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Sports Arbitrage Service Providers
This page has information on most of the sports arbitrage alert service
providers available online. They are ordered alphabetically, yet there is great
variation between the types of services and quality of service; it is probably
worth looking at them thoroughly to try to find the right service for you. Use
trials where possible, ask questions in the Forum and make sure you get the best
service.
For additional information I have added comments opposite the name of each
service to help identify the more reliable and accountable services.
- Active means there are clearly people actively working on or in this company each day.
- Contactable means I have been able to make some form of contact with
someone within the organisation.
- Un-contactable means that I have attempted email contact multiple
times with no replies
- Arb Focussed means the company exists for the purpose of finding
sports betting arbitrages
- Odds Comparison means the website is primarily an odds comparison
service
- Enduring means it has been around for a long time.
- Support means that the company has a 'Support' service in
operation and it replies to these requests for help.
Zero-Risk-Arbitrage (ZRA) have operated an email alert service
for years now, and only at the beginning of 2006 did they introduce the ArbAlarm
software.
ArbAlarm is a client side application which receives real-time arbitrage alerts
for a subscription fee. They charge £149 a month, or £397 for 3 months,
including access to the members area of their website. ArbAlarm provides an
average of 5000 arbs per month with free SMS alerts. It scans 34 different types of
possible arbitrage scenarios in 14 different sports all year round at 69 different bookmakers.
Along with ArbAlarm, ZRA also produce an E-Book to help teach people how to
become professional arb traders, a web browser designed specifically for
arbitrage trading called ArbSurfer, and spreadsheets made to assist arbitrage calculations,
odds conversion, trade record keeping and other arb related activities. Each of
these products have their prices though.
ZRA have just started a limited availability trial of ArbAlarm. There are two
trials, one for beginners and one for professionals. The beginners trial
includes a 5 day trial of ArbAlarm with a demo version of ArbSurfer, a 10-part
arbitrage mini-course, an arbitrage calculator and a subscription to their
monthly newsletter. The professional version simply includes the 5 day ArbAlarm
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ArbHunters
| Active |
Contactable | Arb Focussed | Enduring | Support |
Arbhunters offers an access to their members area for just £10 per month, while £30 or £50 per month will give you
access to their E-mail and their E-mail/SMS alert system. Different to most of
the other services available, they are operated by several humans manually finding good quality arbs.
They average 120 per month with an average return of 3%. Fewer arbs and
slower delivery are offset by the cheaper access fee and the more abstract
arbitrages they find. Not bounded by software guidelines, people can find
different styles of arbitrage which hopefully last longer than those found by
software. They use 36
bookmakers with no specific sport limitations. ArbHunters are great option as a supporting
alert
service provider to another primary alert service.
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Arbitrage Pro |
Active | Contactable | Arb Focussed | Enduring | Support |
This website is a very professional arbitrage service provider. It provides fresh
arbitrage opportunities, updated every 60 seconds in 14 sports and around 40 bookmakers
looking for arbs in a range of betting types. They have found 265 unique arbs in the past week (23
May 2006) with an
average profit of 2.9%. They charge £140 per month, £378 for 3 months, and offer
a part time service of £20 for 20 hours, or £60 for 65 hours for people who just
want to pay for what they use. It operates in a web browser with an automatic
refresh. It includes an advanced arbitrage calculator which automatically rounds
to the nearest £5 when calculating your bets if you wish.
This service is targeted at the professional arbitrage trader, and their service
is a good representation of what a professional arbitrage trader would want to
work with.
Arbitrage Pro are also offering a free 2 day trial for a limited time. Currency
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ArbWinner | Un-contactable | Arb
Focussed | Enduring |
ArbWInner is another software download program which has real time
arbitrage information sent to your computer. They access over 80 bookmakers to
find their arbs, while no information is given on what sports or betting types
are scanned. Their service costs €50 per month, €120 for 3 months and €450 for
12 months. The software includes a calculator and an alert when it finds an arb
(although their website doesn't tell you what alert it is exactly).
BetBrain | Active |
Contactable | Odds Comparison | Enduring |
BetBrain is general odds comparison website and betting portal which accesses many different
bookmakers on virtually every sport and tournament. They provide access to the
comparative odds of many bookmakers with something of a delay for free, while
also offering a subscription option.
