Betting On Football
Together, they spend every single day watching football, placing bets and making thousands and thousands of pounds from betting.
In the past 18 months, Gavin and Alex Walker have made nearly £400,000 in the space of a year. In fact, they once made £17,000 (one years salary) in a week. So why work?
The brothers live in a massive penthouse flat in London, with huge 50inch plasma TVs, enormous double beds and an incredible view of the city. It really is the good life. They spend all of there time betting on football and that's how they earn the big bucks.
What do you bet on? Is there a specific system you have?
We only bet on football. The main thing we do is single bets – no accumulators or doubles or anything like that, every bet we do is in play. It’s much easier to judge the outcome of the game that way. We literally bet on anything, anything you could imagine – this morning we woke up at 7am to bet on Uzbekistan girls U16s against Japan. We found a stream from China, lay in bed and put our money on.
How many games do you watch a day?
About four or five a day, every day. I liked watching football before we started and I guess I still like it now, maybe a little less than before. It never gets boring because the stakes get higher and higher, the feeling is still electric.
How did you explain you were going full time to your parents?
Obviously they weren’t too keen on me quitting my job to do this. But we could show them how we’d made a persistent profit over the course of a year – I think they believed in us and believed we’d be alright. We had £70,000 tucked away in case the entire thing went wrong so they knew there was that back up.
Once you quit the job what happened next?
I was living at home, saving up to come to London. Most of our mates from uni were here and we wanted to link up with them. London has so much going on compared to anywhere else in the country, we had to come here.
It must be difficult maintaining normal friendships when you’re watching five football matches a day?
Yeah it can be hard. But the good thing about it is – we don’t actually have to do it if we don’t want to, it’s not like doing a nine to five job. If we want to see our mates we can leave it all, put it down and not think about it.
What do you spend the money on?
I have much better clothes now [laughs]. The place we’re renting in Old Street costs about £3,500 a month including bills, so that’s where a lot of it goes — it’s pretty expensive.
Does being careful with your money make you a better gambler?
Yeah I think so, there’s a lot of people out there who look to profit from gambling who have no idea what they are doing. As soon as they make any kind of profit they blow it all straight away. This leaves them with less of a stake and more chance of losing everything.
How can people make the money that you and Alex have made?
There are a couple things you should do. Firstly, always bet in play. Never put accumulators on or anything like that, you should be putting single bets on. If you want to make a long term profit it’s all about value betting. You need to look for games that are priced wrong and take advantage of it. If you flip a coin there’s a 50/50 chance you’ll get heads or tails. What we do when we bet is try to find a coin toss where the odds of each flip are 60/40 instead. If you keep taking that bet, you’ll make money long term. Finding the games which are priced wrong comes from experience and research. Once you start making money it becomes easier to make more money.
What a story. The dream can become a reality. We all have hope but like, if you're a sh*t gambler like me, then just don't gamble.
In the past 18 months, Gavin and Alex Walker have made nearly £400,000 in the space of a year. In fact, they once made £17,000 (one years salary) in a week. So why work?
The brothers live in a massive penthouse flat in London, with huge 50inch plasma TVs, enormous double beds and an incredible view of the city. It really is the good life. They spend all of there time betting on football and that's how they earn the big bucks.
We only bet on football. The main thing we do is single bets – no accumulators or doubles or anything like that, every bet we do is in play. It’s much easier to judge the outcome of the game that way. We literally bet on anything, anything you could imagine – this morning we woke up at 7am to bet on Uzbekistan girls U16s against Japan. We found a stream from China, lay in bed and put our money on.
How many games do you watch a day?
About four or five a day, every day. I liked watching football before we started and I guess I still like it now, maybe a little less than before. It never gets boring because the stakes get higher and higher, the feeling is still electric.
How did you explain you were going full time to your parents?
Obviously they weren’t too keen on me quitting my job to do this. But we could show them how we’d made a persistent profit over the course of a year – I think they believed in us and believed we’d be alright. We had £70,000 tucked away in case the entire thing went wrong so they knew there was that back up.
Once you quit the job what happened next?
I was living at home, saving up to come to London. Most of our mates from uni were here and we wanted to link up with them. London has so much going on compared to anywhere else in the country, we had to come here.
Yeah it can be hard. But the good thing about it is – we don’t actually have to do it if we don’t want to, it’s not like doing a nine to five job. If we want to see our mates we can leave it all, put it down and not think about it.
What do you spend the money on?
I have much better clothes now [laughs]. The place we’re renting in Old Street costs about £3,500 a month including bills, so that’s where a lot of it goes — it’s pretty expensive.
Does being careful with your money make you a better gambler?
Yeah I think so, there’s a lot of people out there who look to profit from gambling who have no idea what they are doing. As soon as they make any kind of profit they blow it all straight away. This leaves them with less of a stake and more chance of losing everything.
How can people make the money that you and Alex have made?
There are a couple things you should do. Firstly, always bet in play. Never put accumulators on or anything like that, you should be putting single bets on. If you want to make a long term profit it’s all about value betting. You need to look for games that are priced wrong and take advantage of it. If you flip a coin there’s a 50/50 chance you’ll get heads or tails. What we do when we bet is try to find a coin toss where the odds of each flip are 60/40 instead. If you keep taking that bet, you’ll make money long term. Finding the games which are priced wrong comes from experience and research. Once you start making money it becomes easier to make more money.
What a story. The dream can become a reality. We all have hope but like, if you're a sh*t gambler like me, then just don't gamble.
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