Okay so let me first introduce myself - my name is Thomas Burns aka Mr Skinflint and for the pass 10 years I have been seeking ways to make extra money and so far I have not achieved much aside from a few extra grand a year through surveys, which is time consuming and very low pay for the amount of work required.

The plan is now to try some new ways to make approximately £10K per month, which to me would be a very satisfying income and enough for me to take this up full time.

I am inviting you on my journey over the next few years during which I will more than likely fail to achieve this goal but I am likely on the way to evaluate the validity of a number of so called get rich schemes

Sunday, 8 April 2012

Day 8: Losing Day

I think I can safety say BernardTips are no better than guessing yourself and have about the same success rate. I think they only get so many right per month by the sheer odds of chance that a lot of matches will be over 2.5 goals and this is why they focus on this market.

Yesterday BernardTips got none right and I got 2 out of 3, which only returned about £30. Fortunately I also placed a bet on William Hill on the current favourite bets, which came good and won me £191

I now have £51 in Bwin account and £191 in my William Hill. I am going to focus today on my own guesses as there is no point to BernardTips and I definitely will not be renewing my membership

Friday, 6 April 2012

Day 7: I'm a loser baby...

It would seem both myself and BernardTips are having a bad run of things right now with my guess being wrong and their tips being wrong. In fact only 1 out of the last 5 BernardTips have been correct so I would say the jury is still out on their service but I suspect I will not be renewing in May.

My Bwin balance is now £113 with 2 open bets, which could win a further £60 and my William Balance is £20. So I am pretty much back where I started and now need a few significant wins to get back on track so not sure of my strategy for tomorrow but I may go all out again with a little covering bet just in case

I cannot include screenshots as I am on an XP PC and do not have the Windows 7 sniping tool

Day 7: Bets for today

I am a little rushed at the moment so keeping my updates brief. I have had my tips for today and placed 1 double on 2 matches for the maximum Bwin would let me, which was £77.25. I also placed my own double on William Hill for £59.73.

If I am right again and BernardTips is not it kind of proves you will have as much luck with this system on your own as you will with BernardTips. I think the truth is more often then not matches with 2 strong teams end up being over 2.5 goals

Day 6: Losing Day

Firstly I need to say I did receive gold tips for yesterday at around about 9 am and subsequently placed a series of bets around these predictions

Sadly it is fair to say that yesterday did not go all to well with the last 3 of BernardTips predictions being wrong. However my own guesses for 3 matches that would be over 2.5 goals was correct and won a little of my money back.

I now have £184 in my Bwin account and £89 in my William Hill

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Day 6: Update

I was going to place a lucky day bet on 6 matches but I could only find 3 available, which would explain why no tips for today as there are hardly any matches.

I instead placed a patent bet of £30 on these 3 matches being over 2.5 goals (though for one I accidentally chose over 1.5 goals) and a couple of £10 bets on the favourite bets of both Bwin and William Hill.

Bwin Balance:

William Hill Balance:

Day 6: Where are my Tips?

Okay things are little odd today as I have not been sent a specific gold tip for today and the Silver one is the match I bet on yesterday. I do have some silver tips for tomorrow and Saturday but I will be betting on them tomorrow.

Instead what I have done today is place one bet on the William Hill favourite bets (which is very unlikely to win) and a Lucky Day bet on 6 matches of my own choice for over 2.5 goals - see if can as well as BernardTips who now have 10 out of 13 right!

Day 5: Losing Day

Yesterday was a slightly manic day and I never got a chance to log what was essentially a losing day as 1 of the matches ended up 0-0 but the actual bets have not been settled yet as one of the matches is today so I will not know the full outcome until this evening.

Anyway as it stands I now have £227 in my Bwin account and 2 open bets, and £80 in my William Hill account and 2 open bets.

I still have not had the Gold tips for today but I think I am going for a similar strategy to yesterday

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Day 4: Winning Day

It is now 2 winning days and 2 losing days with 9 out of their 11 over 2.5 goals predictions winning, which is actually an amazing hit rate and I may have been mistaken about this tipping service.

Anyway I am now well and truly in profit with a balance of over £280 in Bwin.com and £120 in William Hill.

Bwin Opening Balance:

William Hill Opening Balance:

Winning Bwin Bet:

Today's tips are another 3 over 2.5 predictions so I intend to place a similar bet to the one I placed yesterday with maybe some additional covering bets if I have time

Day 4: Progress so far...

