Among inexperienced bettors, there is an opinion that you can really get rich on the so-called “forks”. But if you look at various forums and publics about bets, then more often than the "surebets" themselves, they discuss the fight against "surebets". To understand whether bookmakers are really fighting them, you need to understand how effective the surebets strategy is.
What are surebets?
The answer to this question lies in the name itself, the strategy of betting on “surebets” implies branching. One bet must overlap the second bet so that in any case there is a win. To play a surebet, you need to find an event with two outcomes, and the odds must be higher than 2. Otherwise, the surebet strategy will be unprofitable.
There are also more difficult, triple and even quadruple forks, but they require higher odds, which means that they are even more difficult to catch. It is worth noting here that such "surebets" are extremely rare, bookmakers competently build their line, not giving a special opportunity to win one hundred percent.
Previously, it was often possible to stumble upon "suspicious" coefficients, but this was usually due to a program error. It was on such vulnerabilities of the bookmaker's software that the "arbers" played. Bookmakers do not stand still and are constantly improving the algorithms for calculating odds. Today it is almost impossible to meet such a mistake.
Also, double bets on one event fall under the concept of "surebet". If you bet on “total over” at the beginning of the match and odds of 2.5, you can take “total under” with odds of 2 or more on the move. These bets are not considered a vulnerability or a violation.
Fight against arbers
5-10 years ago errors in the software and in the line of coefficients were widespread everywhere. This was used by especially cunning betting fans. But to identify them, it was necessary to spend a huge amount of time and effort. Constant viewing of the line and analysis at the output gave a rather modest increase.
On average, the profit on surebets was about 2-3%. It was simply unprofitable to do such things with little capital, it is easier to carefully analyze the line and make a single bet than to constantly catch such “forks”. With a lot of capital, such operations are very easy to track and there is a great risk that the account will be banned.
It was like that before. Today there are almost no mistakes in the line, and therefore it is almost impossible to catch the "correct fork". Forks that occur during a match are not a violation of the betting rules, and in fact, customers who take advantage of the "opportunity" are not severely penalized.
Nevertheless, there are a lot of rumors and myths that successful gamblers are subject to various punishments from bookmakers. One of the most common is “cutting the highs”. In simple words, if the maximum allowable rate is 500 thousand or more, then for “cut” accounts it can be 5-20 thousand. In fact, modern bookmakers play fair, and it is very profitable for them without any fraudulent techniques. "Cutting" is carried out for violation of the rules by the client, and not for the sake of his deception.
