Punters Academy
Cheltenham Festival tips – the last 5 years…
Cheltenham Festival 2020 It’s probably the hardest week’s punting in the calendar year… maximum fields, devilishly hard handicaps, unrelated form lines, unexposed novices… you get the picture! Almost all the novice form going into the Festival is in small, fairly uncompetitive fields where highly touted horses go off at long odds on and are mostly…
Read MoreCheltenham Festival 2020 betting strategy
Hi there, well, there are now a little over 2 weeks until the tapes go up on the Supreme Novices Hurdle and, the stands erupt signalling that the Cheltenham Festival 2020 is at last underway. It’s the highlight of the gambling year with four days of the best jumps racing the UK has to offer.…
Read MoreCleeve Racing Review – Smart Betting Club report
Hi there, Smart Betting Club is rightly regarded as the No1 brand when it comes to reviewing tipping services. At the end of 2019, Cleeve was very proud to be awarded ‘SBC Hall of Fame’ status after an intensive review lasting a full 8 months, where they monitored every tip/advised price we gave our members,…
Read MoreHow to use Oddschecker to get the best odds
In this post, I will show you how to use Oddschecker to get the best odds from bookmakers. With the Cheltenham Festival on the horizon, I am sure many of you will be having those speculative accumulators, Trixies, Lucky 15s and other exotic bets to hit the bookies where it hurts. We all do it…
Read MoreHitching up to the the wrong tipping service will cost you money!
Does your betting style match the tipping service profile because if it doesn’t you are going to waste your money… Why? Because sooner or later the style of the service you’ve paid to join, and your own personal and emotional betting style will clash irreconcilably and you will inevitably part ways… and you’ll be the…
Read MoreOlly Murphy Stable Tour – Friday 8th November 2019
Many thanks to our guest authors – Perry and Vicky… long-term members and friends of Cleeve Last year at the Cheltenham Preview Night at Warwick Racecourse I won a prize for a morning on the gallops and a stable tour of Warren Chase Stables in the beautiful Warwickshire countryside just outside Stratford-upon-Avon. On a cold…
Read MoreWhy would I use a tipping service anyway?
It’s a good question… if you are a once a week TV punter risking a fiver a week, then my honest answer is that you don’t need one, as you are punting for fun and your maximum downside is around £20 a month. However, if you are betting on average a fiver a day, even…
Read MoreWe can benefit from racing tipsters, but they have to be open, transparent and profitable…
Good racing tipsters can be a very powerful ally… We established last month that tipsters are actually an integral part of the sport we love and almost every punter uses them whether they’re backing Jason Weaver’s pick on ITV Racing, Templegate’s nap in The Sun, Pricewise’s selection in the Racing Post, or paying a subscription…
Read More‘I Gotta Horse’… a quick look at the history on horse racing and racing tipsters.
Tipping services have been around as long as bets have been placed… Punters have been willing to back that belief up with their hard-earned cash, to try and get an inside line on winners and ‘guarantee’ making a profit from their betting (which we all know is not possible). I imagine that well over 50%…
Read MoreHow are bets calculated?
Odds are arguably the most important aspect of betting. Understanding them is crucial to understanding how bets are calculated as they indicate how likely it is an event will happen and what your winnings could be. These lists of numbers might seem intimidating at first, but once you get your head around them, you’re well…
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