Daily Tipping Point is a new to market horse racing tipster service that is being offered through the Best System Bets stable of tipsters. Selections come courtesy of tipster Jimmy Holden.
Introduction to Daily Tipping Point
It’s always interesting to see the approach that different tipsters take when it comes to demonstrating the worth of their services. Some are statistical and numbers driven, others are incredibly modest about what they achieve, then there are… well, the braggards. I would suppose. The people who love nothing more than talking a big game about just how well you can do following them. They sound like a dream come true. “If you could cheat your way to making £12,893 per month through betting, would you?”, asks a sales video…
This might sound like waffle, but it is very important for me to establish the context and the tone that Jimmy Holden sets for his tipster service, Daily Tipping Point. What is really interesting to me though is the fact that Best System Bets are involved as well. Their services have always been a mixed bag, but generally err on the side of at least trying to be realistic. So, to look at something like this and see everything so brazenly laid out for everybody to see. Well, it’s certainly an interesting approach to marketing.
But enough about the marketing. Let’s get down to brass tacks. Because what really matters is that Jimmy Holden can deliver on his claims. Right? Even just getting close would be a win. Right? Well, probably not at all surprisingly, there are a huge number of questions that hang over Daily Tipping Point. Especially in terms of its actual ability to achieve what Best System Bets claim that it can achieve. Adding to these various issues is the simple fact that a lot of basic information is missing too. With all of that out there, let’s get into it.
What Does Daily Tipping Point Offer?
When I want to talk about what a tipster service offers, there are often a lot of different starting points that one can leverage. Every tipster has a different approach to their betting, but a service is usually well managed, or has an interesting betting angle. There is something that makes it stand out. Daily Tipping Point has that to some degree, but not enough to use it as “a starting point”.
The fact is that a lot of what Jimmy Holden and Best System Bets have to say is… well, it’s not much of anything. And whilst there are elements of Daily Tipping Point that could arguably be somewhat interesting in a different set of hands, it ends up feeling a bit lacking in substance here. Like the brief was to sound good, without concern for whether it is good.
About the clearest thing that I can say in terms of what you are getting into with Daily Tipping Point is that it is a daily horse racing tipster service. Furthermore, it is a frustratingly typical example of a tipster service. This means that, as you’d expect, Jimmy Holden sends out his selections directly via email to subscribers.
Unfortunately, the information included is rather minimal. This is pretty typical for services managed by Best System Bets. What it means for you is that Jimmy Holden gives you what you need to get your bets on, but that is about where the line stops. Daily Tipping Point is lacking rather basic information that I think most decent tipster services do cover.
This means that when it comes to actually placing your bets, you’re pretty much on your own. Things like advice on odds are conspicuous in their absence to me and are ultimately quite problematic. About the only thing that I can say is a positive is that it means you should probably be using an odds comparison site.
In my mind, this is something that will work incredibly well with Daily Tipping Point because of the structure that Jimmy Holden favours. Each day, there are 3 types of bets advised. The first is a single horse that you are supposed to back to win. This will typically have very low odds. The second is an each way bet that is at much longer odds. Sometimes double figures.
In both cases, something that is imperative is getting the most out of the wins. The supposedly consistent wins that Jimmy Holden advises are small. As such, you need to make sure they return as much as possible. In the meantime, those longer shot each way bets might want to be backed with a bookie that is paying out on more places. Something that isn’t mentioned in Daily Tipping Point at all, I would like to add.
The other reason that all of this is important is the daily double. Each day, Jimmy Holden recommends that you bring both tips together and back them with a much smaller amount. If these doubles come in (and that is a big if), you can see some very substantial “jackpot wins”. As such, you should always want to be maximising this element of Daily Tipping Point.
In terms of the staking plan, all bets are advised to level stakes. Jimmy Holden and Best System Bets show their “evidence” to £50 stakes on the main bets and just £5 on the double. This translates to Daily Tipping Point using level stakes and 0.1 points on that really long shot. It also means a very reasonable looking stake of 2.1 points per day.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a huge amount of advice on what kind of bank you need. It would be easy to look at Daily Tipping Point and not expect to need anything too big. There is a clear insinuation that the shorter odds bets that Jimmy Holden advises will top your bank up. I am not entirely convinced of this however, and would want at least 100 points if I were following this.
A massive part of that prudence is the fact that neither Jimmy Holden nor Best System Bets tell you how often you can expect to win with Daily Tipping Point. Details of any strike rate are simply not given, with a vague statement issued about how “it is unrealistic to expect to win everyday. There will be periods with lots of winners and periods with less winners” and that they “tend to always end each month with a profit”.
How Does Daily Tipping Point Work?
