biggest ever arb?

[Pokebus]

How did you get 6.15 at Betfair it goes 6 then 6.2?

Average odds I'd have thought.

[Andy]

Average odds I'd have thought.

Good point, I thought he might have found a trick to set any odds you want though.

[LFC81Eoin]

I may aswell stick one up i just checked , biggest was around 14%
heres one from yesterday was 5.6%

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[dulence]

For a while I tried to place multiples at cashpoint to override their limitation on some of the markets which could be only played as a part of an accumulator. First game was on Brasilian 2nd league (odds something like 4.5/3.7) which got out a fiver, second was a Croatian 1st league match whose odds went against me so by the time I got to match the selection I was looking at a loss of arround 20. 3rd match, though, had further moved in my favour (Croatian league again) so got 40 of that summing up to 25. The multiple won, so, needless to say, it was my last ever bet at cashpoint.

[blowingbubbles]

I never remember biggest arb % but I've had quite a few good ones, my biggest arb yesterday made me £20, my biggest arb last week made me £43. My biggest arb ever has been in excess of £100. To me its not how big the % is, it matters more how much I can get on it even though I never go for anything below 2%

[Ganesh]

My biggest arb was between Paddy and 12bet, 13% and I got almost 100€.

[advanta]

I once got a 1400% arb due to a horrendous error. They didn't pay. Obviously.

[Panda]

I only started to play with arbs over the last 5 days to see if I can make anything that way. Seems I am not doing too badly as I found 9 vs 4.35. Could only get £20 on but the return was almost £20 as well.
Found also 36 vs 26.48 but made only a few pounds as my float is far too small to lay such high odds. And most times I can only do one or two arbs at the time, so at the moment this is just for fun and not time effective.

[Andy]

A) I could be wrong,
B) I usually am wrong
C) The 9 vs 4.xx bet was probably not actually an arb.

Either it was different market rules, if it was a Horse bet then a horse was withdrawn but market not reformed, or just a bookmaker made a Palpable error. Once an arb starts to get over 10% there is a disproportionate chance that something is "wrong" compared to you making some £s safely and so I would probably start to avoid it for that reason.

[musicbox]

Indeed, 9/4.35 is so far out it cannot be right IMO. One of the most common things is to back a horse to win and lay the place by accident and this often gives the illusion of a fantastic arb. For your own records, if you've not already done so, I would go back over the bet and look at both statements on either side of the bet to check you didn't actually lose money and that you were definitely on the same market. Someone tallying up from a spreadsheet and not checking the statement could miss that they lost at both sides of the bet. If you see odds like that on the same market, check other books - you'll most likely find the book has inputted the odds wrong and you'd be open to being palped.