Great Bets is a relatively long standing tipster service that according to the creator has produced a significant and consistent long term profit for subscribers. The service is operated by an experienced tipster, Martin Wilkins.
Now I have heard a LOT about this tipping service over the last month or so, and a few of my readers have also asked if they are for real.
The first thing that really grabbed my attention with Great Bets that unlike a lot of tipster services the website is seemingly rather subdued. This is in part down to the fact that where most tipsters make outlandish claims and provide nothing but dodgy evidence, so we have chosen chosen to take a factual approach.
This is beneficial when looking at a service as it allows you to instantly know exactly what you are getting into (rather than being misled) and most importantly, what you can expect in terms of profit from a service.
As a service, Great Bets provides subscribers with selections on a daily basis, sent out via email. Martin says that he will usually try to issue these between 10am and 12am each day giving you at least a few hours in order to place bets. The selections that Great Bets send out are for a variety of different sports from the ever popular horse racing and football, all the way to snooker, golf and even Formula One. The vast majority of these will however be for horse racing.
Now, as most of you know, I have never been a big fan of tipsters, but as this one really is generating a lot of interest, I just had to look into it further 
Product Title: Great Bets
Price: £25 starting subscription, with various other levels of membership offered.
Guarantee: No Guarantee Found – Although there is an image that says ’90 days guaranteed’ but no further details can be found.
What You Get:
- Access to the website depending on which level of subscription you have chosen.
- Tips are given via the members area.
- Emails are also sent to subscribers with tips on a daily basis.
- Full Support.
Where To Purchase: www.greatbets.co.uk (click link after reading review)
Who Are Great Bets?
Given the number of sports that Martin Wilkins takes into consideration for Great Bets, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that it is a service that will overwhelm.
…Especially for those who are perhaps new to betting and don’t understand some of the bigger fancier terms. Instead, Great Bets goes in the opposite direction and there isn’t a single tipster service that immediately springs to mind which has performed so admirably off straight forward bets.
The most common bet is an outright bet on horse racing, however you can also expect to see the occasional each way bet as well. Football betting can be a little more complicated with over/under bets advised to Great Bets subscribers and tennis goes even further with handicap betting. Realistically though, if you are having any trouble whatsoever, Martin and the Great Bets team are available to offer support.
Moving away from the logistics of Great Bets as a service, I feel that it is important to also look at the numbers as these paint a much more accurate picture than words ever could.
The volume of bets that Great Bets issues is very reasonable with most days providing no more than 1-3 bets. Of course there are the occasional days where Martin may find more than this, but Great Bets never ventures into the realm of 20 bets per day (something that I have seen from a number of tipster services in the past).
There is a clear staking plan in place for Great Bets and this is a big part of helping to keep things simple.
All bets are advised to stake 10 points, 20 points or 30 points. Whilst this initially sounds a lot, Martin is keen to point out that Great Bets uses a £1 per point approach to this which means that these aren’t really overly inflated numbers designed to make a service look more profitable than it is (something that a lot of tipsters are prone to doing).
Unfortunately, there is no published strike rate for Great Bets and given the length of the service it would take me far too long to start calculating this. Fortunately, there is full proofing supplied by Martin and this is updated on a daily basis. For those who find that the strike rate is a deal breaker when looking at a tipster service, I would conservatively estimate that Great Bets has a strike rate of around 35%. Realistically though, it may be quite a bit higher than this.
How Does Great Bets Tipster Work?
One of the things that I really like about Great Bets is that Martin keeps his straight talking approach in describing his approach to the service. He talks at length about his experience in betting (around 15 years) without wandering into the realm of fantasy (no claims of picking winning horses with Granddad over breakfast at 8 years old here) and it is a respectable enough past.
There is certainly enough information on offer that I would feel confident following Great Bets.
The actual selection process is based first and foremost on which sports that Martin Wilkins feels he has the greatest chance of picking winning bets on.
This seems to be the cornerstone of Great Bets and ultimately allows for more winners and less losers. It is strongly suggested that there is a team behind Great Bets who put “hours of research” into any selections that are issued, and that betting is approached based off this teams insights and knowledge about all sports.
Sports Great Bets Supply Tips For?
Great Bets supply tips for the following sports genres:
Naturally, the actual formula that Martin uses is kept under a pretty tight lock and key however he does freely offer some insight into betting. Ultimately, his strategies for Great Bets are based on a number of different factors. These can range from things like how confident the team are, how many valid selections are available and the overall action of the day.
Given that this approach to Great Bets is claimed to be based on a number of years work of honing, this is a believable statement in my opinon.
If there is one thing that is clear (although not explicitly stated) it is that Great Bets has a strong focus on the concept of value and getting the best possible odds per bet. This is something that is backed up by the fact that Martin only really recommends placing bets that Great Bets issues through 3 bookmakers.
These are Paddy Power, Bet365 and Boyle Sports. This is mostly down to the fact that all 3 bookmakers generally offer the best odds on selections, but they also offer best odds guaranteed,
Cost To Join Great Bets?
It would be unreasonable for me to sit here and try to paint Great Bets as being a cheap tipster service. I would be lying if I said that it was. However it is important to consider the difference that there is between cheap and value for money.
In terms of packages, there are several available for Great Bets. These include:
- Weekly Membership – £25 every 7 days
- Monthly Membership – £99 every 30 days (representing a 7.6% saving)
- Quarterly Membership – £249 every 3 months (representing a 22.5% saving)
- Six Month Membership – £459 every 6 months (representing a 30.6% saving)
- Yearly Membership – £849 every 12 months (representing a 33.9% saving)
All of these packages can be upgraded or downgraded at any time you wish simply requiring you to submit an email to the Great Bets team.
