FAQ

Main characteristics:

• Scanner speed: the higher the analysis speed, the faster the arbitrage situation is ready to be issued.
• Scanning quality, in other words, the fewer errors in issuance, the fewer mistakes players make.
• As for the price, everything is clear, but a low price is not always a good sign. It is important to find a balance between quality and price.

It is also important that the scanner covers as many bookmaker lines as possible; that it has a good selection of filters for customization, with a pleasant and easy-to-use interface.

It is preferable to bet at a time that suits you. Nothing should distract you, not even your mood. Your Internet connection must be stable. A surebet can appear at any time of day; its existence is associated with the emergence and variation of odds in the bookmaker's line.

If we are talking about Live Surebet, there are more of them in the second half of the day, Moscow time. This is when there are more football matches. The more events there are, the more surebets the scanner can find.

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 very 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 shoulders of the surebet. As a rule, a bet on one of the surebet's shoulders is a bet on overvalued odds (a value bet).

But! An overvalued odds scanner provides information only about the best odds for the selected event. A surebet scanner provides all the information necessary for placing all the surebet's shoulders and making a profit.

A live surebet scanner is needed to scan and display those arbitrage betting situations that occur in real time, that is, during a match or game. The “life,” or in other words, duration of such surebets is very short, from several seconds to several minutes. That is why we recommend working with them only for experienced players who have good experience working with regular prematch surebets. But the advantages of these live surebets are obvious – it is much more difficult for bookmakers to track and block a “surebet bettor” when working with these bets.

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

First path: personal experience. Most surebet scanners make it possible 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.

Second path: 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 for the United Kingdom differ. This is because the rating takes into account many factors, the main ones being scanning quality and speed, work safety, and price.

As in most cases, you should turn to professionals to search for surebets. It will be simpler, faster, and more profitable to use the services of one of the surebet scanners whose rating is posted on the site’s home page. Most scanners were developed by former professional arbitrage bettors (if they can be called former). Who else could have created a software product to automate surebet searches?

The availability 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 an amount of information, so they will 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 has placed 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. For more experienced users, there are three- and four-outcome arbitrages.

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,” meaning that if the services or price change, or new scanners appear, the rating is recalculated.

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. The 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.

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.