What is Positive EV Sports Betting? (Better than Arbitrage!) (using OddsJam)

👋🏻 Hey guys! In today's video, I explain what is Plus EV / Positive EV sports betting (sportsbetting) and in the end got banned. I utilise plus EV / positive EV since after trialling many methods, I found it was vastly superior to arbitrage betting and allowed me to make a lot more money. I explain all about +EV betting in this video with some examples and also arbitrage betting examples as well. Hope you guys can find it insightful but please do more research first on positive EV betting and make sure you understand the maths before betting any of your actual money.
🏆 🏆 For those who do want to learn in depth the arbitrage and positive EV strategies I use with real practical examples to help you get started, then you can check out my 5 - part sports betting course over on my website at:
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My name is Shane and I am an Australian Engineering and Commerce graduate from The University of Sydney and will be becoming a full time quantitative trader soon. This channel is dedicated to mathematics, arbitrage sports betting, and personal finance. I hope you can find this useful! Enjoy!
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These videos are for educational purposes only and I am not guaranteeing any gains or losses from using the betting methods I talk about.

[@ShaneHuang88]

🏆 🏆 For those who do want to learn the trade and make money betting yourselves (like a pro trader) using positive EV betting, then you can check out my 5 - part sports betting course over on my website at: Australia/NZ: shanehuang.com.au/course/ USA/Canada: arbitragecamp.com/usa-course/

[@michstockholm1164]

Would it work for people from Europe?

[@lf7855]

If the EV betting so successful, what is the point of charging people on courses? Does it mean betting alone the risk reward doesn’t justify

[@tichmanmabikamabika4834]

This doesn't make sense if a team draw you lose that's rubbish

[@animalplanetandnaturedocum6290]

Im from south Africa how can access these

[@Thevenver]

"Speculation" will always yield more than "arbitrage" but the key difference is you cannot fully compound via positive EV or any sort of betting/trading with probabilities as there's always risk, no matter how small... hence you cannot go all in and efficiently compound all your capital. Unlike risk free arbitrage

[@robertsuntken7007]

FACTSSSSS it is unfair to use the same bet amount in an EV bet vs a risk free ARB. You can put up as much as you like in an ARB bet b/c there is no risk in an EV if you put up your bankroll you will be eaten alive by variance. It is very obvious a $3 Arb bet is lower than $3 EV bet. But if $3 is your whole bankroll to make it apples to apple you should be betting 1% of $3 or 3 cents... then see who has the higher EV.

[@libertymouth6826]

There is a way if you are disciplined and you stake third of your roll and stick to the third of the roll even if you are losing or winning

[@da4127]

I just checked the website he promotes, it literally says they have lost 5k this month with an expected 9k bankroll, the risk is way too high even though their bets are of 100-200, like you say here, this is not comparable to arb for us without tons and tons of money to throw at it

[@da4127]

@@libertymouth68261/3 is way too much

[@proverbalizer]

@@libertymouth6826 bye after 3 consecutive losses which is inevitable soon

[@robertsuntken7007]

It is unfair to use the same bet amount in an EV bet vs a risk free ARB. You can put up as much as you like in an ARB bet b/c there is no risk in an EV if you put up your bankroll you will be eaten alive by variance. It is very obvious a $3 Arb bet is lower than $3 EV bet. But if $3 is your whole bankroll to make it apples to apple you should be betting 1% of $3 or 3 cents... then see who has the higher EV.

[@Heckerschee]

Good point

[@TheMezidon2008]

You nailed it man

[@gaycarddealer8371]

That's where bankroll management comes into play. Card counters use this in blackjack as they are +EV style players, playing with usually at best 2-3% edge. I understand your point saying that it makes no sense for an arbitrage bettor to only risk $3 in the same way as an EV bettor but it was for comparing numbers. The idea is just that +EV lets you play for more theoretical profit for a smaller bet amount

[@TigersLullaby125]

The whole point of it was to say that this is for the long run, assuming you place many bets over time the profits will be far greater. He's not saying throw your entire savings into 1 bet like you might do with ARB, but rather saying if you consistently use this method you're mathematically almost completely guaranteed to make much larger profits. Like in the quarter example. each time you win a $3 bet on heads you have $9 meaning you can make 3 more bets again with that and assuming the odds are 50/50 since you have 3 flips now you can safely assume at least one of those will be another heads since the probability of a coin landing the same 3 times in a row is only 12.25%. If one of those 3 flips is another head you made profit and mathematically the profit margin outweighs the potential losing so if you flipped the coin 1,000 times the profits of the wins outweighs the losses of all the times it hit tails. So ev betting isn't meant to dump your whole account into at once, but assumes that if you have enough money to take a few hits and do more bets over time the profits make up for the losses by a higher degree than the amount of profit ARB's with the same odds would make. If you only have a small ammount to start with then of course go for ARB where you can safely cash in small wins. But once you have enough saved up money that you can place many bets often and taking some of them as losses then the winnings in those overall outweigh the times you lost over time😊 Hope that kinda clears it up. He addressed all that in the vid he flat out says Arbs are the safe option but mathematically +ev turns a greater profit over time. Especially when you have enough money that you have limits on the ammount you can bet and you want to go higher that's when arbs fall off they plateu at that point and can't really make much more but that's the point where +ev takes off and keeps pulling in the greater profit over time

