An account that gets limited stops earning
Every tool in this category optimises expected value and leaves account lifetime to your judgement. That is why the usual experience is three excellent weeks followed by a five-dollar maximum stake. Edge you cannot place is worth nothing, so lifetime is not a footnote beside expected value — it is what expected value gets divided by.
What a stake gives away
A precise figure to the cent is the most-cited fingerprint risk desks use to identify arbitrage. Nobody types 473.82:
| Stake | How mechanical it reads |
|---|---|
| 473.82 | 100% |
| 473.00 | 75% |
| 475.00 | 12% |
| 500.00 | 0% |
So the arbitrage solver optimises over round stakes directly rather than rounding afterwards, because rounding a lock naively breaks it — the legs are not symmetric. At +110 and +105 that means 490 and 500 instead of 493.98 and 506.02, giving up 2.35 of the 37.35. The cost is named rather than hidden.
What a market gives away
Arbitrage concentrates in markets priced with less attention, which is exactly why a profile made of them reads as sharp:
| Market | How much it signals |
|---|---|
| h2h | 5% |
| player_points | 60% |
| alternate_spreads | 90% |
Reaction time works the same way: a bet placed 0.5s after a sharp book moved scores 99%, one placed 120s later scores 5%. No human refreshes and decides in half a second.
Where it does nothing at all
27 venues are catalogued, and the ones that never limit winners get no shaping whatsoever. A 473.82 stake is rounded to 470 at a retail book and left at 473.82 at a sharp one. Spending edge to hide from a risk desk that does not exist is the most common way these tactics are applied wrongly, and there is a test for it.
What it will not do
No multi-accounting. No identity or KYC workarounds. No device or location spoofing. That line is drawn in the code rather than in a policy document: the model reads bet attributes only — stake sizes, timing, market mix, velocity — and has no access to identity or network state. Everything it adjusts is a choice you were already making about your own betting.
It is also advisory. It tells you what to bet; you place it. Automated placement against a book's own interface is a different product with a different risk profile, and it is not this one.