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title: 'I Made $200,000 on DraftKings Doing This (And Most People Miss It)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=QS9yTJMM2ZM'
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date: 2026-07-14
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# I Made $200,000 on DraftKings Doing This (And Most People Miss It)

> Source: [I Made $200,000 on DraftKings Doing This (And Most People Miss It)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QS9yTJMM2ZM)

## Summary

The video explains a cross-market betting strategy on DraftKings that exploits arbitrage opportunities between soft and sharp sportsbooks. The presenter claims to have made over $200,000 in profit using this method, which involves betting on lines where DraftKings offers better odds than sharper books, ensuring positive expected value.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to the Strategy** [00:02] — The presenter is in Indianapolis and introduces the cross-market betting strategy on DraftKings, which he claims is guaranteed to make money.
- **Personal Success with DraftKings** [00:30] — He has used DraftKings for 6 years, making over $200,000 in profit, though betting limits have been reduced over time.
- **Cross-Market Betting Strategy Explained** [01:31] — The strategy is based on arbitrage: when two sportsbooks have different odds, you can bet both sides for a risk-free profit. The key is to take the DraftKings side when it is arbitraged with a sharp book.
- **Arbitrage Guarantees Positive EV** [02:44] — Whenever arbitrage exists, at least one side is a positive expected value bet. By betting the DraftKings side, you capture that edge.
- **Liquidity on Betting Exchanges** [03:54] — Betting exchanges like Novig and Profitex have no limits and attract sharp bettors. Liquidity (how much you can bet) is important; he looks for over $1,000 in liquidity for player props.
- **Devigging to Find Fair Value** [05:47] — Devigging removes the sportsbook's spread to find the true line. For example, Circa's devigged line on a player was +626, while DraftKings offered +700, indicating value.
- **Live Demo of Finding Cross Markets** [07:39] — Using OddsJam, he filters for DraftKings and sharp books (BetOnline, Circa, Pinnacle, Profitex, Novig). He looks for cross markets where DraftKings is arbitraged with these books.
- **Example Bet: Skyler Diggin Smith** [09:05] — DraftKings offered +110 on the over, while Novig had -104 on the under. No other book offered plus money, indicating value. He placed the bet on DraftKings.
- **Multiple Bets Placed** [11:45] — He goes down the list, placing bets on crossed markets with high liquidity. Examples include Sugano over 2.5 earned runs, Ezie McBeor, and others.
- **Low Liquidity Bets Still Profitable** [14:41] — Even with low liquidity (e.g., Kershaw under at +100), if DraftKings is crossed with multiple sharp books, the bet is still positive EV. He recommends betting all cross markets.

### Conclusion

The cross-market betting strategy on DraftKings is a simple, profitable method that exploits pricing inefficiencies. By consistently betting on DraftKings when it is arbitraged with sharp books, you can achieve long-term profitability.

