Sure Bet

What exactly is a Sure bet?

When the odds shown on different sports betting websites vary significantly for the same event, you can make a certain profit whatever the result of the event. How? Quite simply by betting on all of the possible results when the following formula applies:

1/Odds 1 + 1/ Odds 2 +.... + 1/ Odds n < 1

See an example of a football sure bet >>>
See an example of a tennis sure bet >>>

How do I identify a Sure bet?

The odds change so quickly and the numbers of sporting events and bookmakers are so huge that it very difficult, if not virtually impossible, to identify a Sure bet without help.

Different internet services offer odds comparators (free services) or e-mail alerts (subscription services) when a Sure betting opportunity becomes available.

Odds comparators are useful tools for betting at the highest odds if you have accounts with several sports betting sites. However, don’t hold out any hope of using them to find arbitrages on sporting events: bookmakers are very quick to adjust their odds when they are mismatched!

The only services that give you a genuine chance of placing a Sure bet are the e-mail alert services. They will send you an e-mail as soon as they discover a Sure bet and provide thousands of these alerts every day.

In our opinion, the best Internet alert service is provided by Oddsandbets, which has the added bonus of a free trial.

Sure bet: our tips

To justify the cost of e-mail alert services and derive the maximum benefits, you need to:

• Possess credited accounts with a number of bookmakers.
• Have a broadband internet connection, be on-line and perform your transactions immediately!
• Check the maximum stakes that you can bet with each bookmaker before performing arbitrage.
• Check the bookmakers’ rules: different rules exist for certain sports, especially tennis.

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