I’m driving up to upstate New York today to visit my dad and take advantage of the promotions and staying through the weekend. I live about 11-2 hours from the NYS border so I can return for a followup if necessary.
… in order to donate to highly effective charities.
Steps taken (some in error)
Caesars
Soon after Robi’s earlier post … (25 Jan)
Started a Caesar’s account,
deposited and withdrew $50 while out of state (I had thought it meant ‘deposit at least $50 and you will get the full credit’… didn’t realize first deposit was the determining factor),
requested that they let me redo this to qualify for the maximum bonus (no response)
Fanduel
First bet up to 1000 will be refunded in betting credit if lost.
Terms and conditions HERE
Jan 25 – drove to Connecticut, started an account
Tried to fund account
With bank transfer (my internet bank doesn’t seem eligible)
With Paypal (unsuccesful, I forget why)
-With UK card (foreign cards not accepted)
With bank’s debit card – declined, but since then I’ve asked the account being unblocked
5 Feb 2022 : Trying this from New York State
Needed to download the ‘verify location app’ and install it. Even after this, bank transfer didn’t work, but Paypal funded by my bank did work, deposited 1k.
Next I tried to look at bets but it again said I was out of state and ineligible. I’m in upstate NY so that must be wrong. Next I tried clearing the cache, didn’t work. So I downloaded it on my phone and this did work.
Ok now to bet – I want a long odds bet but maybe not too long … because I want to demonstrate that this works OK (and I also have a psychological barrier to betting on long shots, I think). And I want a decent odds bet, no big house ‘vig’ so I signed up for the free OddsJam trial. But this was scaryish because the default was the 1 year subscription ($999!), which seems a big risk if I forget to cancel. But I finally figured out how to do ‘monthly’ which only has an $89 forgetfulness risk..
Within OddsJam it doesn’t tell you which ones are the highest EV unless you signup for the non-free-trial premium arbitrage version or something. But you can go to ‘odds’ and find some things that look decent, resolving soon (in my case, important, because I have a limited time). I selected a few sports. Nothing resolving while I’m sleeping, because then I can’t sleep!
Basketball seems maybe the best … low vig, frequent stuff happening now:
Georgetown-Providence seems OK: low vig, For Providence FanDuel offers the best odds of all the casinos. Wait – I got it backwards: Providence is favored here … the ‘negative sign’ means ‘less return’ I guess. Opposite of what you want for the first bet. OK, trying again.
OK, maybe Milwaukee is the one. Let me see what “+440” means.
$100 bet pays $440 (not including the stake) … maybe that’s what the “+440” meant.
But I need to bet $1000 to take advantage here, and the Max wager is $455 for this bet!
I’ll check again tomorrow if that’s upped. Maybe they need more people on both sides. If not maybe I go with a slightly shorter odds bet on the NBA “Brooklyn Nets” (TIL Brooklyn has a basketball team)
Feb 6, morning
“Best odds” on Oddsjam change from day-to-day. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Fanduel is offering poor odds, but still seems like a decent heuristic to choose one where ‘Fanduel offers the best’. I ended up going with a 5-1 (long odds) bet on Maryland over Ohio State (consulting OddsJam on this of course)...
When I made the bet it did not give me any indication that the ‘credit refund’ would happen! I just have to have faith that I’ve complied with the offer!? Wait until 1pm to see if I’m very lucky, and if not, whether they refund me with $1000 in credit as promised. (I followed all the rules as far as I can tell).
Updates: credit was refunded. I then ended up making a bunch of diverse bets and more or less got the money back
I also gained $250 from the Betrivers promotion which I was able to “play through” ended up netting $250 for a lot of work and stress.
Update: earned $280 in The form of seven free $40 bets for betting $5 on the Rams in the Super Bowl. But I now have to go back to New York State to place the bets before it expires
Sports betting promotion capture for charity
I pledge to donate 70% of the net gain to effective charities immediately or within the year 2022. - David Reinstein
I’ll try to follow the guidelines given in the post here: EA Fundraising Through Advantage Sports Betting: A Guide ($500/Hour in Select States) - EA Forum
5 Feb 2022
I’m driving up to upstate New York today to visit my dad and take advantage of the promotions and staying through the weekend. I live about 11-2 hours from the NYS border so I can return for a followup if necessary.
