SMARTSCANER

What is a value bet?

A value bet is a betting strategy betting on events that are undervalued by bookmakers. And if the bookmaker undervalued them, the odds are greater than the actual probability. With value betting, a player gets an advantage over bookmakers in the logn run, even considering the losses.

How do I find value bets?

  1. By yourself. This is especially true for players with good understanding of betting, having their finger on the pulse of the sport, and know what is happening with their favourite team at the moment almost better than the coach. Having carefully analysed the lines and odds offered by bookmakers, an expert of this kind can find value bets. In fact, the bookmakers’ own analysts make mistakes and become caught by stereotypes sometimes.
  2.  Services that scan for value bets. Their advantage is that they process a large amount of data from different bookmakers First, the average odds are derived as the arithmetic mean of all proposed odds, and then this value is compared with each bookmaker's odds.  The value above the average is the desired value bet.
  3. Check surebets carefully. One of the arms of a surebet is definitely a value bet. The presence of an overvalued bet is the key to the emergence of a surebet.