When it comes to looking at how Daily Tipping Point works, we are given a whole lot of nothing. Best System Bets and Jimmy Holden talk a lot of crap in the sales video. There is a massive dump of information that sounds good. Until you actually start to scrutinise it and actually understand what is being claimed. Then it all just starts to fall apart and you realise that it isn’t actually saying much of anything. Which is of course a massive point for concern.
Effectively, what we are told with Daily Tipping Point is that Jimmy Holden uses a system that is based around looking at horses that win with longer odds. Typically, he says, there is a factor which ties them together. This could be something that is apparently very negligible at a glance. Bookies will however jump on these idiosyncrasies and use them to shorten odds on horses who also fit this pattern. This is the eponymous tipping point.
From here, Best System Bets go on to say that Jimmy Holden is able to capitalise on the knowledge of these trends to identify future trends .And that is what Daily Tipping Point is based around. If you don’t really think about it, it might make some kind of sense. But really, we aren’t being told anything. What this reads like to me is a very elaborate recreation of the old “bookies are bad and out to rob you, and I’ve got a solution” sales pitch. Details of the solution? Apparently, we don’t need to know them.
The reason I am being incredibly sceptical here is that Daily Tipping Point is very conspicuous in its absence of evidence. Neither Jimmy Holden nor Best System Bets provide any sort of proofing outside of a single day of betting. Even if you take that as gospel, all it means is that there was once one good day. It certainly doesn’t show a replicable approach or what you can expect from it. The only other supporting evidence are some highly questionable testimonials. Not surprisingly, I am doubtful over the authenticity of these.
What is the Initial Investment?
If you want to sign up to Daily Tipping Point there are just two options available. The first of the is the option to sign up for the next quarter. This is priced at £29.95 (plus VAT). Alternatively, you can sign up to the service on an annual subscription for just £59.95 (again, plus VAT).
The best value available comes from signing up to a lifetime subscription to Jimmy Holden’s selections. This ultimately represents significantly better value at £99 (again, plus VAT). Obviously, this is also a significantly greater outlay.
As is the case with all services that Best System Bets offer, there is unfortunately no money back guarantee in place with Daily Tipping Point. This means that in the case of the longer subscriptions, whilst they are theoretically good value, you have to be willing to really see these through long term for that value to be applied.
Another interesting thing relating to this is that in the sales video for Daily Tipping Point, there is a direct reference made to a 60 day money back guarantee. I wouldn’t expect to get this from Jimmy Holden and Best System Bets, but it is a quite telling thing.
What is the Rate of Return?
The main claim that stands out to me with Daily Tipping Point is of course Jimmy Holden claiming that you can make £12,893 per month. Or at least, that is what is heavily implied by the tone of the sales video. Of course, I don’t believe it for a single minute. This isn’t just my usual healthy dose of scepticism though, the numbers that Best System Bets provide back this up.
The one example that they give is referred to as a “perfect day”. This perfect day saw a profit of £369.38. Even if we’re generous and round that up to £400 which it categorically isn’t by the way, Daily Tipping Point would need to have a perfect day, 32 days a month, to get to that number. It is clear crap. It also implies that Jimmy Holden is getting a monthly profit of almost 260 points based off the stakes Best System Bets show. Again, I really don’t believe any of that.
Conclusion for Daily Tipping Point
I can think of several things that put me off about Daily Tipping Point but there is something to be said that the main selling point (i.e. the income potential) is what really nails it for me. I simply don’t see how Jimmy Holden and Best System Bets can have the disparity that they do in terms of the results. However you look at it, nothing adds up.
All of which leads to arguably the biggest problem with betting. And that is the question of whether or not you are actually dealing with made up results. It isn’t even like there is any overlap here that suggests rounding of numbers etc. Giving Daily Tipping Point the benefits of a 100% strike rate, there simply aren’t enough days in the month to make what Jimmy Holden and Best System Bets claim.
That is massively problematic. Of course, one could look at the fact that I’m basing this off a small data sample size. I will hold my hands up and say that this could be a factor in my analysis of said data. But it also begs the question of why Jimmy Holden and Best System Bets simply wouldn’t provide any actual proofing.
The fact is that everything to do with this seems iffy to me. Jimmy Holden’s philosophy on betting seems to be either hugely flawed or simply not explained very well. I know what I believe it to be given everything else… It might sound impressive if you don’t really understand betting, but Daily Tipping Point seems to have very little actual foundation.
It isn’t even like it is particularly cheap. When you really look at Daily Tipping Point, there are much better tipster services available for what Jimmy Holden and Best System Bets are asking. They might not make you almost £13,000 per month. But let’s be honest, this isn’t going to either. So, I’d take modest and genuine over massive and not any day of the week.
Probably not surprisingly, the only summary that I can reach with Daily Tipping Point is that this really isn’t something that I would look to recommend. There is little here that I would consider to be substantive, and it isn’t even cheap enough to be worth a punt for a laugh. This is a strong no go for me.
