The Smart Betting Club Podcast

What separates a genuinely profitable football bettor from the thousands trying to beat the same markets? In Episode 107, I sit down with professional bettor, tipster, football analyst and former elite Danish referee Benjamin Leander to explore his unusual journey. Benjamin has spent more than 20 years immersed in football, refereeing and betting. He reached elite level in Denmark, won three football pools prizes worth a combined 2.6 million Danish kroner, and has built an impressive record f...

Cricket betting has become one of the fastest growing betting markets in the world. In Episode 106, I sit down with journalist, author and cricket betting expert Ed Hawkins to explore why more serious bettors are turning their attention to the sport. Drawing on more than 20 years covering cricket and betting markets, Ed explains why bookmakers continue to make pricing mistakes, the betting markets he believes offer the biggest edge, and why understanding pitch conditions is often more importa...

Making over £1 million from betting is enough to grab anyone's attention. The real story, though, is how my guest in Episode 105, Harry, got there. In this episode, Harry lifts the lid on two decades of professional betting, from exploiting early Betfair markets and building successful betting syndicates, to finding value on today's betting exchanges, managing variance, surviving losing years and continually adapting as betting markets have evolved. He also explains why exchanges now form the...

In Episode 104, Pete sits down with Juan, founder of Bet Hero, the value betting platform recently reviewed and recommended in SBC Magazine 164. Juan explains how his journey into betting began not through gambling, but by identifying inefficiencies in other markets. From building software to profit from sneaker releases, GPUs and collectibles, his background in computer science and automation naturally led him into arbitrage and eventually value betting. The discussion explores the differenc...

Recorded live at Smart Bash 2026, Pete Ling is joined by Phil Smith, Jeevan Jeyaratnam and Varun Sudhakar to explore one of the biggest challenges facing profitable bettors today: not finding value, but actually getting money down. The panel discusses how AI driven risk management, affordability checks and increasingly sophisticated customer profiling have changed the betting landscape. Topics include account longevity, timing of bets, market selection, exchange betting, accumulators, player...