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Sports Arbitrage Guide - One Year Old

Posted by Aegist on May 15th, 2007

I just realised that Sports Arbitrage Guide ha just passed its 1 year anniversary! SureBetBookies was in act the first version of the site, starting in late February/Early March, but then it was decided that the site needed to be split into an Arbitrage focussed site and a bookmaker focussed site and SAG was started in Early May. So we’ve lasted one year and we’re going stronger than ever.

Since the creation of Sports Arbitrage Guide and SureBetBookies we have

1. Created the first independent complete sports arbitrage trading guide with reviews on all of the alert service providers and explanations on how the whole process works

2. Provided the first ever Sports Arbitrage Trading news service.

3. Created a bookmaker database designed to meet the specific needs of arbitrage traders, including the fact that it is equally useful to non-arbitrage traders, thus protecting the arbers.

4. Provided on going assistance and answers to questions that whole time, through both our forum and through email.

From here we intend to keep developing the SureBetBookies database, upkeeping the information in the constantly changing world of sportsbooks and alert services. We already have 4 new alert services to be added to the SBB database and the SAG alert services listing. We will also be adding a glossary of terms in the coming weeks, and then working on the final section of SAG, the Trading guide.

Thank you all for your ongoing support. And I look forward to the years ahead as our community grows and we can all grow together and continue to assist each other.

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Poker - Derren Brown Teaches old woman to win

Posted by Aegist on May 14th, 2007

OK, this is entirely off topic and not arbitrage based news or anything like that, but there is no need to keep arbitrage all work and no play. Besides, I know most people come into arbitrage from a background of gambling, and I am sure many people like poker, so i thought I would just post this:

Derren Brown’s Poker Virgin

I really love Derren Browns work (and I’m sure most of my subscribers from the UK know of him, although he still seems reasonably unknown outside of the UK). Anyway, this is just a great example of what he is capable of doing…and actually since I am making such an off topic post anyway, I might as well bring it slightly back on topic with this one:

Derren Brown at the Dog Track

Who needs to arb when you can just claim your losings? Too bad you can’t induce bookies into a suggestible state over the internet!!

I highly recommend browsing through all of the clips on YouTube of Derren…highly entertaining!

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10bet XML Feed Changeover 1st July

Posted by Aegist on May 10th, 2007

This is an important announcement for all Alert Service providers who use 10Bet, as well as all people who use alert services or their own XML feed software to arb.

Email From 10Bet:

This is an important message for website operators that use 10Bet XML feed, or intend to do so in the near future;
10Bet is in a process of updating its XML feed, after which we will provide partner websites with a much better and faster service.
Therefore, we are forced to restrict access to the existing XML feed, as of the 1st of June, 2007.

In order to re-activate your access to 10Bet XML feed, you ought to send us before 1st June, 2007 the following information: Your static IP address (or a range of IP addresses) from which you access 10Bet XML feed. Your website URL. Username. Please send above to: affiliates@10bet.com

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
The 10Bet Affiliate Team

So, if you provide software alert services and use the 10Bet XML feed, please make sure you have updated it for this change. If you use software, hope your alert service provider gets this message! Otherwise 10bet might just drop off their radar….

Shane

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SureBetBookies Update - JuiceTrading completed, ArbExpert next

Posted by Aegist on May 9th, 2007

We have been working away on SureBetBookies tirelessly adding bookmakers every day for the past couple of weeks and we now have over 70 bookmakers in the database! Our goal is to maintain a minimum average of one new bookmaker added every day, and start knocking off complete lists of each specific alert service.

We have already added all of the most popular bookmakers. If you do a general search of SureBetBookies you will notice that virtually all of the bookmakers in there have more than 10 alert services which use them. Now that we are getting down into the bookmakers which are much less popular we will be targetting specific alert service lists in an effort to complete the bookmaker listings for each service.

To kick this process off, we have already completed our first alert service: Juice Trading, with a monster list of 10(!) bookmakers, was easily the first target for us to complete. (If JuiceTrading admin is watching this, you should update your list to acknowledge that WWTS has been acquired by Bodog, and thus no longer exists as a separate bookmaker) ArbExpert should follow sometime next week, then after that probably NickelVacuum, and then maybe SportsPunter.

I would like to take this opportunity also to thank the few people who have been providing feedback on the information presented at SureBetBookies. The SBB database will occasionally find itself out of date or with incomplete information due to our own inability to know everything about a bookmaker! So every time one of you, our visitors, clicks on that ‘Edit’ button or the ‘Comments’ link and provides some feedback to us about any innacuracies in our data, we REALLY really really appreciate it. Unfortunately we can’t actively use and experience every bookmaker online, and so some facts are simply out of our reach. If you see a question mark in any field, and you think you can provide some information on it, PLEASE tell us what you know!

Thank you all for your ongoing support, and I hope everyone really likes what SureBetBookies is offering everyone!

Oh, one more thing I just remembered! You can now register to receive email updates (usually weekly) on what bookmakers have been added to SureBetBookies. So if you are waiting for your favourite bookmaker to be added, or just want to stay informed on the amount of information available on SBB, then go to the homepage of SureBetBookies and enter your email in the registration box at the bottom of the news menu, and you will receive emails of every new news update released!

Thanks! Speak to you all again soon.

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Surebet Zone, Another New Arbitrage Trading Alert Service

Posted by Aegist on May 3rd, 2007

Another brand new Surebet alert service was brought to my attention tonight. Surebet Zone is as fresh off the website design press as they come and is offering free access to their service until the 1st of July, so get in while you can.

Their setup is incredibly straight forward. Very plain website, (makes it easy to use and fast loading) website based alerts, simple filtering system, simple calculator, limited number of bookmakers. It is probably too early to really evaluate Surebet Zone, it is obvious that they are providing free access to their service at the moment simply to test out their software, work out the bugs, and get some general feedback. So for my part, let me try to offer some feedback on what they have so far…

The first thing I would hope for them, is that their service will increase in scope in some way. At the moment, they offer nothing new, nothing inspiring, and nothing which makes them stand out. Their interface is very clean and easy to use, which is a positive, but many alert services have easy to use interfaces, so it isn’t special. Their bookmakers and sports types are very typical, and thus quite limiting (they cover 10 books with 3 bet types). So as I said, I think they need to increase the scope of their service in order to distinguish themselves in some way.

Also, I find the calculator quite uninspiring. Odds 1, Odds 2, (Odds 3,) Total Bet, results rounded to nearest dollar, and thats it. No limiting one side of the bet, no options to round to $5, no maximising one side or the other. Once again, about distinguishing your service: Nickel Vacuum still has the best calculator of all alert services that I have seen, and ArbsCalc is still easily the best stand alone arb calculator that I know of which is freely downloadable. The Surebet Zone calculator ‘will do’, but that is all I can really say about it. It’ll do.

And that is really all there is to their service so far. Standard bookmakers, standard bet types, standard calculator, standard filter options. BUT, this is basically still in pre-release phase. So maybe they just want to work the bugs out of the simplified version, then grow it from there. I’m only guessing there, but there certainly is a lot of room for added extras in their service.

So, register for yourself and check out what they offer. The free service lasts until July 1, so get in there. I will have a closer look at their actual arbs and their quality sometime in the coming weeks and add this service to the general arbitrage trading alert service page.

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