## Transcript

currently in Indianapolis, so I'm bandwagoning the Pacers. But in this video, I'm going to break down how to make money on DraftKings. The best betting strategy that is guaranteed to make you money on DraftKings. It's super
easy to do. Anybody can do it. It's super simple and I'm going to show you exactly how I implement it. So, DraftKings is a sports book I've been using for like 6 years now. you know, right when it launched in New Jersey,
which is the first state that legalized online sports betting, I signed up that customers. So, I've been using DraftKings for years at this point, I've made over $200,000 on this sports book in profit. Granted, as I've made more
money, unfortunately, they've started to hit me with betting limits and lower my max bet sizes, which obviously sucks, but that's kind of point of the game, video, I'm going to break down the strategy, why it works, why it's so
insanely profitable, and again, why you're going to make money with it, and how you can implement it. It's super easy. Literally, anybody can do this. I taught this to my sister who is now literally using this exact strategy to
make money on DraftKings. So, let's get into it. Also, I'd like to mention I'm in an Airbnb. There's some weird house decorations. I'm in an Airbnb. Okay? I don't want to hear anything about it. But this betting strategy on DraftKings
is called the crossarket betting strategy. It doesn't only work for DraftKings. So you can also apply this strategy to other books like FanDuel, Bet MGM, but basically it revolves around a concept called arbitrage. So
arbitrage is a really simple concept. You know, I've made videos on it in the past. Arbitrage is when two sports books have such different prices that you can bet the over on one book, the under on a different book to guarantee a risk-free
different book to guarantee a risk-free profit. So, for example, in this play on Zack Neato, right, there's an arbitrage opportunity between DraftKings and Novig. So, what I could do is I could bet on Zack Neato to hit a home run on
DraftKings. I could bet him to not hit a home run on Novig and just make a small little risk-free profit. That's arbitrage betting, right? And that is kind of the core of the strategy. So, whenever arbitrage exists in the market,
you always know one of the two bets has to be profitable. One side of the arbitrage opportunity has to be a profitable plus EV positive ROI bet,
right? So, I could bet the over and the under to make a risk-free profit where I'm guaranteed to make money. So, you know, okay, either the over on DraftKings at plus 700 or the under on Novig. One of those two bets has to be
profitable because again, you could just bet both of them in the proper proportion following an arbitrage calculator and make a risk-free profit. So basically, whenever there's an arbitrage opportunity, there's at least
arbitrage opportunity, there's at least one positive EV bet. One side of the arbitrage opportunity has to be profitable. So that kind of relates back profitable. So that kind of relates back to my strategy on DraftKings. What I do
is I find crossed markets and because DraftKings is a soft book, it's known to be one of the easiest sports books to beat. is whenever DraftKings is arbitrageed with a sharp sports book such as Pinnacle, Circa, Novig, and
Profitex. Depending on the liquidity, which we'll get into, whenever DraftKings is crossed with a sharp book, all I do is I take the bet on all I do is I take the bet on DraftKings. So, in this example, there's
plenty of liquidity on Novig, over $1,000. So, liquidity is basically how much you can bet, right? So, Novig as well as Profitex, these are betting
exchanges. So, the way they work is you're betting against other people. There's no limits. There's nothing like that. There's no BS. You're betting against other people. All the exchange does is facilitate trading. So, if I
want to bet on the Thunder at -400, you want to bet on the Pacers at plus 400, we can just trade against each other. That's basically what betting exchanges That's basically what betting exchanges do. But when exchanges are very active
because they have no limits, there's no limits. They attract a lot of sharp bers, a lot of syndicates, they attract a lot of sharper betting volume. So in this example, you'd want to be on Zack home run at plus 700 on DraftKings.
DraftKings is crossed or arbitrage with a sharper book. Novig that has a decent amount of liquidity. So you can see here a bet slip for $1,000. That is not my bet slip. I'm actually with a bunch of friends right now in Indianapolis and um
yeah, DraftKings would not let me bet even more than $50 on this play just because they've cut down my betting limits. So, I signed up a bunch of my of showing them the signup bonuses, stuff like that. But anyways, obviously
you can consider other things um aside from just if the market is crossed. So for example, if you look at all the other sports books posting odds, no other book is offering Zack above even plus 600. Circa right here, this sports
