The IPT Scanner shows all the live in-play games that are on, and it makes it easy to rank matches in order of shots on target, shots off target, corners, dangerous attacks and so on. It also highlights statistics when they get to high levels. It also has three Pressure Indexes which are a combination of different stats such as shots on target + dangerous attacks, etc.

IPT In Play Trading Pressure Index is calculated as follows:

This information is direct from IPT. I asked them myself.

I was looking for some good inplay opportunities, so I ranked the games by different factors, mainly the shots on target or dangerous attacks columns. I then placed bets in-play based on these two methods:

Back H Favs @0-0

Lay A Dogs@ 0-1

Back H Favs @0-0

If a pre-match favorite had a lot of shots and dangerous attacks, and it was still 0-0, preferably in the first half, but up to 60m was okay, then I would back the favorite to win a target profit of 100 GBP.

If that bet lost, I increased my stake size for the next opportunity, and kept going until I won 100 GBP profit on the trade session. Since it as in-play betting, I would follow the match and if it was still 0-0 with the odds getting higher but still with the home team dominating, then I would add on more stakes at 10 GBP each 5-10 minutes up to the 80m mark.

Lay A Dogs@ 0-1

If the 0-0 game I was backing the home team in then conceded a goal, I would double down on my position and place a large lay bet on the underdog so that a draw would also make 100 GBP profit, and a home win would make even more.

If I was not already betting in a game, and the underdog is up, then I would also enter matches laying the 0-1 dog to win a profit of 100 GBP.

After 60m, back another goal

For matches that have gone past 60m, instead of backing or laying the fav/dog, I would just place a bet on another goal being scored if the odds were above 1.5. That would be backing over 0.5 goals in a 0-0 game, or backing over 1.5 goals in a 0-1 game.

In all of these cases I am using the IPT scanner to find live games with a lot of attacking action and goal mouth pressure, and then place bets. If I lost, I increased stakes to recover losses and achieve my target in the next bet. It was quite emotional and loose betting. The only fixed rule was that I had 1k to play with and if I lost that I would give up on this gambling session. On this occasion I have been lucky and made a decent profit.

After I realised the month was not going to be a financial disaster, I started to make notes on the kind of matches I was going into and seeing if I could turn that into an automated bot that could plug away at lower stakes and show my long term if this kind of method can work for me.

The automated bots will have a trailing stop loss of the allotted bank. So if the bank is 500 GBP and it makes +1,000 profit but then goes on a losing run of -500 GBP, then the bot will stop at that point and I can see how much the bot made before it went on a bank destroying -500 run. The idea here is that I know the bot will hit an unusually long losing run at some point and reach -500. The question is, will there be enough profit from the winning cycles to counterbalance the losing cycles. So maybe a calmer, more data driven automated bot can come out of this kind of betting. My BFBM has the same inplay data feed that IPT Scanner does, so I should be able to automate it over time. But this inplay betting was very casual, emotional driven bets with quite a variety of qualifying matches, so it will take time to really separate the different qualifying criteria and make them into proper working bots.

The IPT Scanner has a Betfair page and a sportsbook page that includes other non-Betfair matches, too. So if there were not any good matches on Betfair, I could use the bookie scanner and then bet on Pinnacle/PS3838.