[@uspockdad6429]

It sounds like it may be beneficial for new bettors to start with arbitrage betting to build a substantial bankroll, then moving to EV betting when you have enough cash to weather the losses you may get with EV betting.

[@soulk111s]

@@TheMezidon2008😂😂bro

[@sirick93]

how long should you bet with EV to start gaining some profit?

[@truthdetective4534]

Its the other way around, sure betting requires a large bankroll while value betting doesnt.

[@timnguyen4101]

@@truthdetective4534meh I think they both require decent size bankrolls as you have to place upwards of 30-50 parlays each day for ev if you want to start making real money

[@ryosquid]

youll banned for arbitrage before you move to ev. ask me how I know

[@pauleasther]

I’ve been down this path and there’s a couple of extra points you should’ve raised? 1. Opening accounts with overseas bookies is risky, as a lot are tax haven based. Firstly you lose on currency exchange rates just getting your money in. 2. Try getting your money out, time delays are part and parcel. 3. You can’t complain to the ACCC if they rip you off. 4. Getting your bet on in time takes time. You have to log in find the match, which can take a few minutes, only to find that the odds have changed. 5. Overseas matches are in another time zone and you find yourself being up all sorts of hours. Sounds good in theory, but in the end I gave it away, as too much hassle and added risk IMHO

[@phulen7681]

How did u register for the bets? Most of them ask for confirmation on numbers and such to make an account

[@pauleasther]

@@phulen7681 You need to apply online to each bookmaker and verify your age and transfer money. 1 AUD only buys USD$0.7. you also lose on currency exchange in and out. That’s 4-5% down the drain. Do a check on where the bookmakers are licensed? A lot are based in a tax free haven, where if they decide not to pay you back, good luck thinking some law is going to help you recover your money. Think of it this way? If you knew you were onto a easy money making betting scheme, would you tell anyone your methods? These mobs flogging these schemes get affiliate link kickbacks from the odds providers and youtube pays them if they get enough subscribers.

[@phulen7681]

@@pauleasther I just bet on local sites and never tried going on outside sites, appreciate the heads up

[@soldurham1351]

@@pauleasther can you still arbotrage bet on only australian sites ??

[@pauleasther]

@@soldurham1351 Not for very long, as they are a wake up to Arbing, and I’m sure they share info on accounts. Their algorithms are pretty smart and know what to look for? Once they even suspect you’re Arbing they reduce the amount you can place. The betting blogs are filled with stories of accounts being closed.

[@treveille]

It’d be interesting to hear you apply positive ev to prize picks.

[@user-st9wj2lo5p]

Glad to see you back. I hope your holidays went well! 😄

[@ShaneHuang88]

Thank you! You too!

[@kushalrai4564]

i learn a lot of things from you bro keep going

[@stevewickline1525]

I've been doing something similar with futures for a decade. I only take spots that are +10% ev or greater. I've been doing everything by hand the entire time. Its very time consuming but well worth it when you find the right spots and can get large amounts down. Some books will limit you after a while though.

[@DennisDarren]

I'd definitely love to know more about this. How often do you get such spots?

[@imvauz4964]

Do you have a group chat discussion of some sort? I’m very into the topic and getting into doing the work myself would love to hear more always a good idea to bounce ideas around.

[@stevewickline1525]

I don't have a specific group chat or anything for it. Once a spot comes up I play it big and then if the line hasn't moved I tell friends about the spot afterwards and they will play it. I'm probably not looking to give away the exact formula because if there are many more people doing what I'm doing and betting big the books will adjust and the spots will disappear. I have no problem adding more people to the group I notify after I place my bets. You'll need to have accounts at just about all major books, but there are 3 that I find make the most mistakes.

[@stevewickline1525]

Not often. I make less than 20 bets per year. They are all big though.

