Core Value Bets is one of those tipster services for UK horse racing which requires a large bank and the additional expense of a bot to justify anybody using it.
Andy Higgins is the author of Core Value Bets. He’s been around in the betting industry for a while and this is merely his latest offering. It’s centred around providing tips for high-priced win betting with a minimum SP of 18/1 being a prerequisite for inclusion in their tip alerts.
The sales page is a mixture of professionalism and hype. The accompanying video is didactic and patronising and not worth the watch, containing little of interest or anything to do with the actual product.
The hype comes in the form of the following claim: ‘£53,698.16 in just 12 months’ and the presence of three screen-grabs showing Andy’s personal bank account balance, his Paypal balance and his Betfair balance: ‘£136.5k in savings, over £61k sat in Paypal… a regular withdrawal of £6,735.42 from Betfair.’
The professionalism is inherent in many recent examples of winning bets given and a link to an Excel spreadsheet which documents proofings of results.
The cost is good value, with an introductory fee of £9.95 for the first month, then £14.95 per month (plus VAT in UK) thereafter. It’s sold through Clickbank so there’s the usual 60 day unconditional money back guarantee.
The number of subscribers is said to be limited, in order to protect the high-priced win odds but this may just be a pressuring sales tactic.
The most annoying thing regarding Core Value Bets occurs once you’ve subscribed and you’re blasted with six separate up-sells one after another. They’re focused on such additional tips and systems centring on place and lay betting, none of which pertain to the actual high-priced odds win system that Core Value Bets is focused upon.
Emails arrive the evening prior to the day’s racing, and the content is succinct and clear. There is some staking advice, with various options to choose from, the simplest being a 1% progressive stake to slightly chase losses. This, however, requires a 1000-point bank so is not an option for many.
There are quite a lot of tips some days, with nearly every race being included. Sometimes it seemed like it was just a case of picking the high-priced horses and I was often left wondering why I was paying for something that I could do myself, but there was the odd occasion where I was surprised by a selection – especially if it went on to win.
Because there are so many selections and you need to make sure their odds are still above 18/1 by the start of the race, you have to be present moments before the off in order to place your bet. A system such as this should really be sold with bot software, because to make it feasible, you really need a bot to place the bets.
This of course incurs additional expense and may well be the reason they settled on such a low monthly subscription cost. Core Value Bets also include in their tips a file that can be incorporated in Bet Engine so that the bets are automatically made if the criteria for the odds and the respective runners are met.
During my trial there were 226 bets and only 13 won, giving a very low 5.75% strike rate. Average winning odds were good though at 23.14 which goes some way towards making up for the often very long losses in a row (33 on one occasion). The service claims 536 points during the last year and my bank ended the trial being up only by 14 points.
These results combined with the time and effort involved – coupled with the necessarily large betting bank – makes Core Value Bets a bit of a non-starter. It’s almost a case of choosing every high-priced horse in the vain hope that some of them are bound to be winners.
