Promos & Boosts has two tools for the promos books give you:
- The bonus bet converter turns a bonus bet into cash.
- Boost arb hedges a profit boost at another book so it pays either way, as long as both bets stand.
Both search every market on the board for the hedge that keeps the most. Both use the same plan, side panel and buttons.
Convert a bonus bet
- Set Your promo: the Book, the Type, and the Bonus amount.
- Stake not returned is most US bonus bets: a win pays only the winnings.
- Stake returned is site credit: a win pays the bonus back too.
- Add Min odds if the bonus needs them. Add Expires to count only games that start before it does.
- Choose where to hedge with Hedge at: your books from Settings, or every US book in your state.
- Read the list. Each row is one bet at the bonus book and the hedge on the other side. Kept is the cash you keep either way.
The summary line says what the best plan keeps, as dollars and a share of the bonus.
Lock a boost
- With Your boost picked in the switch, set Your promo: the Book, the Boost percent, the Max stake and the Max extra winnings from the fine print.
- Add Min odds if the boost needs them. Books check min odds on the price before the boost.
- Choose Hedge at, as above.
- Read the list. Locked is the profit either way.
Every posted boost lists the boosts we found posted, each solved with its own terms and ranked by what its best bet locks. Press one to open it in Your boost with its terms filled in. Boosts we can't solve, such as parlay boosts, sit under Not solved here with the reason.
Match the terms to the fine print before you bet. We read the terms from the book's words, and a misread cap or stake changes the plan.
Read a plan
Press a row to open its plan in the side panel:
- The result: what you keep, or lock, either way.
- Hedge: a slider from 100% (lock) to 0% (no hedge). Below 100% the panel shows each result and the expected value.
- The bets: each leg in the order to place it. The promo's leg goes first, because its price is the one you can't replace.
- Before you bet: whether each book's posted max covers its stake, prediction market notes, and anything that needs a second look.
- Other hedges for this bet: the other books on the far side and what each keeps.
- How it's worked out: the math, in words.
Place the bets
- Open both re-reads both prices first. If one moved, the plan re-solves before anything opens. Then it opens each book in turn, the promo's book first.
- Log both legs tracks both bets in My Bets. The promo leg's note says it was a bonus bet or a boost.
- The calculator button opens the plan in the Bonus bet calculator or the Arbitrage calculator with both prices filled in. A prediction market hedge is filled in at its price after the fee, so the calculator lands on the plan's numbers.
- The row menu also has Add both to the bet slip, Hide this bet and Copy link.
Sort and modes
- Sort by Most kept, Best EV, Per hour of effort or Settles soonest. Per hour counts the minutes it takes to place the bets.
- Round sets stakes to whole dollars or fives so they look normal. The result shows what rounding costs.
- Play for EV skips the hedge and ranks bets by what the promo is worth at Pinnacle's no-vig fair price. The result is not locked.
What we hedge with
- Prediction markets such as Novig, ProphetX, Kalshi and Polymarket US are on unless you turn on Sportsbooks only. Each plan counts the venue's fee: Kalshi's and ProphetX's are already in their prices, and Polymarket US's taker fee is added to its price. See Prediction market fees.
- We never hedge at a pick'em app, or at a book whose posted max is under $100.
- When one book's max can't take the whole hedge, the plan splits it across a second book. That is one more bet to place.
- Plans are pregame only. A game that starts drops out on the next read.
Plans and access
Both tools are on Pro and up. On Pro, you set your own promo: any book, amount, type, boost, stake and cap, with every plan, the sorts, Play for EV, the hedge slider, every posted boost, and Log both legs.
Free and Scout accounts see one plan, picked for them, in full:
- Converter: today's best conversion for a $50 bonus bet, stake not returned, at whichever book converts it best.
- Boost arb: today's best lock for a +50% boost on $50 at whichever book locks it best, or a posted boost's best lock.
See plans for Pro.
Troubleshooting
- Nothing locks profit at your books: try every US book in your state, a higher max stake, or Play for EV.
- A price moved when I pressed Open both: that is the re-read working. Check the new result before you continue.
- The board looks thin: late on a Sunday there are fewer prices. A full slate converts higher.