SharpeShooters Blog, the 2nd 10K & Beyond

[SharpeShooter]

Edit:

I've moved questions relating to specific offers and started a new thread under the casino section to try to keep this blog from getting cluttered with replies. Please post any questions in the new thread and i'll try to answer them all

I get asked all the time how I've made so much so quickly, and I know there are some doubters out there too. After a suggestion by Bigjas I've decided to blog my 2nd 10K. Hopefully this will help people who have hit a wall as well as inspire newcomers.

I reached my first 10K in 32 weeks at an average of approx £315 per week. Largely this is due to hitting the ground running. Where a lot of newbies build up slowly I made £250 in my first week and that has been pretty much my yardstick ever since.

I expect the 2nd 10K to take longer as I run out of sign ups but never the less I'm going to set my goal at an average of £300 per week to start with and see how it goes. I'll post every Monday my previous weeks activity, wins and losses.

[bull]

Good luck with the second round. I'm looking forward to reading the blog.

[SharpeShooter]

Christmas 2008 my dad asked me to get him a football shirt "from Santa". He's a Leeds fan and after our decline down the leagues replica shirts aren't available in many places. I trawled the internet and couldn't find anything discounted but came across a Paddy Power promotion. Place a £40 bet on Leeds to win Div 1 title and receive a free shirt. From my point of view this was buy a shirt for a free bet. This was my first ever bet at a bookie in my life.

Leeds didn't win the title but as a reward for placing the bet Paddy gave me a free £20 bet. I read the T&C's and thought I'd try to make a few quid from it as it was free after all. I placed the bet on a 3 game acca (I'd never heard of matched betting) and it won returning £106

This got me thinking, do all bookies give these and was there a way to profit from these free bets? Before I got on with any of that I wanted to try something that had been bugging me for ages. I withdrew my initial £40 so the shirt had cost me nothing and I went to play roulette on Paddys games tab with the remaining £66.

I've known for a long time that if you have unlimited money at an unlimited table then you can't lose at roulette (obviously these conditions don't exist) and I wanted to have a go. I didn't have unlimted money and the table limit was £1,000 but what the heck. I took my £66 and martingaled it. I spent a whole 6 hours playing roulette and when I'd finished I had £1,250

These figures aren't counted in my total as this was pure gambling but it planted the seed and is why I started researching. I withdrew the money, paid some bills and we had a good Christmas

[SharpeShooter]

Having spent all my previous winnings I signed up to Coral with £50 and played roulette. I didn't quite get it right first time and made a small profit of £20. I also forgot to do the sportsbook sign up too so cost myself some more money there. Being fresh and naive I signed up again with a different username and card and this time stumbled upon the method outlined in the stevesharpe style post. I made £56 from the sportsbook and roulette and moved on to Ladbrokes, William Hill, VC and Paddy (again). Once I'd done all these I signed up the OH and did them again, and used different cards to try again and soon built up £1,000 to have a go at the books I'd never heard of, that's when I found this site.

In these early days I opened as many accounts as I could at the same books with impunity not thinking of the risk involved and I was off. If I had to do it again I would leave a lot more time between opening accounts for OH, Dad, Sis, Dog etc but from their it snowballed and before I knew I'd got 5K.

The majority of my 2nd 5K has come from reloads (Laddies are great), European and Australian sign ups and some arbing. I've kind of hit a crossroads again. My brother in law is interested in signing up so I can do it all again and there's the US books, so far I've only done Intertops, but the big WR's and deposits still put me off.

Here's to the 2nd 10K

[Admin]

Mate, not only do I wish you well in your quest for the second 10k, but I have to say any noobs (and diehards) around should benefit enormously from it. Your writing style is most intersting and readable to boot. Good on you mate. Can't wait for the next installment. Instant sticky me thinks

[SharpeShooter]

The first week has been an absolute cracker due to lots of good casino reloads. As well as the figures posted here I have £200 of casino bonuses due to be paid next week and I should receive my £95 deposit bonus for 10bet + my £45 free bet from IAS. I'm one bet away on each of my 888sport accounts from qualifying for a football shirt and so far I've done it without loss.