book is known to be a pretty sharp book. They are, you know, pretty good at They are, you know, pretty good at setting lines. Their market is plus 600 on Zack to go yard, minus 850 on him to not go yard. So what you can do is you
can devig that market. D vague just means strip out the spread. Strip out the juice that the sports book is charging. All these sports books, you know, they're market makers. They make money by charging a spread. It's kind of
like a stock broker, right? Saying, "Hey, you can, you know, I'll buy this asset, this stock for $600. I'll sell it at $850." That's known as the bid ass spread in financial markets. They're just charging a spread. That's how books
make money. So what you can do is you can remove the vig and that shows you can remove the vig and that shows you the fair line the fair market. So here according to circa once you devig the market the fair price the true line on
market the fair price the true line on Zack to go yard would be plus 626.32 on DraftKings we're getting plus 700 above fair value. So this bet is profitable. This bet is plus EV. And then what I do is when I'm betting on
DraftKings, I just try to lock in as many crossed markets as I can every single day. So this is a bet I actually did place myself is Matthew Boyd over one and a half earned runs at minus 105 on DraftKings. So you can see my bet
slips here. What you'll notice is DraftKings is crossed with Novig. This is arbitrage. Novig has a fair amount of liquidity, 1.7K. We know one of the two bets has to be profitable. So, I ran the DraftKings side. So, some days there's
place, you know, a ton of bets on DraftKings. Other days, especially during slower periods for sports betting, like during MLB season, there's not as many cross markets, I only may
place 10 bets on DraftKings in a day. But what I'm going to do is kind of take you over to a live betting demo. I'll show you exactly how I do this on DraftKings Sportsbook. How I find crossed markets. We'll place a bunch of
bets. I'll add some commentary and we can go from there. So, this is how easy it is to implement the cross market betting strategy on DraftKings. You can see I'm on the odds Jam arbitrage tool. Arbitrage just means cross markets. So,
the first thing I do is I just select DraftKings. Again, you could do this DraftKings. Again, you could do this with Bet MGM FanDuel Flip, but for the about DraftKings. So what I do is I put in DraftKings and then I put in all the
other sharp sports books such as Bet Online is known to be a relatively sharp book. We have Circa. Circa is known to be a sharp book. We have Pinnacle and
then we have Profitex and Novig which are the two main betting exchanges in the US. Again on these betting exchanges you need to consider liquidity. Sometimes they're super sharp active markets, other times they're not. So,
for example, here's the first play you can see, right? DraftKings is crossed with Novig. We're getting plus 700. Now, there's even more liquidity on Novig. there's even more liquidity on Novig. So, my friend who bet, you know, $1,000,
he could have, you know, basically hedged on Novig, bet the under for900. Granted, you'd need enough capital, make $159 risk-f free, but we already discussed that play, so let me just hide it. So the next thing is I simply find
more crossed markets. Here we only have two data points and you can see DraftKings actually just adjusted that line. So that's kind of the problem. So here you can see another play Skyler Diggin Smith, right? DraftKings is
crossed with Novig. The over at plus 110 on DK or the under at minus 104 on Novig. One of those two plays has to be profitable. There's a lot of liquidity profitable. There's a lot of liquidity on Novig. I usually look for over $1,000
in liquidity to play a player prop. So, what I can do is just open this up. Caesars has Skyler's overfed. Same thing with Rebet. I mean, no other books even
offering plus money. This play clearly has ridiculous value. So, I just click the bet button on OddsJam. It takes two seconds to do and I lock in this play. the previous live stream actually because it looks like it's saying
duplicate bet. So, it's not going to let me play it again. But regardless, that's a play I already locked in. So, Taylor Award here. There's a little less liquidity on Novig, only 506. So, maybe that play I'm not as interested in. I
said I usually look for $1,000, but again, depending on the odds or the prices on other sports books, sometimes I'll change that up. So they're $631 I'll change that up. So they're $631 now. It just went up from 506. Cross
market arbitrage. And you can see relative to these other sports books, plus 550 seems pretty good. What I can actually do is pull up this no vague odds calculator, Circa's market is plus475, minus 630. Again,
Circa is one of the sharpest books and they offer two-way markets on player home runs. So if I put in their market plus475 plus475 - 630 the fair line the true price with