Browsing the site normally allows you to compare odds from 57
bookmakers, while simply registering for free you are entitled to add another
two bookmakers of your choice from another 67 bookmakers that BetBrain collects
odds from. The first pay level costs €10/month and simply allows you to add
another 10 bookmakers to your selection list with a faster odds update speed.
All of the sure bets found by BetBrain for these levels are given with a 20
minute delay. Upgrading to the Expert package at €50/month will reduce this
delay to only 3 minutes, while also allowing the inclusion of betting exchange
odds to the selection list. The top pay level, SureBet Pro, removes the delay
completely and costs €150/month, with a 'turbo' odds update speed.
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BetRiskFree | Active |
Contactable | Arb Focussed | Support |
BetRiskFree is an email based alert system which guarantees a minimum of
20 arbs per month. It indicates the regular use of 107 bookmakers in its
scanning process but gives no indication of what sports it searches for. The
owner of BetRiskFree observes the old adage that "Quality is better than
quantity", and has designed this service around that concept. He claims that
their service could easily send out thousands per month like other programs, but
instead they choose to check their arbs to ensure that they 1. Have a
decent return of at least 1%, often as high as 4% 2. Exist when the email
alert is sent 3. The arbs are made from simple easy to find bets which
non-gamblers can understand, and 4. The arb matures quickly and the
arbitrageur is not left waiting days or more for a payout.
They are currently providing a 1 month trial for £1. The ongoing monthly
subscription fee is only £10. Please Read the latest blog entry by Aegist on this alert service.
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GotoBets is a software based arbitrage alert service which updates from
its servers every 60 seconds. Each arbitrage found has its bets automatically
calculated when you select the arb based on a chosen default trade amount.
GotoBets scans over 80 bookmakers for arbs in Soccer, Tennis, NFL, NBA, MLB and
NCAA basketball and football. Unwanted bookmakers can be excluded from the
display. When an arb is found, pressing the 'place trade' button will open two
browser windows at the login screen for each bookmaker involved in the
arbitrage, with the information required for the arb at the bottom of the
browser window.
GotoBets is available for $69 per month.
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OddsAndBets | Active |
Contactable | Arb Focussed | Support |
OddsAndBets looks to be a very well rounded package that thoroughly covers
everything about sports arbitrage trading. They access over 70 bookmakers
looking for odds in tennis, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, US College Basketball, US
College Football, a wide range of European Basketball leagues (Euro League, ULEB
Cup, Israeli, Austrian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, Greek, Bundesliga, Italian,
Swedish, French), Snooker, Arena Football (AFL), and soccer. They include match
bets, over/unders, and pointspread/handicap arbs. Their recent average number of
arbs is in the vicinity of
53,000/month, or around 1500+ per day. Their home page also has access to see their expired arb database,
which is a very useful tool if you are just getting started.
Their cheapest package starts at only $29 for two weeks; a safe introductory
price. The cost for this service simply increases the more bookmakers you have
included in your package. All packages provide the same service quality on all
of the same sports, however you get 5 bookmakers for $69/month, 10 for
$119/month, 20 for $199/month, and all 70+ for $349/month. They also offer 2
week packages for approximately half price of the full month packages. The
service is provided in the form of emails if you want, and an automatically
refreshing website page which you can log into from anywhere.
There is an absolutely free 3 day trial on
offer right now, and any new users can choose to either take the $69 package and
get two months for
the price of one, or take their new offer and have their number of bookmakers
doubled for the month. That is, pay for 5 bookmakers and receive 10, pay for 10
and receive 20 etc. So now is a good time to give OddsAndBets a chance.
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OddsExchange | Active |
Contactable | Odds Comparison | Enduring |
OddsExchange is a very large general purpose betting portal and odds and
comparison website. It maintains
regular updates with over 100 bookmakers in total (offering updates from 49 of
these for free), and every sport possible.
Generally it provides convenient access to all odds being offered on any
particular game, offers a list of 'best value' bets and even allows you to see
odds according to bookmaker, sport, or event. The bookmakers used by
OddsExchange, at least in the free odds service, tend to be a lot of European
bookmakers, many of which are only in their one native language and most of
which do not accept forms of payment other than CC and Bank Transfer. This can
be very limiting to non-European traders.
