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A New Sports Arbitrage Year

Posted by Aegist on January 5th, 2008

Hello everyone. After a few weeks of no posting thanks to the holiday season and other commitments, I return with a posting overloaded with announcement, news and new alert services. We have a couple of announcements from OddsAndBets and ArbExpert, plus three new alert services just added to the alert services page: ArbSafe, Odds1x2 and BetWinners.

OddsAndBets

The OddsAndBets promotion is still pumping along so don’t forget to take full advantage of it. Four months worth of significantly discounted alerts is a great deal, and worth its weight in gold. Use the Sports Arbitrage Guide link to OddsAndBets, and enter the special discount promo code as described in the full original article to get your discount.

ArbExpert

ArbExpert, as always continued to grow and add new features to its service. They recently added Handicap middle, Over/Under middles and Spread middles to their service, plus they are in the process of beta testing Total middles – all of which will increase the value of their service significantly. I have no doubt that ArbExpert will continue to grow and make a name for itself as one of the market leaders in the Arbitrage alert services
industry.

ArbSafe, Odds1x2 and BetWinners added to Arbitrage Alert Services Page

Three new services added. Odds1x2 is an odds comparison service which offers a completely free surebet service which has received some positive comments from the crowd at ArbForum. it is certainly no where near the same level as the higher alert services, but as far as free services go, it appears to be pretty good, and very easy to use.

ArbSafe has recently started an email and SMS based alert service. Charging £45 per month for the Email and SMS version (£25 for just Emails). They have a large list of bookmakers and promise around 170 arbs per month, but beyond that I don’t really have much information on them yet. I have been in email contact with the owner so I expect to find out more in the coming weeks.

BetWinners was an interesting addition to the world of Alert Services. Busting onto the scene in a random forum post on ArbForum, I have never seen a website so ‘well constructed’ yet completely unintelligible for all of the spelling and grammatical errors. It is only £8.99 per month (why not just make it £9? or even £10) and that includes a members area where ‘other money making ideas are posted’ and access to “Million Dollar Emails” – where you can attempt to re-sell e-books which I can only presume the original author failed to sell, so decided to flog it off on to other people to see if they could sell it for him. The members area even comes with ‘XXX Links’. Classy. I guess that explains what arbers are supposed to do with the spare time between arbs…

I am intrigued to see where BetWinners will end up, but I think I can already guess.

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ArbExpert Free Trial Cheaper Price and More Additions

Posted by Aegist on March 22nd, 2007

ArbExpert is back online after some extensive upgrades, and they have once again opened up their service to free access, this time until the 25th of March, so get in quick to take full advantage of this brand new service. They have also decided to lower their price to only £50, thus making their service much more accessible on an ongoing basis to most arbers.

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Alert Super Comparison – SBP, SP, NV, JT, AE

Posted by Aegist on February 9th, 2007

It is very hard to do anything else when you have 5 different alert services running at once, and very few if any filters on any of them. Just for the record.

Particularly when the Friday night NBA and NCAA games are all about to start. I get 3 or 4 alerts a minute. As great as that sounds, remember, I have no filters on, so it is only great if I have money in all of those bookmakers…which of course I don’t.

But regardless of this, the objective here is to simply compare many services at once. I have Nickel Vacuum, Sports Punter, ArbExpert, SureBetPro and Juice Trading all running at once, and I am just trying to get a feel for how each performs. And a few things stick out. Of the new services, ArbExpert is the only one which is really performing at this time. In fact, I dare say that it is even out performing the two longstanding arb services (SportsPunter and SBP). SBP seems to consistently have the longest list of arbs, with ArbExpert and Sports Punter on pretty even ground for second. Nicke Vacuum continues to only ever have one or two arbs at a time, usually low returns and more often than not with BetFair. Juice Trading did manage to find one arb during the basketball peak hour amongst the few bookmakers I used with them (they only have 9 to select from, and I don’t use all of them. If youdon’t have an account with the bookmaker, then Juice Trading can’t collect the odds for that bookmaker), but until they fix that european and american odds mismatch, their service is very very limited in its application.

