I'm shocked that these arb threads are still going.

[TheRover]

If I didn't suck at arbs this thread would make me want to post as many as possible.

[Thremp]

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Yeah, they'd be dead in 2 minutes BTW if not sooner. I'd say the avg arb lasts for between 15-45 seconds. AIM is by far the best way to go.

[kdog]

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95% of the arbs I find are dead within the time it would take me to post them here. Most people are arbing just to clear bonuses and aren't doing anything more fancy. So, I'm not particularly concerned about the quality of arbs going down. However, you're not alone in thinking that sharing will make things less profitable for everyone. There are a handful of people I know of who bad mouth me (behind my back, of course) for sharing any tidbit of information

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Hehe. Homer I'd say you still have a loooong way to go to piss off more people with this than you did posting casino bonus information. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I love people who stick it to greedy bastards. Keep up the good work.

[beetman]

Considering that almost every arb I've ever seen posted here has the "good side" of the arb at a book with a relatively small limit, I'm not sure how you can make that statement. I also don't know a single serious sports bettor that would agree with that statement. Pretty much every serious bettor I know is intimately familiar with the necessity to keep certain things to oneself.

For the most part Chachi is right on the mark here and I'm absolutely shocked that just about everybody disagrees. I haven't even been betting sports seriously for all that long, and I couldn't even begin to count how many great betting opportunities no longer exist because they were heavily publicized, too many people got a hold of them, and the opportunities were burned out. The liquidity present in the sports betting marketplace is surprisingly low.

As a simple example of how publicizing these bets can burn out the marketplace, the soft sides of these posted arbs are frequently SIA lines. SIA's lines aren't nearly as juicy as they were 3 or 4 years ago, and SIA has also stopped offering a lot of the profitable types of bets they used to offer.

Intuitively you might think it's worse to share poker information than sports betting information because poker players directly compete with each other, but the low amounts of liquidity present in certain aspects of the sports betting market make that not the case.

I'd love to be able to share everything I know with other people, but the marketplace simply won't bear it.

[Thremp]

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So WTF does this have to do with posting a few arbs here?

People shared casino whoring information and they'll share this information. In fact I usually tell all my friends about arbs etc. Let them crush it and if its still there or in a book they don't use. Then I post it for the good of humanity.

Arbs are always gonna be around. And arbers are too.

[beetman]

Arbs may "always be around," but posting these sorts of things publically will make it more difficult to find arbs.

Since this is a poker board--if a player criticizes a fish and chases him away from the table, how many people would be annoyed, and how many wouldn't care because "fish will always be around?"

[ImNew]

Well, I feel that it's not as bad as you mentioned. I have no problems at all in finding arbs everyday without reading this thread. (I only use 5 sites)

As far as finding fish in poker- they are bound to be around at all time, no matter how many times the sharks crushed him, that's what a fish was meant to be. I have no problem in finding a fish or two to play hu with me, after being criticized by several big mouths at a full table.

Over-sensitive, I guess.

[Homer]

All these threads do is create tension in an otherwise friendly community (compared to the other 2+2 forums, at least). People are going to have their own opinions that are unlikely to change. All you can do is whatever you think is best. I wish this thread and all like it would die.

[beetman]

And similarly, I wish that the arbitrage threads and all like them would die.

[Homer]

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Exactly...do whatever you think is best. For you, that is not taking part in arb threads.