- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Aesculus Press Limited (16 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904328091
- ISBN-13: 978-1904328094
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 995,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Matched betting has been the quiet phenomena (although now highly publicised) of betting. It now accounts for an incredible £45m a week and is rising inexorably. Geoff Harvey, author of Successful Spread Betting and Successful Football Betting, has compiled the first-ever guide to describe the opportunities and pitfalls of electronic one-to-one gambling.
Successful Matched Betting is a clear, concise yet comprehensive guide to the most modern, low-margin form of betting available. The author succinctly explains why anyone who bets simply has to discover the potential of matched betting. He details the basics and then goes on to explore the many areas where strategies can be applied to maximise returns.
As the bookmaker is acting much more transparently as a broker there is no ‘us and them’ mentality much prevalent with ordinary fixed-odds bookmakers, so the angle is quite different from other books of this nature.
The contents are arranged under key principles of matched betting. While it features examples from all sports, they are presented so that the reader gains a clear grasp of the principles underlying this most modern form of betting – and, most importantly, how to do it well. The emphasis is always towards the potential of matched betting over fixed-odds in whichever sphere is chosen.
Geoff also relates to actual betting habits of typical players, rather than concentrating solely on his own experiences, an exclusive angle usually prevalent within betting books.
The title is not only the first of its kind, but comes from an author with a proven ability to clarify the obscure and give insights that only hours of research and experience can reveal. Harvey’s powers of observation, original thinking and clear writing style will make this title not just the first of its kind but a standard work.
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Matched Betting - the greatest revolution in British gambling since the legalisation of off-course betting, over 30 years ago.
Successful Matched Betting is the first book dedicated to this rapidly growing Internet based phenomena. With millions of pounds of wagers matched on the exchanges every week, it offers prices consistently better than available with traditional bookmakers. Uniquely, it also provides the opportunity to lay a team or competitor – allowing you to accept wagers from others, at prices you want to offer.
Geoff Harvey maintains that profits from the betting exchanges can be achieved by following the principles he sets out in Successful Matched Betting. The key to success, he claims, is to look at sporting performances in a completely new way – examining techniques to identify when a 'dead-cert' will fail, and when a long shot is liable to win. Matched betting is the way to use these techniques to take money off those who blindly follow conventional thinking.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Geoff Harvey (or his publishers) obviously think that giving a book a title is all they need to do to relate it to the new phenomenon of betting exchanges.
He gives a rudimentary explanation of how exchanges work & then tells you all about techniques that relate almost exclusively to traditional fixed odds betting.
As a professional gambler who makes a living from betting on the exchanges I would suggest that Harvey hasn't got a clue about betting exchanges & the skills required to operate effectively there.
He is a stats bod looking for an edge within bookies margins. He doesn't seem to have grasped even the fundamentals of trading bets in running, probably because this is not his forte.
I imagine this book came about as follows:
Publisher 1: New thing these betting exchanges, there may be a book in that.
Publisher 2: Who have we had to write books on betting in the past?
Publisher 1: We've got that train-spotter Harvey
Publisher 2: He'll do. Give him £5k & tell him to write one quick!
My recommendation: Don't bother - wait for a relevant book to come out.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For the absolute beginner, this book has much to offer, written in a fairly accessible style. If however, you are an experienced exchange bettor/layer, then there is nothing revelatory within. Moreover, if you're considering this book hoping it will provide you with that golden key to profitable trading, then forget it. If you understand how betting exchanges work, you'd be better off constructing your own strategy, as there's nothing original to be gained from reading this.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an introductory lesson to the betting exchanges and nothing more. If you are new to exchanges this is well worth a read, but if you have used the exchanges at any level avoid this as you already know 95% of this book.
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