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OddStorm and BetSquare Added to the Arbitrage Alert Service List

Posted by Aegist on October 27th, 2007

OddStorm has just been recently launched as an Odds Comparison website with a subscription based arbitrage alert service. Still very early days, it only has 12 bookmakers at this point in time but aims to reach over 50 bookmakers in the coming months. They are offering several subscription levels: VIP, Pro and Free, where Free has a delay on the odds of up to 10 minutes, Pro delays the odds of only up to 5 minutes and costs 49 for a month, and VIP has no delays and costs 149 for a month.

The website is still very easy to navigate and use, hopefully they can keep it this way as more functionality is added over the coming months.

BetSquare has also just been added to the alert service list. BetSquare has actually been around for a long time as an odds comparison website and they also run a free arbitrage alert email service. The service looks very simple, there are only ever a few arbs shown on the website, and the email alerts are sent out as often as every 30 minutes.

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Sure Bet Bookies Reaches 100 Bookmakers

Posted by Aegist on October 26th, 2007

Sure Bet Bookies has just had its 100th bookmaker added, and shortly before that also completed the entire bookmaker list for ArbitragePro.

From a list of over 300 bookmakers collected from all of the arbitrage alert services and odds comparison websites which offer surebets, the 50 most commonly used books have all been added, while the other 50 are all scattered down the list of popularity: added in an attempt to complete the bookmaker list for various alert services.

Completed alert service bookmaker listings now include:

• Juice Trading
• ArbExpert
• ArbitragePro
• SurebetZone

While they have been completed, the nature of the alert service and bookmaker industries means that they may not stay 100% accurate for very long. While we will try to keep the lists completely up to date, bookmaker closures (PremierBet recently closed down for example), bookmaker mergers and aquisitions, and alert service growth (ArbExpert are regularly adding new bookmakers to their service) will mean that there is always a need to keep checking the lists. In general though, even in light of that information, the lists will always be at least 95% accurate, and any variations have minimal impact.

We aim to continue adding bookmaker information to our database and start completing lists for several other services over the coming months.

Please continue to leave comments for bookmakers at Sure Bet Bookies, the Cash For Comments competition still has around 20 days left, and the competition isn’t very difficult at the moment, so it should be the easiest $100 you could make. It’s not even work! Check out the details on the Cash For Comments page.

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SportsPunter and Surebet Zone updates

Posted by Aegist on October 14th, 2007

Sportspunter

Sportspunter’s surebet alerts service is once again accepting new customers after its recent closure, but there has been a significant price increase (almost double). Sportspunter has been consistently upgraded and added to ever since I was introduced to it over a year ago, and no doubt it will continue to improve. This is the first price increase since the inception of the service, and the improvements since that time have been great. The main reason for the change in price is to bring it in line with the sort of price one would expect of a professional service, while other considerations include a desire to not have the service flooded with ongoing new registrations, which would effectively result in a reduction of the quality of the unique arbs found by Sportspunter.

The new prices are (off the Sportspunter website):

• An initial two week cost of $AU50, $US46, €33, £23,
• Weekly: $AUD50, $USD46, €33, £23; OR
• Monthly: $AUD160, $USD145, €105, £70; OR
• Quarterly: $AUD440, $USD400, €285, £195; OR
• Half Yearly: $AUD780, $USD710, €505, £350; OR
• Yearly: $AUD1400, $USD1270, €905, £625

Register with Sportspunter now.

Surebet Zone

Surebet Zone has had a number of additions and improvements lately. They have added Betfair to their bookmaker coverage, and with that opened up a range of lay based arbitrages in their alerts. To accomodate this, their calculator has added back/lay functionality as well as personalised commission calculations which can be edited from your filters screen. They have also made it possible to filter all bet types, and they have added a colun on the surebets screen which indicates the percentage variation in the odds for this arb from the average odds across all other bookmakers. Obviously this is a way of helping users to avoid placing palpable error bets.

Having now settled in, Surebet Zone has set its price at 29 per month, which makes it one of the most cost effective alert services available.

