Court siding / Live at the races / Live at the pitch side

Is advantage not largely mitigated by the in-play delay on bets?

U can match instantly on Betfair though
I’ve also seen (low liquidity) markets not even suspend and just keep going after a goal. Plus I have also seen chunks of money quickly match on smarkets in Big games before the market suspends.

I think there’s also ways of getting faster streams for sports trading which gives a host of people an edge above tv viewers, not outsiders

I guess the trick is to prep your bet then pull the trigger the second something happens. Tennis, t20 cricket or darts (if close and sober enough to clearly see) would be ideal as each piece of action would swing the price. But you could even watch a horse race with a lay ready for a potential faller.

Try a non televised Domestic T20. The market doesn’t move for upto 10 seconds. You won’t get rich though, the liquidity just isn’t there.

My guess would be it’s more automated so they hit a button to input the out come of a point etc then that triggers a back/lay
Tennis is a liquid market so justifies that, but if you can find a market (like mbpunter) suggested that doesn’t warrant automation you’d probably have the edge over what liquidity is there

As beesty said most things I’d go to I’d want to enjoy though. Useful thought to understand though

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Could work on some occasions.. I tried it at an Italian third division match or fourth I’m not sure.

It finished 1-0 and the market froze when the striker was about to shoot. It did look like he would score but no way was it guaranteed.

I’m not sure if a betfair app would work better , so you could get round any delays before it freezes the market??

The home team that scored were quite apt though… Gubbio!!

This was very popular at one time but just like match betting it has become far more difficult to make any decent money. The people who are left doing it and making a lot of cash are very professional about it, and tend to give very little information away as to what they do. Can’t say I blame them really.

Some people have software and hardware either produced themselves or created by others for them in order to speed up the process and help avoid detection. I know one person who has spent over £5k on programmers to write bespoke software for him. I don’t know how much money he makes but if your spending that kind of money on coders then I would imagine he is doing very well. He spends a lot of time travelling around the race courses in the UK and Ireland.

From what comments he has made though, I get the impression that the fun of it all soon wears off and he treats it as a job all be it very well paid. It means he is often away from his family for days at a time, spending his nights in hotels. He makes some of his money from automated in play trading. I think if this could come close to what he makes from track siding he would pack in the track siding and just trade from home.