[@imvauz4964]

@@stevewickline1525 I would love to be included into your group, sounds like u are a very calculated individual. Please get back to me would love to hear more

[@pablosanfabio3040]

As someone who has tried to play safer bets where the odds may be 1.50 vs 2.50 for example it may as well be a 50/50 coin toss because every time I pick they favourite they tend to lose 😂

[@ngangperez1442]

Congrats bro. Great video there. In arbitrage betting, you are betting for either one of the teams to win in one book marker and, the other team to lose in another book marker. But what if at regular time both teams are at a draw

[@jamescurley8559]

I'm a day trader, and I was interested in learning about how the casinos make money. This explanation of EV makes so much sense and I've used the calculation to determine if my trading edge will be profitable in the long term or not with my back testing data (which it is cuz it had good positive EV) . Thank you!

[@user-qo6vx6ne4i]

Can you put me on bro? Just came up on some sports betting cash

[@jamescurley8559]

@@user-qo6vx6ne4i i dont sports bet i day trade

[@user-qo6vx6ne4i]

@@jamescurley8559 ahh okay never heard of it, are the EV results similar to sports or better over at day trading?

[@jamescurley8559]

@@user-qo6vx6ne4i a lot better in day trading. Even though the markets are complex and manipulated, you can control for your risk reward so that you don't need a high win rate to be wicked profitable. With my system, I only win 30-40% of the time but can pull in 10-20% portfolio growth a month because my risk/reward is so high.

[@milimomooba2627]

Bro kindly send me your appline so I can learn more about day trading

[@OddsJam]

Great video!

[@blub232324]

Unfortunately we cannot do this here in Germany as the bet plattforms add 5% betting tax (that they have to pay) to the odds, which means one has to find a +5% bet just to break even.

[@Tashyncho-Sapa]

dont pay the taxes

[@monatslohnwieeinkoksbaron1562]

@@Tashyncho-Sapa it gets automatically taken when you win your bet

[@pat_mueller]

Irgendwie muss die Regierung ja noch an den Spielsüchtigen verdienen

[@twojkolegakarol]

In Poland it's 12%.. so it doesn't have sense at all in UE

[@beast040]

yep, these 5% hurt

[@magnusis88]

Would like to see a simulation where optimal size bet theory (proven by Adam Kuckarski) would be applied in this scenario with multiple coin tosses. Becuase in the arbitrage situation you would allways be allowed to bet your full bankrole and bet bigger and bigger since you will never lose, but you would have to limited your % bankrole bet when you place your bet on only the head.

[@remytherat1357]

but outcomes of sports events dont have predetermined probabilities.. so how can EV be calculated?

[@raphaelnyatuame5257]

Awesome channel and Trading Platform. I have learned so much on this platform about Trading and betting

[@mysteerickson7021]

U have opened my mind thanks for the info on A betting and EV soo simple to make profits let’s get that bread kings

[@jameswomack2232]

Very interested in this strategy. I am not super familiar with Pinnacle, so I wonder, is it really universally accepted that Pinnacle has the most accurate odds of any Sportsbook? Is there proof of this? That is my main concern about this strategy. Thank you

[@edwinchan2549]

Hey Shane just thinking of your + EV bettor example with odds 4.00. If the EV = 3, would the bettor not be indifferent between betting his 3 dollars? Factoring the fact that EV returns are still associated with some downside, the bettor would even be more inclined to not risk his $3 if the return is the same as his initial outlay.

[@ShaneHuang88]

The EV represents expected profit not return, so on average he will make $3 in profit (on top of his initial stake back).

[@edwinchan2549]

@@ShaneHuang88 makes sense. Thanks! Do you personally use oddsjam to pull market data as well?

[@FitWithPete]

@@ShaneHuang88 Do you bet on all odds over 2.0? Lets say home-team and draw are above 2.0, then you both on both of these?

[@DrivenA111]

@@ShaneHuang88 Please, do you have any advice on how to prevent sports books from knowing you're doing EV other than rounded numbers bets??

[@thefirstfanatic1174]

So can you only place bets within your country? Or say can I, being from Australia, place EV bets on USA sports e.g. NBA

[@panoschris9117]

What time should i place my ev bet?nice video!!!🎉🎉

[@bombibombi7258]

If you calculate drawdown EV has more drawdown that means cant use full capital for compound. In the long run arbitrage still can better because of low drawdown

[@niallg3551]

The question I have is how to find +Ev/arbitrage bets in the UK. There are plenty of sites offering needless ‘tools’ for a premium membership, but what I really need is something which finds the lines or at least indicates the possibilities.

[@l70x54]

Surebet its free bro

[@mstii3712]

I've personally found it helpful to use some software tools to assist with sports arbitrage, and Arb Adviser is one that I've had some success with

[@tomasmarcataio2066]

Where would you get the values for the probability of each outcome?