For Sports Arbitrage specifically it has a convenient section of 'sure bets'
which list all of the arbitrages found in the odds they have collected. The odds
on the site are 'updated at least once every 2 hours'. For beginners, this is a great site to
start looking at arbitrage opportunities though. It is free to register to their
alert service which emails you your choice of Sure bets, best odds or highest
odds from selected bookmakers. It is a good idea to subscribe to this to get a
feel for what arbitrages may be available, what bookmakers regularly offer them
and what an arb looks like in general.
OddsExchange also offers a members option called MyOddsExchange. Cheap compared to the software
subscriptions the €39 per month fee entitles you to updates from 95
bookmakers instead of only 49, the ability to customise your interface (select
which bookmakers you want to use etc), and an increase in regularity of updates.
There is no accurate indication of just how regular the faster updates are
though.
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OddsExplorer |
Active | Contactable | Odds Comparison | Enduring |
Odds Explorer compares odds from a number of bookmakers on 13
different sports in a whole host of different leagues. Their sure bets section is
easily found and they even have a 'bonus arbitrage' section, which indicates
where you can register and deposit money in bookmakers, so that their bonuses
allow you to place an arbitrage trade which takes advantage of the bonus money.
Odds Explorer is as simple as can be, there is no extra registration for special
consideration or any bonuses, just simple arbs, updated
"at least once every few hours." Not
practical for a professional arb trader, however just as good as any of the free
services. Easy to use, worth looking at.
SatMarkets
OFFLINE since June 2006 |
Un-contactable | Arb Focussed |
SATMarkets has been offline since June 2006, and it looks like they aren't coming back.
No longer taking new subscriptions (updated 18 September 2006)
Sports-Arbitrage is clearly one of the founding sports betting arbitrage alert
service websites. Available also from the
Great Gambling Systems website, Sports-Arbitrage is a unique email based
alert system which charges per arbitrage sent out, while the Risk Free Bets
website uses the more traditional monthly subscription payment method. Accessing
a huge list of 138 bookmakers, there is no indication of how many arbs they find
on average, but there is a complete list of previous arbs. Scanning this
list it would seem they find an average of 2 arbs per day, with occasional days
with no arbs, and as many as 5 arbs on other days.
The cost of the Sports-Arbitrage version of the service is £1.35/message for the
1st message per day, £0.40/message for messages 2 & 3 on the same day and
£0.20/message for subsequent messages. The Risk Free Bets method of payment
costs £59.95 per month if you register on the automatic rebilling service, or
£65.95 for 1 month, £179.95 for 3 months, £325.95 for 6 months or £589.95 for 12
months.
Sports-Arbitrage also provides a software alert service which appears to be the
same as WinRiskFree (see below) which even they refer to as 'WRF' on their
software page. Their software package covers the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, NCAAB,
NCAAF, Tennis and Soccer. No more information is given about how many arbs it
produces, or what bookmakers it uses, however I suspect it would be the same as
WinRiskFree below. They charge a monthly subscription of .
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SportsPunter | Active |
Contactable | Enduring | Odds Comparison | Arb Focussed | Support |
SportsPunter is another odds comparison website which is based in Australia. It doesn't offer any free surebets
as most of the odds comparison websites do, but it does have a very dedicated
arbitrage alert section for subscription holders. The subscription is
comparatively cheap and provides many arbs from bookmakers
who are checked for odds every 2 minutes or so. They scan over 70 bookmakers for
odds in around 22 different sports, covering
around 130 different competitions. Their arbs are found in a range of different
bet types including: head to head (2 and 3 way), handicap v handicap, handicap
v head to head, and under/over, PLUS they find arbs for all of those options in
1st half, 2nd half, and 1st Quarter-4th Quarter betting options.
With all of those possibilities covered, they do produce a remarkable number of
arbs, and their entry level cost is only AU$30 for a week, (US$25)(Australian customers need
to also pay GST on this price) US$75 monthly, US$185 quarterly,
US$320 half yearly, or US$510 yearly. With a yearly subscription it's only
US$42.50 per month, the cheapest service available which provides real time arb
updates.
The website used to display the arbs updates as soon as it finds an arb (odds
are scanned at each booker every 2-4 minutes) and a few audible alerts can be
chosen or turned off at choice. The service can be entirely customisable in
terms of which bookmakers you can receive arbs for, including the ability to
even block bookmakers for particular competitions only, allowing arbs to come
through from them in other competitions. The display indicates the % of the arb
(which can be filtered for both max and min percentages you want to be
displayed) the time and date the event is taking place, the bookmaker and the
odds of course, how long the arb has been known to exist and a colour display
system which indicates whether the rules are likely to differ between the two
bookmakers.
