Daily Double Up is a new to market horse racing tipster service that is operated by Jeff Slater. He claims that his approach to betting allows you to profit consistently through your betting.
Introduction to Daily Double Up
If you asked me whether I’d prefer consistent profits, or big ones, the answer would always be the same. Both please. Of course, that is very rarely an option, and so I have concluded that within reason, consistency is key with betting. The reason I say within reason is a simple one. I see far too many tipsters bragging about consistency, but only producing a point or 2 per week. Sure, it’s a frequent thing, but it’s negligible. I just wouldn’t want to pay £40 and risk hundreds a month to see a return of £80. It doesn’t make sense to me.
Now, you might well be wondering what this has to do with todays review subject, Daily Double Up. Well, the fact is quite a lot. This is a service that is supposed to appeal based off the fact that that it is turning a very consistent profit. And Jeff Slater throws around some very impressive looking numbers too. But there is a lot to be said for context and what all of this actually means, in real terms, for subscribers. Because one of the interesting things about marketing is this. You can make anything seem like anything.
This isn’t to detract from the key message. Whilst I have some scepticism (and with good reason, as I will explore), the results that Jeff Slater ultimately claims aren’t terrible. And the low risk approach that is favoured with Daily Double Up is something that definitely has that “kerbside appeal”. Especially if you’re getting started with betting. The biggest reason that you might want to give this a look though is simple. The costs are significantly lower than some other tipster services. Does this mean value for money though? Let’s find out.
What Does Daily Double Up Offer?
The core offering of Daily Double Up is an incredibly simple one. And I have to say, fair play to Jeff Slater. Because this is something that definitely makes this a more appealing service. Something that I feel like I say all too often is that simplicity doesn’t necessarily make for a bad service, and that is very much apparent here.
The thing that stands out to me about the simplicity that is on show with Daily Double Up is just how much it runs through the entire service. Every element of what Jeff Slater does is about as simple as it can be. You will see it in terms of how the service is managed, in terms of the bets you will be placing, and the broader philosophy that Jeff Slater uses. But I’ll come to all that later.
First things first, let’s talk about how Daily Double Up is managed. Much of this is probably in line with what you would expect from a modern tipster service. Selections are sent out directly via email, and all that you really have to do is place the bets. As you might expect, Jeff Slater does of course give you all of the information that you should need to get those bets placed, however, it is rather minimal.
To some degree, I don’t think that has to be a terrible problem. The whole concept of this service means that as long as you’re betting at more than evens over the course of the week, you should still be able to lock in and ensure that you get that profit. This isn’t however something that is always quite as straightforward as it seems.
You see, selections tend to be sent out the day of racing. In and of itself, that doesn’t have to be a problem. However, due to the incredibly low odds that you are betting on, I would definitely recommend shopping around. Jeff Slater uses a bookmaker that provides BOG, and that is something that you should be looking out for,but I don’t think it matters quite so much with Daily Double Up.
One of the problems that you can encounter when you’re dealing with a tipster service that is based around backing lower odds, as you might expect, they’re typically favourites. So, the odds don’t tend to drift and move too much. Comparing bookies however, you might be able to squeeze out an extra half a point in some cases. And with the sorts of margins Daily Double Up is built on, that is vey significant.
Now, a little “quickfire” insight into the betting itself of Daily Double Up, if you will. As you’d probably expect given the fact that I have talked about those incredibly low odds, all selections are advised as straight back to win bets. Jeff Slater also only advises a single selection each day. Once again, there is that return to the idea of simplicity.
The low volume approach is actually something that works in the favour of Daily Double Up. Jeff Slater says that, personally, he likes to stake £100 per point. That is a key idea of what you are doing here. You don’t bet often, but you bet big, and with the intention to win. On paper, it all makes perfect sense.
There are however a few concerns that I have in relation to all of this. Firstly, it is worth noting that Jeff Slater doesn’t actually provide anything in the way of advice on a betting bank. In theory, this should be much smaller than I would typically look to employ due to the fact that Daily Double Up will win often. At least, in theory. Realistically though, I think I’d still want a good 50 points as a minimum.
And with that said, let’s talk about that strike rate. Or at least, the claimed strike rate. Jeff Slater says that over a period of 8 weeks he had 48 bets of which just 8 were losers. This suggests that a strike rate of 83.33% is attainable. What isn’t shown however are any longer term results for Daily Double Up, and as such, I’m slightly sceptical of all of this.
How Does Daily Double Up Work?
Daily Double Up is one of those rather unique tipster services in so much as when you look at what it is about and how it is supposed to work, it is all about the philosophy. Jeff Slater aims to win often, but little. Specifically, the as the name suggests, the aim is to double your initial stakes over an 8 week period. That is about it. But here’s the thing, whilst this is a reasonable enough approach, it isn’t actually a betting system.
