Do you know your alphabet? Good, because you’re going to need it for this one. It takes me back to my childhood days watching Sesame Street.
But let’s put the nostalgia aside for a moment. You may well be thinking that a horse racing betting system that requires the alphabet sounds a little bit, well… ridiculous. You be right, that is a completely founded and justified assumption to make.
Bet Winner Pro has the usual, typically hyped up sales-page that we’ve all encountered a thousand times before. I’m getting so bored of them.
I want to scratch my eyes out every time I read some rubbish about the author of the system making £8K in one go… and being in a location that is ‘Somewhere warm, sipping something cold, doing very little’.
The only truth that I can discern from the sales-page of Bet Winner Pro is the part which is as follows: ‘the only people making any money are the blokes you’ve been buying that rubbish from… and they’re not making it on their bets.’ Too true!
But is this a band-wagon that the author of this particular system is jumping on?
The author of Bet Winner Pro is John Barrett, a retired RAF engineering officer. Well, at least I’ve not heard that one before. Upon leaving the RAF and losing a lot of money through betting, Barrett decided to apply his ‘logical, mechanical, engineering mind to the world of horseracing’ and came up with this system.
I hope he knew more about maintaining helicopters than he does about creating horse racing betting systems. Because this one could be described using his own words: ‘betting system junk’.
For £27.95 plus VAT, you get a short, succinct 5-page PDF document containing the details of the system. With the potential of betting on odds up to 20/1, you use the Racing Post website to select horses on non-handicap races only, on which to place a backing bet to win.
Right, so what is the selection process? Well, here is where the alphabet comes in – you’re going to think I’m joking, but I’m not. At any given non-handicap race, you peruse the list of trainers that have horses running and select the trainer whose surname comes first alphabetically. If that trainer’s horse has a certain rating (underwhelming as it is I won’t give away the ‘secret’ here) that is greater than the next trainer’s horse, then that’s your selection.
The assertion is made that this system is so simple that you don’t need any experience to implement it. There’s truth in this, as a child could do it. I asked my six-year-old nephew to select a trainer alphabetically and he did. But that’s as far as I got with my trial. To place any money based on such a selections, to my mind, crazy.
There is no staking advice given (despite the promise of one), which is just as well, because I quickly came to the conclusion that I am never going to place any bets based upon the ridiculous selection criteria of Bet Winner Pro. I’d rather give money to a millionaire.
Yet again, it’s a system pushed through a sales-page that looks like it should be selling some sort of Internet Marketing business opportunity, rather than a betting system. It comes from the desire to make money from information products on the Internet.
You can’t make money through Internet Marketing without an email list, which is derived from either selling (or sometimes giving away) an information product. The system then becomes a mean to an end, and not the end itself. There is a 60-day money-back guarantee through ClickBank (contact them directly – the vendor does not appear to answer emails). I can only assume that because the system is so laughably poor, this particular vendor is really using it as a way of building up email lists. Indeed, I have since been bombarded with emails from him, all of which have been filed under ‘Junk’ before I unsubscribed.
Jim Henson would be spinning in his grave and Big Bird would hang his head in shame if they knew that there is a betting system that tells you to use the alphabet to make selections. Preposterous!
