GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 25 - June 2013

ated more income through the one or two big traders than I have through the large numbers of tire kickers. . . . How long are arbitrage opportunities generally available? How quickly to sportsbooks adjust? Within minutes. Often within one minute. But sometimes they can stay for hours – though usually there is a reason for this, or something else has been constrained, as when the bet limit is really low. What’s the typical ROI of an arbitrage bet? And what are the risks of arbitrage betting? Typical ROI is 1 to 2 percent – but that is really a trader’s choice. You can choose to place sub 1 percent arbs if you want – it just has to be worth your time. And you can choose to only place 3 per- cent or greater arbs, if you are sure you can find them often enough to justify ig- noring all of the smaller ones. But I think that in general 1 to 2 percent is the happy middle ground where you have a reliable stream of arbs and the profit is acceptable. You have a lot of content on how to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities. How much time did you spend develop- ing that content? And did you produce it all yourself? Or did you pay someone else to write it? Everything on SAG was written byme alone over the course of about three years. It wasn’t all done in one go, and I didn’t necessarily set out to make a com- prehensive guide; I just kept adding articles and informationwhenever I realized I hadn’t covered something. I still think of things to this day which need to be added to it! One of the problems with operating a niche website like SAG is that hiring some- one else to write for you is nearly impos- sible. No one else except other arbitrage traders has any idea what they are writing about, and you can’t just make it up. It is a very specific knowledge set. You also have a more traditional sports- book affiliate site, SureBetBookies. Which site is more profitable? They are a pair and I think of them as just one website. The original justification was to keep book- maker links of SAG so that Google would allow me to use AdSense on SAG. Google still complained about SAG being gambling related a couple of times, and AdSense nev- er really generated much money anyway, so I gave up on that years ago. But they work together because arb traders need to use bookmakers, so SAG refers everyone to SureBetBookies (SBB) whenever it refers to bookmakers, because SBB allows them to filter and search for bookmakers based on criteria which matter to arb traders. I can still sort of answer your question, though, because as I mentioned earlier, in the first few years of chaos the bookmak- ers made me some occasional big payouts which kept me going, but now the alert services and eWallets make me the better, more reliable incomes while most of the bookmakers sit in the negatives (or have de- cided to not let me affiliate with them any- more because they don’t like my players). How long did it take for your sites to start earning you money? It didn’t take long at all to make some money, but I think may- be three or four months before I got my first “large” payment. I say large, but I’m 55 GPWA Affiliate Interview Series