FAQ

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 just one of them. In this case, one leg of the surebet or middle may prove to be overvalued, giving the player ample opportunity to exploit this imbalance and earn.

There is no need to delve into an analysis of the reasons why a surebet arises; it is enough simply to take into account that when a large number of tennis matches are being played, especially if Grand Slam tournament matches are taking place, the probability of good surebets appearing increases sharply, which a professional sports bettor should take advantage of.

It is quite possible to earn from tennis.

Basketball has a very important characteristic: it is relevant practically all year round and popular in almost all parts of the world: very popular in North America, 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.

Despite the sometimes exciting events that unfold in the races for possession of the World Cup, biathlon still cannot yet surpass such sports as football, hockey, and basketball in popularity. Bets on biathlon are available at far from every even large and well-known bookmaker. And without a variety of choices, there can be no surebets.

Thus, answering your question – surebets on biathlon do exist, but they are isolated. It is impossible to earn money from them under these conditions.

According to statistics, the most popular sport in Europe is football. The largest number of bets is placed on this sport. For top games, the number of open markets can exceed 200. It is precisely the broad representation across different bookmakers that makes arbitrage betting possible in sports.

If we are talking about live surebets, they arise more often in sports in which both teams score many points. First and foremost, this is basketball. To a lesser extent, it is tennis and volleyball.

Football, hockey, and basketball are best suited for arbitrage betting or surebets. The coverage of some events in the world of football sometimes exceeds 200 markets, which means that the probability of assessing them differently is much higher than, for example, in water polo. The condition for an arbitrage situation to arise lies precisely in bookmakers’ differing assessments of the possibility of a particular event occurring, which is reflected in different odds.

Our advice: when placing your surebet bets, you should not be guided by your favorite sports or team, but by factors such as profit size and the turnover speed of your bets (ROI).

Sports arbitrage is a system of placing bets at different bookmakers on opposite outcomes of the same match (event), as a result of which the player makes a profit regardless of the match outcome.

Thus, bookmaker surebets and middle bets are types of sports arbitrage betting.

The strategy of betting on middles is most often used in basketball matches. Let us examine it as clearly as possible using an example. Bookmaker No. 1 offers odds of 1,96 on Under 159,5. Bookmaker No. 2 offers odds of 1,8 on Over 156,5. If the match ends with a total of 157,158,159, the player wins both bets. In any other case, they receive a win on one bet, which is also not bad at all.

A bet on middles (tunnels, pants, windows) is one of the strategies that consists of betting on two legs (opposite outcomes), but with a margin. The advantage of betting on middles is a good win if the result falls within the middle.

As we have already answered above, if a player hits the middle, they receive winnings on both bets, that is, a very noticeable “plus.” If they do not hit it, the winnings will be on only one of the bets.

A positive middle means that the player will have a profit in any case, even if the winnings come from only one bet. In practice, there are very few such middles, and they are narrow, so sometimes it makes no sense to pursue their positive nature specifically.

A negative middle means that if the player misses the middle and wins only one bet, they will incur a small loss. Those who want to increase the middle do this, thereby increasing the probability of winning on both bets and offsetting possible losses.

No. In the classical sense, it is not. Arbitrage betting is a situation in which a player is guaranteed, with 100% probability, to come out of an arbitrage bet at least without a loss and, in most cases, with a good win.

Polish middles, on the other hand, allow for one, albeit doubtful, outcome to arise, which may reduce the player's bankroll. This is described in detail in the article about Polish middles.

So why do we discuss them on the website? It is very simple – Polish middles use the same principles as ordinary middles, where several oppositely directed events intersect, giving the player the opportunity to earn 5-10 times more (on average; there can be imbalances) than to lose.

The method, although not absolute from the standpoint of reliability, is potentially very profitable. And if you know how to find Polish middles (and we do), you can earn quite well from them.