the vig removed the fair odds would be plus496 we're getting plus 550 on DraftKings above fair value. So this bet is plus EV according to circa so maybe I actually run this right. So I can run this and
again that's a duplicate bet. I already betted on the live stream earlier so I can just hide that one here. You see sharp on sharpbook arbitrage. So that's not really related. I'm just going to skip it over here. We see some lower
interested. However, this play again 758. I mean, we're getting close to $1,000 in liquidity. You have Logan O'H. So, literally what I do is I just go down the list and I run all these plays and I
look for more liquidity. So here we have Sugano over two and a half earned runs plus 115. A lot of liquidity on Novig, right? Novig is a pretty sharp book. DraftKings is arbitrage to not only NOVIG, also Profitex, which increases
our confidence in our edge. So I just lock in this bet. Just taking out the arbitrage bets with higher amounts of liquidity for my max betting limit. Here we have Ezie McBeor. Basically $1,000. Looks really solid. No vague Caesars
have the over favored. Decent amount of liquidity by definition. One of the two bets has to be profitable. So, okay, we'll get that locked in as well. This we'll get that locked in as well. This applies to any sport, right? MLB, you
these plays due to lower liquidity. Like this play, this play, I'm just skipping this play, this play, I'm just skipping over due to lower liquidity. Um, Mason Win stolen base. This was actually plus,300 earlier and I locked it in.
Here we have Wade plus 950. Close to a thousand. You know, you don't have as many data points here. Circa is not setting odds on Wade to hit a home run. But regardless, I will lock it in because, you know, DraftKings is not
only crossed with Novig, which has $900 in liquidity, it's also crossed or arbitrageed with Profitex. So, DraftKings, you know, is a sports book with thousands of lines available at any given time. So, we're just trying to
markets, Joe Adel I had on the previous live stream. I mean, this play plus,00 DraftKings is crossed with Novig. Decent amount of liquidity. Looks good to
circa. You know, we're getting 225 cents of improvement. So, a lot of home run bets today. I mean, we don't have NBA today. It's uh, you know, we're kind of getting into baseball season. During NBA, obviously, there will be more.
So, here we have low to not get a hit. And I literally just go down the list. Every single bet has an edge. DraftKings is the soft book. So, I'm just looking for arbitrage with sharper books. Taylor Ward to get a hit. Another cross market.
And I just place literally as many bets as I can in a night. Right. So, for this Taylor Ward play, you can see DraftKings limited me. They gave me 4604. So it's like okay depending on the market they'll give me different betting limits
but literally just going down even on my max limited accounts you know Brad Manshard under and shots on goal beautiful let's take that decent amount of liquidity all these bets have different betting limits
think we went through basically everything important some of these plays with lower amounts of liquidity I won't necessarily just completely avoid them as I mentioned. So, for example, you see this play on
Kershaw. You know, there's not as much liquidity on Novig, only 121 bucks. But if you look here, DraftKings is giving us plus money underdog odds. We're getting plus 100. When you're betting at plus 100,
you have to win 50% of your bets to break even. You're betting 100 to profit 100, right? So, if you win 50, lose 50, you're flat. So what you have to do to make money to be profitable betting at plus 100 is win above 50% of your bets.
So if you look at DraftKings here, we're getting plus 100. Every sports book, data point number one, Caesar's, Profitex, Novague, Rebet, you know, Bet Chris, which is known to be a sharp book, Circa, which is a sharp book. All
of these other sports books have Kershaw's under heavily favored. Not heavily, but they have the underfed. So, they're telling us through their odds,
through their odds, through their betting market, that Kershaw is more likely to go under. They have the underfed, more juice towards the under. We know the under is the more likely outcome. And we're able to get it on
DraftKings at plus 100, which is underdog odds. So, this play I will actually run here. You know, again, not as much liquidity, but DraftKings is crossed with not only Novig, also Profitex, and
it looks solid. I mean, Caesars has this at minus 145. So, even if you don't want to consider liquidity, basically just putting in the sharp books again, which are Profitex, Novig, Bet Online, Pinnacle, and Circa, just take every
cross market on DraftKings. Kershaw under, Tammy under, Logan over, every cross market, bet them all, you will be profitable. Obviously, if you
want to optimize this a bit, you can start to consider liquidity. But that's basically the betting strategy where nearly all of my profits have come from on DraftKings Sportsbook. So, I highly recommend doing this. It's going to make
you a ton of money. And again, thanks so much for your