My name is Markus, I am 41 years old, I have been living in Ecuador for more than 15 years and earn my living as a freelancer on the internet. For a little more than 10 years I have been improving these earnings a little with sports betting. Since my youngest youth I play football myself and follow all European and South American leagues with great interest. Meanwhile I succeed with my collected experiences in these years to earn about 300-500 Euro per month additionally.

For the first time I had contact with sports betting in Germany when I filled out a lottery ticket for Oddset at the lottery retailer. With one or the other profit I got a taste for it. If you are interested in football, you can certainly win in this way. However, especially beginners very often pay a high lesson money. It was the same for me at the beginning. Sporadic winnings were often accompanied by losses. Since I have seen however in the sports betting a pleasant possibility to improve my income, I have decided myself more deeply into the matter to enter. I informed myself about the different bet types (single bets, combined bets etc.) and tried to create my own system.

In any case, I would like to warn against simply starting betting without a plan. Successful betting requires research and analytical action. Also, it is not a good idea to hope that you will always make high profits. In this case, you are much more likely to lose your bets. My strategy is based on many smaller wins, for which I don’t bet too big.

Since about 10 years I have a customer account with the betting provider Betfair. This provider offers bets on most sports and the odds offered are often above those of the competition. I make my deposits either by bank transfer or credit card. I have my withdrawals made directly to my bank account. So far my winnings at Betfair have always been available on my account within 4 business days. There have never been any difficulties with deposits or withdrawals.

Since I’ve been following my current strategy, I’ve managed to earn a small monthly extra. I only place single bets on live games. I used to make big winnings with combination bets from time to time, but in the long run they are a loss-making business in my eyes. If you bet on more than one game, then there can be surprises with one or more games. It is important to pay attention at the beginning to the fact to arrange its stakes in relation to the balance on the customer account with the betting provider. In my case it is 300 Euro. No matter which single bet I make, my stake is always only a maximum of 5% of the balance on my customer account. In the case of a credit of 300 Euro, this means 15 Euro per single bet.

On the eve of the football matches I’m betting on, I look at the league tables and the statistics of the teams’ previous matches, focusing on scored and captured goals. My preferred bet is the Under/Over bet. All I have to do is correctly guess whether more or less goals will be scored in one game. For about 4 years now, I’ve only been betting on games where I think there’s more than 1 goal scored. This has the advantage that it doesn’t matter which team wins, only goals have to be scored. These matches are relatively easy to find, because you can calculate how many goals a team scores and receives per match using the respective tables. After the selection of the matches, I bet my respective stake that more than 1.5 goals will be scored in these matches. The odds for these bets are usually between 1.15 – 1.35. I also make sure that all set matches are also available as live bets. This has the advantage that I can close my bet with a small loss if no goals are scored. If no goals are scored by the 60th minute of play, I close the bet and make a small loss. However, in many of the games I have chosen, I have already won my bets at halftime.

As a freelancer, I almost always sit on the PC, so I can always keep an eye on my set games and make corrections if necessary. On average, I set my goals to about 8-10 football matches a day, on weekends to up to 20 matches a day. My goal is to win 15-20 Euro a day, which I almost always achieve with my system.

Who would like to test my system once can do this gladly. In any case, I have done well with my strategy so far, even though I will probably not become a millionaire with it.

 
Experience report written by Markus, 41 years, from Ecuador