I wrote an article for my eletter on this subject, focussing on Banker Bets and showing you how we can profit from them.

I’ll list some apparent “bankers” in this post, and time permitting, will try to do this daily. I try to look for 1.1 odds or higher. The goal is to win back your initial stake and bank that immediately, then play on, banking profits every £10 or so.

This is not a strategy where I’m trying to create the biggest odds returns. I want a “banker”, a bet which is obvious.

Bankers and Blowouts – the mini-DRT angle.

www.drt.club is my trading service where I do all of my football research. I have noticed that these bankers, whilst sometimes frustrating us with score draws and throwing away 2-0 leads, rarely lose matches. How can you profit? Well are you familiar with football trading? That is, reacting to how a match unfolds in-play? If you are then you would have taken on faith the fact that these bankers rarely lose, and layed Dundee in play , when they were 1-3 up to bankers Aberdeen. Final score ( as you see below), 3-3. How about more frustrating bar stewards like Club Brugge the other day against Mechelen.

Staying with our premis that Bankers rarely lose, what could you have done if Mechelen ( as they did) take the lead? Lay Mechelen! Better yet, what if the match was still 0-1 coming to 90 minutes? Lay Mechelen at lower odds for potentially greater profit! You know what happened next, I am sure. Club Brugge equalised in the 90th minute.

I have already mentioned the idea of laying a team 2-0 up, to lock in profit. Consider the above elements too , in order to maximise the premis that Bankers rarely lose.

Yesterday

BANKERS

Update on the Betfair odds. The odds below were taken from PaddyPower mid week. Betfair odds are better.

2pm -Dinamo Zagreb v RNK Split – 1.14 home ( 1.2 Betfair)-2-0

3pm – Man Utd v Sunderland – 1.33 home  ( 1.39 Betfair)- 2-0 

3pm – Granada v Barcelona – 1.16 away -1-3 

3pm – Hearts v Cowdenbeath – 1.12 home (1.18 betfair) -10-0

4pm – HNK Rijeka v Slaven Belupo – 1.14 home ( 1.21 Betfair)- 1-1 To say we were unlucky is an under statement. Rijeka had a massive 32 shots on goal and only managed one goal. It was painful watching the shots pile up but no 2nd goal. What a pity.

Today

230pm – Borussia Monchengladb… v Paderborn – 1.5 home – take a chance on this today ?as it has a characteristic I like to see. Paderborn have failed to score in 6 of their last 8 away matches and in 5 of their last 6 matches. A hope that, while Mgladbach are having trouble scoring more than 1 goal in match, that they can keep this clean sheet and ensure a win. I would have liked to see Mgladbach score 2+ more regularly. That is a concern. 1-1 is not out of this.

5pm – Besiktas v Balikesirspor – 1.25 home – Slaven Bilic has Besiktas back up and fighting for the title. A win takes them 2nd today after Fenerbahce could only manage a draw yesterday. No draw in 17 matches for Besiktas means home win or away win. The market goes with home win. The fact Besiktas are playing bottom, a side with only 1 away win v 2nd bottom, suggests I plump for Besiktas too. Only defeats for Besiktas at home v 1st and 2nd.

There may be more bankers added as I research more matches.