--- title: 'Forks in Sports Betting: Arbitrage Bets' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=-tCIopMN51Q' video_id: '-tCIopMN51Q' date: 2026-08-05 duration_sec: 583 --- # Forks in Sports Betting: Arbitrage Bets > Source: [Forks in Sports Betting: Arbitrage Bets](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-tCIopMN51Q) ## Summary The video explains the concept of sports betting arbitrage, known as 'forks' or 'surebets', where bettors place bets on all possible outcomes of an event across different bookmakers to guarantee a profit. The host, York, demonstrates how to identify and calculate these opportunities using a free service, discusses the pros and cons, and compares the returns to bank deposits. ### Key Points - **Introduction to Forks** [00:07] — York introduces the topic of forks (surebets) in sports betting, explaining that they arise from differing odds offered by various bookmakers, creating arbitrage opportunities. - **Using a Fork Service** [01:09] — He demonstrates using a free service, rbc.ru, to find surebets, filtering by bookmakers and sports, and shows an example of a French Ligue 1 match with a calculated profit of 2.79%. - **Verifying Odds** [02:19] — York checks the odds on Marathon and 365 to confirm the surebet, noting that the odds match the service's claims, and uses a calculator to compute the required stakes. - **Calculating Stakes** [03:17] — He explains how to use a calculator to determine the exact bet amounts needed to guarantee a $100 profit, highlighting the large capital required ($3,500.83) as a major disadvantage. - **Disadvantages of Surebets** [04:08] — The main drawback is the high capital requirement, which deters many from pursuing this strategy. He also mentions the availability of calculators for double and triple bets. - **Comparison with Bank Deposits** [04:52] — York compares the return from surebets to a bank deposit, noting that a deposit of $3,583 would yield only 1.75% annually, making surebets relatively more profitable but still requiring significant funds. - **Professional Services** [05:52] — He mentions professional services like Conkra Bates and forecast.ru, which offer free forks up to 1% profit, with paid access for higher percentages, and recommends trying a one-day subscription for 157 rubles. - **Pros and Cons** [06:52] — Pros: win-win strategy (though debatable due to bookmaker rules). Cons: need for paid services, risk of losing bank, registration in many bookmakers, and potential commission fees for beginners. - **Time and Confusion** [08:06] — There is a time delay between placing bets and withdrawing money, and beginners often confuse forks with Asian handicaps, leading to mistakes. ### Conclusion Surebets offer a guaranteed profit but require substantial capital and careful management of bookmaker rules and fees. Beginners should start with small stakes and use reliable services to avoid pitfalls. ## Transcript Good afternoon, my name is York. In the topic about bonus hunting, I already touched on the topic of veux rings, explaining what it is because the hunting bonus is worked out using a strategy with a guaranteed win, namely, fork strategies. Where do forks come from? How are they formed? In nature, there are a large number of bookmakers that offer different odds. Some offer the highest odds for one outcome, some offer the highest odds for another. among this whole variety of odds, they overlap, resulting in situations called arbitrage. When you have arbitrage. When you have n't bet an amount of money on any of them, with certain proportions, you win in any meeting. Let's look at this with an example. I went to a fork service called rbc.ru. There are a huge number of such services. There are a huge number of such services. This is a free, simple service on which, as you can see, there is a filter for bookmakers, a filter for sports, and in general, you can filter by maximum profit, by number of outcomes, by time, by profit. I filtered by bookmakers that are the most popular for me, in any case, and found such an interesting match as the French championship, French championship, Ligue 1, this is Bastian, but The outcome of one marathon offers odds of 260 x 2, meaning it's for a win or a x 2, meaning it's for a win or a draw. The service calculates the profit to be 2.79 percent. 2.79 percent. Then I went to these sites, Marathon and 365, to check if this is really the case. The odds are The odds are as we see from Bastian, and as we see from Bastian, and Basti wins 260, exactly as stated on that service. 365 also tells us that the odds are on Droid, but we didn't expect them to start at 170. We checked. We to start at 170. We checked. We have Yuko, then the usual forks. I'm checking on a calculator. There's a link to this calculator There's a link to this calculator in the description. 10. You can download the OS and follow this in the description. 10. You can download the OS and follow this link to download. As you can see, the odds link to download. As you can see, the odds on 1 are 160, which is a win, and x2 on 170. Then, the income is calculated as 279. The expected winnings are here: we write the amount we wanted to win. Let's say we want to win $100. To do this, we need to bet on the marathon event, which is for Angie to win marathon event, which is for Angie to win 1 1416 s. In kopecks, the dollar events are 1 1416 s. In kopecks, the dollar events are common bank. To get $100 in hernias, we need to roll over $3,500.83. As you can see, this is main disadvantages of surebets, which is why people don't try to make money on this. I also want to inform you that we have a coefficient calculation cook for double bets, it is also possible to calculate triple bets, and three coefficients are written. Let's say there's no one's victory, another team's victory, and here's Lambek, a new BKT. I'll explain again what this conversion of betting exchange coefficients is. In the end, we can say that this service is very good. rbc.ru issued the correct very good. rbc.ru issued the correct surebets on which you can earn. Next, I would like to note that I went to the banker's website and decided to look at US deposits. Let's say we want to deposit three thousand five hundred eighty-three dollars. This is exactly the amount that is used to receive those unfortunate $100 for a period of one year. I looked at the deposits that are popular, what are there, we see that one percent is 75 hundredths. 2,280 let's say they are comparable to forks and therefore, in principle, you can engage in proteins if you have you have such an amount of money. Of course, we can start for beginners. Smoke itself would have left Christ to pour because there are because there are pitfalls that you need to know. Further, I would at least note that there are such popular professional services as Conkra Bates, but here there are free forks from David, up to one percent, then you need to pay to see this is a very good fork filter. Let's say that of course I didn't use it, I bought a cheap one, I really regret it, good one is in the forecast dot ru service for searching for forks, there are also restrictions in terms of search, I see up to one percent. In principle, it is very good to try exactly what bets are, namely, buy exactly what bets are, namely, buy access for one day. 1 day will cost access for one day. 1 day will cost him 157 rubles. talk about the pros and cons of this strategy. The plus is that it is a win-win strategy, although this is also debatable because you need to read the bookmakers' rules, there are debatable because you need to read the bookmakers' rules, there are can run into and lose your bank. To find surebets, you need to use To find surebets, you need to use paid services, which I showed you paid services, which I showed you below. One of the downsides is that you can lose a large sum of money, which I also recently talked about further, you need to register in a large number of cants to catch three surebets. 4 minus, of course, is also debatable, but it has the right to be such a mission for a period. If you are an experienced welch nick, of course, you already understand these things, you know which payment systems to use so that you are not charged a commission, but beginners can encounter this problem and pay these costs. There is also a temporary transfer, as we saw this match that Anzhi [music] play, slow down, and will take place on October 15th, which means play, slow down, and will take place on October 15th, which means today is October 2nd, which means char 13 days, which, as you can see, is 13 and waiting this time and, of course, it is not profitable. You wait for the time to place a bet and then the time to withdraw that money. I that beginners face, namely, they confuse for and often with Asian handicap. I will probably talk about this visit of stalker later, but most people with me are our Russian people who say Our offices don't really understand this and often ask questions understand this and often ask questions about this form for a minus 125. I've probably covered everything I wanted about forks. Maybe I'll release a video about live betting later, specifically related to forks. I also recommend visiting my website and irk.ru. Watch, subscribe, and website and irk.ru. Watch, subscribe, and find interesting information. All the best. Goodbye. It was York. See you later.