Oddsportal review 2015

OddsPortal is a web site with a bunch of tools for amateur and professional bettors. It’s one of the most visited sites on the world wild web – Alexa ranking around 10,000 – and provides odds comparison, bookmakers information, users’ predictions, sure bets, value bets, in-play odds, dropping odds, blocked odds, best handicaps, moving margins, live scores, past results and standings.

 

Main features

OddsPortal is a great tool for every bettor who wants to take advantage of all available information about betting on a single site. Most tools are provided for free. The number of sports covered depends on the tool you chose, but can include any of the following:

• SOCCER
• BASKETBALL
• HOCKEY
• HANDBALL
• BASEBALL
• AMERICAN FOOTBALL
• RUGBY UNION
• RUGBY LEAGUE
• VOLLEYBALL
• FLOORBALL
• BANDY
• FUTSAL
• CRICKET
• SNOOKER
• DARTS
• BOXING
• BEACH VOLLEYBALL
• BEACH SOCCER

 

Odds comparison

The odds comparison tool shows best odds for each outcome in a market from a lot of sports. You just need to choose the sport, and the site displays events and best odds for the main market.

You can then select a particular event and you will be able to compare any market. If you hover the mouse over any odds, you can see the odds history for this particular outcome.

 

Dropping Odds

The dropping odds feature is a great tool to get valuable information to place your bets. Follow Dropping Odds and make use of the latest betting market trends. The “Drop” column in the dropping odds table indicates percentage of odds decrease, calculated as an average from all odds that were decreased compared to their starting value. The box with a yellow background serves to label starting and current values of odds that were amended since their release. Use dropping odds to your advantage – simply bet with bookmaker who hasn’t caught up with the latest market trends.

You can filter which situations you want to be displayed, selecting the sport or using a time range filter (last hour, last 12 hours, last 24 hours), the number of bookmakers where odds have dropped (from 10% to 50%) and the market.

 

Blocked Odds

The Blocked Odds feature is very similar to the dropping odds, but it shows events where some odds are not available to bet anymore. You can check the number of blocked bookies and investigate the last active odds. You can use blocked odds to your advantage by betting with bookmakers who haven’t caught the latest market trends.

You can filter which situations you want to be displayed, selecting the sport or using a time range filter (next 12 hours, 1, 2 or 3 days) and the number of bookmakers where odds have dropped (from 25% 50%, 75% or 100%).

 

Best handicaps

Make the most of handicap betting with Best Handicaps tool. It offers comparison between usual handicap and an actual live handicap. As soon as a usual handicap differs from its expected standard zone Best Handicaps tool examines it and displays particular handicap under the Handicap Tab. Both best handicaps and selections addressed are highlighted in bold for better identification with suggested bookmaker listed to the right. Using Best Handicaps tool helps monitoring divergent margins across all bookmakers.

 

Moving Margins

Use Moving Margins to monitor handicap margin movements. All handicap margins are in the usual range throughout the market. The moment margins diverge out of their usual zone, the tool displays changes in the Moving Margins table. For enhanced identification Moving Margins are highlighted in bold to make all movements evident. Check Moving Margins to take advantage of better odds at better margins to your benefit. You can filter by sport.

 

Value Bets

Value bets provide tips on matches that you can bet on with mathematical advantage. Value bets are calculated from bookmaker’s market difference in comparison to its competing companies. This type of betting should lead to long-term profits. The “Odds” column indicates biggest betting odds available, while “Value” calculates mathematical profit you can take advantage of. The “Prob.” column explains the likelihood of winning the bet.

You can filter by sport, value (greater than 1.2, greater than 1.4, or all) and odds range (1.01 to 10, 10.01 to 20, greater than 20 or all)

 

Sure bets

Most Surebet Monitor visitors know what surebets are. Make certain profit from sports with surebets, (arbitrage bets), by placing one bet per each outcome with different bookmakers of a particular event.

This Surebet tool is quite limited. It only shows 10 surebets and no filters can be applied. They only list surebets for the next 7 days.

 

Other features

If you like to follow tipsters, OddsPortal offers a Community section, where you can follow other users and see their predictions. You can select top users by number of predictions, ROI, and sports. You can also find popular users (number of followers), active users (active predictions) or users by country.

OddsPortal offers other features quite common on other sites, such as live scores, past results and standings. These tools are a good complement to have all information on a single site, although they are not useful regarding betting.