FAQ

Most bookmakers are extremely negative against surebets and surebet players. At the least suspicion, they can place restrictions for a professional player, for example, set the maximum bet to $1 or completely ban your account.

How do the bookmakers realize that they are dealing with a surebet player, not a common player?  Fractionate bets like $20.58, regular withdrawals of funds from the bookmaker's accounts, betting on smaller events and youth tournaments. Sometimes the bookmakers make "traps" with apparently high odds for an event and blacklist anyone who has bet on it.

The answer to this question should be divided into two parts: how to protect yourself from your own mistakes and how to protect yourself from the interference of the bookmakers.

To minimize your own mistakes, you must:

1. Keep accounts only with well-established bookmakers.
2. Before starting to bet with any bookmaker, carefully read the terms for approval, calculation and repayment of bets. Particular attention should be given to the part of the rules that is about stoppage time. Bet on surebets with bookmakers who offer identical conditions.
3. Start working with surebets with small amounts to get more experience.
4. Do not hurry and check bets and odds on bookmaker websites before betting on surebets (if you use a surebet scanner).
5. Do not make bets during the last minutes of the game. At this time, many bookmakers stop accepting bets and you may be too late to bet on all arms of the surebet.

To avoid the risk of ending up in a "surebet players blacklist" made by bookmakers, we recommend the following:

1. Do not make unrounded bets.  $30 would be a good bet, while $32.42 is bad.
2. Avoid repeated bets on the same event. Even if you really want it, and the odds are very attractive.
3. Do not put all of your bank on a single bet. Common players wouldn’t do it.
4. Do not bet on surebets with more than 10% yield. There will most likely be a mistake (random or intentional) to catch surebet players in the line. In this case the bet is canceled and recalculated with a rate of 1.00.

Live surebets are surebets that may appear during a game or event. They have a shorter "lifespan" compared to prematch surebets, from a few minutes to literally a few seconds. This results in a number of advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional surebets.

The advantages of live surebets are:

• quick turnover of bet money. Surebets are relevant only in the course of the game (competition), the maximum duration of a football game with a break and stoppage time is approximately 2 hours.

Typically, live bets are calculated quickly, so money is freed to continue betting.

• In order to work effectively with live surebets, the required bank can be lower than with conventional surebets. It is connected to the first item above, a fast turnover.
• The risk of an account ban or other type of bookmaker sanctions is significantly lower than in prematch surebets.  It is much more difficult for the bookmakers to spot surebet players betting during the game.

The disadvantages of live surebets include:

• Quick odds’ changes. Sometimes you just don't have enough time to bet on all surebets.

How to protect yourself when betting on live surebets?

1. If you have little experience with live surebets, we suggest starting with small bets.
2. Bet on surebets with two possible odds. If things change quickly, it is easier to make bets in time and don’t make any mistakes than with three odds.
3. For live surebets, choose sports where the score does not change quickly. For example, it could be football or hockey.
4. If you bet on Total Goals, bet on total over at first, although the odds may increase over time. This protect your against a goal at the same time while you are betting on the total over. It would be nice to watch an online live broadcast, some bookmakers offer this feature to their users.
5. Do not bet at the end of the game: bets should be stopped 5-7 minutes before the end. Many bookmakers stop accepting bets at this time, and you must be sure you cover all selected arms of the surebet.

A profit from Polish middles is achieved as with simple middles, if the actual outcome hits both (sometimes more) different outcomes.

Example of a simple middle: there are two bets: total over 0.5, odds 2.05, and total under 1.5, odds 2.50.

If exactly one goal is scored in this game, the result will fall under both events, giving the player twice the win.   That means hitting the middle.

In the case of a Polish middle, the calculation scheme is somewhat more complicated (it is described in detail on the Polish middles page).

No.  In the classical sense, it is not. An arbitrage is the situation when a player is at least 100% guaranteed against losing the arbitrage, and in most cases a good profit is achieved.

The Polish middles allow the occurrence of a single, though unlikely, result that can reduce the player's bank. You can read more about this in the article about the Polish middles.

Why do we tell about it on our website? This is self-evident: Polish middles are formed according to the same principles as traditional middles, where several events with different outcomes intersect, giving the player the opportunity to earn 5 to 10 times more (on average, there are some deviations) compared to the size of a loss.

This method, though not absolute in terms of reliability, is potentially very lucrative. And if you know how to look for Polish middles (we know it), you can make good money off it.

As we have already answered above, if the outcome hits the middle, then the player profits from both bets, in other words, you get a very good profit. In case of a defeat, the winnings will only be received by one of the bets.

A positive middle means that the player profits in any case if the profit is based on only one bet.  In practice, such middles can be very rare and narrow, and sometimes it makes no sense to pursue them just because they are positive.

A negative middle means that if the player misses the middle and only one of the bets wins, the player is left with a small loss. This is acceptable for those who want to make middles wider and increase the probability to won both bets and make up for any possible disadvantages.

A value bet is a betting strategy betting on events that are undervalued by bookmakers. And if the bookmaker undervalued them, the odds are greater than the actual probability. With value betting, a player gets an advantage over bookmakers in the logn run, even considering the losses.

How do I find value bets?

1. By yourself. This is especially true for players with good understanding of betting, having their finger on the pulse of the sport, and know what is happening with their favourite team at the moment almost better than the coach. Having carefully analysed the lines and odds offered by bookmakers, an expert of this kind can find value bets. In fact, the bookmakers’ own analysts make mistakes and become caught by stereotypes sometimes.
2.  Services that scan for value bets. Their advantage is that they process a large amount of data from different bookmakers First, the average odds are derived as the arithmetic mean of all proposed odds, and then this value is compared with each bookmaker's odds.  The value above the average is the desired value bet.
3. Check surebets carefully. One of the arms of a surebet is definitely a value bet. The presence of an overvalued bet is the key to the emergence of a surebet.

Most often, the middle strategy is used in connection with basketball games. Let us take a closer look at the example.  The first bookmaker offers total goals under 159.5, odds 1.96. The second bookmaker offers total goals over 156.5, odds 1.8. If the game ends with total goals of 157, 158, 159, the player will win both bets. In any other case he will win one of the bets, which is also quite good.

Middle betting (middling) is a strategy to bet on two arms (outcomes) with some reserve. The advantage of middle bets is a good profit when you hit the middle.

Sports arbitrage is a system of betting at various bookmakers on opposite outcomes of a game (competition), as a result of which the player receives profit independently of the outcome of the game.

In this way, surebets and middles are variants of sports arbitrage.

Arbitrage or surebets are best suited for football, hockey and basketball. The action line for some of events from the world of football is sometimes more than 200 markets, which means that the likelihood of evaluating the bets differently is much more than, for example, for water polo.  The difference in evaluations by different bookmakers as to whether or not an event occurs resulting in different odds is a necessary condition for an arbitrage bet to be possible.

An advice: it would be advisable not to bet on your favourite sports and teams, but to be guided to factors such as the profit amount and ROI (Return on Investment).