FAQ

Most bookmakers have an extremely negative attitude toward surebets and surebet players. At the slightest suspicion, a professional player may have their limits cut – for example, the maximum bet size may be set to 1$ or the account may be blocked altogether.

How do bookmakers understand that they are dealing with a surebet player, rather than an ordinary player? Fractional bet sizes, for example 20,58$, regular withdrawal of funds from the bookmaker account, bets on matches in secondary divisions and youth tournaments. Bookmakers themselves also sometimes set “traps” - they offer deliberately high odds on an event and then add everyone who bet on it to their “black” lists.

In our view, the amount you should have at your disposal should be at least 500 euros. About  50-70 euros will go toward paying for a monthly subscription to a surebet scanner; the remaining bankroll must be deposited into the accounts of the bookmakers with which you plan to place bets, i.e. place the legs of surebets. The larger the bankroll, the larger the bets you can place and, accordingly, the more profit you can earn.

 If you plan to work with prematch surebets, you do not need to allocate much time for this. You can run the surebet scanner in the background and attend to your own affairs, and when a surebet matching the filters you set appears, configure an audio notification (the AllBestBetsand Surebet scanners, for example, provide this option). If we are talking about betting on live surebets, earning from them requires a minimum of 2-3 hours per day.

Your earnings will depend on your bankroll and the time you invest. We recommend working with surebets yielding 4-7%. Starting below 4% makes no sense; above 7%, the risk of an error in the bookmaker’s line and the subsequent cancellation of the bet increases significantly. With a bankroll of 100$, one bet can yield 4-7 $. There are more than 1000 arbitrage situations every day, even in the off-season.

The main thing is not to be distracted from the surebet earning strategy you have chosen, to remain calm, and not to give in to excitement. Excitement is the main reason for the failure of any strategy, including surebets.

The AllBestBets service is indeed one of the leading surebet scanners. At present, it has 64 bookmakers in operation, which gives players the opportunity to choose from more arbitrage betting opportunities.

Despite processing a huge amount of information, its output speed is high, giving its users an undeniable advantage – 3 seconds for live surebets and 15 seconds for prematch surebets.

• Well-designed algorithms for finding combinations of opposing outcomes minimize the probability of errors.
• Flexible pricing policy allows even players with a rather modest bankroll to start playing – the minimum subscription costs 2,49$.
• Scanning of both prematch surebets and live surebets.
• Convenient data output and a wide selection of filter settings.
• The availability of a unique function for automatically selecting close odds at other bookmakers – relevant if, while placing one leg of a surebet, the odds on the other have already dropped.
• Integration with the BetFair betting exchange, giving AllBetsBets users a number of advantages.

The PositiveBet scanner was the first to provide live surebets. This was a breakthrough, and for a long time bookmakers could not track surebet players placing bets during a match. Even now, it is much more difficult to do than with prematch surebets.

At present, this is not the only service providing information about live surebets – there is also AllBestBets, and other scanners periodically try to enter the market with their own offers. But under the existing pricing policy, PositiveBet’s tariff offer is the most attractive – a 1-day subscription costs 7,9 $ – and this is without restrictions on markets and bookmakers. A monthly subscription costs 79 $, which is more than 2 times more выгоднее than the competitors’ offer.

There are many scanners; some develop, while others close down. New functions and capabilities appear, lists of bookmakers being scanned expand, the number of sports for placing surebets grows, and the variety of market selection increases.

That is why it is more appropriate to answer this question in terms of today's situation. Consequently, the answer to the question about the top three is relevant only at the time the article was written.

The top three include three scanners: AllBestBets, Позитив and 3Bet. Of those listed, only 3Betdoes not have a long and rich history and lags behind the leaders in some significant parameters. Nevertheless, all these scanners are high-performance, can work with live surebets, and have reasonable pricing policies and support services.

In addition to this top three, there are also solid mid-tier options, all of which are described in detail in our rating.

Based on a comparison of more than 10 factors, our website has compiled a Surebet Scanner Rating. Since our website is multilingual, the rating differs depending on users' geolocation. This is primarily because most Russian services, if translated at all, are translated only into English.

For Spanish-speaking users, for example, this option is not as convenient compared with the availability of websites in Spanish.

Therefore, by selecting the language you need, you can familiarize yourself with the rating and learn the most up-to-date information from it – who is №1 among surebet scanners. At the moment, in the Russian-language segment, the best surebet scanner is AllBestBets.

To understand which scanner is best suited specifically to you, you can purchase a one-day subscription – only practice will show which earning tool you will use.

Considering the totality of factors, such as the history of the scanners' presence on the market, overall development, the number of bookmakers scanned, scanning speed, absence of slowdown and freezing, and the set of additional options for the user, the most reliable service at the moment is AllBestBets. It deservedly ranks first in the Surebet Scanner Rating.

PositiveBet and OddStorm scanners are also very reliable. They possess most of the qualities listed above; OddStorm also scans Polish middles.

Main characteristics:

1. Scanner speed – the higher the scanning speed, the faster arbitrage situations are found and ready to be displayed.
2. Scanning quality – in other words, the fewer errors in the results, the fewer mistakes players make.
3. Price – everything is clear here, but a low price is not always good. It is important to find a quality–price balance.

It is also important that the scanner process as many bookmaker lines as possible; have a good selection of filters for individual configuration; and have a pleasant, convenient interface for work.

It is best to bet at a time that is convenient for you. Nothing should distract you, your mood should be balanced, and your internet connection should be stable. Surebets can appear at any time of day; their existence is associated with the emergence and changes in odds in the bookmaker's line.

If we are talking about live surebets, there are more of them in the second half of the day according to Moscow time – this is precisely when more football matches take place. The more events there are, the more surebets the scanner can find.

A surebet scanner is a program that analyses bookmaker leads and searches for bets conforming to the concept of a surebet among all the different bets.  A surebet, or arbitrage bet, is a combination of multiple bets for the same event, making it possible to receive profits regardless of the outcome.

User interfaces of scanners (how they look like) are very different. For the convenience of the user, scan results can usually be ranked using filters such as profit, duration of the surebet, start time of the event, etc.

A surebet consists of several bets on the opposite outcomes of the same event. These are the so-called arms of a surebet. Typically, a bet on one of surebet arms is also a value bet.

However, a value bet scanner provides information for the selected event only for the best bet. A surebet scanner also provides all the necessary information about all arms of a surebets required for profit-making.