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04 / Put It into Practice

What Books and Exchanges Should You Use?

The sportsbooks, exchanges and accounts worth setting up before you start.

7 min readLesson 18 of 30

Before you start, you need the right accounts.

Sportsbooks give you the promos. Exchanges help you lay bets. Sharp books and market prices help with +EV.

You do not need everything on day one.

But you do need a sensible setup.

The three types of accounts

  • Soft sportsbooks: good for promos and pricing mistakes.
  • Exchanges: useful for laying and hedging.
  • Sharp books: useful as market benchmarks.

Where most beginners should start

Start with the sportsbooks offering the best welcome offers in your region.

Then add the exchange or hedge route needed to complete those offers properly.

After that, you can expand into more books, reload offers and +EV tools.

Why region matters

Sportsbook availability depends on where you live.

Ontario is different from New York. Alberta is different from New Jersey.

That is why Edge Hunters focuses on the books and offers actually available in your region.

The key takeaway

You do not need every book at once.

You need the right books, funded in the right order, with enough bankroll to complete the offers properly.

Next up: Account limiting Why books restrict successful users and how to avoid looking obvious.