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What Derren Brown Can Teach Us About Making Money From Sports Betting
Anyone involved with sports betting will agree with me: it’s rare to find a shrewd, clued-up expert who’s willing to ‘spill the beans’ and reveal their profitable methods.
With that in mind, I am pleased to introduce a genuine betting enthusiast, Joshua Jacobs, who’s going to be teaming-up with LTO by providing fr.ee, high-quality betting advice on a weekly basis.
The lessons Josh teaches are good ones… and this first contribution from him is no exception.
So, without further ado… put your hands together and give a rousing Lay The Odds welcome to our latest addition, Joshua Jacobs.
Take it away, Josh…
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What Derren Brown Can Teach Us About Making Money From Sports Betting.
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Derren Brown has been getting major publicity in recent weeks. In his latest stunt, he (supposedly) predicted all six numbers of the national lottery.
Naturally, he refrained from revealing how he predicted these numbers… but during the programme, Derren did mention a ‘psychic phenomenon‘ that can help us make money from sports betting.
What is this ‘psychic phenomenon’ I’m talking about?
It’s a theory developed in the 19th century by Francis Galton — a theory called ‘the Wisdom of Crowds‘.
Simply put, ‘the Wisdom of Crowds‘ suggests that the collective wisdom of a crowd will generally lead to very accurate, almost-exact predictions.
As the story goes, Galton was shocked to find that a county fair crowd had accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the average was closer to the ox’s true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members, and also closer than any of the separate estimates made by cattle experts).
That example was no one-off, either….
Think about the show ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?‘, for instance: how often are the contestants given the right answer when they choose to ‘ask the audience’? Virtually every time, of course!
How does this relate to betting? Good question — the answer lies with betting exchanges…
You see, if nothing else, betting exchanges are simply a massive crown of people collectively predicting a team, player, or horse’s chance of winning.
The odds on Betfair are driven by the supply and demand of many punters with a strong interest in backing or laying a particular event.
Studies that span over thousands of sporting events have confirmed that the odds on Betfair have an accuracy of over 99% in representing the true probability of that outcome happening.
In other words, the odds on Betfair have shown to be a very reliable indication of what the true odds of an outcome should be. When you combine this with the commission deductions, contrary to popular belief, Betfair can be tricky to profit from (like with most rules, there are exceptions, which is why some laying systems can produce consistent profits — why these exceptions exist and how to identify them will be a topic for another time).
For this reason, I only now use Betfair for laying and trading.
When it comes to backing, I find it’s more profitable to accept that the odds on Betfair are generally spot-on and compare those odds with the odds of the bookies to find value bets.
You can take advantage of this by finding opportunities where bookmakers offer odds on horses that are significantly higher than the odds available on Betfair. These opportunities present themselves on a daily basis and I’m speaking from personal experience when I say this method works.
… And that’s what Derren Brown can teach us about profitable sports betting.
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Betting System Test Results
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Alongside my weekly articles, I also want to update you with live test results of betting systems and tipsters.
I’m currently searching for a variety of systems/tipsters to start testing on a daily basis over a 4-week and will be revealing the results to you each week (the good AND the bad) once testing begins.
In the meantime, I have a generous and exclusive offer for you — an offer that I’m only making to you and other members of this newsletter.
Let me ‘splain…
When I launched the Betting Profits Formula last year, I had a certain number of copies that I was looking to release and, afterwards, I closed the site down to protect the methods for existing customers.
Since the site was closed down, I have refused to sell any further copies (this is even despite some people pleading with me via email)… until today.
You see, to celebrate the first of (hopefully) many of my weekly newsletters I have decided to make the Betting Profits Formula available to you… and at a huge discount.
Previously, the Betting Profits Formula sold for $197 (£120), but as a member of this newsletter, I’m going to slash the price dramatically and sell it for just £37.
This is simply a goodwill gesture on my part to mark my first of these weekly newsletters.
If you’re not interested, then that’s absolutely fine with me — this is only a gesture (definitely NOT a hard-sell) and the copies that are available will be grabbed quickly anyway.
On the other hand, if you are interested in taking advantage of this bargain, simply visit the link below to find out more…
… And that’s all from me for today — stay tuned next week and the weeks that follow… I have some great content lined-up for you.
Have a good one,
- Joshua Jacobs.
PS. If you have any comments, experience or feedback about the wisdom of crowds theory, just click on the comments button and add your feedback.
Tags: derren brown, josh jacobs, Newsletter, sports betting.
Written by LTO Admin on Oct 27th, 2009. Comment.
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Comments on What Derren Brown Can Teach Us About Making Money From Sports Betting
Joshua Jacobs @ 9:39 am
To Clive…
Thanks for taking the time to explain your feelings towards my latest offer for the BPF.
What you have to remember is that when the BPF was first released 18 months ago, the material it contained was on the cutting-edge of betting ebooks. At the time, I felt £100 was a fair price.
Because the betting industry evolves with time, some of the information in the BPF is less useful/relevant now than it was previously. Taking that into account and also considering the current economic climate, I now feel £37 is a fair price.
Take the clothing industry, for instance, where people are happy to accept that this type of thing happens on a regular basis…
A fashionable jacket that’s ‘in-season’ might sell for £149, yet a year later the same jacket would pobably sell for just £49.
Obviously, there are differences between selling clothes and selling ebooks, but I’m sure you get the point.
Furthermore, many of those initial BPF customers who bought the ebook and actually used my methods, have gone on to make consistent betting profits on a monthly basis. One customer even emailed me to say that he’s since gone full-time with sports betting.
If a customer is making just £100/month from the BPF (I’m deliberately being conservative here), would you not agree that the 18-month head start in accessing the BPF more than compensates for this discounted offer?
Food for thought, perhaps.
Either way, cheers for the compliments on the article — I appreciate it.
To Rob…
Thanks for the kind words. There will be more articles from me on a weekly basis, so keep an eye open for those.
Rob @ 11:15 am
What a plumb
Good article Josh
Clive Plumb @ 1:05 pm
Hello Joshua,
I have just read your article on Derren Brown at Lay the Odds concerning the crowd theory, very interesting it is.
But the reason for my e-mail is that I am saddened by the fact that you have let the Betting Profits Formula go for such a pretty price as this.
I feel you have betrayed my trust in you to close the doors when the perscribed number of copies were sold. This you did and i felt safe in that fact. Now you have opened the doors to every one who cares to buy the Formula at this ridiculous low price i feel like you have cheated me.
Sorry to be so blunt Josh, but I can only say as i feel.
Kind Regards
Clive Plumb