… in order to donate to highly effective charities.
Steps taken (some in error)
Caesars Soon after Robi’s earlier post … (25 Jan)
Started a Caesar’s account,
deposited and withdrew $50 while out of state (I had thought it meant ‘deposit at least $50 and you will get the full credit’… didn’t realize first deposit was the determining factor),
requested that they let me redo this to qualify for the maximum bonus (no response)
Fanduel
First bet up to 1000 will be refunded in betting credit if lost.
Terms and conditions HERE
Jan 25 – drove to Connecticut, started an account
Tried to fund account
With bank transfer (my internet bank doesn’t seem eligible)
With Paypal (unsuccesful, I forget why) -With UK card (foreign cards not accepted)
With bank’s debit card – declined, but since then I’ve asked the account being unblocked
5 Feb 2022 : Trying this from New York State
Needed to download the ‘verify location app’ and install it. Even after this, bank transfer didn’t work, but Paypal funded by my bank did work, deposited 1k.
Next I tried to look at bets but it again said I was out of state and ineligible. I’m in upstate NY so that must be wrong. Next I tried clearing the cache, didn’t work. So I downloaded it on my phone and this did work.
Ok now to bet – I want a long odds bet but maybe not too long … because I want to demonstrate that this works OK (and I also have a psychological barrier to betting on long shots, I think). And I want a decent odds bet, no big house ‘vig’ so I signed up for the free OddsJam trial. But this was scaryish because the default was the 1 year subscription ($999!), which seems a big risk if I forget to cancel. But I finally figured out how to do ‘monthly’ which only has an $89 forgetfulness risk..
Within OddsJam it doesn’t tell you which ones are the highest EV unless you signup for the non-free-trial premium arbitrage version or something. But you can go to ‘odds’ and find some things that look decent, resolving soon (in my case, important, because I have a limited time). I selected a few sports. Nothing resolving while I’m sleeping, because then I can’t sleep!
Basketball seems maybe the best … low vig, frequent stuff happening now:
Georgetown-Providence seems OK: low vig, For Providence FanDuel offers the best odds of all the casinos. Wait – I got it backwards: Providence is favored here … the ‘negative sign’ means ‘less return’ I guess. Opposite of what you want for the first bet. OK, trying again.
OK, maybe Milwaukee is the one. Let me see what “+440” means.
Confirming it on Fanduel
It’s fairly long odds, ok:
$100 bet pays $440 (not including the stake) … maybe that’s what the “+440” meant.
But I need to bet $1000 to take advantage here, and the Max wager is $455 for this bet!
I’ll check again tomorrow if that’s upped. Maybe they need more people on both sides. If not maybe I go with a slightly shorter odds bet on the NBA “Brooklyn Nets” (TIL Brooklyn has a basketball team)
Feb 6, morning
“Best odds” on Oddsjam change from day-to-day. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Fanduel is offering poor odds, but still seems like a decent heuristic to choose one where ‘Fanduel offers the best’. I ended up going with a 5-1 (long odds) bet on Maryland over Ohio State (consulting OddsJam on this of course)...
When I made the bet it did not give me any indication that the ‘credit refund’ would happen! I just have to have faith that I’ve complied with the offer!? Wait until 1pm to see if I’m very lucky, and if not, whether they refund me with $1000 in credit as promised. (I followed all the rules as far as I can tell).
Updates: credit was refunded. I then ended up making a bunch of diverse bets and more or less got the money back
I also gained $250 from the Betrivers promotion which I was able to “play through” ended up netting $250 for a lot of work and stress.
Update: earned $280 in The form of seven free $40 bets for betting $5 on the Rams in the Super Bowl. But I now have to go back to New York State to place the bets before it expires