I still have one account left to give the sportingbet casino another try and 1 go left at the Ladbrokes Jeweles of the orient bonus. Total figures for week 1 are

Starting Balance £10,074.27

10 Bet Arb Deposit Bonus Offer + £ 0.48
4 x 888sport arbs (Football shirt offer x 4) + £ 3.14
Bet24 25 Euro Bonus 50% match bonus on games tab + £ 22.58
Bet24 25 Free Spins On Slot + 25 x WR (Bust Out On WR) £ 0.00
Betfair Multiples Refund (Gee Gees) + £ 44.29
Betfair Premiership Promo (Arcade) + £ 10.00
Betsafe Deposit Bonus (Lay Not Taken) - £ 39.56
2 x Betway $20 No Deposit Bonus + 100 Free Spins (Bust out on WR) £ 0.00
Coral Arbs (Both won so no cashback to come) + £ 2.50
IAS Qualifier (Long Term Free bet) + £ 0.50
Intertops £15 100% Sign Up Bonus (Dutch with Canbet on NFL 2.05 / 2) + £ 15.75
Ladbrokes Casino Scoop The Cash bonus for (3rd time) + £ 97.91
3 x Ladbrokes Perfect Pair BJ £25 100% Deposit Match + £120.00
2 x Ladbrokes Jewels Of The Orient 100% Match (£50 Bonus To Come) + £ 60.51
Moneybookers referrals + £ 3.95
Skybet Arb + £ 2.00
SkyVegas Free £5 Bonus + £ 10.00
Sporting Bet Casino $50 (£33) 100% Match sign up bonus. (2nd Time) + £103.00
Stan James Free £20 Casino Chips Competition (Lost 2 Hands BJ at £10) £ 0.00
3 x Stan James Arbs Qualifies Next Weeks Casino Bonus + £ 0.72
3 x William Hill Casino 50% Match bonus to £50 (Pre Bonus) + £ 49.50
2 x William Hill Arbs + £ 4.59

Profit For Week + £511.86

Running Total £10,586.13

[Admin]

Wow. Can I buy the bot you are using to do all these deals for you??

[RIT]

How on earth did he make £120 of the Lads perfect pair £25 deposit bonus. I made exactly zero.

Surely those other Ladbrokes offers are on slots and not risk free?

I do hope these are all genuine figures and not just FEM New World Order propaganda.

[bull]

Risk free? Who said anything about risk free!!!

If you play blackjack even with a bonus it is not risk free.
Steve's got several accounts (all legit) so he can maximise the offers, though I still can't understand where he gets the time. I made £41 from the perfect pairs offer on 1 account - so it's easily do-able.

Yes there are a couple of slots bonuses and they can be quite profitable but the risks are higher. Steve's got a large float so he can have a go at these without having to worry about losing. I personally don't do these YET.

If you want risk free stick to matched betting RIT, but as we've seen with the likes of Tipico this is not always risk free.

Well done Steve on the first week - speculate = accumulate.

[SharpeShooter]

I have only done slots offers when they're 4 x WR and 100% deposit match, Ladbrokes are great for these. It's very difficult to lose your entire deposit on a 4 x WR, but yes they're not risk free. I finsihed one up £20 pre bonus and the other 2 down (£60 combined) but the three bonuses are worth £150 so £110 profit once all bonuses are paid

The Perfect pairs is made up of £75 bonus and the rest is winnings. I made £30 profit qualifying for one of the bonuses after hitting 14 wins in a row (my best ever winning streak).

Bigjas, I don't use a bot, I'm obsessive compulsive . I probably put in about 20 - 25 hours a week and I don't rest until I've hit my target for the day (usually £50). If I make a loss on a casino offer I usually do another one straight away to try and get back in to the winning way.

There will be weeks when their are no decent casino bonuses and I struggle to meet my target I'm sure.