I’ve been blocked on Twitter by GBT. I first came across Mike and his service when he signed up to the Betting Kingdom Tipster Competition many years ago. I was super excited to have a premium golf tipster on the site. But his results were very poor, albeit across a small sample size.
I took a closer look at his website. The results were incredible. A ROI of over 100% across 3-4 years of tipping. Now if you have any understanding of how gambling works you’ll know that’s just not possible. I took a delve into the results and there was some suspicious findings.
Firstly each way bets were being settled incorrectly and dead heat rules weren’t being accounted for. You could argue this is a genuine mistake but if you’ve been tipping on golf for 4 or 5 years and your selection finishes T8 with 7 other dudes, you know you’re not getting paid out in full.
Then there were selections showing profit with the phrase CASH OUT. These were tips that GBT had claimed he’d advised subscribers to cash out during the tournament that had then failed to place or win. But checking the Twitter feed there was no evidence of this.
A few other things bother me. The about page. Apparently this service has a team of golf professionals, inside the ropes, even at Majors. So they’re are charging £20 a month and sending the team all around the World with special access? Hmmm. Pretty cool if it’s true. I’ll let you decide.
Finally the reviews page. It’s been changed now but there were 100s of reviews at one stage. Every single one of them was a 5 star review.
I have had chats with Mike in the past and in his defence he did alter some of the results, but not the Each Way Dead Heat mistakes, so the stats displayed on his site and here at Betting Kingdom are likely to be incorrect. The worrying thing is that if you type “Golf Betting Tipster” into google, this service comes up first, so they might still be making money.
