The way to play the soccer marketplace is to open accounts with European bookmakers as the real difference in opinion between UK and European bookmakers is the best source of sure bets. They both have strong opinions on this sport. They will price up the sport in their own country and the matches in foreign countries. Anything to make a profit.

Italy, for example is much more soccer crazy than the UK, with newspapers dedicated to the sport. Everyone thinks they know best on this subject and egos get within the way of sensible pricing. This is very good news for us. The European bookmakers may be opinionated and where as they could very well have greater detailed knowledge of the comings and goings within their own countries they are relying on third parties to collate information on their foreign counterparts.

One good beginning is in midweek games between teams of different nationalities. There’s a tendency in punters to get patriotic when it comes to events where the opposition are ‘foreign’. The probability of the home team get talked up and also the odds could get skewed within their favour as the load of cash is overly wagered in their direction.

Having said that the big bookmakers offer an early price, they will often advertise it within the national papers and by and large stick to it. Therefore a bench mark has been set and subsequent bookmakers might take a different opinion or attempt to tempt money in their direction by offering different odds. If this were to happen the arb could possibly be accessible for a substantial amount of time.

You’ll find always discrepancies in odds but clearly bookmakers tend to stick around the exact same price. They figure there is safety in numbers. But remember they can be ‘guessing’ precisely what the odds should be the same as you and me. They can be basing their opinion on past experience and they might utilise statistical formulae but they still need to form an opinion on the likely outcome.

They can get it wrong as well as other firms may take a totally different view of the outcome of a game. A totally different view will only lead to a slight variation in the odds but this will likely be adequate to give a sure bet profit.

Another approach is to begin with the greater obscure games in eg. the Spanish, Italian or Norweigen lower divisions. They can have quite lucrative discrepancies. They’re going to be covered by a range of different bookmakers all over Europe. This does however add a complication. Although quite easy for finding arbs, the mere idea that you pay attention to these obscure matches will throw up the possibility that you will be going to get spotted by the bookmakers if you concentrate your action here.

Also they can be going to be reluctant to accept high maximum bets on matches where they have done little research. At the same time it is a training ground for arb spotting and may gain you valuable experience. You’ll need to weigh up the pros and cons of this strategy.

This is a fairly obscure area of betting and if somebody was to check your account over a number of months and found solely these obscure foreign matches on your account it could ring alarm bells. The motto here is to dilute the bets by betting on as many various type of sport and events as is possible so that your accounts have varied bets on them. This should not be a problem as a number of different sports are great for sure bets.

The greater prominent European ties can even produce arbs and they are less very likely to attract attention to you and also the maximum bets will be higher.

As prior to deciding to can not control whether the individual bets win or lose but online soccer is a 3 way result and so 2 losing bets to one winning you can be useful on your account. The point here is the fact that not a lot of men and women are captivated in the lower European divisions and it may become clear that the betting pattern is just a little unusual. This is especially true if your bets towards the maximum permitted.

Injury news may be a lucrative area in soccer. Consider it. If a player fails a late fitness test on a Saturday and he is the teams star striker then this will certainly considerably affect their chances. Recently Alan Shearer turned up to play a premiership game for Newcastle but was declared unfit to play at the final minute. Newcastle were soundly beaten. I am not saying this would not have happened, I do not know. But the odds on the game clearly changed the minute this news broke.

Some bookmakers were alert to this and altered prices as the cash poured in for the opposition. Some were slow to react or wouldn’t have reacted at all. Either way arbs were available. This kind of last minute frantic activity is particularly keen on the betting exchanges like Betfair where you can behave as the punter or even the bookmaker (lay bets).

You can find injury news through among the many soccer web sites. Alternatively satellite television channels always have comprehensive news coverage of all of the games and also are quick to offer any ‘off the press’ news. Slowly the bookmakers’ prices will all change, but not all at the same time, only one by one so creating sure bets.

Inside this scenario where costs are changing bet on the old price first. The new price will be the one that wont change the old price will be the one that is about to and so may be lost in the event that you are not quick.