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I'm guessing there is not much to bet on at the minute?
The golf has had a few players removed but the tournaments continued.
With the suspension of horse racing due to Covid-19 I withdrew my betting fund and put it in my stocks & shares ISA, it's made money that way that I would have gambling! I've closed my Betfair account and can't be arsed with it anymore.
I signed up to the Robinhood waiting list, but I'm only like 250000 in the queue, so it'll probably be a long, long time before I get the chance to sign up.
Day 1 you get a load of spiel about how so and so horse did well here on such and such a date and the ground is right for that to happen again blah blah. They tell you to stake however much on each of their picks, and the bookie to use.
Day 2 you get a paragraph about how there were no winners yesterday but if such and such had happened you'd have been in profit. Then they'll say something like "onwards and upwards! We can't expect them all to be winners, and we'll see the value play out over time".
So you're basically expected to keep blindly staking your money on someone else's opinion in the hope you'll turn a profit because they say they're giving you value.
To be fair most of the services are in profit, but for example one I looked at gave a profit of 30 points over 12 months. Well if you put on a tenner a bet that's £300, and the service was £30 a month. When questioned on this they said yeah but if you put £1000 on each bet you'd have made £30,000.
If that horse wins the tipster records it as a £30 profit, whereas you only got £20. It's then possible to get in to a situation where the service is saying its in profit, but actually not everyone is.
My own selections are based entirely on trying to beat the start price of the horse on Betfair, and that's the only way to be in profit in my opinion. For example I've taken a horse at 50/1 each way this morning, which means if it places I get 10/1 odds. It's currently 3/1 to place on Betfair, and I'm hoping those odds comes in further by race start.
In the long run this is very profitable, but equally it can take longer to be in profit than a lot of people have the stomach for. I also expect the bookie to close the account where I placed that bet as it shows I know what I'm doing, and they won't want my business.