Why you need a scanner
Fourteen venues, thousands of events, two price formats and arbs that last seconds. By hand, you lose.
Fine, you get the mechanics. A fair thought: “why would I need a scanner, I’ll open a couple of sites and work it out myself”. Let’s see what that looks like in practice.
How much you’d have to dig through
venues at once 14
events on each thousands
markets per event dozens
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sportsbooks quote decimals 1.95
exchanges quote cents 53¢
→ and you need both in one format firstFootball, basketball, tennis, hockey, esports, baseball, American football. Each event has winner, totals, handicaps and so on. Doing this by hand you just burn your time. The scanner sees every event that can be matched and every price change on every venue. All you do is one click to open the two venues, and place the arb.
Time is the real enemy
Live arbs live for seconds. While you’re remembering one price and switching to the second tab, the first has already changed. A person can’t compete here, not because they’re slower-witted but because they’re physically slower.
Pre-match arbs live longer, minutes, but you still won’t catch many of them by hand across fourteen venues.
What Pulse takes off your hands
Pulse is connected to every venue directly and in real time. It converts cents and decimals to one format, works out the ROI and hands you ready-made arbs, with the stake for each leg already calculated.
All the dirty work sits with the scanner. How to do your part step by step is in Your first arb.