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Cash For Comments - Sure Bet Bookies Competition

Posted by Aegist on October 8th, 2007

Announced today on Sure Bet Bookies is the beginning of a competition to win cash prizes for posting useful informative comments about bookmakers. Full details are available at Sure Bet Bookies - Cash For Comments. The competition will run until the 15th of November, at which point all of the comments will be tallied and a first, second and third place will be awarded cash prizes of $50, $25 and $10.

Sure Bet Bookies has seen a lot of improvements lately, one of the main ones is the addition of a bookmaker details page for each bookmaker. Easily found by clicking the ‘+’ symbol next to each bookmaker in your search results, the details page simply presents all of the database information on that bookmaker in a single easy to read page. The main advantage of this is that it makes the comments, and the announcement field much more practical. Now you can browse the bookmaker details and read comments left by other users. Of course, in order for that to work, there needs to be comments - Hence the competition.

When Sure Bet Bookies has multiple user comments for every bookmaker, no longer will people need to search Sportsbook Review forums, ArbForum, our forums at DreamTeamMoney etc to try to find useful information about bookmakers. All of the information they need will be presented in one spot, all alongside ratings, betting rules, bookmaker relations, and deposit/withdrawal information. Sure Bet Bookies will be the ultimate bookmaker resource for arbers, and Sportsbook-listing.com (when launched) will be the ultimate resource for punters.

So, I appreciate your ongoing support, and look forward to awarding the prizes to the deserving participants. If this all goes well, I may well run it again. It all depends on how it pans out.

Best of luck!

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Support SAG at Wikipedia - Betlines Added

Posted by Aegist on October 4th, 2007

Sports Arbitrage Guide is designed to be an all purpose, comprehensive guide through sports arbitrage. I think it has succeeded reasonably well in its goals, providing a unique, informative, thorough, impartial source of information on arbitrage. But it is all my own work, so maybe I am biased. This is where all of you come in.

Is SAG a good source of information? Does it inform people about sports arbitrage reliably? Thoroughly? Honestly? I would like to hear some feedback below in the comments on what you actually think of SAG, so that if there is something better I could do I will know about it. As well as that, if you do happen to believe that SAG is quite possibly the single most relevant website online with regards to sports arbitrage trading, then please go to the wikipedia entry on arbitrage betting and participate in the discussion there, and/or add a reference to SAG in the main article.

There has been a link to SAG from the ‘External Links’ section of that article for over a year now, but for some reason someone has repeatedly removed the link in recent months, calling it link-spam. So, either I have done something wrong with SAG and it isn’t at all what I intended it to be, or there is just one guy with a chip on his shoulder. I have started the discussion on this topic in the discussion section of the article, I have expressed why I think SAG is the most relevant website online to be referenced as an external link from the article on arbitrage betting, and now I will leave it up to you, the users and readers of SAG to agree or disagree with me, and to add the link to SAG back in, or leave it forever out of the wikipedia article.

Betlines

I have recently added Betlines to the Alert Services page. An interesting looking service, it is reasonably cheap ($100USD for its most expensive level) and it provides a unique angle on surebetting: Inter-market surebets and inter-market surebet calculators. Now, I have seen inter-market surebets before with SportsPunter. Outside of Sportspunter though, I am not aware of any other service which finds arbs of this nature.

Inter-market surebets are surebets which are created from odds provided on the one sporting event (as usual) but from different bet types. So normally you will have, say, 3 way odds and the surebet will be made from a bet on the home team, a bet on the away team and a bet on the draw. A simple example of an intermarket surebet, would instead be betting on the home team 3way odds, and then betting on the away team with a +0.5 handicap. The 3way odds and the asian handicap odds are different markets, yet combined they still cover all potential outcomes, thus they are a true surebet.

That is a simple inter-market surebet, and I think a few services will deal with that particular setup. SportsPunter was the first service I encountered that started dealing with more complicated inter-markets, such as the Home 3way - draw 3 way - +/-0.25 Asian Away. That particular setup of a surebet involves calculating the results of a draw where half of one of the stakes will be returned, and therefore makes the entire calculation far more complicated than usual. Betlines seems to take the whole inter-market surebet concept all the way though, and has gone out of its way to set up a whole series of complicated surebets which no other service even attempts to look at, and more importantly, it actually has a list of calculators set up which can handle the more complicated arbs.

I think in the current marketplace of arbitrage alert services, inter-market surebets are increasingly important to factor in to your trading.

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