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Service Name: Big Mike Betting Hughies
Websites: http://www.bigmikebetting.com; http://www.gruss1-software.co.uk
Summary of article
- Full instructions on how to automate Big Mike’s Turbo Hughies with Gruss.
Big Mike has talked a lot about using Gruss software to automate the placement of his
bets and this is something we at the Secret Betting Club have been keen to explore.
With kind help from Phil, one of Big Mike’s members we have put together a
spreadsheet for use with Gruss that in testing has been automating the placement of
the Turbo Hughies.
Bear in mind though that this is a recent development and there maybe one or two
bugs that we have yet to uncover. It is in a ‘Beta’ format at the moment but has been
working well in testing over the past few weeks so we feel it is worth distributing at
this time.
The following is a 13 step plan to automating Gruss to work with Big Mikes Turbo
Hughies.
STEP 1
Download a copy of Gruss from http://www.gruss1-software.co.uk/ and familiarize
yourself with the software. This will help enormously in understanding how to utilize
the program.
STEP 2
Download a copy of our BMB Turbo Hughie spreadsheet from our server:
http://www.secretbettingclub.com/BMB_Gruss_with_Turbo.xls
This is the spreadsheet you will use alongside Gruss to automate the placement of the
Turbo Hughies.
STEP 3
In the spreadsheet open up the ‘selections’ worksheet, which should look similar to the
image below.
Under ‘Horse Name’ enter the names of the Big Mike Turbo Hughies in EXACTLY as
Betfair has them listed. Please note if you misspell a horse’s name then your bet will
not be placed. It has to be exactly identical to Betfair’s listing.
Under ‘Stake’ enter in the amount you would like to put on the Hughie to place.
Leave the ‘Bet Type’ column as it is.
Under ‘Min Odds’ enter the minimum odds that Mike has suggested to take when
backing the Hughie to place.
‘Max Odds’ can be left as high as possible unless you wish to suggest a price ceiling you
would be willing to take.
Under ‘Turbo Lay Amount’ enter in the stake for the lay side of the Turbo Lay. This is
usually £1 more than the ‘Stake’ amount.
STEP 4
There are some additional settings that you may wish to change as per the price of bets
you wish to take.
In the ‘Market’ worksheet in Box AL5 (highlighted in yellow) this is the number in
seconds before the off that the back part of the Hughie bet will be requested.
In the image below it is set to 360 seconds (6 minutes before the off). Feel free to edit
this figure to a time in seconds before the off you would like the Hughie to be placed.
STEP 5
There is a similar setting to Step 4 for the Turbo Lay part of the Hughie, where you can
request the time you wish for this to be taken.
This can be found in the ‘Market (Slave)’ worksheet in box AL5 as below under ‘Trigger
time (seconds before start)’. The default setting is currently 250 seconds.
This number must be lower than the figure in Step 4 for the back part of the bet. In
this example we have our first Hughie place bet requested at 360 seconds before the
off, and then the Turbo lay placed at 250 seconds before the off.
The turbo lay will remain in-play if not matched before the race and so uses the
persistence feature.
STEP 6
Staying in the ‘Market (Slave)’ worksheet, in box AL2 underneath where it says ‘Turbo
Layback % (e.g. 33)’, this calculation can also be adjusted. The figure 33 refers to the
percentage decrease in odds that the Turbo Lay will be requested at.
For example, if a Hughie is matched at 1.5, the Turbo lay will be requested at 1.5 X
0.33 (effectively a third of the odds), which is roughly 1.17.
You can change this figure should you wish to adjust the odds for the Turbo Lay.
That’s all you need for the time being in order to setup your spreadsheet. Please do
not adjust other settings, as the spreadsheet may well not work should you do this.
Now we need to adjust the settings of Gruss
STEP 7
Open up your copy of Gruss Betting Assistant. First of all you need to ensure that you
have checked the box on the main screen to keep all bets in play.
Ensure you place a tick in the box next to ‘Keep In Play’.
STEP 8
Next, go to the Market drop down menu and select ‘Clear quick pick list’ as below.