SureBetPro (SBP) operates from software which is downloaded and installed on
only one computer. The software displays the arbs in a window with options to
filter arbs depending on bookmaker and percentage level of the arb, and a
ringing alarm preset to a percentage level. Whenever an arb is found meeting
your requirements, an small window slides up from the system tray (lower right
corner of windows desktop) alerting you to the best arb found, while the alarm
will ring whenever there is an arb better than the cut off you have set for it. The software
includes an odds converter, and an arbitrage calculator. It scans over 89 different
bookmakers in sports including Soccer, Tennis, NFL, NHL, Basketball, Baseball,
looking for match bets as well as over/unders, and pointspreads. It searches
almost 20,000 different combinations every minute. When you identify an arb you
want to place, selecting it automatically applies your default trade value to
the odds and tells you what you need to bet on either side. You may then press
the 'Place trades' button which opens each of the bookmakers which are involved
in individual browser windows with all of the relevant information listed at the
bottom of that window in a taskbar.
Along with the arbitrage software, subscription allows you to buy into their professional arbitrage trading pool.
They make no promises about what returns you will get from this pool, but the
average return up until the end of January 2006 was 4.19%. The first round of 12
month compounding investments will be paid out early June according to
recent Newsletters. Check Aegist's RFP editorial
for newsletters and other updates.
SureBetPro subscription costs $139 per month.
If you have been referred to SureBetPro by someone, then you should always use
their URL when you register. You cannot subscribe to SBP without a referal. The first word in the URL indicates the username of
your referee. If you have not been directed to SureBetPro by someone but wish to
register or talk to someone about it directly, then feel free to use the link
above, or contact us via
email or a private message in the Sports Arbitrage Guide
forums.
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Tip-Ex |
Active | Contactable | Odds Comparison | Enduring |
Tip-Ex claims to monitor over 170 betting operators from all over the
world. Their standard website updates odds every 15 minutes while their
subscriptions service, Tip-Ex Pro, updates every 30 seconds. The website allows
you to register for free and search for 'sure wins' according to your own
criteria: You can select what bookmakers you want to search and in what sports.
There is a strong preference for Soccer at Tip-Ex. It also has a rolling sure
win banner on the front page indicating arbitrage bets you can place and their
percentage profit.
The subscription service they offer costs €120 per month, €600 for 6 months, and
€1000 for a whole year.
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UCantLose | Active |
Contactable | Arb Focussed | Enduring | Support |
UCantLose is another great supplementary alert service. From just £15 per
month you can register to their E-mail service, while E-mail and SMS is £30 per
month. UCantLose finds around 47 arbs per month which average 3%, with a
guaranteed minimum of 40 arbs per month. Another service which focusses on
quality over quantity, it tends to find more abstracted arbs than
than the software driven services, meaning that they are probably more reliable. The arbs
found by this service usually last from 30 minutes to 4 hours before they expire
according to the website. Unlike many of the more recent services available UCantLose finds
arbs by human discovery rather than software. This is why there are considerably
less arbs, and also implies that their reported arbs will have fewer
mistakes/bad arbs/bookmaker error arbs. They recommend registering with about 13
different bookmakers, although they also supply a list of about 112 bookmakers
which may be used. UCantLose is a great option to supplement any other service
provider.
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WinRiskFree seems to be a rather unique software based alert service.
Unlike every other service I am familiar with, WinRiskFree actually downloads
the lines from the bookmakers straight to the software on your computer, the
software then finds the arbs for you. Since your computer is the one doing the
calculations, you need to have a decent quality computer to handle the process
without slowing your computer down too much and interrupting what you do. Their
website even included a comment on the possibility of the software momentarily
slowing your computer on every update and taking away focus from whatever
program you were otherwise working on (meaning you need to re-click on the
window you want). They suggest methods for avoiding this problem and fixing it.
They have a possible 34 bookmakers from which they download odds, and when an
arb is found an audible alert sounds and there is an option to have the software
send you an SMS if you are on one of the accepted mobile plans (Mostly US
services). The monthly subscription to their service is $75, or $180 for 3
months, $540 for 12 months. A free trial download version is available which
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