Tips to speed up finding close matches?
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I find automatcher most times doesn’t have the bookies I want.
I don’t think I wanna pay £14.99 a month just for use of the matcher on oddsmonkey. Is that the only way or are there some tricks which can speed up my finding matches myself? because currently I find it very tedious trawling through endless pages to find a close match.
I would be reluctantly pay a monthly fee for a matcher however £14.99 seems alot. Then again I do lose alot daily because I get fed up of looking and settle for losing a couple of quid on each match. So for qual and free bet I will have lost probably £3 or more and losing that every day I guess it would be a no brainer to use oddsmonkeys’ matcher unless there are any other better suggestions?
+0August 31, 2017 at 8:14 am
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I use oddsmonkey, it does save time for choosing close matches and it has an each way arb matcher, extra place matcher, plus the no lay acca builder. Over the course of a month you’ll get the £14.99 back.
+0I think it depends on how much time you have to spare with regards to finding close matches and also what kind of person you are. I quite like finding my own close matches or at least I used to, after a while it does get a bit boring like most things.
Sounds to me like you have answered your own question though, I think you will soon get your money back by using OM. Most people I have seen write about them on this site speak very highly of them, and say its well worth the money.
I have a free membership of OM and so don’t have many of the services they offer. I find them quite useful for finding potential football games to use for acca refund offers. If they stopped that facility it would not be a big problem to me though, after a while you tend to be using most of the same teams every week in your selections.
+0I am pretty new to accas but what I have seen the major European teams such as Bayern, Barca, Real etc are usually close matches.
What I was going ask mind is when building your own Acca what’s the criteria for making sure you have a high EV. Obviously tight matches back and lay but is it better to say for instance to have 4x 1.2ish teams and then one around the 1.8 mark or is it better to keep them all low.
Also when the free bet a credited again what’s the best way to method to get maximum (80% return). Singles it’s almost impossible so is it better to place multiples with again tight back and lay odds but this time going for higher odds+0Finding close matches and doing sums in your head is a good schooling. Once you’ve got what’s going on across a variety of methods oddsmonkey is great value for money
Devans- use horses and look for a minimum of 80%. 80% minimum on football too but takes more work. You should only drop below 80% with a tight odds cap or sport restriction.
Accas you don’t want to keep everything too low. For no lays I’d be happy if I could sum them up to evens each time, but offer terms don’t allow that much now. You’ll get a good feel reading the Acca thread
+0@ devans I will tell you what I do, but there are far better informed people than me when it comes to accas, so maybe one or two of them will help you too.
Most of the questions you ask can be answered with one of the many acca EV calculators that have been floating around this site and others on the net. If you have not got one yet, get hold of one and play around with inputting numbers into it and you will see how EV and winning percentages change as the odds change. This is an extremely useful thing to do and highly recommend it.
Regarding you FB 80% return question this depends on the site giving the FB. Some sites will allow you to use the FB on anything if they do then horse racing is usually the best one to get at least 80% back. Many sites are quite slow to update their odds in the last couple of mins before the off. This does take a bit of practise however but after a while its not too difficult to get back at least 80% and often more.
If the site only allows the FB on footie, Coral used to do this if I remember correctly, although they have now stopped the acca insurance offer unfortunately. I would often find looking at the correct score markets or markets other than the match odds would often result in getting 80% extraction. A lot depends on how much time you have available and how bloody minded you are in wanting to extract as much of the FB as possible. Last season when I was doing lots of accas I really took getting as much back of the FB as possible, this season when lots of the best deals have gone I have not made such an effort.
+0devans why you hijack my thread sir. That had nothing to do with my OP.
I too have a free account with them currently. I just copied down all the footy offers to a text file and have been going thru them manually but the matcher is locked down. So ye I guess Ill get the paid.
As for what type of person I am I am self employed and working full time on that so I don’t want to detract too much from that fannying around for hours manually looking for matches. I am also a programmer so it pains me when I am doing something manually that I know would be done in a couple of simple clicks with a program :).
It is a nice change of pace to my main job though to spend half an hour or so putting a bet on and coming back later to check the results. So I just want to keep it casual and efficient rather than becoming the main part of my day.
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With OM expect a 95%+ match and 90%+ FB extraction. The community will post the new offers, boosts and arbs.
You are self employed so you know what your time is worth. £15/month is an hour’s work or less I’d guess. You will save it tenfold with OM.
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I’m in a similar situation to you betman4684.
I’ve taken the £1 promo trial with OM twice but the one benefit I find is the forum on there. There are like loads of free spin promos etc that the bookies give away that I’d miss if it wasn’t for their forum.
+0OM is a great tool, well worth the money and you will make the monthly fee back very easily in the extra % of free bet extraction alone.
Add in all the casino offers and offers that don’t get mentioned here, the acca matcher, community, extra place matcher, it’s fantastic value- I just hope they don’t get greedy and put the price up!
+0Oh ye I forgot that was the other big reason I would want to join; to have a helpful community watching your back. Like I said in the other thread I would always have to prepare myself to have my self esteem battered if posting on the MSE forums for all the condescending replies I would get, plus that place seems really dead compared to what it was in 2013 and earlier.
In learning anything Ive found one of the most important things is to find a supportive and active community to learn from so that would be as important as the matcher I would think if not more especially with the bonuses posted up as you say above.
Regarding the price I was reading some old post the other day when it just started taht it began at only £1.50 per month! Now whether it has found it’s sweet spot pricing wise or they will wanna jack it up remains to be seen 🙂
+0Can anyone say how oddmonkey compares to the other offerings listed here
http://www.matchedbettingsites.com/top-5-matched-betting-sites/
The number one one has 1 quid offer however if it doesn’t have as good a community as oddsmonkey then I would stick with the latter as that is a very important attribute.
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