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Colt
Arbing is not allowed by the internet betting companies.
If they detect you doing this they suspend your account.
This is because bookies can do anything they like, but in real terms it is something totally innocent.
Imagine I give you five pounds to buy potatoes and sausages.
You go to one supermarket and altogether they cost 5.20.
You go to another and again altogether they cost 5.30.
You have zilch no more money to pay but you observe if you buy the potatoes from the first supermarket and the sausages from the second supermarket it comes out 4.95, so you have change as well.
It's perfectly possible any day of the week.
So that's all there is to it.
Anyway you can circumvent the bookies restriction if you do it with a friend or two friends and share the proceeds.
That way the bookies will have to employ real snoops to search around in the neighbourhoods.
There are websites that publish the arbs of the day.
Again there are drawbacks. Maybe the info is inaccurate or the arb was possible couple of hours ago and it is n't now. Maybe prices will change the moment you submit your payslip (happened to a friend of mine - lost 1000 as a result !). Also since you have to bet with many internet companies maybe one of them are low down cheats who don't pay.
But you venture if you like.
Now the real question here is something else.
First why these arbs exist ?
It's a random thing, because different bookies make slightly different evaluations. Ok, maybe.
But mainly is because the market has shifted, one bookie responded the other did n't.
This changes things.
My classical example is the American election of 2016.
In August the prices were Hillary Clinton 1.30, Donald Trump 3.80.
In October things changed in favour of Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton 1.50, Donald Trump 2.80.
But, at least according to oddschecker, the August prices were still available with some bookies.
So that clearly was an arb, producing a yield of 5.5%.
The American election of the present year also looks like an arb.
Bet365 says Trump 1.90, Biden 2.75.
This in itself produces a "massive" 12.4% profit !
It's not a real arb of course because they give odds for scores of other people to become president and there is always the possibility that either Trump or Biden or both die between now and November.
But let's neglect this, treat them as arbs.
The point, my point, is why bother arbing ?
In 2016 it was clear that the tables were turning in favour of Donald Trump.
So just treat it as a value bet, put money on Trump -for 3.80 of course- and wait.
It's not certain that way ?
Who cares ? We are bettors, we make bets every week. In the long run we will be winners and also the theoretical mean yield of the value bet is bigger than that of the arb bet.
So the problem shifts elsewhere.
From the two sets of prices forming an arb, which are the old ones and which are the new ones ?
It's like Archimedes (dos moi pa sto kai tan gan kinatto).
With American elections it's obvious but what about a say Bundesliga II match ?
Are there ways of finding out ?
If they detect you doing this they suspend your account.
This is because bookies can do anything they like, but in real terms it is something totally innocent.
Imagine I give you five pounds to buy potatoes and sausages.
You go to one supermarket and altogether they cost 5.20.
You go to another and again altogether they cost 5.30.
You have zilch no more money to pay but you observe if you buy the potatoes from the first supermarket and the sausages from the second supermarket it comes out 4.95, so you have change as well.
It's perfectly possible any day of the week.
So that's all there is to it.
Anyway you can circumvent the bookies restriction if you do it with a friend or two friends and share the proceeds.
That way the bookies will have to employ real snoops to search around in the neighbourhoods.
There are websites that publish the arbs of the day.
Again there are drawbacks. Maybe the info is inaccurate or the arb was possible couple of hours ago and it is n't now. Maybe prices will change the moment you submit your payslip (happened to a friend of mine - lost 1000 as a result !). Also since you have to bet with many internet companies maybe one of them are low down cheats who don't pay.
But you venture if you like.
Now the real question here is something else.
First why these arbs exist ?
It's a random thing, because different bookies make slightly different evaluations. Ok, maybe.
But mainly is because the market has shifted, one bookie responded the other did n't.
This changes things.
My classical example is the American election of 2016.
In August the prices were Hillary Clinton 1.30, Donald Trump 3.80.
In October things changed in favour of Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton 1.50, Donald Trump 2.80.
But, at least according to oddschecker, the August prices were still available with some bookies.
So that clearly was an arb, producing a yield of 5.5%.
The American election of the present year also looks like an arb.
Bet365 says Trump 1.90, Biden 2.75.
This in itself produces a "massive" 12.4% profit !
It's not a real arb of course because they give odds for scores of other people to become president and there is always the possibility that either Trump or Biden or both die between now and November.
But let's neglect this, treat them as arbs.
The point, my point, is why bother arbing ?
In 2016 it was clear that the tables were turning in favour of Donald Trump.
So just treat it as a value bet, put money on Trump -for 3.80 of course- and wait.
It's not certain that way ?
Who cares ? We are bettors, we make bets every week. In the long run we will be winners and also the theoretical mean yield of the value bet is bigger than that of the arb bet.
So the problem shifts elsewhere.
From the two sets of prices forming an arb, which are the old ones and which are the new ones ?
It's like Archimedes (dos moi pa sto kai tan gan kinatto).
With American elections it's obvious but what about a say Bundesliga II match ?
Are there ways of finding out ?
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