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FAQ

109How can I find the best Surebet Scanners?

The easiest and fastest way to find the best scanners is the Surebet Scanner Rating on our website.  It contains information about more than 20 surebet scanners. In addition, indicators such as quality of work and scanning speed, reliability and price, as well as quantitative indicators that depend on a scanner's functions and services, are mentioned. 

The top ranking contains the best surebet scanners at the moment.  Our rating is “live,” meaning that if services or prices change, or new scanners appear, the rating is recalculated. 

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110Can one download a surebet scanner for free?

Yes.  Most scanners have a test option and publish free information about surebets with up to a 1% profit rate on their websites. But it is hardly possible to speak of a serious result within this range.

Surebets with unlimited profitability are published on the website of the free surebet scanner BMBets.com.  The main advantage of this resource is that it is free.  Nevertheless, we would not recommend using it to earn money from betting.  Its scanning speed is low compared with paid scanners and is not sufficient for proper work with surebets.  Surebets can be seen by more players than with paid resources, which significantly increases the risk of counteraction from bookmakers.

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111Can I earn money by betting on football surebets?

Yes. And if we talk about football in detail, it accounts for a lion’s share of arbitrage betting. This is mainly connected with the mega-popularity of this sport. After all, football is available to most people. And if you do not play yourself, television is also enough to satisfy fans’ interest in football.

If you visit a surebet scanner website that places surebets up to 1% in the public area, you can easily make sure that there are enough football surebets there. With a paid subscription in your access, you will have several surebets with higher profitability.

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112Can I earn money by betting on hockey surebets?

Earning from hockey through arbitrage betting is no less effective than, for example, from football matches.  The only significant difference between hockey surebets is the season.  In the offseason, it is very difficult to find a hockey game or detect surebets during occasional hockey games.

At the same time, the number of hockey surebets increases exponentially during the season, which lasts about six months. 

Since bookmakers, firstly, open many markets for hockey games, and secondly, a large number of difficult-to-calculate events appear, these are the causes of surebets (see the article about surebets and the factors due to which surebets arise).

The conclusion is simple:  You can also earn from hockey during the season, and sometimes it will be easier for you than with megapopular football or tennis.

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113Can I make money betting on tennis surebets?

Tennis is the second most popular sport in the betting business. The margin on tennis bets is generally lower (for a player) than in less liquid sports.  The exception is matches involving at least one famous tennis player. In this case, a surebet or a middle may be overpriced, giving the player enough opportunities to use this discrepancy and earn well.

You do not need to delve deeply into the analysis of the causes of a surebet; simply note that when there are many tennis matches, especially when Grand Slam tournaments are taking place, the probability of a good surebet increases dramatically, which a professional player should use effectively.

It is also possible to earn money from tennis.

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114Can I earn money by betting on basketball surebets?

Basketball has a very important characteristic: it is played all year round and is very popular in almost all parts of the world: super popular in North America and very popular in Europe and Asia. Australia, South America, and Africa are somewhat less favorable in this respect.

The broad geographic distribution provides a nice bonus for bettors: the opportunity to bet on basketball surebets almost around the clock. Games take place in the morning, at midday, and in the evening.

It is entirely possible to earn money from basketball surebets and all other arbitrage betting, and we know of no cases where successful players excluded basketball from their search.

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115Are the middles and the surebets the same bets?

No, they are different types of arbitrage bets. The surebet betting strategy means that a bettor bets on opposing outcomes with different bookmakers and makes a profit. 

For example, the bets for a conventional football match between Zenit and CSKA according to Total Goals are as follows.

  • The 1st bookmaker offers Total Over 2.5, odds 1.91.
  • The 2nd bookmaker offers Total Under 2.5, odds 2.25.

Whatever the outcome of the game, the player will profit by 3,3%.

This middle strategy provides the opportunity to win both bets simultaneously.  Each middle has its width.

For example, the bets for the conventional basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns are as follows:

  • The 1st bookmaker offers Total Over 159.5, odds 1.96.
  • The 2nd bookmaker offers Total Under 161.5, odds 1.96.

The width of the middle is 2 points, i.e. with a total of 160 and 161 goals, the player who bet on this middle wins both bets.  In every other case, the player makes a profit from one of the bets with the amount reduced by 2%. 

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116Biathlon surebets: do they exist at all?

Despite the sometimes exciting events unfolding in the race for the World Cup title, biathlon still cannot become more popular than popular sports such as football, hockey and basketball.  Bets on biathlon are not even available at every large and well-known bookmaker.  Without a variety of choices, there can be no surebets. 

So the answer to your question is that there are some biathlon surebets, but they are rare.  Profits are impossible under these conditions.

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117Which sports are best suited for the emergence of arbitrage bets?

According to statistics, football remains the most popular sport in Europe. The largest number of bets is associated with this sport. For the most popular games, the number of open markets can exceed 200. It is precisely the broad selection at different bookmakers that enables sports arbitrage to arise.   

If we are talking about live surebets, they arise in those sports where both teams score many points. First of all, this is basketball. To a lesser extent, it is tennis and volleyball.

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118Which sports are better for betting on surebets?

Football, hockey and basketball are best suited for arbitrage betting or surebets. The number of markets for some events from the world of football is sometimes more than 200, which means that the probability of assessing them differently is much higher than, for example, in water polo. A variety of assessments of whether an event will take place, formed in different odds, is a condition for the occurrence of an arbitrage bet.

In our opinion, it would be advisable to bet not on your most popular sports and teams, but based on factors such as profit size and ROI.

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119What types of sports arbitrage are there?

Arbitrage betting in sports is a betting system involving different bookmakers and combinations of a match's outcomes, as a result of which the player makes a profit regardless of the match result.

Thus, surebets and middle bets are variants of arbitrage betting in sports.

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120What is a Middle bet?

The Middle strategy is most often used in connection with basketball games.  Let us consider it using an example.    The 1st bookmaker offers Total Under 159.5, odds 1.96. The 2nd bookmaker offers Total Over 156.5, odds 1.8. If the game ends with Total Goals 157, 158, 159, the player profits from both bets.  In any other case, the player wins with one bet, which is also quite good. 

Bet on Middles (tunnels, pants, windows) - one of the strategies is to bet on both surebet (outcome) options, but somewhat more than enough.  The advantage of Middles is a good profit when the result falls into the Middle. 

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