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Arbitrage Sports Betting System:
a Pathway to Victory for Punters
 
 
To a new user, arbitrage betting can almost seem like magic. In sports betting, everyone knows that your bet can either win or it can lose. There’s no third option. This isn’t the case when you’re using arbitrage betting. This system involves you winning and losing at the same time, and making a profit while you’re at it. If you’re not a betting expert, this can sound confusing and perplexing. So let’s examine the concept of arbitrage betting and see whether or not this type of betting is good for you.

The Basic Principle Behind Arbitrage Betting

The arbitrage system involves placing bets on all of the possible outcomes of an event at different bookmakers and then making a 100% profit from the difference in price between the odds provided by them. Needless to say, because of this, arbitrage betting can only work on bets with two to three possible outcomes (e.g. tennis, football, or boxing).

The beauty of arbitrage betting is in the fact that even people who don’t fully understand sports can have immediate success and make money from football betting predictions. It doesn’t require luck. There’s no statistical analysis involved. And it isn’t some complex strategy that will take years to fully understand.

And even though some bookmakers may attempt to prohibit it, arbitrage betting is completely legal. At the end of the day, you’re not breaking the rules. You’re just placing bets on the same game at different bookmakers. That’s it.

And yet, despite all of this, this betting strategy is not that widely used. Let’s take a closer look.

The Basics of Arbitrage Bets

Usual sports betting works in a simple, easy-to-understand way. All you have to do is place a bet on one specified outcome. It can be a home win, a draw, or an away win. Arbitrage betting means betting on all three of these outcomes by using the best odds from different bookies.

This way, you as a player can always make a small profit from each bet. The thing to remember is that the odds you choose need to be higher than their market value. This is the first thing you need to be careful about. In most cases, bookkeepers will offer odds below their market value, because this is a way for them to make guaranteed profits. If you take some event and convert all odds to percentages, you will never get 100% but always slightly above which is how they make their profits.

Because of this, locating odds above the market price is an art in of itself. Such deals are mostly found when new operators are trying to lure away players from older bookmakers.

The Tricks

Arbitrage betting has its potential tripwires. The first is that it requires you to do some market monitoring. When working with arbitrage betting, you have to place bets at different bookies in order to be profitable and it is always better chasing events where the scales are close to even and not where there are large favourites.

Another one of them is the size of the necessary capital investment. You need to have a large bankroll to cover bets that will provide small profits. Additionally, the system is better used when there are two possible outcomes (such as in tennis) rather than three like in football. Also, you will have to be quick in placing bets since the best opportunities will last only for a couple of minutes. This can make arbitrage betting quite time-consuming.

The good news is that, in the modern era, there are internet-based solutions that will locate arbitrage bets for you online. You just have to find one that’s right for you.

Lastly, not all sports events are suitable for arbitrage betting since a prerequisite is a difference in odds. But that just comes with the territory. With time, you will know how and where to locate the right events. All you need is time, patience, and experience.
 
 
 

 
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