Arbs
 

Can someone explain how to find an arb and calculate ev

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You sell a Eagles to win SB at 1-1 odds.
You buy an Eagles to win SB at 3-1 odds.
You put $100 of action on each.
Max loss = zero, Max win = $200. EV % chance PHL wins times $200. So if 10% your EV is $20.

simple.

Naj

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In Najdorf's example, most of us would put $200 on the 1-1 bet and $100 on the 3-1 bet. You win $100 either way then and you no longer care who wins.

In the real world, a more typical example would be this bet I placed last weekend:

$3,000 on the Cardinals -2.5 +114 to win $3,420
$3,363 on the Eagles +2.5 -110 to win $3,057

If the Cardinals won, I won $57 more than I lost on the Eagles. If the Eagles won, I won $57 more than I lost on the Cardinals. Either way, I win and am one step closer to clearing my bonus and getting paid almost 1% on my money for the trouble. If you can find 1% per week, you earn 52% on the year. If you earn 1% per day, you earn 365% on the year.

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Yeah, sorry bout that, my example was a little rushed as I tried to make it more simple. Clearly you would want to book the $100 pure profit regardless.

Damn cutting back on caffeine is killin me.

Naj

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No worries. There are few topics that I am smart enough to contribute on here, but how to arb money risk-free and clear bonuses appeals to my limit ring game grinder's mind. When I first got talked into trying it, I really thought it seemed too good to be true or that it would take hours and hours to find a good play. It turns out to be a lot easier than I thought it would be.

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In Najdorf's example, most of us would put $200 on the 1-1 bet and $100 on the 3-1 bet. You win $100 either way then and you no longer care who wins.

In the real world, a more typical example would be this bet I placed last weekend:

$3,000 on the Cardinals -2.5 +114 to win $3,420
$3,363 on the Eagles +2.5 -110 to win $3,057

If the Cardinals won, I won $57 more than I lost on the Eagles. If the Eagles won, I won $57 more than I lost on the Cardinals. Either way, I win and am one step closer to clearing my bonus and getting paid almost 1% on my money for the trouble. If you can find 1% per week, you earn 52% on the year. If you earn 1% per day, you earn 365% on the year.

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1% a day would actually result in a profit of 3678%.

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1% a day would actually result in a profit of 3678%.

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Pesky compound interest. Thanks!

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1% a day would actually result in a profit of 3678%.

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Pesky compound interest. Thanks!

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I hope you understand that this wasn't a typo. It might look like 365%, but it actually more than 10x that much.

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How many books to you guys have accounts with in order to effectively scalp? I'm very intrigued by this, and having just gotten my bonus, I have some money to throw into a few more accounts at various books to make it happen.

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1% a day would actually result in a profit of 3678%.

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Pesky compound interest. Thanks!

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I hope you understand that this wasn't a typo. It might look like 365%, but it actually more than 10x that much.

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Oh no. I understood my mistake immediately. I'm new at this and am stunned at the money that is available with relatively low risk.

Of course, I could never leverage my whole bankroll into 1% arbs every day because of the need to move money around, but it made me realize that my return is going be much larger than I first thought.

So far I'm primarily focused on clearing bonuses, but I think this could be worthwhile when I'm done just on arbs alone. It seems to me that either Pinny or Matchbook have at least one arb almost every time I check.