Betting techniques | Arbing, trading and dutching

Examples of betting techniques enabled by Arb Cruncher
	Book arbitrage - back all selections for a guaranteed profit This is an example of a 98.38% book on a football match. The home team is best-priced at 1.82 with a bookmaker that has imposed a max stake limit of £250, and the draw is available to be backed at 3.70 on Betfair, where your commission is 5%. Read more ... Open the Multiback calculator
	Trading - trade on price movements for an all-green book Federer can be layed at 1.15 on Betfair for a match against Haas. As the German invariably wins (or threatens to win) at least one set against Federer, you expect Federer's price to lengthen at some stage during the match. You want to place an order laying him at 1.50. Read more ... Open the Back/Lay calculator
	Back/Lay arbitrage - arb Back and Lay prices Paddy Power (PP) has been slow to cut its price on a horse that has shortened substantially on Betfair. Although the Lay price of the horse on the exchange has fallen to 7/1 (8.00), it can still be backed at 8/1 (9.00) with Paddy Power. Read more .... Open the Back/Lay calculator
	Dutching - back the likely winners for a level profit This example comes from a golf tournament which you think will almost definitely be won by one of 3 golfers - Woods (4.00), Singh (7.00) or Mickelson (15.00). They are all best-priced on Betfair with no liquidity constraints. You would like to spend £500 on all 3 bets. Read more ... Open the Multiback calculator
	Laying a book - lay all selections for a guaranteed profit This example shows you how to lay an overround book of 103.48% for a level guaranteed profit, whatever the outcome. The example assumes that there are no liquidity constraints, and that you want to spend £500 creating your book. Read more ... Open the Multilay calculator
	Lay dutching - lay the likely losers for a level profit This example shows you laying Murray (11.00), Henman (16.00) and Rusedski (21.00) in a tennis tournament. You want to spend £100 betting against the British players in such a way that you would lose the samed amount if either of them were to surprise you and win. Read more ... Open the Multilay calculator
	Draw No Bet betting - hedge against the draw Manchester United are at home to a depleted Chelsea team in the first leg of a cup tie, and you feel that Chelsea will not really try to win the match, but just slog it out in the hope of a draw. You want to back the Reds at 2.38, but break even in the event of a draw, best-priced at 3.30. Read more ... Open the Draw No Bet calculator

Examples of betting techniques enabled by Arb Cruncher