Personalization

Arb Bot only works if you have funded accounts at the bookmakers in the alert. The /settings menu lets you configure exactly which books, sports, margins, and stake sizes you want - making every alert actionable.

What /settings looks like

⚙️ YOUR ARBITRAGE BOT SETTINGS

💷 Default Stake: £100
📊 Minimum Arb Margin: 1.0%
🔔 Alerts: ✅ Enabled
🔄 LAY Arbs: ✅ ON
🔴 Live Arbs: ❌ OFF

📚 Enabled Bookmakers (9):
  • Bet365
  • Betfair
  • Betfair Exchange
  • BetUK
  • Ladbrokes
  ... and 4 more

⚽️ Enabled Sports (14):
  • Soccer
  • American Football
  • Basketball
  • Tennis
  • Cricket
  ... and 9 more

⏰ Time Filter: 7 days

💷 Change Stake📊 Min Margin

📚 Bookmakers⚽️ Sports Filter

🔄 Bookmaker Clones⏰ Time

🏦 Exchange Commissions

🔔 Disable Alerts

🔄 LAY Arbs: ON

🔴 Live Arbs ▸ OFF

✅ Done

Settings Menu Options

💷 Default Stake

Set your total amount per arb. The bot splits this automatically across both sides based on the odds. Example: £100 total at 2.10/2.05 → £49.40/£50.60 per side.

💡 Start conservative (£10–50) until you're comfortable with the execution speed required.

📊 Minimum Margin

Filter out arbs below this profit %. Default is 1.0%. Most users set 1.5–2.0% to avoid very tight arbs that disappear before placement.

💡 Most profitable arbs are above 1.5% - the Demo tier caps at 1.0%. Upgrade to capture the best ones.

🔔 Alerts (master switch)

Turn all alerts on or off with one toggle. If you block the bot, alerts are automatically disabled to save resources - sending /start re-enables them.

📚 Bookmakers

Paginated menu, two bookmakers per row with country flags. 9 are enabled by default: Bet365, Betfair, Betfair Exchange, BetUK, Ladbrokes, VBET, William Hill, Sky Bet, Coral. New bookmakers appearing in the arb feed are auto-discovered and added to the list beyond the 51 defaults. Note: "Kambi" is an umbrella platform, not a directly toggleable book - enable the branded sites it powers instead.

💡 Only enable books where you have an active, funded account - otherwise the alert is useless to you. More enabled books = more opportunities found.

⚽ Sports Filter

Select which sports to receive alerts for. Football, Tennis, Basketball, Hockey, Baseball, Cricket, Esports, and more.

💡 Tennis produces the most frequent arbs - two-way markets move quickly and create price disparities regularly.

🔄 Bookmaker Clones

Many bookmakers share the same platform and prices - the bot maps 17 clone groups covering a 195-name lookup. Pick your preferred brand per family and every alert rewrites both the bookmaker name AND the deep link to your choice. With no explicit preference, it falls back to whichever family member you have enabled.

⏰ Time Filter

Only receive alerts for events within a certain time window. Options: 1, 2, 3, 6, or 12 hours; 1, 3, or 7 days. Default: 7 days.

💡 Tighter time filters = higher conviction arbs that are more likely to still be available when you execute.

🏦 Exchange Commissions

Exchanges and prediction markets: Betfair Exchange, BetfairIT, Smarkets, Kalshi, Limitless, Polymarket, SxBet. A 2% default is automatically applied to any exchange leg - back or lay - and you can override the rate per exchange here. Polymarket is back-only (no lay bets).

🔄 LAY Arbs

Toggle whether to receive arbs that involve laying on a betting exchange. ON by default. Requires a funded exchange account (Betfair Exchange, Smarkets, etc.).

💡 LAY arbs often have higher margins - leave enabled if you use exchanges.

Live Arbs (Premium)

In-play surebets update every few seconds and are configured separately from your prematch arbs, in the 🔴 Live Arbs ▸ submenu. The toggle is premium-gated - demo users see a lock pointing at /plans.

Mode

⏸ Break/Pause only (alerts only when the match is paused and odds are frozen - easier to execute) or ▶️ All in-play.

Min Live Margin

Its own margin floor, separate from prematch: presets 0.1 / 0.25 / 0.5 / 1 / 2%, or type a custom value between 0 and 50.

Live Bookmakers

A separate, live-only bookmaker list - your prematch bookmaker selection is untouched.

Recommended Bookmaker Setup

To start arbing effectively, you need at least 5 funded accounts. Here is the recommended setup:

Tier 1 - Essential

Bet365Betfair Exchange

Highest limits and coverage. Non-negotiable.

Tier 2 - Recommended

PinnacleSmarkets

Sharp books that rarely restrict winners. Great for LAY arbs.

Tier 3 - Expand

LadbrokesWilliam HillCoral

UK high-street books. Good for local market arbs.

Account & Bankroll Management

Bankroll Distribution

Split funds across books. Example for £1,000 across your accounts:

Bet365 + Betfair

30% each£300 each

Pinnacle + Ladbrokes

20% each£200 each

Avoiding Gubbing (Account Restrictions)

Round your stakes (£25 instead of £24.73) - pattern recognition
Don't always bet the maximum allowed
Mix in occasional non-arb bets on accounts you want to keep
Don't withdraw immediately after every won arb

Palpable Errors

When a bookmaker accidentally offers clearly incorrect odds (e.g., 20.0 instead of 2.0), they can void bets citing “palpable error”. The bot automatically rejects arbs above 50% margin as data errors and flags anything above 30% for review. Still, as a habit, sanity-check unusually large margins yourself before placing - a too-good-to-be-true arb usually is.