5K Football is a new to market sports betting tipster service that is operated by one Ben Gibson. He claims that his approach to football betting will allow people to turn a very substantial profit before Christmas.
Introduction to 5K Football
This might be a bit of a hot take, but some people just don’t like having a rather vague goal of simply “making money” through betting. This seems ridiculous at first, but allow me to explain. You see, for most people I know who make a decent income through betting, there isn’t necessarily a target figure or anything of that ilk. If you’re used to this, that is fine. Maybe you just draw out a bit here and there as you need it. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down. It’s the nature of it all.
The thing is, until you’re immersed in betting, this can be difficult to go along with. At the end of the day, people like targets and goals. Whether that is making £50 a day or aiming to turn a profit in a certain period of time. 5K Football falls into this latter category, and it isn’t just the fact that there is a goal that is interesting. It is the fact that Ben Gibson claims that you can make some drastic increases in your profitability, all whilst starting with a very modest betting bank.
Original Link: https://5kfootball.com/start.html
Honestly, these are appealing things. Especially if you’re new to betting and are perhaps looking for a decent “first” tipster service. The real appeal here though is just how much money you can make. If Ben Gibson can deliver on his claims, 5K Football would be a definite winner. There are however a few questions in my mind that hang over just how feasible al of this actually is. Even so, it will be interesting to have a deep dive into this and see just whether or not this is an actually viable option for a tipster service.
What Does 5K Football Offer?
One of the things that I like about 5K Football is that fundamentally you are dealing with an incredibly straight forward tipster service here. Well… sort of. There is a lot that surrounds what Ben Gibson does that raises questions, if I’m being really blunt about it. They aren’t necessarily deal breakers, but it would be remiss of me not to be upfront about everything that is going on here.
The first thing that I want to talk about is how the service is managed. This is probably what you would expect given the nature of the service. After all, if you’re looking to massively increase your profits in a short space of time, key to achieving this is betting on the regular. Something that isn’t always the easiest thing when it comes to football.
As is the case with almost all modern tipster services, 5K Football is ultimately an email based affair. Ben Gibson issues selections with some very basic information including staking (something that becomes very pertinent a little later). Realistically, there isn’t much more to say about any of this. It is all exactly what you might expect from this kind of tipster.
Now we move onto the bets themselves. This is where things undoubtedly become a bit more interesting. It isn’t any secret that there are many different betting markets that you can take advantage of if you’re looking to profit from football betting. 5K Football seems to… dip a toe in the water of this. Sometimes. Which honestly, is a bit of a shame.
You see, Ben Gibson advises bets on football from all over the show. There is a focus on European football, but he covers a lot of nations even within there. Because of this slightly more niche betting there remains some potential for value to be had. Something that you don’t tend to see much of when it comes to football betting. Unfortunately though, the fact that 5K Football is concerned with straight forward betting markets doesn’t really allow this to be capitalised on.
Don’t get me wrong, you’re not just going to be saddled with simply backing a team to win. 5K Football is at least a little bit more adventurous than this. But you’ll rarely see markets covered that aren’t over/under goals markets. In and of itself that isn’t a terrible thing, however, it does ultimately have some quite serious impact on the availability of decent odds.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that you just won’t get them here. That is, to some degree, a part and parcel of betting on football. But this can at least be somewhat mitigated. In my mind, this kind of service definitely warrants the use of an odds comparison site. Something that is only made more apparent given that 5K Football is based on recording odds at those set by a certain bookie. As such, it’s in your interests to try and out perform this in my opinion.
At this point, I want to talk about numbers. This means addressing something that is an inevitability with something like 5K Football. Namely, I’m talking about the fact that this features a compounding staking system. For those who aren’t aware what this means, you are putting any winnings into increasing your stakes on subsequent bets.
As I’ve said, this kind of thing is very common with services like 5K Football. When you have a goal that you need to reach in a certain period of time, the only way of really achieving this most of the time is to increase your stakes every step of the way. Unfortunately though, I think the strategy Ben Gibson employs is quite an aggressive one.
Unfortunately, Ben Gibson doesn’t make any mention of a strike rate for 5K Football. In theory, this should be a moderately high number. After all, you’re betting on lower odds football markets. But there isn’t really any insight provided into this, despite the fact that I can see no reason for Ben Gibson not to.
How Does 5K Football Work?
When it comes to something like 5K Football, there are a few different elements of how the service is working. The first and foremost thing is the staking plan. That idea of compounding stakes is something that is an incredibly well known one and you can turn small numbers into quite large numbers very quickly. However, a staking plan does not a betting system make.
One of the things that Ben Gibson talks about a lot in the marketing material for 5K Football is that this is a service that has ben designed for you to withdraw your winnings. Going back to my intro, this is something that I acknowledge some bettors struggle with. It isn’t a bad idea, but once again I feel like my hand is forced. That isn’t a betting system either. It’s… at best, a basic logistical approach.
