Sports Punter Trial Review

I was offered a 1 month free trial of the SportsPunter arbitrage service in order for me to be able to review it for my site. After just one day of looking at their service, I can see why they were willing to offer me the free trial: It is very very good. (its not smart business to have your service reviewed by an independent third party if its bad LOL). This service, at first impressions, seems to be one of the best arb finding service I have seen so far.

That being said, it is still true that any arb service is still more suitable for some people than other people. One of the strongest attractions for me to this arb service is that it is Australian based, and I am from Australia. That means that the bookmakers it uses are all accesible to me and probably all of them even accept AU dollar (I always use US when trading because it has more universal acceptance) bets. Of course, for someone from the US, you will need to check through the list of bookmakers here and check to see how many of them accept US citizens, because I know that most of the UK and Australian bookmakers don’t. SportsPunter still uses many of the upper echelon US bookmakers, but you may lose many bookmakers if you are from the US.

OK, I already have a screen shot of how the interface looks on the main site at the arbitrage alert services page. This screen shot shows quite a few interesting things about how thier interface works. You can see the ‘ages’ of all of the arbs, the liklihood of rule clashes between bookies, and the options down the bottom. The bookmakers are all followed with their locations: UK, Costa Rica, Carribean, Australian States (NSW, WA, Vic, NT, SA, Qld, Tas) etc. Another brilliant addition to this interface is the ‘odds’ link that comes with each event (see the end of the line describing who is playing who). This link takes you to their main odds comparison screen, showing you exactly what odds are being offered by all of the bookmakers scanned by SportsPunter. The advantage of this is two fold: 1. It allows you to see instantly when there is one bookmaker making a really obvious mistake vs when there is a lot of confusion about the odds of a game and its anyones guess, and 2. If you miss half of your arb, you can quickly find the next best set of odds to place the second half on.

Early on in the trial there was a rather obvious error displayed as an arb. There haven’t been any other errors since, and if you actually bet on this ‘arb’ then the loss would be your own fault and you maybe should re-consider whether sports arbitrage is for you or not! The screen shot shows you why: http://www.sportsarbitrageguide.com/picts/…untertrial1.jpg
Clearly I am talking about Pinnacle having an arb with itself…and i ridiculessly high one at that. Looking at Pinnacle I can find where these odds have come from, although I don’t know why their software thought that this was an arb. http://www.sportsarbitrageguide.com/picts/…ialpinnacle.jpg
I havent seen any other mistakes yet, but generally any mistake like this is so damn obvious that you cant lose money on it. Hopefully they won’t make any half time vs full time arb errors or anything like that as I know some of their competitors do. Those errors are actually problematic as new people regularly don’t understand gambling very well and misunderstand the error and place the two bets anyway. I have a month trial though, so we will have plenty of time for me to find out how it goes.

SureBetPro has been offline for two days (very dissapointing), but when it comes back on I will be able to take some comparitive screenshots of that and show the differences in arbs between the two. So far I get the feeling that SportsPunter has many more arbs and much higher average percentage, but we won’t know for sure until I have them side by side (it is possible that today was just a good arb day….although mondays rarely are).

Shane

(Originall posted 10th April 2006)