[@DerklugePlayer]

You didnt really mention the main disadvantage of EV betting which is that you need to know the probabilities. And if you have wrong estimations of those probabilities your EV betting strategy will not work. For Arbitrage betting however, you do not need to know the probabilities

[@MaskedPixel]

When your odds are not 50/50 like a coin toss, your numbers can look much worse than what was shown. I’d be interested to see the distribution of the odds of the positive EV opportunities. Are they normally distributed around 0.5? That’s what this video implies…

[@niallg3551]

It’s a terrible example as there will never ever exist a market like this as nobody, anywhere in the world will give you 3/1 for what is an even money shot. Scraping 10p in the £ is a result.

[@CandyBag]

That is an extreme example but formula remains the same, as long as you’re placing a large group of bets you’ll be in the green

[@DizzyNeko]

Yes exactly I was wondering the same. Sports games are not a coin toss. This is all calculated under the assumption that it is 50/50

[@helios9025]

@@DizzyNeko It's not under the assumption taht it is 50/50 you misunderstood.

[@jesusthroughmary]

@@DizzyNeko It's not that the game itself is a coin toss, but the odds are set to drive the total bets placed to be 50/50. The sports book isn't in the business of gambling, they are in the business of being a middleman and taking a rake.

[@SqueezeWizard]

How does Oddsjam know if a quote is wrong? And what if the bookie tells you that the quote was wrong and gives you back only the bet money without the profit?

[@humhumphrey2560]

I've many arbitrage bettors but be assured they can always give you a whole bunch of ideas on it but one thing for sure they'll never show you how and on what markets to place the bets they claim

[@talkerbob3801]

Who can help me with arbitrate games

[@ZoomedInWithJosh]

They do show you what markets to bet, how much to bet on each team and what you'll win.

[@finsimple4396]

That's becuase it'd just make it harder for them. Why would they give away their edge?

[@cola-z9219]

Ok so long term let’s say, how do you propose to overcome continuous bans / promo eligibility bans, you can use family members accounts for a while until the same happens to all there accounts, you can then move to buying accounts but that provides issues if you need to dispute anything. Thoughts?

[@coolpilot5694]

How much do you make before they start banning your accounts?

[@erictung8368]

I wan ask like this is how to bet in football

[@mmmar7317]

Nothing is beats pure arbritage from a financial reward/risk perspectove

[@SCP-5000]

From his videos it seems that bookies ban arbitrage betters faster.

[@DavidKwan8]

Hey Shane, thanks for sharing. I am from Australia and looks like not going to get it to work with your new strategy. Is the BonusBank method that you share previously still valid ?

[@prajwalkarki8944]

Look I check tens of thousands of odds and arbitrage opportunities never exists in Australia . I also check in many betting odds comparison sites in Australia and they rarely exist. In long run you always lose, gambling is good for fun. But you can’t put your future and your families in gambling stake. 99.5% of ppl always end up losing. He just made these to make his videos interesting. Who does give $4 and $1.8 in head to head Also how does a team with $4 odds have 45% percent of winning against $1.8 odds?? In short run or even in long run. Bookies have calculated profits and odds. They got softwares so that their odds don’t go in big margins against other bookies and they don’t let make arbitrage opportunities for people. Fucking fake for views.

[@3446]

@@prajwalkarki8944 Its not fake. Its real. I work in a sports betting company and i am sure this is real. We skew the odds to attract arbitragers to offload risk for us. We skew the odds for a brief 10-20minutes on average and thats all it takes for automated arbitragers to detect the opportunities and execute their trade. Bookmakers want arbitrage because localised fans are very polarising when it comes to betting. A region of 5million population can be die hard liverpool fans. If you imagine all of them buying liverpool 1X2, the bookmaker will have a very heavy potential loss if liverpool really wins. To prevent heavy losses, they will skew the odds by severely lowering liverpool and increasing the odds for the opponent to attract arbitragers. It is a deliberate act by the bookmakers.

[@ikechukwuegede4033]

@@3446 can you teach me more

[@finsimple4396]

@@prajwalkarki8944 "Who does give $4 and $1.8 in head to head" It's a hypothetical you muppet. That's the point, make it so obvious that idiots can get the gist of it.

[@TribekaGaming]

I mean you can essentially use both, for someone starting out who doesn’t want to risk anything they can use arbitrage betting to build up money wjth guaranteed profits then switch over to ev betting when they are ok with taking a loss for a while

[@AkaTonyendwards]

So no matter what the odds are, you just place your bet on the bigger odd (it can be 3 or 5 or 6) and the probability that they go in will be 450 of 1000? Sorry for my english im not sure I understood the video right

[@fnXTrials]

I’ve checked out that guy from OddsJam. He’s really good. But unfortunately I don’t think this method is possible unless you actually live in the US since those exchanges are pretty much all US based. Could you confirm if this is true?

[@chgian77]

I have tried arbitrage betting, and although I had profits, it was too difficult to find winning bets. I have tested also lots of 50-50 bets with different waging systems. But this looks most promising. Thanks.

