Usually for matched betting you’d want the odds to be low when meeting a rollover or qualifying bet. For an SNR free bet, I recommend higher odds, at 5.0+.
If you play around with numbers in the OddsMonkey calculator you’ll begin to get an idea of what works. You’ll quickly note that with SNR free bets you retain much more of your free bet using higher odds.
]]>I think I get it.
So for a matched bet or possibly arbitrage bet,
you would want the lay bet quota to be as small as possible and/or the “normal” bet quota to be as high as possible, right?
Lay bets aren’t the same as regular Back bets.
When you Lay, you’re becoming the Bookmaker.
If you Lay £10 on Spurs at 5.0 then you can either:
– Make +£10 profit (it they drew or lost)
– Pay someone out -(£10 x 5.0) + 10 = -£40 (if they won)
Therefore your Betfair account must always have enough money to pay someone that £40 if your Lay bet was unsuccessful. It ‘locks’ that money until the event is decided.
If you use even higher odds, like 15.0, then the amount you may potentially have to pay someone is even higher! In this case it’s (£10 x 15.0) +10 = -£140. Hence why I suggest you keep your odds low.
]]>So why would i need tons of money for it?
I have for example 2 bets:
1 that the squad will win
another bet that it will not win
According to arbitrage betting theory we should already be in profit if
1/quota1+1/quota2 <1
So why is it said in the text that a quota of like 9.0 would be bad in lay betting?
Doesn't it mean that when using 100$ as stake, you would get 9*100$=900$ (minus the small comission)
back if it wins.
or do laying bets work fundamentally different and the odds work extremely different? O_o
Can someone please explain me?
By the way, the european quotas are no problem as I happen to be from europe.
So rather american quota confuses me.
Matched Betting only makes a profit because of the free bets. That’s your ‘advantage’ over the bookie. Without free bets you wouldn’t make any money – unless you find arbitrage bets.
Arbitrage bets are basically the same as matched bets – except that they profit from the difference in the odds as opposed to the inclusion of a free bet.
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