The key consideration for something like 5K Football in my mind is how is Ben Gibson actually finding bets? A question that doesn’t really have an answer. This is a tipster who is betting on various football leagues, on the daily, but isn’t able to tell you anything about why he’s betting the way that he is. When you look at the huge range of betting, that is a real cause for concern in my mind. A more focused approach, I can understand a tipster having an edge. But that focus seems to be lacking.
Adding to this is the fact that there isn’t really any evidence backing up… well, anything really. Despite the fact that Ben Gibson shows a screenshot of (some) winning bets on Betfair, between May and August, there is no proofing provided. This is hugely questionable because what little information would be contained within it is all heavily blurred out. Whilst there is possibly a reasonable reason for this, the fact that it is done really only adds to the questions surrounding 5K Football in my mind.
What is the Initial Investment?
Ben Gibson really goes out of his way to try and push 5K Football as beign a solid value for money offering. When talking about the price he claims that it would be reasonable to charge £149, he says that £100 would be reasonable. Even £50. However, we are apparently incredibly lucky that this is available for a one time payment of £45 (plus VAT). All of this has little weight in my mind and just seems like crude and lazy marketing.
Something to note is that 5K Football is being sold through Clickbank. This of course means that there is a full money back guarantee in place, in this case, for 30 days. Their involvement means that you shouldn’t really struggle if you need to collect this. Finally, to give some credit to Ben Gibson, this is actually mentioned in the sales material for the service.
What is the Rate of Return?
The idea of 5K Football is a simple one. Start with £100, and by the time Christmas rolls around, Ben Gibson aims to have made you £5,000. Of course, the operative word there is aims. There are no guarantees about this and, honestly, it is refreshing to see this kind of honesty. However, it is interesting to note that the headline for this service also talks about how Ben Gibson turned £100 into £3,524.24 in less than 3 months.
Here’s the thing. Whilst that transparency on results is somewhat refreshing for this kind of service, there is still a clear insinuation in terms of the results for 5K Football. Ben Gibson is saying that you can start with a very small amount of money and come a time when a lot of people will put themselves under financial pressure, you will have a lot of money.
Conclusion for 5K Football
By my nature, I’m a bit of a cynic. But sometimes, this can be really warranted, and 5K Football is a prime example of this in my mind. You see, whilst Ben Gibson does an excellent job of presenting his case that this is a viable tipster service that will make you something at the very least, I’m just not convinced by it.
The thing is this. Whilst the approach taken here is novel and has appeal, I’m yet to see a single tipster deliver on these kinds of results. And that is in more than half a decade of doing this. The fact is that having a goal adds instant appeal to something like 5K Football. Your man on the street knows what £100 looks like, he likes the idea of turning that into £5,000. They’re tangible numbers. And that is who this is designed to appeal to.
That is why in my mind, Ben Gibson is able to get away with not telling us anything. With not talking about how he’s actually picking out football bets. About how his performance looked in the “less than 3 months” in which he supposedly turned £100 into more than £3,500. None of this matters because 5K Football just doesn’t seem to be aimed at those who are in the know. And that’s a bad starting point for an actually profitable tipster service in my opinion.
Here’s the thing. Every tipster that I have known that is worth their salt stands up to scrutiny. It doesn’t always mean that they perform well enough. But they are transparent about things that matter, and from this, you can build up an informed decision about the risk that you’re taking on and the results you expect from it. You can’t do that with 5K Football.
Everything boils down, really, to just taking Ben Gibson’s word that he’s on the level. The problem with this is that he is also the one person who stands to profit, not matter what happens. I’m not saying that 5K Football doesn’t have some merit. In theory, it could well. But I will always question why a tipster wouldn’t want to actively demonstrate that merit.
There is no reason why Ben Gibson couldn’t talk about his selection process. Why the betting markets he bets on, or the leagues that he looks at. The truth is though that the fact that 5K Football is a football tipster service takes a back seat to this constant selling of the idea that you’ll make loads of money and you only need £100 to get started. We could see those previous results, but instead, there is an active attempt to obfuscate them. It’s all just incredibly questionable.
So, what all of this boils down to is a tipster service that provides little reason to have faith in the results. There is no information. There is no insight. And all of this is at a price that, whilst not prohibitive, isn’t really cheap enough to be worth a punt. The fact is that whilst you might only be paying out £45 once for 5K Football, you’re taking on quite a lot of risk here. Risk that I personally have doubts will be rewarded.
Bring all of that together and you have a service that I just can’t really bring myself to recommend. Aside from the fact that I just think that 5K Football and Ben Gibson are highly questionable, for your £45 there are plenty of decent tipsters and betting systems out there that would actually help you to make a profit. You might pay a little bit more for them, but like I often say, not paying a lot for a bad product still means paying for a bad product. And there is almost never value in that.