Then go to the Options menu and choose ‘Preferences’. From the resulting pop-up
window select ‘Quick Pick List’ and put ticks in the All UK Place (Horse Racing) and All
IRE Place (Horse Racing) boxes as below:
This will now ensure that each time you load up Gruss it will only load the place
markets for both UK and Irish racing. Perfect for following the Big Mike Hughies.
STEP 9
Next go to the Market menu again and select ‘Auto Select Markets’ and the ‘At Specific
Time Before Off’ option. In the resulting box enter the number of minutes before the
off that you would like to monitor the market. This number depends on the settings
you have entered in Step 4. Thus if you request the market is monitored 1200 seconds
before the off (20 minutes) then you would need to enter at least 20 here.
If using the default settings, then 10 minutes is sufficient…simply enter ’10’.
STEP 10
Next select the first race from the quick pick list. You should then see that market
appear in the main screen of Gruss.
STEP 11
Select the ‘Excel’ dropdown menu and choose ‘Log Current Prices’. This is where we
link Gruss with our Excel spreadsheet and you need to match up the following settings
exactly.
Ensure that under Workbook name, you have the name of the spreadsheet (BMB_Gruss
with Turbo.XLS) and the ‘Market’ Worksheet selected.
Ensure that you have the boxes ticked as following…
Once you have done this you should see on the main Gruss screen, that the current
market has been linked to the BMB Gruss spreadsheet and the Market worksheet as
follows:
STEP 12
Now you need to select the ‘New Page’ option from the drop down menu, which will
open up a 2nd tab. You can switch between these 2 tabs which effectively act like 2
instances of Gruss running at once. The tab highlighted in blue is the current version of
Gruss you are working in (see image below).
Now ensure you are in the new tab you have just created as we need to repeat steps 7
through to 10 again.
Do this now and once you have repeated those steps, we are going to also repeat Step
11 again, but this time adjust the worksheet we link to.
This time around we want to link this instance of Gruss with the Market (Slave)
worksheet as indicated in the image below:
Once you have done this you should see that the current market has been linked to the
BMB Gruss spreadsheet, and the Market(Slave) worksheet as follows:
STEP 13
What you should have now is 2 tabs with 2 instances of Gruss running, one which is
linked to the Market worksheet and one to the Market (Slave) worksheet.
The Market worksheet is automating the placing of the Hughie bet to be placed, whilst
the Market (Slave) worksheet is automating the placing of the turbo lay segment.
If you don’t do this properly, or have both linked up then there the Turbo Hughie
method will not work. Please do ensure you follow the instructions carefully, otherwise
you may encounter problems.
THAT’S IT!
All being well, Gruss should now be automating the placement of your Turbo Hughies.
As this method is still in development, we do recommend that you test this approach to
small stakes as you get started. Once you have it running smoothly and are fully
acquainted with how it works, you are probably best upgrading stakes then if you so
wish.
FURTHER HELP
We have developed this specific Big Mike spreadsheet by adapting an existing Gruss
sample spreadsheet to work with it called ‘Place Bets’ . Further help can therefore be
found by reading the instructions for the place_bets.xls sample spreadsheet.
More about this spreadsheet can be found by selecting the Help menu and ‘User Guide’
option. Drill down to the ‘Using Excel’ folder and the ‘sample spreadsheets’ link.
Within this you can see the instructions for the template spreadsheet that forms the
basis of our Big Mike spreadsheet. These instructions may well assist you if you
experience problems.
We have tested the Big Mike Turbo Hughie spreadsheet and method used above over
the past 2 weeks with no major problems. We will try and address any issues (should
any be raised) in a future blog post.
KNOWN ISSUE
As we have tested the software one issue has been raised that we are working on
resolving and hope to have fixed before too long. We don’t believe it’s a big enough
problem to stop us publishing this article this month, but you should be aware of it in
any case.
This known issue relates to the minimum odds that you request on any place bets. If
the min odds are not available (for example you want 1.5 but only 1.4 is on offer), then
you will not be matched. The Turbo Lay though will stay be placed at 1.01, meaning
the software will automatically request a 1.01 lay in the place market.
No major problem but clearly we don’t want to be placing 1.01 lays in the place
market if we can help it. The updated spreadsheet should be finished soon and will
update this post when it is availiable.
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