At time the bets are going well with the 1st match prediction correct and now whatever happens I am going to make at least £100 tonight so I cannot complain.

Admittedly I did place an additional bet to cover the 3-way outcome on Bwin.com, which cost an additional £70 and I also placed a covering bet of £30 on the 2-way being under 2.5 goals on William Hill so I have now invested £190 altogether into the bets

Also I will not know the final outcome of the bets until the morning as one match does not commence until 10 pm. I will update on the outcome in the morning

Monday, 2 April 2012

Day 4: Can Lightning Strike Twice

Today's tips consisted of 3 over 2.5 goals predictions split across the silver and gold tips.

I was, however, unable to bet on one of the tips as William Hill did not have the Over 2.5 goals market available for one of the matches so what I have done instead is place an almost identical bet to yesterday on just the 2 remaining matches.

If this bet comes in I will make a further £100 and will be finally in profit

Opening balance:

Day 3: Winning Day

Looks like I may have been a little hasty yesterday as it turned out to be my first winning day and. my balance is now back up to over £80 and this scheme will continue for at least another couple of days

Closing Balance:

Winning Bet:

The fact is of the 8 over 2.5 goals predictions that BernardTips have made so far only 2 have been wrong so I would say this is where I should be focusing - especially as all their win-draw-win  predictions were wrong.

Today's tips are very similar to yesterday and I, therefore, intend to bet exactly as I did yesterday with potential profits of over £200 and if it all tips I wrong I will be left with £20 in my account for tomorrow.

Day 2: Losing Day

OMG I did it! Only kidding today sucked with only 3 out of BernardTips 8 predictions being correct, which resulted in my £87 bet turning into £0.45p return. Woo-hoo!

Closing Balance:

Losing Bet

All I can say is BernardTips cannot predict the outcome of matches with every win-draw-win guess being wrong. They do, however, seem to be doing quite well with their silver tips which are generally over 2.5 goals predictions and have got these right for the last few days.

Given this I intend to apply a completely different strategy tomorrow, which will focus on the silver tips.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Day 3: Going for Broke

It is fair to say that this tipster service has already proved a waste of time with their tips being no more accurate than what I can predict on my own and unless I have a miracle run of bets I will not be renewing my membership. The main issue is that if you stick to the BernardTips recommended betting strategy you will not make enough profit to cover your monthly fee so you have to go all out a little and as a result the inaccuracy of their gold tips have a significant impact.

I have decided today I will go for broke and if their tips prove incorrect today I will have no money in my account and this system is potentially not even going to last the month. If I do strike out tonight I will have to wait until I get paid to use my £40 monthly betting allowance on another betting system, which I will document on here.

Anyway regarding today BernardTips have given 2 predictions for over 2.5 goals with 1 of the predictions being the same for the silver and the gold tips. I have placed a single double of £9.45 and 2 singles of £10 on the 2 predictions which have potential returns of over £80 if both are correct.

Current Balance:

Day 2: Progress so far...

Well 5 out of the 8 matches have completed now and so far only 3 out of 5 right, which means the best I can do is 6 out of 8 and the returns on that is not great. The other matches that are already in progress are not looking promising so I will be lucky than 3 out of 8. Bummer

Day 2: A Little Background

I guess you maybe thinking if I have £300 to blow on such a slim investment surely I am doing pretty well anyway and this all adds up to nothing more than greed. Though I do not dispute my desire to earn £10K per month is fuelled by personal greed what I am currently doing to raise the investment capital is far from easy street.

With debts and a family I have very little disposable income each month and I suplement my income through various internet activities, which primarily consist of surveys and cashback. Neither of these methods bring in much extra cash amounting to approximately an additional £2K per year and in particular the surveys require a lot of work.

Therefore I am working around 3-4 hours per day to make an extra £160 per month and a percentage of these earnings I always invest in a highly risky proposition such as the current betting tipster system. The rest I either spend or invest in fixed bonds and shares,

I will provide additional information regarding survey sites and which ones are relatively lucrative in a future blog but with regards the current progress of today's all out bet it is not going too well as the 1st bet lost so the best I can now do is 7 wins out of 8 bets. My opinion of the quality of BernardTips betting tips at this moment is not too high and I have also notice that when Gold bets fail to win they remove the result of their homepage, which means the list of previous results is misleading as it does not show the outcome of all their tips but at a guess I would say there are quite a few missing losing bets