While it is difficult to say that some tipsters are deliberately giving out losing tips (because who can be certain that a tip will lose? ), there are plenty of other methods to tempt customers in to bets that will most likely lose. Some tipsters will do the same while some will also regularly post a record of their tips to show that they are genuine and do win money for the punter. “You can say an affiliate wants people to lose and if that’s the only way they were going to make money then that’s true. Maybe I should, I don’t know.”The Irish Times contacted six of the biggest online bookmakers for comment on their use of affiliate programmes in which profits are made from a customer’s losses.

Source: The Irish Times June 11, 2019 04:52 UTC