One of the problems that I often have when it comes to things like Daily Double Up is that in theory, it all sounds very good. You don’t bet often, but you do bet big. Then, because you aren’t really losing, your profits are still in line with what you might expect to see if you were following a service that perhaps carried more risk, but involves smaller stakes. And so, in the grand scheme of things, Jeff Slater is offering a less risky option. Even though you’re betting more.
The problem with absolutely all of this is, as is so often the case, that you actually have to have a decent approach for picking winning bets. It is widely regarded that if you want to make a profit betting on favourites, you have to win 70% of the time, every time. Daily Double Up demonstrates this in theory over a very short period of time, but that can only continue to happen if you have a decent wany of identifying which favourites will win.
Unfortunately, this isn’t something that Jeff Slater tends to share. He says things like he looks for “one quality pick per day” and that he only puts money on “the hone horse [he] feel will deliver the profit that day”. But how exactly is he going about that?Depending on your source, favourites win about 35-40% of the time. So you have to be very good at getting that right. With Daily Double Up though, you’re just taking the tipsters word that they can deliver this.
What is the Initial Investment?
One of the things that stands out to me about Daily Double Up is that it isn’t as cheap as it may seem. In actual fact, Jeff Slater is asking £50 (plus VAT) for access to his selections for 3 months. That works out at about £20 per month. In the meantime, you can pay £97 (again, plus VAT) for access for the rest of 2022. These are relatively considerable outlays though.
Something that does stand out to me about Daily Double Up is that there is a 30 day money back guarantee in place. This is backed up by the fact that Jeff Slater is using Clickbank as the platform to sell the service. Rather disappointingly though, there is no mention whatsoever of this in the sales material. Something that strikes me as being quite pertinent.
What is the Rate of Return?
Over the 8 weeks that he “proofed” Daily Double Up, Jeff Slater made a profit of 41.52 points. That is about 20 points per month, and honestly, that is very believable. It is however short of the targeted income. To achieve this, you would be doubling your money every 8 weeks. In other words, at 6 bets per week, you should expect a profit of 48 points.
Conclusion for Daily Double Up
There is little denying what about Daily Double Up is just so appealing. Like I said in my introduction, one of the biggest things to overcome if you are new to betting is the risk that can be involved. Even now, I often find myself looking at a service that just wants me to pump my money into their selections because there will be a profit at some point.
Daily Double Up is designed to be the very antithesis of this. And the amounts seem decent too. I know that 6 points a week might not sound great. I think that Jeff Slater knows this too. But a 100% ROI? Well, that is the kind of return that really sounds impressive. Especially if you are betting at the larger stakes that it is suggested that you should be using here.
But I really do have some issues with Daily Double Up. Quite a lot in fact. You see, I have some doubts about Jeff Slater’s claimed previous results. Not least of which is because what we’re given is, at best, 8 weeks of selections. They could be a particularly good 8 weeks, but I also think that there is perhaps something a little more going on here. I will simply say that I wonder just how many losing bets we aren’t subjected too…
Of course, I will admit freely to being cynical when it comes to betting and this sort of thing. I’ve seen it far too many times to not finding myself questioning results. But such a massive part of it is that very conspicuous lack of information on how Jeff Slater is finding winners for Daily Double Up. Because mathematically, it doesn’t add up.
I have looked at a lot of tipster services in my time and a good number of them have been based around this idea of backing favourites. It’s something that always makes sense. Until you look at the numbers. Like I said earlier, favourites win about 35% of the time. And yet you have to get them right 70% of the time to turn a small profit. That is exactly why you will see so many services based around finding value rather than winners.
Now, it isn’t impossible, but I am very curious as to how Jeff Slater is achieving this result that is, a mathematical certainty. But here’s the thing, he doesn’t really talk about horse racing. He doesn’t display any knowledge of understanding why favourites are favourites and where they have the best chance of running. So, is it guesswork? Is there a strategy behind Daily Double Up?God knows.
For me to put any faith into a tipster that takes this sort of approach, I feel like I need to be very certain of their ability to actually pick and advise winners. I don’t think that you can say that with Daily Double Up. Because there is nothing backing that up either in terms of long term results or insight. It’s all just a bit sketchy.
Adding to this are things like the fact that Jeff Slater very conveniently doesn’t mention the money back guarantee that is in place for Daily Double Up. Almost as if there is simply a hope that there will be enough winners to take people past 30 days… Just an idle thought…
Look, I’m not saying that the approach behind Daily Double Up can’t work. I think that it can. But it takes something truly exceptional as a tipster service and I just don’t see Jeff Slater displaying that. As such, you have something that is being sold off the back of being low risk that in real world terms is fraught with risk.
With that in mind, even at the relatively modest costs that are in place, I simply couldn’t bring myself to recommend Daily Double Up. Everything about it just doesn’t seem to be well thought out in the way that a genuine tipster would. Betting bank? Absent. Proofing? Absent. Insight into picking winners? Absent. It doesn’t strike me as a coincidence at all. So, as much as there might be appeal in a 100% ROI, this is definitely one to miss in my eyes.
