Beating the Books 101
Learn about all the different ways you can turn the inefficient market of sports betting into opportunities for profit.
Learn about all the different ways you can turn the inefficient market of sports betting into opportunities for profit.
Tags rebuilt from the ground up, plus live scores on your bet cards, soccer scoring, and open positions in Insiders.
We've been heads down for a while and a good chunk of it just shipped. The big one is tags, which got rebuilt from scratch. There's also live scores on your bet cards, soccer scoring, and a change to how Insiders shows what a wallet is up to. Here's the rundown, starting with the headliner.
Tags have been around for a while, but they were really just text you typed onto a bet. That's done. Tags are now their own thing in SmartStake. You make one, give it a color, and reuse it anywhere. They work as a real filter on your Bet Tracker, and there's one place to manage all of them. This was the main project this cycle, so we broke it down below.
There's no fixed list to pick from anymore. Type whatever fits how you bet (Low hold, NBA unders, bonus bet, tail the syndicate, whatever you like) and it
gets created on the spot. While you type, SmartStake checks what you already have
so you don't end up with three slightly different versions of the same label.
Every tag picks up a color that you can change whenever, and we drop in a few
common suggestions to get you going.
Open any bet's edit screen and you'll find a Tags section. Add tags, pull them off, or create a new one without leaving the screen. Got a pile of bets to label? Select them in the Bet Tracker and tag the whole group in one move instead of editing them one at a time.
This is the part that makes the whole thing worth it. Your tags are now filters on the Bet Tracker, so you can pull up exactly the bets you want in a second. Every low-hold play, every bet you put on one book, every promo you converted. Pick the tag and there they are. You can stack a couple of tags together if you want a narrower cut.
Your profile has a new Tag Manager. Rename a tag and it changes on every bet that used it, so you're not digging through old bets to fix a label. Recolor it. Delete the ones you've stopped using. The list is ordered by how often you actually reach for each tag and shows the count next to it, so your go-to tags stay up top.
If you've got a Positive EV or Arbitrage bet on a game that's already going, the card now shows you the score and where the game's at. There's a short line in the card header with the period and the score, and if you expand the card you get a full box score for that sport. Baseball shows the inning, the count, outs, and who is on base. Football shows the down and distance. Basketball shows timeouts left and team fouls. It refreshes about once a minute, and it shows up everywhere the bet does: the card, the expanded view, the desktop popup, and the mobile drawer.
One thing worth saying: live scores are completely separate from how bets get graded. What you see on the card is just for keeping you in the loop. It never touches whether a bet wins or loses.
Soccer is now part of live scoring. You'll see goals as they go in with the minute they happened, extra time, and penalty shootout totals when a match goes that far. MLS and the World Cup are both covered.
When you open a tracked wallet in Insiders, its Recent Bets list used to stop at positions the wallet had already closed out. So a wallet that was mostly still in the market could look empty or out of date. Now the list shows the open positions as well, marked with an Open tag and the price they got in at. You can see what a wallet is holding right now, not just the bets it already cashed.
Tags are the thing to try first. Go label a handful of bets and run a filter on your tracker. It's a quick way to start looking at your betting the way you actually think about it.

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