It is worth pointing out the fact that there is no money back guarantee on offer for Great Bets. Whilst this may well be considered a big downside for some, the reality is that most tipster services do not provide this option and it is more unreasonable to expect Martin to do so than not.
Finally there is the cost of establishing a betting bank to consider as well. It is recommended that you start out with a betting bank of no less than 500 points or £500. Naturally this amount can easily be scaled up and the staking plan for Great Bets allows you to bet more or less in accordance with your budget.
Profit Potential on Great Bets?
The performance of Great Bets is by far and away the most impressive part of the service (so far), and it is exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned expense not being the same as value for money.
In the lifetime of the service (since March 2016), Great Bets has yet to encounter a losing month. This is a fantastic feat in and of itself, however it is the amount of income that has been generated that really stands out.
The lowest scoring month for Great Bets generated “just” 112.2 points. This would mean a small profit of 13.2 points if you factored in a monthly subscription cost as well.
The wider reality however is that the average monthly profit that Great Bets has generated over 10 months is 321.36 points of profit. Given that most gamblers that I know of will start with £1,000 rather than £500, this would mean staking just £2 per point. Using this number and the monthly subscription fee of £99, your average monthly profits for Great Bets could quite reasonably be an average of £543.72 per month for very little work.
Conclusion on Great Bets
Where do you begin to assess the worth of a genuinely good tipster service? The fact is that most of what I look at day to day is a bit naff, and even the good ones come with some limitations of substantial risk.
Put simply, Great Bets is one of the most complete tipster services that I have ever looked at, however I feel that it is important to understand my reasoning for considering it to be one of the better tipster services currently on the market.
The obvious thing is the profits. Whilst some companies can easily blow up their results and claim that they can make £20,000 in a year, this would often mean betting £500 per bet which is a ludicrous amount to stake every day.
With Great Bets however, I feel that an extra £6,500 per year is a very decent amount for a service which would (using my example numbers in the rate of return) never ask more than £60 of you for a bet. The thing is, this is also quite easily scalable and betting £5 per point would make a respectable full time income for users (although neither Martin nor I would recommend starting here unless you had the income to back it up).
One of the other things that really impresses about Great Bets is that the variety of bets means that this is really a complete portfolio in one service.
This also helps to add to the fact that despite being expensive, Great Bets does have a decent degree of value there. If you were to get a decent horse racing, football and “miscellaneous sports” tipster service, this could easily run you to £200 per month.
I do feel that it I should address some of the things that Great Bets does that I am perhaps not so keen on.
If I am honest, despite my statement that I can see the value for money in Great Bets, it would be remiss of me to address the price. As somebody involved to some degree in the betting industry, I can see where the money goes and the work that is involved with running a tipster service. To a layman however, £99 per month is a lot of money to pay out, not to mention the fact that we’d all like to get anything for less.
I also feel that some aspects of Great Bets may be a little overwhelming, especially if you are new to professional betting. For example, there are a number of months that have seen more than 4 different sports, some of which feature some rather complex bets.
I think that it can be easy when looking at products like Great Bets to simply presume that everybody is on the same level and that we all have the same understanding of betting, but this simply isn’t the case.
Those minor issues aside, I believe that I should point out what the greatest thing about Great Bets is in my opinion, and this is the consistency of the service. Any tipster service can knock out massive profits one month, only to lose them all the next (something that I have seen happen way too often).
With Great Bets however, month after month, the profits remain consistent and there are no signs that this is going to stop any time soon.
With all of this in mind, Great Bets does represent a considerable investment and it is one that I wouldn’t like to recommend frivolously. It is however one of the strongest performing tipster services I have looked at in recent memory and most importantly of all, it shows consistency.
Were I looking to get started with a tipster service that covered all bases, I would find the cash to use Great Bets.
The fact is that this is serious service for serious gamblers, and I can’t really think of any that are much better available today.
The Proof Of The Pudding – Testing and Results
We are currently testing the results of this – Tipster Reviewer: Julian Daniels
The following content and testing has kindly been offered and supplied by Julian, an accomplished system, and tipster tester who has reviewed for many review sites in this niche.
15th January 2017 Great Bets Review Update
Great Bets cover a variety of sports including horse racing, football,snooker and tennis. Most tips are advised at 10 or 20 points per bet. Sometimes 30 points per bet. There are from two to eight tips per day. Every day so far has had a bet, even Christmas!
Bets usually arrive in my email inbox in the morning between the hours of 9 am and Noon. On occasion they have arrived much earlier in the wee hours. There is a web-site too, to access the day’s bets.
Only three Bookmakers are utilized: Bet365, PaddyPower and Boylesports. Martin informs me that there have been no limited customer accounts arising from the success of his service to date. This is most likely due to nearly all tips being favourites or near favourites.
I have recorded results according to the advised Bookmaker and their odds at Oddschecker according to the time I received the email. If you utilize all available bookmakers at Oddschecker then your potential profits would be even higher.
I am using a starting bank of 1000 points.
We started recording results on December 24th 2016 and here is a summary of the results so far (till end January 15th 2017).
Number of bets: 106 (mostly horse racing)
Non runners: 2
Winners: 31 = 29.8% strike rate
Starting Bank: 1000 pts
Lowest Bank: 596.9 pts
Highest Bank: 1075.7 pts
Current Bank: 1075.7 pts
Profit/Loss: 75.7 pts
Current Results can be dowloaded from here
Updated results will appear as and when they are received and reviewed.
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I have initially given this 4 stars, but this may improve as Julian tests more of the tips sent daily.
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