how, this worked out well for our Holland to win most bookings points bet. This was frustrating because there was no time for us to place a bet, but, we hope our readers made the most of that one.

Let’s see the outcome of the LetsCompareBets World Cup betting diary.

There where 14 bets in total not counting the ones we didn’t place that we advised on in the previous post. Winning bets where 8 and 6 loosing bets. That’s a 57 percent strike rate.

There’s a picture of our Betfair account underneath. Unfortunately we didn’t get to place all the bets we recommended. Feel free to look back through our post and see for yourself how you would have done.

results 150x150 World Cup betting results

Using football statistics is a great way to get football bets. We’re no experts. We just did this for fun to show our readers that using the statistics can spot profitable bets. You’ll notice that our staking is a bit rubbish. Normally each bet would be carefully staked using a professional staking plan.

To register your interest in receiving free football betting tips from ex betting shop managers and bookmaker insiders visit this page, and punch in your details. These guys use proper staking and find value bets. You’ll get a bunch of free football betting tips to start with.

World Cup final two tips for Hollan v Spain

There’s no time to give any World Cup betting stats here, just straight to the booking point betting and corners betting tips.

We might add some meat to the bones later. Possibly after the event. Also, hopefully it’ll be obvious we can walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

Here they are,

Spain to be awarded the most corners. Spain play attacking football which is reflected in their corner stats.

Holland to win a bookings point match bet. They’re lively lads are likely to get carded.

Holland have a 100% trend, World Cup goal, corner, and booking points betting

Time for a quick recap of our World Cup Betting diary. You won’t find any match bets here, just goal betting, corner betting and booking points betting. Let’s see how things have gone.

What a surprise the England Germany game was. We can’t even say it was bitter sweet, well, as far as goal betting goes anyway. With a surprising 4 goals the game didn’t profit for an under 2.5 goal bet. However, the England game was more profitable in the corners market. The Corners match bet paid out because England where the best, once again, at winning corners. The 13 or more corner bet did not pay but was saved by the 10 – 12 corners bet that was placed. The saver bet placed for 10 – 12 corners is only available with Betfair, whereas normal bookmakers offer an exactly 11 corners bet. The chances of getting 10 -12 corners was less than getting over 13 corners. Hence, odds where longer so it only needed a small bet to cover the costs of loosing the over 13 corners bet.

Then there was the USA v Ghana goal bet. The low goal numbers continued and the goal bet won. When Cameroon played Holland there where less than 9 corners, so that was another bet that won. The same happened for Japan V Denmark.

Here’s the run down
England V Germany under 2.5 goal bet LOST
England V Germany corners match bet WON
England V Germany over 13 corners LOST
England V Germany 10 – 12 corner saver bet WON
USA V Ghana under 2.5 goals bet WON
Cameroon V Holland 9 corners or less WON
Denmark V Japan 9 corners or less WON

World Cup corner betting

Enlgand are favourites, goal betting and corner betting tips.

In this edition of the LetsCompareBets World Cup betting diary we’re making predictions on the England Germany and Argentina Mexico.

England are favourites to beat Germany, but, only just. This is surprising perhaps, after being knocked out by Germany at both Euro ‘96 and World Cup ‘90. Germany is a different side from back then, so the impact on England should only be psychological. Germany has a young team and has key players such as Michael Ballack are injured.

Here are some tasty stats for betting on the World Cup England V Germany game.

England and Germany have not been scoring many goals. Under 2.5 goals (which is a typical type of goal bet for those who don’t know) have been produced in 3 out of 3 of England’s games and 2 out of 3 of Germany. Added to that Germany have been fairing progressively worse since their 4 – 0 stonker against Australia. There has been a 1 – 0 score line in half of the games played by England and Germany.

Here’s a goal betting tip. Go under 2.5 goals. Or perhaps bet on a 1 – 0 or 0 – 1 result supporting which ever team you think is more likely to win. Yikes, who will you go for England or Germany? Comments welcome.

An area where England will probably dominate is the corner market. England are good at winning corners, shown by an average of at least 12 corners in all 3 England games so far. They have won the most corners in 8 out of 10 games in qualifying: a trend that has continued during the group games.

Germany aren’t bad either. An over 10.5 corner bet would have paid in 2/3 of Germany’s games thus far. Germany have averaged 6 corners per game so far. They’ve won the most corners by at least 4 corners in every game.

With a game like this it is hard to pick a winner. The corners stats above point to a corner bet.

An over 10.5 corner bet is a good option. Also England to win most corners bet.

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