Update: value betting on sharp bookmakers

Actually i been thinking something similar recently. I can find lot of value bets on exchanges but always small money. Say less then 200 dollar/euro/pound like you say. And often on markets that are either not actively traded, so those are not efficient markets because there is no real price discovery. Or sometimes i see that the vig on exchanges would be almost nothing on very active markets, like not even a percent in some cases. I think those could also be +EV sometimes because it’s easy for the “market makers” to be wrong when the margin of error is like a percent or even less. But then it’s also more like up to 50 bucks maximum.

So conclusion might be that it’s possible to find value bets on sharps but just not for any big amounts. An even then it’s probably important to have an understanding yourself where price should be.

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I was betting on Smarkets when I did not have access to soft books. There were not many bets that showed up though so not really worth the time.

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Making a profit on sharp bookmakers has always been difficult, that’s why they’re called sharps after all. There’s a reason we don’t recommend this to beginners.

As you can see above, only the top quarter of members make a nice profit. This is a mix of seasoned experts that have found an edge, and lucky bastards :slight_smile:

I have no reason to believe this has changed much, but I can check the numbers again.

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