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.

Just an added note regarding staking. If the strike rate remains as high as it is, I would recommend staying with level stakes, but re-calculating every 20 bets  which would have produced a bank of 747 pounds from an initial 100 pounds in November. Increasing the frequency to re-calculating 10% of the betting bank every 10 bets does extract a little more profit.

Plenty to ponder there. If you increase the % of bank bet, of course, then things really start getting exciting ( but ever the cautious, I’d have to warn you that it would be a big fall from grace if we hit a losing run)

At this juncture, level stakes is the only realistic staking option as some bets kick off at the same time. If you wanted other options, then select one bet at one time, as long as the next bet began after the 1st bet ended. This way you could employ “reactive” staking.

By selecting one bet for a specific time, the number of bets reduces from 225 to 137. Is there any advantage in reactive staking? Let’s take a look.

http://www.thestakingmachine.com/pro.php is the staking plan of interest, betting 20% of the bank ( as the assumed strike rate will continue to be high), turned 100 pounds on 22 November 2014 into 1356.48 as of today. ( as you can tell I don’t have apound sign on my keyboard lol).

We can employ a higher risk staking I think with assumed higher strike rate strategies. If doing , I would strongly urge you to withdraw initial seed money once the bank has doubled to allow you tdivisioo employ these higher risk strategies using OPM  – other people’s money.

Yesterday

• 5pm – Tammeka Tartu v Nomme Kalju – 1.35 away – 0-3 to Kalju.
• 630pm – Brommapojkarna v Sirius – 1.87 away – I am put off by the odds, but if I was looking at the form, without being swayed by near evens for the away side, I would be with Sirius all day. The odds were “suspiciously high”, I mentioned at www.drt.club and so my suspicions proved correct. 1-0 to Bromma it ended. In future when you see the words “suspiciously high” leave the match alone. The market knew more than us form followers!!! As I said yesterday, on form, Sirius were more 1.35 shots not 1.87. There must have been a reason.

Today

• have a day off. Dire UEFA Champions League 3rd round, 1st leg matches where the market cannot split the teams, and neither can I.
• Can I tempt you with a friendly? 7pm – Oviedo v Atletico Madrid – 1.23  away  – now this market might be illiquid so check the odds. In friendlies, I like to look for teams who take their competitive spirit into friendlies and don’t necessarily use them as experimental matches where the result doesn’t matter. Atletico Madrid are a team who want to win friendlies so I would put them up today with a wealth warning that, yes, this is a friendly!
• 730pm – Dundee v Everton – 1.23 away  – English Premiership will trump Scottish Premiership ( outside of Celtic) any day of the week. It all depends on the Everton team of course. Do note that Dundee beat Manchester City and Hearts at home last year in friendlies. The market is , again, illiquid. A first team Everton side beats Dundee today IF we see said first team out and not the nippers and the tea ladies with the kit man playing as a lone striker.