Meanwhile, the usage of each alert service is very distinctive and most worthy of mention. ArbExpert and SportsPunter stand out as the best options in this regard too. What both of these services do which most don’t, is they clearly display the extra details which are often important to know with an arb. That is, you can see at a glance 1. The age of the arb, 2. How long until the arb is played out. Every alert service displays the Arb percentage, and they all with varying degrees of accuracy display the sport, country, and league the event is taking place in (although again, ArbExpert displays this most clearly because it displays the actual location for EACH bookmaker, not simply one single general heading). SBP has always irritated me in this regard. They have the most awkward display, everyone who uses it has surely thought exactly the same thing, and I have no idea why they haven’t fixed it…they make it actually difficult to figure out where the sport is being played and what league or tournament it is in. This is the sort of information you NEED to know in order to place your arb quickly!

With all of that said, I know for a fact that both Juice Trading and Nickel Vacuum are targetting their service at beginners at this stage. They are both focussing on simple sports, simple bet types, and focus on arbs which are in essence very hard to make a mistake on. And also, they are starting small and building up, hence the fewer arbs. It is definitely something worth noting about alert services, and something which I probably need to incorporate into the basic summary of each alert service on SAG; a rating system to indicate arbitrage experience required to safely use a system. SportsPunter is currently right up my list of favourite services, but the truth is, you wouldn’t want to start out with SportsPunter if you are just starting in arbitrage. They often find error arbs which you need experience to identify, and they find confusing bet type arbs, for instance they find “Home asian – Away – Draw” arbs (try doing the maths on them!!). ArbExpert seems to be much more reliable than SportsPunter in this regard, so again I guess that means ArbExpert is right up there. As usual, it looks like you need to pay for the highest quality.

ArbExpert - £100/month
SportsPunter – $75/month
SureBetPro – $139/month
Nickel Vacuum – $50/month
Juice Trading – $99 Once Off

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ArbExpert – First Impressions

Posted by Aegist on February 4th, 2007

I have had ArbExpert running for a few hours now, and played aorund with its settings and browsed through most of the website. I haven’t had an opportunity to explore how it reports arbs because there have not been any arbs at all (on any one of the 4 alert services I am currently running! When there are no arbs, you can’t blame the alert services!)

But the most apparent thing that strikes me about ArbExpert is the similarities between it and ArbitragePro. Aside from the obvious similarity in the names, ArbExpert also has a fulltime or a part-time pay by the hour system. It has a similar interface with the alerts (see the screenshot of arbpro here and the screenshot of arbexpert here) including the calculator, it has lamost identical filtering, specifically the ’25% palpable error filter’ which I have seen nowhere other than ArbitragePro.

Having said that, these similarities are only superficial. I asked ArbExpert whether they are associated with ArbitragePro and they replied that they were in no way associated with them, only that they recognised ArbitragePro as one of the best in the market “(so far!)”. So clearly the creators of ArbExpert are trying to one-up ArbitragePro, which is reasonable enough. As of their date of release they have less bookmakers than ArbitragePro, but that is set to grow. On the other hand they have more sports, and possibly more bet types. At this early stage of trialing them I can’t comment yet on the quality of their arbs, the reliability or regularity, and especially since I don’t have access to ArbitragePro I can’t directly compare the two services, but thanks to the recent rush in alert services, I will be comparing this service with at least 3 other services, so quality of arbs and accuracy will certainly become apparent as soon as some arbs are actually produced.
One more thing that ArbExpert has done, unlike ArbitragePro but just like ZRA, is they have produced their own arbitrage based web browser. AEBrowser is available for download from their site, and I think it is free.

Give your own Feedback on ArbExpert here

See our basic ArbExpert Summary here

Or just go straight to ArbExpert now

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ArbExpert Enters the Marketplace

Posted by Aegist on February 4th, 2007

Ha! And just when you (well I) thought we’d had a lot of new arbitrage alert services entering the marketplace, along comes another!

The Admin from www.ArbExpert.com announced their service open to the public today on our forums and has offered a special two week trial for this opening period. Register on their website, then email them with your username and they will activate your account for you.

Check out ArbExpert.com

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