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

230pm – Borussia Monchengladb… v Paderborn – 1.5 home -2-0

5pm – Besiktas v Balikesirspor – 1.25 home – 2-2. 1-0 lead and 2-1 until the 83rd minute when Balikesirspor were awarded a penalty. Disappointing as it should have been comfortable for Besiktas.

Today

Nothing of interest today. CSKA Moscow take on Krylya at 3pm in the Russian Cup. Both sides are coming back after a Winter Break . CSKA have a superb record at home overall with only Zenit and Bayern Munich able to beat them since August 2014.

Rijeka and Besiktas have really let me down this weekend. 32 shots on goal from Rijeka and a late penalty concession for Besiktas. BUT, if you bet £10 on each selection £100 would have turned into £269 since November 2004. Slow and steady.

If we model www.soccerstreaks.com, and bet 33% of our initial bank ( I would like to bet 33% of a rolling bank but there are numerous selections on at the same time and exposure would be too high). So £33 level stake has turned the bank into £657.

An 87.6% strike rate could be improved of course with reactive trading in-play but that is an advanced technique and not in keeping with the “bet and go” philosophy.

So it’s good news long-term. Some hard luck stories for sure.