Because I can, I have been in this industry for many years & I enjoy giving back to those who support it. I am also an avid crypto trader & investor, here is where i got my start 2 years go as well as being my original source for purchasing new betting accounts.

Closing off for the night, will respond to further questions as they come

This is essentially what exchanges such as Betfair & Matchbook offer & is nothing new. Upon these Platforms you can choose whether to Back or Lay at whichever price you choose, if you are matched & win the Bookmaker will take a commission, often less than the margin on the Sportsbook.

See above

See above, as for tips on what to bet no, not at this time.

I work for one company whom is rated within the top 5 of all betting companies

Yes we would subscribe to certain outlets that would on occasion give us first notice of particular injuries of certain players prior to the off specifically for likes of Tennis, of course this can all be mostly deciphered on that players particular twitter for example.



As a side note from a risk management perspective, upon profiling certain customers  we would certainly research the person & access information on them that which is accessible via the public web, for example your facebook, your Linkedin, if you have a public criminal record, your education etc. This would be extensive though in cases of high profile bettors. Fraud investigations teams also have the ability to see what you have open within other tabs of your browser, (Research: Browser Fingerprinting) for example, if you create an account under the name of John Doe but you have facebook account open with the name Sam Smith, this will aid in their investigation, these methods are only implied when an account has flagged as fraud and is already under investigation. Of course this will never be made public to you other than they will email to inform you after review they are suspending /closing your account which is their due right as per their T&Cs

Believe it or not, when big favourites win it often can & will cost the Bookmaker millions, for example when The Patriots won the Superbowl this year it cost millions in liabilities for many. If there is a very large liability on one side of an outcome, it would not be uncommon for the Bookmaker to hedge on the other side via means of a betting Exchange to balance their book. This would only be if there was not enough liquidity available on the other selection within their Sportsbook. Another means of hedging would be making the odds more favourable on one side than the other in order to entice business to that particular selection

We make Billions a year, a bonus helps in attracting new customers, we would hope that once a customer signs up due to the alluring bonus, they may then stay with us and continue to give us their business afterwards

Majority of fixtures traded in play run off a model which runs on an algorithm developed in house by an analytics team. The model takes the starting lines, for example total goals & handicap & then basically runs a simulation whilst taking messages from the scout live at the fixture, the in play trader often required very little input other than to nudge the price should it go out of line with others in the industry. Our pricing some of it would be in house & others we scrape from industry leaders / Exchanges, all prices have a margin, to give an example, if you flip a coin the odds of it being heads or tails are 1/1 / 2.0 even money, if a bookmaker wants to take an 8% margin so the overound goes to 108% they will offer odds on same outcomes of 5/6 / 1.83 meaning if you bet 20 on heads and I bet 20 on tails, does not matter the outcome the bookmaker makes a profit

1 - Safest is of course arbitrage betting, with a big enough bankroll this can be very profitable, especially if you have access to multiple accounts when yours gets restricted, the other is court-siding, placing bets live @ an event and beating the in play betting delay

2 - Unless you are a specialist on a sport & can spot if a market is priced incorrectly or price is likely to move, I would not deem any sports profitable for regular punting as all bookmakers incorporate a margin upon the true 100% price

3 - We set liability limits on every market, once these limits are reached we will take a look at the book & see whether we need to do any balancing or not, favour one side or the other. We also make sure we react to customers we have profiled as smart and move prices accordingly, we also monitor other industry leaders very closely to ensure we are not creating arbitrage opportunities, we would also monitor exchanges for these purposes. Different companies are leaders in different sports, Pinnacle would be an industry leader for US sports such as Basketball & Baseball, Marathon would be an industry leader for the likes of European Ice Hockey

1 - I won't be disclosing the company I work for.

2 - We don't measure customers by whether they are in profit or loss, if you are winning let's say £100k and hitting your max bet regularly yet I deem you to be a profitable customer in the long run, it is likely i will actually increase your limits (upfactor you)

More than looking at profit margins we look at a variety of things, I would start by profiling you by looking at your gender, male/female? Your deposit method, Card / E-wallet? Your country of origin, countries like UK tend to have more recreational customers than say countries such as Ukraine. I will then analyze your betting history, figure out what % of bets you are doing on sportsbook are beating the exchange prices & what % of your bets are arbs, are you betting on high category fixtures such as Premiership football or obscure fixtures such as ITF tennis? I will also look to see if your bets are aligned with any other limited (restricted) customers. You see we have feeds with all the bets coming in, divided into different categories of customers, we have arbers & shrewd customers who are restricted but we still give them a little room because they give us information, If i see you as a customer coming in on the same selections @ same price as these shrewd customers around same time, it is likely you will catch my attention and I will do a review of your business.

Hello all,

Thank you for your patience & your interest, I will be back online this evening to answer all legitimate questions posted here in bulk

Hello,

I work as a sports trader at head office of a top 5 betting company based in Europe, priority focus on Risk Management.

Ask me anything.

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Can i get an airdrop?! 

I am looking too, Skrill verified? Skrill now needs selfie with document to fully verify. With limits its no good

Lets organize here in thread.
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I will pay for escrow

i give you $200 skrill & i pay escrow

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