[@hackingSORRY]

You can't find them because books are sharp. You need to find promotions from the new bookies (70+ in Australia now all under different skins) and abuse their promos while laying off action on the exchange to make $$$

[@nwilt7114]

@@hackingSORRY You can find them with software, but once you start making consistent profits around it and it becomes like clockwork, (when you go in and out) they start to limit you or gub you.

[@malcolmwasher2308]

U need software to find them bro

[@ylmbonez]

@@malcolmwasher2308 what kinda software

[@malcolmwasher2308]

@@ylmbonez depend what country u are if u are australia or usa then its easy other countrys not so

[@chapmansbg]

The problem you have if you don't hedge is that your bankroll could be completely eliminated if you have a run against you. Just because you get 500 out of 1000 in long term odds that doesn't mean that you could go 10,000 without getting a tails result. That would destroy your capital.

[@luisleon1253]

what bookmaker you use for no limit accounts? I get to be banned in every bookmaker I try..

[@pianielmdk]

Welcome back bro

[@umarabdulaziz1871]

it's fantastic to have this

[@matveyfomin5579]

Man, you know every secret about trading! Just the best menthor!

[@wakanda_dev2432]

I'm a bot developer and Engineer by profession and I've been researching a while on arbitrage betting as I hope to commence a personal project on this soon. Your videos have been very insightful. I do think using an automated system that can identify these opportunities, do the calculations and place the bets all in a few seconds would be a lot helpful. However, I'm still a bit skeptical about making this process entirely automated. Would love to know your thoughts on this

[@staywithmesenpai]

If you actually have a stable job and are doing it on the side with the automated system, then i don't think it would hurt to risk 100$ trying it out (but i would try to setup a local test system first)

[@ShaneHuang88]

I would be careful about automating anything that would place bets without my manual approval. A single bug could cause you to lose everything if your bot goes rogue. Otherwise it is a good idea, you will be faster and it takes less time.

[@wakanda_dev2432]

@@staywithmesenpai Ah, yes. Definitely gonna be testing the whole process for a reasonable period of time before putting in anything significant. Thanks for your input

[@wakanda_dev2432]

@@ShaneHuang88 Oh yea. You're right shane. That's the main reason behind my skepticism but I'd setup a test phase for it with a minimal amount across the bookmakers before actually putting anything significant. Hopefully, it'll be worth it

[@CaptainCsaba]

I am a Software Engineer who played with this idea for a while, however from what I have seen, even Pinnacle states that botting is not allowed. Although I have not tried it but I guess your bot would receive a captcha some day and your account would get closed. Any experience on this by somebody?

[@Phildelapardo]

Don't forget sports is not like a coin toss. The rule of numbers may stand under different influences. A bad team is a bad team an can have a good game one day but it isn't anything near compared to a real 50/50 coin toss. Have that in mind when betting.

[@muzzan1448]

That is true, but you aren't worried about the outcome of the game/match. All you are worried about is the odds of each possible outcome. Most team sports that's win for team a, draw or win for team b.

[@tidalacc9439]

easily one of my best investments

[@josephmartin6219]

I probably need a Monte Carlo model/simulation for this lol!

[@richardlaverty3610]

25% off? My face is raised and red from the metaphorical SLAP! Great video tho

[@alexhunter3798]

Without using OddsJam, how would you go about to find these positive EV bets? Do you spend hours looking around for mispriced odds manually? Are there specific events that are more prone to being mispriced?

[@BrianMMO]

You can’t do this manually. Either you need to buy access or scrape and compare odds with a program you build.

[@adamweah8037]

This year is really going to be crazy , Greetings from Florida please i know this information might not be for everyone but anyone who is finding it difficult to trade / invest or willing to know its basic profitability should work with Helen Howard pratea she is an expert advisor who mentors me , i have profited a lot from following her guide and instructions

[@elliotwilson8874]

@@adamweah8037 Where you in the last tesla conference in Baltimore ? Where did you meet this lady

[@adamweah8037]

@@elliotwilson8874 No, i was not , i found her in a business Magazine where she was featured and i reached out to her afterwards she has since provided entry and exit on the securities i focus on . You can look her name up online if you care supervision i basically follow her trade pattern and havent regretted doing so

[@purew.a.s.p6369]

@@BrianMMO aye? u can compare soft bkmaker odds against the exchanges

[@lochiemorris8001]

what sport are you normally betting on and what do you look for when picking a market?

[@CommanderJona]

what I would like to know is what what happens when you lose all EV+ bets. If my math are correctly with fee you only need to win 52.38% of the best to win to break even. But if you are unlucky and just lose over and over wouldnt it take month to make up the loses? Or am i completly wrong

[@notsure1135]

I reckon it’s better to follow the injury lists of NBA teams, find an underdog who is short priced and place X on it and then the next morning when the other team is now the underdog, place the same amount on them.

