Factoring & Knockbacks – A Tale From Both Sides OK, here goes….I’ve been wanting to write about the topic about factoring of accounts and the laying of bets by bookmakers within the current betting industry for while now, but it can be a tricky subject to broach. Most punters these days have a strong view […]
Lithuanian arrowsmith Darius Labanauskas has taken the BDO circuit by storm in the past few years winning the Denmark, HAL and Lithuanian Opens in 2016 and Estonian Masters this season. He also recently won the Latvian Open last weekend and has made the quarter finals of both the BDO World Championships and BDO World […]
There has always been much debate and speculation on social media and other forums, of what goes on behind the scenes in the trading rooms of major bookmakers. Here at SBFP today, we chat with David Johnson, who’s job for several years was to run the sports department at one of the industries biggest firms, […]
Sport is great isn’t it! Just imagine a how dull the world would be without sport. No Tiger Woods miracle chips at the 16th hole at Augusta, No ‘Dessie’ getting up on the line to break the heart of Yahoo in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, No ‘The Play’…..If you’re not familiar with the last one, […]
Two sports, two instances of perfection. The 147 maximum break in snooker and the 9 dart finish in darts are as good as it gets for their respective sports. A 147 in snooker requires 15 reds, 15 blacks and the colors potted in sequence, while a 9 dart finish in darts requires 8 high-value trebles […]
While, in general, its true large UK sportsbooks such as William Hill, Ladbrokes and Betfred will indeed turn big yearly profits from our (the punters) expense, this certainly doesn’t mean every single punter will lose. A small percentage of these customers will be consistent long term winners (I believe the figure is around 7%….obviously to […]