English The answer to this question should be divided into 2 parts: how to protect yourself from your own mistakes and how to protect yourself from bookmaker countermeasures.
To minimize your own mistakes, you should:
- Open accounts only with reputable bookmakers.
- Before starting to work with any bookmaker, carefully read the terms for accepting, settling and refunding bets. Particular attention should be paid to the part of the rules concerning extra time. Surebets should be placed between bookmakers with identical terms.
- Start working with surebets using small amounts to gain experience.
- Do not rush, and before placing the legs of surebets, independently verify that the bets and odds on bookmaker websites are current (if you are working with one of the surebet scanners).
- Do not bet in the final minutes of a match. At this time, many bookmakers stop accepting bets, and you may not have time to place all the legs of the surebet.
To avoid being added to the “surebetters’ blacklists” compiled by bookmakers, we recommend:
- Do not place unrounded bets. It is good to bet 30$, and bad to bet 32,42$.
- Do not place repeated bets on the same event. Even if you really want to and the percentages are very attractive.
- Do not place your entire bankroll on one bet. Ordinary bettors do not do this.
- Do not place surebets with profitability above 10%. Most likely, this concerns an error (accidental or deliberate, intended to catch surebetters) in the odds line. In this case, the bet will be cancelled—settled at odds of 1,00.