How Matched Betting Changed The Way I Think About Gambling
I was barely 18 and had not long been legally allowed to step inside a bookmaker when I discovered a phrase that unknowingly at the time was about to change my fortunes - matched betting. My Dad had grown up impartial to a flutter on the Grand National but was not a betting man. The same was true to the rest of my family. My closest friends were huge football fans and some might say this is where many relationships with the betting world begin as here in the UK we absorb such a huge number of gambling related advertisements pre and post build up and between halves throughout the course of a regular Soccer Saturday or Super Sunday as Sky famously branded its coverage of the English Premier League. Still though - only one of them had ever been inclined to pass through the revolving door of rags and riches into the realms of the bookie and this was never much an influence on me. With this in mind, it strikes me odd that I ever gave matched betting a shot in the first instance and if ...