[@saveristovski1985]

Can you simplify more on this topic brother? Thank for the advice.

[@empyreuma]

This is a great approach & injury lists are an important factor in all decisions in sport & horse racing Tennis tournaments are brilliant for injury based betting especially when you have ageing champions carrying injuries into a tournament Another great feature of tennis is zero chance of a draw The biggest bets on horse races are mostly placed after the parade & in the final 30 seconds before all horses are loaded into barriers, some professional punters prefer harness racing because there are no barriers though the parade is very different or arguably absent so it's possible to miss indicators showing stress or sub-optimal conditioning or winter coat or excess weight which show up in parades -;some horses freak out around & in the barriers & this can upset or cause injuries to themselves or other horses Good luck!

[@niallg3551]

Whilst understanding the mathematics, finding these positive ev scenarios is extremely difficult, plus it won’t be long before your account gets heavily restricted or shut down by the online bookmakers.

[@dj4monie]

Not really you lose often enough next to the regular punters. Both sides get paid plus there are books though rare that don't punish winners. Soft books tend to ban and restrict accounts because they get punters to join and keep putting money in only to lose it. I know that is me.

[@niallg3551]

@@dj4monie Again, ‘both sides’ only get paid if it’s a strictly 50/50 split. I have been restricted from several accounts due to 70% plus winning over and over on the same site.

[@mauriceukaegbu620]

The best way to approach this to avoid ban is to deliberately place bets to lose sometimes.

[@coolpilot5694]

​@@mauriceukaegbu620true, do tiny dollar amount bets on losses

[@buzattopedro]

How does the software know that a bet is a positive one? From what I understood it needs to compare the odd being paid with the actual odd of it hitting. But how does it know the odd of let's say Barcelona winning? Isn't it subjective?

[@jockmckenzie8603]

These bot conversations in the comments are the best.

[@catalinneagu8178]

Hi Shane, what does mean OddsJam?? Thank you!

[@redbeard1891]

I turned $50 into 6k on sports bet when i was 18. Didnt realise i was doing positive ev, i was just milking there promos. Then they banned me.

[@AlismonitesPatrides]

Yes but +EV has the risk pertaining to the distance between your estimated and the true distribution of the outcome.

[@2woinfinity718]

Hi. I love probability and statistics. I have a question regarding this +EV betting. If you only bet on high return. Does that mean that I don't need to look for Arbitrage? If no, why?

[@wojteknadurski7454]

How to find out probability of a certain team winning?

[@weichaong8501]

How do you determine the probability of out come for sports?

[@vipsvvvv]

We have betting exchanges and people still betting on bookmakers that is so sad 😞

[@yujirohanma5932]

How do you avoid getting banned in the casinos? And how can you know that a bettor is legit?

[@zacharycat8141]

Wait, I thought in your last video you said you were banned from all the betting sites. So now you work for one?

[@LeonGK59]

The arbitrage/ev+ better comparison is a little bit flawed: An arbitrage better would not place that hedge bet for such bad odds, but rather for nearly fair odds, for example at a betting exchange. If you assume that he can bet the hedge bet a the fair odds of 2, you get the same expected value of 3$..

[@serbanaurelian4151]

He is way off.The EV is actually 2.34.The EV is the same for an arbitrage bettor and for a value bettor.The only difference is that the arbitrage bettor lays the bet and thus taking the value on the spot,and the value bettor relies on variance and let s the bet run.I have 2000+ opened sites and I actually know wtf I m talking about.Unlike some people here...

[@aka47praa58]

@@serbanaurelian4151 hi

[@Tashyncho-Sapa]

@@serbanaurelian4151 with arbitrage, they will restrict your account, with EV will not

[@serbanaurelian4151]

@@Tashyncho-Sapa Do u even know what is the difference between arbitrage and EV betting?

[@Tashyncho-Sapa]

@@serbanaurelian4151 yes ofc, with arbitrage, you give big red flag to the bookie

[@olympiakoschrysler8201]

Does odds jam apply for aussie bookies ? Thanks.

[@MrKrusten]

Does anyone know if this is works when you have to pay 5% tax on every single bet? Because here in my country that is the case

[@carl0sj911]

Can you set which books you want the tools to use for arbitrage betting odds comparison? For example. I just want to use fanduel, mgm, caesars, barstool, pointsbet or does it just show every book possible?

[@mikelkelly4207]

hie shane....do u think its possible to arbitrage using 1 bet being a pregame bet and another being an in game bet to balance your profit if the pregame bet is not going your way.....can it be done

[@purew.a.s.p6369]

yea m8 thts called trading lol.

