FAQ

A surebet scanner is a program that reads bookmaker lines and, using a specified algorithm, searches through the entire variety of odds for those that correspond to the concept of a “surebet.”  A surebet, or arbitrage betting, is a combination of several bets on the same event that results in the bettor making a profit regardless of the outcome.

The scanner interface (that is, what it looks like) is highly diverse. As a rule, for the user’s convenience, scanning results can be ranked using filters such as profit, the “lifespan” of the surebet, the event start time, etc.

A surebet consists of several bets on opposite outcomes of the same event. These are the so-called surebet legs. As a rule, a bet on one of the surebet legs is a bet on an overestimated odds (value bet).

But! The overestimated-odds scanner provides information only about the best odds for the selected event. The surebet scanner, however, provides all the information necessary to place all the surebet legs and obtain profit.

A live surebet scanner is needed for scanning and displaying those arbitrage situations that occur in real time, i.e., during a match or encounter.

“Life,” or in other words, the duration of such surebets is very short, from several seconds to several minutes. That is why we advise working with them only for experienced players who have good experience working with ordinary, prematch surebets. But the advantages of these live surebets are obvious – it is much more difficult for bookmakers to track and block a “surebet player” when working with these bets.

You can take several paths, and all of them will be correct to some degree.

Path one: personal experience. Most surebet scanners offer the opportunity to purchase access to their services for a short trial period. As a rule, this is a 1-day subscription. Its cost is low, and you get an excellent opportunity to choose the service that suits you specifically.

Path two: familiarize yourself with the information posted in the “Surebet Scanner Rating” section. Since our project is multilingual, regional affiliation is also taken into account. For example, the top three surebet scanners for Russia and the United Kingdom differ. This is because the rating takes many factors into account, the main ones being scanning quality and speed, operational security, and price.

As in most cases, you should turn to professionals to find surebets. It will be easier, faster, and more profitable to use the services of one of the surebet scanners, whose rating is posted on the site's home page. In the overwhelming majority of cases, scanners are developed by former (if they can become former) professional arbitrage betting players. Who, if not them, could create a software product to automate the search for surebets?

The existence of surebet scanners does not mean that a player cannot find surebets independently. Of course, they can. But scanners analyze the lines and odds of several dozen bookmakers – a person cannot process such a volume of information, and would have to limit themselves to two, at most three bookmakers and only a few events.

Yes, this is one type of arbitrage situation. In general, arbitrage betting means the opportunity to place bets at different bookmakers on all possible outcomes. Thus, a player who places all these bets will make a profit regardless of the outcome.

The simplest type of “surebet” has two legs, that is, two opposite outcomes. This type of arbitrage is the easiest and fastest to place, since you only need to work with two bets at two different bookmakers. Such “surebets” are best suited for beginners. More advanced users have three- and four-outcome arbitrage.

Bets on “middles” are also considered arbitrage betting.

The simplest and fastest way to find the best scanners is to consult the Surebet Scanner Rating published on our website. It contains information about more than 20 surebet scanners. In addition, quantitative indicators are assigned to such key performance metrics as scanning quality and speed, reliability, and pricing policy, depending on the scanner’s capabilities and the services it provides.

The top of the rating contains the best surebet scanners at the current moment. Our rating is “live,” i.e., if  the services or price change, or new scanners appear, the rating is recalculated.

Yes, it is possible. Most scanners provide an opportunity to familiarize yourself with their work in test mode and publish information about surebets with profitability of up to 1% for free on their websites. But it is hardly possible to speak of serious earnings with such a margin.

Surebets with unlimited profitability can be seen on the website of the free BMBets.com surebet scanner. The main advantage of this resource is that it is free. Nevertheless, we would not recommend it for earning from betting. Its scanning speed is low compared with paid scanners and is insufficient for adequate work with surebets. Surebets are visible to a larger number of players than when working with paid resources, which significantly increases the risk of being sanctioned by bookmakers.

Yes, it is possible. And speaking specifically about football, it accounts for the lion’s share of all arbitrage betting. This is primarily due to the mega-popularity of this sport.  After all, football is accessible to most people. And if they cannot play it themselves, there are enough television broadcasts to satisfy football fans’ interest in the sport.

By visiting the website of a surebet scanner that makes surebets of up to 1% freely available, you can easily see that there are enough football surebets. And by purchasing a paid subscription, many more surebets will be available to you, with greater profitability.

Earning money on hockey using emerging arbitrage betting situations is no less effective than, for example, on football. The only significant difference between hockey surebets and those in other sports is seasonality. In the off-season, it is difficult to find hockey matches at all, let alone detect surebets emerging in those infrequent hockey matches.

At the same time, during the season, which lasts approximately half a year, the number of hockey surebets grows exponentially. This is because bookmakers open, first, many markets on hockey matches and, second, a large number of difficult-to-calculate events arise, which are the primary cause of surebets (see the article about surebets and the factors through which surebets arise).

The conclusion is simple: it is possible to earn money on hockey, and during the season it is sometimes even easier than on the extremely popular sports of football or tennis.

Tennis is the second most popular sport in the bookmaker business. The margin on tennis bets is usually lower (for the player) than on less liquid sports. The exception is matches involving well-known tennis players, even if there is only one. In this case, one of the legs of the surebet or middle may turn out to be overvalued, giving the player fairly broad opportunities to take advantage of this imbalance and earn money.

You do not have to delve into an analysis of the reasons why a surebet arises; you can simply bear in mind that when a large number of tennis matches are taking place, especially when Grand Slam tournament matches are being played, the probability of good surebets appearing increases sharply, and a professional betting player should take advantage of this.

It is quite possible to earn money on tennis.

Basketball has a very important characteristic: it is played practically year-round and is popular in almost all parts of the world: extremely popular in North America, very popular in Europe and Asia. Australia, South America, and Africa are somewhat behind in this parameter.

The broad geographical spread provides professional players with the pleasant bonus of being able to work with basketball surebets almost around the clock: games take place at night, in the morning, during the day, and in the evening.

Earning from basketball using surebets and any other arbitrage situations is quite realistic, and we do not know of a single case in which successful players excluded basketball surebets from their search.