Sky Bet, Flutter, Betfair – A goliath is created

On Tuesday the 5th of May a mammoth betting conglomerate was formally created. What will be the impact on the industry? The merger of Flutter PLC, the owner of Paddy Power and Betfair, with the Stars Group, a Canadian operator that bought Sky bet in 2018, was proposed last year. It was cleared by the…

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Betfair premium charge – Explained – Part one

A common question that pops up regularly in support, the forum or my inbox, is about Betfair’s premium charge. It’s a charge than only appears in the online betting world on betting exchanges. It’s a bit of a weighty topic so I’ve broken it down into two posts. The first explores what it is, the…

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It’s easy to automate your Betfair trading

We receive a lot of requests on how to create rules using our Betfair Automation feature. So let’s talk through a step-by-step process of creating your first betting bot! Betfair automation for every market and trading strategy Whatever your Betfair trading strategy, it’s really simple to create a whole range of Betfair bots. Whichever market…

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Automate a whole day’s trading in 10 easy steps!

Automating your Betfair trading When I first started trading on Betfair I was generally a manual trader, but I was keen to create a much more flexible trading platform for the Betfair exchange. So when Bet Angel was launched I asked for our development team to put in Excel Compatability so I could link to…

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Trading Australian racing – Where I started

If you are in Australia and are not familiar with my background. I opened my Betfair account shortly after they opened for business way back in June 2000. My vision was the betting exchanges would change the landscape of betting forever because they offered opportunities that traditional bookmakers and sportsbooks were unable to. It was…

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Bet Angel – Tips – Import and export settings

If you are using Bet Angel V1.51.1 or above, there is the option to quickly import and export individual saved settings and layout profiles. You have always been able to import and export a variety of things, but above this version number, it’s much more comprehensive. This is particularly useful because, as a feature-rich piece…

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Why we choke and how you can profit from it

I’ve just finished reading a very good summary of the core reasons why we choke. The article is a nice clean summary and is worth a read. Fundamentally, it comments on how information is stored in the brain and transferred from a semi-autonomous region to a more thoughtful process. The semi-autonomous region falls apart when it is forced…

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Taking risk

Apophenia is defined as, the “unmotivated seeing of connections” accompanied by a “specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness”. For the full definition visit the wiki entry: – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia Apophenia has come to imply a universal human tendency to seek patterns in random information, such as gambling, charts or data. It’s a flaw that afflicts many! One…

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