Sports Arbitrage For Making Free Money

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Gambling is not for the shrewd. When you place a bet with a bookie on a agen judi bola resmi fixture or indeed on any market at all you are seldom offered the price that the bet is in fact worth. By way of an example, in a two-headed contest between two competitors of equal ability you will not be offered evens on either of the two outcomes, but rather 10/11, 5/6 or something of that ilk.

What is retained is generally known as the "house edge". It is, in other words, the proportion of your rightful return that is kept back by the sportsbook, in effect as a form of commission simply for accepting your bet. This is why, over the long term, the bookie will always triumph.

Whilst it is possible to place the occasional bet and be successful (sometimes called "beginner's luck"), the more often you gamble the more assured is your eventual demise. The cards are loaded against you before you even begin. There is a good reason why there are counselling services available for gamblers but not for bookmakers.

Sports arbitrage on the other hand is something entirely different. It is a strategy for winning that does not depend for its success on any kind of insider knowledge, divine intervention or pot luck. It is indeed a system in which even those who are ignorant on matters of sport can be assured of winning money on a sustained basis.

Like all strategies it does take some getting acclimatised to, but in essence it is about placing bets on more than one market at the same event to guarantee that what you win on the successful market will exceed what you lose on the unsuccessful market.

Arbitrage trading is about placing bets on premier league darts, UK horse racing or any other sporting event and backing each and every available option using the longest prices available on each market from different sportsbooks. It only works with those fixtures where the benefit of backing every outcome exceeds the total outlay, but when this does happen you will have locked in a small but guaranteed profit whatever the outcome of the competition. This has become known in the trade as an "arb".