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According to statistics, football remains the most popular sport in Europe. The greatest number of bets are made with this sport. For the most popular games, the number of open markets can exceed 200. It is the wide selection of different bookmakers that makes arbitrage betting possible. 

When we talk about live surebets, they are more likely to occur in sports where both teams win a lot of points.  First of all, it is basketball. To a lesser extent, it is tennis and volleyball.

Despite sometimes exciting events that take place at World Cup competitions, biathlon struggles to become more popular than football, hockey and basketball. Not any big and well-known bookmaker even has biathlon bets available. There can't be any surebets without variety of choice.

So, to answer your question: there are some biathlon surebets, but they are rare. Under these conditions, profits are impossible.

No, they are different types of arbitrage. Surebet betting strategy means that a bet player bets with different bookmakers and receives profits.

For example, the bets for a Zenit vs. CSKA football game according to Total Goals are as follows:

• The first bookmaker offers total goals over 2.5, odds 1.91.
• The second bookmaker offers total goals under 2.5, odds 2.25.

Regardless of the game outcome, the player will receive 3.3% profit.

A middle strategy provides for an opportunity to win both bets at the same time. Each middle has a certain width.

For example, the bets for a Los Angeles Lakers vs Phoenix Suns game are as follows:

• The first bookmaker offers total goals over 159.5, odds 1.96.
• The second bookmaker offers total under 161.5, odds 1.96.

The width of the middle is 2 points, i.e. with total goals of 160 and 161, the player who bets on the middle wins both bets. In any other case, the player will make a profit off one of the bets with the 2% minus of the bank amount.

Basketball has a very important feature: it is played around the year and very popular in almost all parts of the world. Basketball is super popular in North America and very popular in Europe and Asia. Australia, South America and Africa are slightly less beneficial in this regard.

The wide geographic spread gives a nice bonus for bettors in the form of opportunity to bet on basketball surebets almost round the clock.  The games take place at night, in the morning, at the afternoon and in the evening.

It is quite possible to make money off basketball with surebets and other arbitrage situation and we don’t know any cases when a successful player would exclude basketball from the search.

Tennis is the second most popular sport in the betting business. The marginality of tennis betting is usually lower (for the player) than for less liquid sports. The exception is games with participation at least one famous player. In this case, one of the arms of a surebet or a middle may be overrated, which offers the player enough possibilities to use this offset and earn well.

You do not have to go deep into the analysis of causes of a surebet, but only note that if there are a lot of tennis games, especially when Grand Slam tournaments take place, the probability of a good surebet increases dramatically, and a professional bet player should take advantage of it.

So, it is possible to make money off tennis.

It is no less effective to earn on hockey with surebets than football, for example. The only major distinction of hockey surebets is their seasonal nature. It is very difficult to find a hockey game in the off-season or all the more to detect a surebet among those rare hockey games.

At the same time, the number of hockey surebets increases exponentially during the season, which lasts about six months.  Since the bookmakers, firstly, open up many markets for hockey games, and secondly, there appears a lot of difficult-to-calculate events which serve as the causes for surebets (see article on the surebets and factors leading to their occurrence).

The conclusion is simple:  It is possible to make money off hockey during the season, and sometimes it is even easier than with extremely popular football or tennis.

Yes, you can. And if we talk about football in detail, it has a lion's share of all arbitrage bets. This is mainly due to the extreme popularity of this sport.  After all, football is easy to understood for most people. And even if you don’t play yourself, TV broadcasts are enough to satisfy the interest in football among the viewing audience.

If you visit a freely available surebet scanner website that shows surebets up to 1% yield, you can easily see there is enough football surebets there. And if you pay for a subscription fee, you will have multiple surebets with even higher yield.

Yes, you can. Most scanners have a trial feature and publish free information about surebets with yield under 1% on their websites. But it is hardly possible to speak of serious earnings with a margin as small as this.

Surebets with unlimited yield are published on the website of a free surebet scanner BMBets.com. The main advantage of this resource is that it is free. Nevertheless, we would not recommend using it to make money from betting. Their scan speed is low compared to fee-based scanners and it is not enough for proper work with surebets. Surebets are visible to much more players as compared to fee-based resources, which greatly increases the risk to be banned by bookmakers.

The simplest and fastest way to find the best scanners is to use the surebet scanner rating on our website. It contains information on more than 20 surebet scanners. In addition, key figures such as quality of work and scan speed, reliability and price policy are described by quantitative indicators that depend on the functions and services of a scanner.

The top of the ranking contains the best surebet scanners as of today. Our rating is live, i.e. if services or prices change, or new scanners appear, the rating is rearranged.

Yes, this is a kind of arbitrage. In general, arbitrage is an opportunity to bet with various bookmakers on all the possible outcomes. Thus, the player who has bet on all events receives profit regardless of the outcome.

The simplest type of surebet is a surebet with two arms, i.e. with two opposite outcomes. This kind of arbitrage is easier and faster to bet, because it becomes necessary to work with only two bets at two different bookmakers. These surebets are best suited to beginners. For more proficient players, there are arbitrages with three and four outcomes.

 Arbitrage also include so-called middles.