[@chadmic2507]

My only question is when do you the +ev formula, what answer are you expecting to get? I tried the formula for some practice on theoretical odds and it worked great however i dont know what answer im expecting. If its positive does that mean ill potentially make money? Or does it need to be above a certain number?

[@bryantam1370]

Higher positive is better, any positive means you will expect to profit

[@sirick93]

how do we know how much should we bet according to the odds?

[@peter00067]

How do you determine the fair probability of winning when calculating your EV? Sports betting it is hard to determine an actual probability

[@crazysk8rboy]

Formula

[@joosep888]

gotta use sharp sportsbook lines (removing vig too) and/or betting exchanges

[@bhavesh6623]

Which arbitrage/+EV site would you recommend for those based in Europe?

[@ShaneHuang88]

to be honest i am not too familiar with europe unfortunately :(

[@lukehall2478]

What arbitrage sites would you recommend for Australia? Thanks.

[@garage13]

@@lukehall2478 can code your own software tbh, msg me

[@wiljagerhardt1219]

Shane explain me. If a Game like : Galatasaray vs Barcelona plays. Why are the odds not 50/50 for each team?? Like your cointoss?? Teams are not equaly STRONG so even if the odds are 7.5 for Galatasaray, 1.36 for Barcelona and 5.25 for a Draw. The EV for Galatasaray is high but still the odds are not 50/50 but more like 75/25... this makes no sence to me so long term u still lose the money they already calculated.

[@isaiahkapoor3040]

I'm not sure if my way is correct, but I usually try finding the true odds of the bet. This can be done by looking at the odds on an exchange like Betfair. For your example, if Barcelona had back odds of 1.4 and lay odds of 1.5, then the true odds would be 1.45. You can then use this to calculate the implied probability (1/decimal odds)×100. 1/1.45×100= 68.97% probability that Barcelona will win. You can then use this to calculate the EV of the event. Hope this helps!

[@robhughes4682]

Does oddsjam have the Australian bookies?

[@jpr5372]

Hi Shane, been struggling to find Arb opportunities in AU over the past few days, any tips in finding the best odds that allow for an opportunity to arise? Thank you!

[@prajwalkarki8944]

Look I check tens of thousands of odds and arbitrage opportunities never exists. I also check in few betting odds comparison sites in Australia and they rarely exist. He just made these to make his videos interesting. Who does give $4 and $1.8 in head to head Also how does a team with $4 odds have 45% percent of winning against $1.8 odds?? In short run or even in long run. Bookies have calculated profits and odds. They got softwares so that their odds don’t go in big margins against other bookies and they don’t let make arbitrage opportunities for people. Fucking fake for views.

[@josersportspicks8435]

There is arb you just have to get in right away

[@elmeri4415]

@@prajwalkarki8944 i just made a lot of money with arb bets on my first day doing it, you just need right kind of software and take time to look and place bets

[@prajwalkarki8944]

@@elmeri4415 Where are u located? What is your best kind of software??

[@realtruthbetold]

@@prajwalkarki8944 arb is not fake brother what sports have you been looking at?

[@dayopeter2764]

Try all I could do, but I wasn't not getting it.. how can you help me out too.. from Nigeria

[@oluwadamilolahammedogundar9548]

Brother, nice content. If you have any betting stakes, you could sell and make money due to your calculations. If you are currently making money off betting fuel to this, I'm interested if you have betting stakes.

[@mrnogood]

So arbitrage betting is a bird in the hand, while EV betting is two in the bush. I'll take the bird in the hand every time. Less stressful.

[@NatureandSpirit111]

What if scenario: If you have a positive ev bet on one sportsbook but once the lines change you no longer have a +ev bet. Does that matter? Does that make your previous bet more/less risky or unprofitable? Seeing as how lines change so much, how soon should you be checking? A day ahead? Two days ahead? If anybody can answer that let me know. Would be much appreciated!

[@kolmogorovaxiom1493]

If the lines change later, that doesn’t impact bets you already placed. If the lines change before you place your bet, then you should re-evaluate whether or not you should place the bet

[@Von199X]

How do you know it's 50/50 when you not betting on the same game all the ime

[@Fred-rg5vw]

With Australian bookies only this only works for a very short period then your accounts will be banned or restricted to betting pointlessly small amounts. Can you comment on overseas bookies and which 1s are trustworthy and all associated fees and risks of using overseas bookmakers?

[@nanimalireddy5155]

Sir any one help me

[@Fred-rg5vw]

@nanimalireddy5155 That depends on what help you need with. Are you in Australia and want to try this arbitrage stuff ? If so, you'd need to have a good head for numbers and 2 or 3k atleast, to use as a bankroll. To be honest as I said in my post above..will only work for a very short period before bookmakers cut you off or restrict your bets to pointlessly small amounts..

