How To Use OddsShopper Pro: Your First 10 Minutes
The gap between a casual bettor and a sharp one usually is not some secret system. It is a routine: check the real price, take the best number, and only bet when the math is on your side. The good news for anyone just starting out is that OddsShopper Pro compresses that whole routine into about ten minutes, and this is exactly how to use OddsShopper Pro to run it for the first time. By the time you close this page, you will have priced a real wager more carefully than a lot of people who have been betting for years.
We built the product around three moves, and we will do them in order: set up your books, find a bet the market has mispriced, and shop that bet across every sportsbook you have selected. Nothing here requires a spreadsheet or a math degree. It just requires knowing which button does what.
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What Does OddsShopper Pro Actually Do?
If you are new, here is the one-minute version. A sportsbook does not post the true odds of a game. It posts a padded number that includes its cut, called the vig. OddsShopper estimates the no-vig, or de-vig, fair price on each side by removing the book's built-in hold. When a book prices a side longer than that fair price, the difference is your edge, and that bet is what we call a positive expected value bet, or +EV. Expected value just means the long-run math: over a large sample, +EV bets are the ones priced in your favor, even though any single bet can still lose.
The one idea to hold onto: a positive EV bet is simply one where your book's price is longer than the fair, no-vig price. Find those spots, take the best number, and over a large sample the math tilts your way.
That comparison, your book's price against the sharp fair price, is the engine under every tool you are about to touch. The core odds tools are free to start; OddsShopper Pro adds the deeper +EV screen, live arbitrage, and additional leagues and markets, and new users get a 7-day free trial. For the full concept first, our positive expected value explained guide walks through the math slowly. Otherwise, open the app and follow along.
Minutes 1-3: How To Set Up Your Sportsbooks And State
Before any price on the screen means anything to you, it has to be a price you can actually bet. That is the entire point of setup, and it takes about ninety seconds.
On the odds screen, tell OddsShopper two things: which sportsbooks you have accounts with, and what state you are in. Set your state and the tool only shows lines from books that are live where you are, so you are not chasing a number at a book that is not available where you are. Then check the boxes for your books, whether that is DraftKings and FanDuel or a longer list like BetMGM and Caesars. From here on, every price you see is one you can actually act on, though you should always confirm the live number at the book before you bet.
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Skip this step and the rest of the tools still work, but they will show you edges you cannot capture. Take the ninety seconds now.
Minutes 4-7: How To Find Your First +EV Bet
Now open the +EV screen. This is the heart of Pro. Instead of scrolling a game hoping something looks off, the screen has already compared the books' prices to the sharp fair price and surfaced only the spots where a book is offering more than the bet is worth.
Sort the list by expected ROI, which we label xROI, and read the top five. Each row shows the bet, your book, the price, and the edge. A row near the top might read something like a moneyline at +130 when the fair price implies +118. That gap is your edge: the book is paying you as if the outcome were less likely than the sharp market thinks it is. You will also see xWin%, the tool's estimate of how often that bet cashes. Read edge and win rate together: a small edge on a coin-flip is very different from a small edge on a heavy favorite.
Do not feel like you have to bet all five. The goal of your first session is to recognize what a +EV bet looks like when the tool shows it to you. Pick the one that makes the most sense to you and note the price. We will use it in the last step. Curious how the fair price gets built? Our how to remove the vig guide shows the de-vig math by hand.
Minutes 8-10: How To Line Shop One Bet
Here is where the setup from minute two pays off. Take a bet you were going to make anyway, or the +EV bet you just flagged, and look at what every book you selected is offering on it. This is line shopping, and it is the single most reliable habit in betting because it costs you nothing and adds up over every single wager.
The classic example is a small difference in juice. Say four books price the same side like this:
| Sportsbook | Price | Profit on a $100 bet |
|---|---|---|
| DraftKings | -115 | $86.96 |
| FanDuel | -110 | $90.91 |
| BetMGM | -108 | $92.59 |
| Caesars | -105 | $95.24 |
Look at the top and bottom rows. Betting the exact same outcome at -105 instead of -115 pays you about $8 more on a $100 bet, and you did nothing different except take the better number. The hold display makes this concrete before you even bet, showing the vig baked into a market, which can run to several percent on a lopsided line. Do that on every bet across a season and line shopping alone can be the difference between a losing year and a break-even one. The wider the market and the more lopsided the line, the bigger those gaps get.
What Should You Do After Your First Ten Minutes?
You have now run the full loop: set up once, find the edge, take the best price. Those three moves are a repeatable routine, not a one-time trick, and they apply whether you are betting an NBA total or a World Cup moneyline.
When you are ready for more, Pro has a few tools worth exploring next. The line-movement history shows how a number moved so you can tell steam from noise. The Arbitrage tool surfaces price gaps across books where both sides are covered. The Sharp Action tool reads where sharp money is landing on the exchanges. And the Parlay Builder assembles parlays from +EV legs you can then edit yourself. None of them replace the three-step routine above; they extend it. Learning how to read betting odds fluently will make every one of them click faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is OddsShopper Pro worth it for beginners? Yes, arguably more than for pros, because it does the tedious comparison work a new bettor does not yet know how to do by hand. The free trial lets you see the +EV screen and line-shopping tools before you pay.
What is a positive EV bet in simple terms? It is a bet where the sportsbook's price is longer than the true, no-vig price, so the math favors you over a large sample. Any one bet can still lose; the edge shows up over volume.
Do I need accounts at every sportsbook to use OddsShopper? No. Select only the books you actually use, and set your state so the screen shows lines you can legally place. More books mean more line-shopping options, but even two or three is enough to start.
How long is the OddsShopper Pro free trial? New users get a 7-day free trial, which is plenty of time to run the ten-minute routine on a few slates and decide if it fits how you bet.
Can I use OddsShopper for free? Yes. Signing up is free and the core odds tools are free to use. OddsShopper Pro adds the deeper +EV screen, live arbitrage, and additional leagues and markets.
Your Ten Minutes Are Up
Setup, find, shop. That is the whole routine, and you just ran it. Disciplined bettors are not the ones with a magic pick; they are the ones who do these three moves every single time, so the better price and the priced-in edge work in their favor instead of the book's. OddsShopper Pro exists so that routine takes ten minutes instead of ten browser tabs.
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