FAQ

Yes, it is possible. And if we talk about football, it accounts for the lion's share of all arbitrage betting. This is mainly explained by the mega-popularity of this sport. After all, football is a sport available to most people. If we do not play it ourselves, television broadcasts are enough to satisfy football fans' interest.

By taking a look at the surebet scanner site that offers ranges of up to 1% and makes them available for free, you can easily make sure that there are more than enough football surebets. And by purchasing a subscription, you will have access to even more surebets and even greater profitability.

Making money from hockey by using emerging arbitrage situations is no more difficult than, for example, in football. The only significant difference between ranges and hockey is seasonality. In the off-season, it is difficult to find hockey matches, and therefore even more difficult to detect the emergence of a surebet during these infrequent hockey matches.

At the same time, during the season, which lasts about six months, the number of surebets in hockey increases exponentially. First, bookmakers open many markets for hockey matches and, second, there are a large number of events that are difficult to calculate, which is the main cause of the surebet (see the article about the surebet and the factors forming the surebet).

The conclusion is simple: you can make money on hockey, and doing so in the middle of the season is sometimes even easier than on super-popular football or tennis.

Tennis is the second most popular sport among bookmakers. The margins on tennis bets are generally lower (for the player) than for other sports. An exception should be noted for matches between famous tennis players, or when at least one of them is famous. In that case, one side of the surebet or middle may be overvalued, giving the bettor numerous opportunities to play on this imbalance and win.

Without analyzing in depth the causes of the surebet's appearance, simply note that during major tennis tournaments, for example during a Grand Slam tournament, the probability of a strong surebet occurring increases dramatically, which is a dream opportunity for a professional bettor.

It is therefore not impossible to make money from tennis.

Basketball has an important characteristic: matches take place almost throughout the year, and it is a popular sport on almost every continent: it is super-popular in North America, very popular in Europe and Asia. Australia, South America, and Africa have somewhat fewer basketball fans.

A broad geographical distribution offers an excellent bonus for professional bettors, as it provides almost constant activity with surebets on basketball: matches take place at night, in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening.

Earnings on basketball, thanks to surebets and other arbitrage betting situations, are entirely possible, and we do not know of any professional bettors who exclude basketball when searching for surebets.

No, there are different types of arbitrage situations. The surebet betting strategy involves the bettor placing bets with different bookmakers on opposing outcomes for one and the same event in order to win.

For example, let us take the bets for a Zenit - CSKA Moscow football match on Total Goals.

• Bookmaker №1 offers odds on Total over 2,5 - 1,91
• Bookmaker №2 offers odds on Total under 2.5 - 2.25

Regardless of the score, the player will receive a profit of 3,3% of the bankroll.

The middle is a strategy that assumes the possibility of winning both bets simultaneously. Each middle has its own width.

For example, let us take the bets on a Los Angeles Lakers - Phoenix Suns basketball match

• Bookmaker N°1 offers odds on Total over 159.5 - 1.96
• Bookmaker №2 offers odds on Total under 161,5 - 1,96

The middle's width is 2 points. With a Total of 160 and 161, the person who places bets on this middle will win both bets. In all other cases, the player will win one of the bets and have a general "negative" of 2% of the bankroll.

Despite the sometimes exciting events unfolding in the races for the World Cup, biathlon cannot overcome the popularity of sports such as football, hockey and basketball. Bets on biathlon are often absent even at the best-known bookmakers. For these reasons, it is impossible to have a surebet.

Thus, in response to your question, it can be said that a surebet on biathlon exists, but it is truly very rare. It is impossible to make money under these conditions.

According to statistics, football is the most popular sport in Europe. The largest number of bets is placed on this sport. For the best matches, the number of open markets can exceed 200. It is this broad representation at different bookmakers that provides an excellent opportunity for sports arbitrage to form.

If we are talking about a live surebet, it often occurs in sports where the scores involve a large number of points. Thus, first of all, basketball, and to a lesser extent, tennis and volleyball.

For arbitrage betting or surebets, football, hockey and basketball are best suited. Sometimes, certain events in the world of football exceed 200 markets, which means that the probability of evaluating them in different ways is much greater than, for example, in water polo. It is these differences among bookmakers that create the possibility of an event having different odds and make it possible to bring together favorable conditions for an arbitrage situation to arise.

Our advice: when betting on surebets, do not base your choices on your favorite sports or team, but on factors such as the amount of profit and the speed of turnover of your stakes (ROI).

Sports arbitrage is a betting system at different bookmakers, with opposite outcomes for a particular match (fixture), which results in a profit for the bettor regardless of the match result.

Thus, the surebet and middle bets are types of sports arbitrage betting.

Most often, this betting strategy on middles is encountered in basketball games. Let us take this example: Bookmaker No. 1 on Total under 159,5 gives odds of 1,96. Bookmaker No. 2 on Total over 156,5 gives odds of 1,8. If the game ends with a total of 157,158,159, the bettor will win in both cases. In any other case, they will have one winning bet, which is positive in any event.

Betting on middles (also called tunnels or windows) is one of the strategies that consists of betting on two opposite sides, but with a margin. One of the advantages of betting on middles is obtaining an excellent profit if the middle hits.

An overvalued bet (valuy, value bet) is a betting strategy involving events undervalued by the bookmaker. And since the bookmaker has underestimated them, it gives odds higher than the probability. By betting on overvalued odds, the bettor gains a long-term advantage over the bookmaker, even taking losses into account.

How can you find overvalued odds?

1. By yourself. This is particularly true for bettors who know well what they are betting on, can keep their cool and know their favourite team almost better than the coach. By carefully analysing the lines and odds offered by the bookmaker, such a professional can find overvalued odds. After all, bookmaker analysts sometimes make mistakes and are trapped in stereotypes.
2. With the help of services that scan bets with a margin. Their advantage is that they process data from a large number of bookmakers. First, the average odds are derived from the arithmetic mean of all proposed odds, and this value is compared with each bookmaker's odds. The value higher than the average is the desired overvalued bet.
3. Look carefully at the surebet. One of its legs is exactly the return rate. It is the presence of such overvaluation that causes the surebet.

As we have already answered above, if it lands in the middle, the player wins on both bets, that is, they are in the "positive". If it does not land in the middle, one of the bets will win.

A positive middle means that, in any case, the player will receive a profit, even if only one bet wins. In practice, such middles are rare and narrow, so there is no real need to want to find them at all costs.

A negative middle means that if it fails to land and therefore only one bet wins, the player will lose some money. It is favored by those who want to widen the middle and thereby increase the probability of winning on both bets, thus offsetting any potential losses.