[@nanimalireddy5155]

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[@charlottebostonma]

If you and @johnberngal would make predictions together, everyone who joins you would be rich haha

[@Nidhhn]

what sit do you use for bets?

[@MoonLiteNite]

I don't get the strat before the EV+ betting. That assumes the outcome is a 50/50 and in real life sports, it isn't 50/50 to begin with. So unless you are coin flipping betting, having a 3:1 bet doesn't matter in the long term, because if the guy who has the 3, looses 99% of the time, you loose, even more so with law of large numbers.

[@robbinmich8342]

How will you bet both sides using 1 account?

[@MojtabaTeimoori-lr6pb]

How can I deposit? To my odds jam account? Or place my first bet

[@amazeme1860]

As an australian what betting sites do you recommend, and what categories would be ideal for this? Eg. Horse racing, afl, tennis?

[@ShaneHuang88]

Ladbrokes, Tab and sportsbet are the best place to start in addition to betfair

[@purew.a.s.p6369]

@@ShaneHuang88 come on dont bs ppl, i had my tab account shut down along with marathon coral and will hill

[@emmanuelmuganda4061]

Am from Kenya what's the best site

[@garage13]

@@purew.a.s.p6369 use bowlers?

[@vidyasagardas9948]

Calculate stake amount @1.90 ,1.83, or 1.85

[@ceebongo]

Am i missing something? The EV systems assumes you know the actual probability of the outcomes. How do you KNOW this for sporting events?

[@MR1shank]

do you have an excel sheet to track bets?

[@elonmusk2.031]

I live in Australia, can I sign up for the amercain betting company's?

[@markneron2984]

Also when you ev bet it gives you a 2 out 3 chances to profit and also a chances to bring you back to even on your third bet

[@steven4vanw356]

So Shane, what would you say a good amount to start your bankroll at?

[@ShaneHuang88]

I would say you need at least 2k to start. The more the better up to a certain extent ~ after 10k, there isn't much benefit but anything less than 2k, then there isnt much point to it. Hope it helps :)

[@Cromage]

​@@ShaneHuang88 and how much per every bet ?

[@prajwalkarki8944]

Look I check tens of thousands of odds and arbitrage opportunities never exists. I also check in few betting odds comparison sites and they rarely exist. He just made these to make his videos interesting. Who does give $4 and $1.8 in head to head Also how does a team with $4 odds have 45% percent of winning against $1.8 odds?? In short run or even in long run. Bookies have calculated profits and odds. They got softwares so that their odds don’t go in big margins against other bookies and they don’t let make arbitrage opportunities for people. Fucking fake for views.

[@bigock8598]

@@prajwalkarki8944 can you explain

[@user-hb7hg2zh7n]

Is there a UK equivalent of this?

[@tonymathews4049]

Interesting video one example involves a no risk profit the other higher pay out but the chance of losing,as mathematical principal this is correct,however how many folks have a bankroll big enough to cope with the long losing runs? If I had a huge bankroll positive EV would be for me as I'm not risk adverse but as I don't have a huge bankroll Arbitrage is the way for me ...

[@johanlarsson9805]

I did a bot once that played the nightingale system for roulet at a few betting sites with their playmoney. Every time it ran into some long loosing streak causing it to loose all money within a couple of days. Your concern is exactly why "small risk if your bank roll is large enough" should be avoided. It always happens sooner or later!

[@RayIzuu]

@@johanlarsson9805 i started with a 1k bankroll and after placing 5k bets I've made 500ROI

[@RayIzuu]

@@johanlarsson9805 i use Kelly staking btw and stake only 1% of my bankroll

[@dawsmonkee]

Hey, is there anything like Oddsjam in europe?

[@issei4628]

hey shane can you share that spreadsheet you are using

[@-pita5325]

so in toss coin there's 50 / 50, right ? but i think in sports the team with lower odds means the team is stronger than higher odd team. so we can't say it's 50 / 50.

[@purew.a.s.p6369]

yea but its just a example, ie if ther is a team tht is priced at odds of 2 but u think thy shuld be priced at 1.5 then u have positive ev

[@bingbong6889]

@@purew.a.s.p6369 ok so if a team is going to win but i think its going to lose i need to bet on it? Seems like a pretty useless strategy lmao.

[@nylixneylix8785]

That's why you use a coin to decide where to place a bet. But if you want better odds then a coin, do a team research before placing a bet.

[@israelonuoha]

Do you give predictions?

[@Geibelt]

It doesn't really make sense because you don't know what the actual probability is. It is not always 50 50 like in the coin flip example and you don't know what the ground truth is which you need in order to calculate the expected value.