Sharbing - The Basics

   Sharbing (short for Shop Arbing) is the name given to the process where the betting odds given on a football match are better on the Shop Coupon than those offered online. Let me give you an example: Rangers are playing Celtic again. In the shop Rangers are 11/10 but on Betfair they are Evens. If you lay Rangers on Betfair but back them in the shop you can engineer it so as to profit whatever the outcome of the match is.

   An insider says: “It is still possible to make big money every week/month if you look at the various shop specials and the various coupons. I have stumbled on quite a few this way. Even the big chains such as corals have shop specials that will be individual to that particular shop. I have no problem averaging 2k-2.5k a month and I do not have to travel that much. There is a method of disguising shop arbs too to get it under the shops radar.
By the way stick to football and general sports betting.Do not touch horse racing.” Whilst another adds: I sharb quite regularly and make a decent enough profit from it. Mobile apps make it much safer too I think. I can lay a sharb off within minutes of placing my back bet in the bookies.”

   From my experience my advice would be:

·         Don’t get involved in sharbing unless you understand the concept.

·         Get a smartphone and sign up at all the usual suspects.

·         Absolutely haunt the MSE Sharbing forum and other sites that discuss sharbs so that you can jump on any opportunities ASAP.

·         Blog your bets – you may make upsales and cross-sales by selling advice.

·         Don’t get involved unless you live in a town or near a town with a Wm Hill, Ladbrokes, Betfred, Coral and Paddy Power.

·         Practice makes perfect.

Finally, don’t gamble. Sharbing is an exercise in Maths.