Bet Synergy

We’d heard some amazing things about a backing system called Bet Synergy recently and when you consider that the main page of their website says “I have followed it assiduously for the past 3 months, had over 1000 bets and made over £12,000 at over 20% return on investment” we were expecting a whole different experience to what actually happened when we tested it.

This is what Craig had to say about it prior to starting our test:

Bet Synergy is a backing system that has been around for a while now and it’s been getting some interesting reviews lately, so we decided it was high time OBE put it to the test. It is a system that is based on finding subtle differences between the opinions of the bookies and the betting exchanges.

The system comes in the form of a 31 page PDF document and at first it appeared to be a little daunting, however, after another read through it all became clear. I also thought it would take a while to find each day’s selections, but it actually took me less than 15 minutes to get the first day’s selections so I can’t complain too much. Interestingly, there are a couple of different ways to get your selections: you can look at each market around 30 minutes prior to the start, or just go through them all in one go earlier in the day. Due to time constraints, I will be following the latter method, which will probably mean slightly fewer selections.

Also, the chances are my selections will be different to A N Other, as it really is time dependant and the markets are constantly changing beasts.

So, for the purpose of this test I will assume a £1000 bank and stake £10 on each selection.

He then followed Bet Synergy for the next month, 25 days in total, and it would be worthwhile looking back through the full results for this period to get an idea of how it worked. Rather than coming up with the same quantity of bets it claimed on their website, Craig was lucky to find 3 or 4 bets most days and the results just hovered around the break even point for most of the month.

This is what he had to say at the end of the test period:

So, we’ve come to the end of our test of Bet Synergy and I have to say it’s been a bit of a disappointment. I had heard from a few different sources that it was a great product, produced some great winners at great prices, and was to be highly recommended. I’m afraid our test hasn’t borne out those claims, or backed up those other reviews.

To recap – Bet Synergy basically has you checking bookies against the exchanges and looking out for three particular trends which signal a horse has a good chance of winning. In principle I agree with the theory behind it, it makes sense, in practice however it just didn’t seem to work out. The guide doesn’t give any specific times to check but does suggest that a check around lunchtime should find a few selections but waiting until around 30 minutes before the off should be a bit more accurate. To be honest, I found none of these methods found me many selections and was checking most races right up until the final minute before the off. Even then, I wasn’t bombarded with selections, and found very few winners for a fair amount of work.

There is also very little chance of having the same selections as anyone else as it really will depend on what time you can/do check the markets. Punter ‘A’ might find he has three or four qualifiers and wins in two of them while Punter ‘B’ might find five or six and lose every one!

To be fair to Bet Synergy, we did finish the test in profit of just over 9% on the bank for the month, which is better than you’ll find at your local high street bank, and we found a good priced winner or two along the way with some decent priced placed horses too, which suggests it’s not all doom and gloom. It may even have been a bad time of year with the change to the flat season, but we have to base this review on what happened during our test and I’m afraid I can’t really give it a big thumbs up.

Having said that, I’m not inclined to give it a thumbs down either, because as I said earlier I understand the logic behind Bet Synergy, and we did end the month in profit. I think the best I can do is give it a bit of a neutral rating. There is promise there, undoubtedly, and some of the emails I received during the month backed that up. More than one of the emails suggested I dropped two of the trends the system tells you to look for and I’d have more success. I decided against that as that isn’t what the guide suggests and for the purposes of the test I wanted to stick rigidly to the rules. Perhaps dropping it to one trend may indeed have produced more selections and winners, I can’t really say although I do have a gut feeling it would have.

So, overall I’d give Bet Synergy a five out of ten rating. I’m sorry I can’t be more definitive than that, I see promise in it but that wasn’t fulfilled in our test.

I’ve got to say that I agree with Craig’s comments. If you look back through the results you’ll see that there was a few decent priced winners and a few more who went very close, so with a bit of luck we could easily have been looking at a much better profit for the month. Generating 9% isn’t bad at all in 25 days, but I can’t help thinking we were perhaps a little unlucky not to rack up more profit than we did and the next 25 days could very well tell a different story.

If anyone else has been using Bet Synergy on a longer term basis, please feel free to leave your comments about it below. Your feedback is most welcome….