Artificial intelligence revolutionizes sports betting

While artificial intelligence continues to gain ground to the point of sometimes becoming worrisome, it also brings hope for the future. Some gamblers have probably already spent sleepless nights trying to calculate their mathematical probabilities of winning a bet or a game. Understandable attempts, but often unsuccessful. Well, this type of calculation is closer than ever to being possible thanks to artificial intelligence. Of course, it is not a question of giving players the results of matches in advance, that is impossible and the sport and betting would no longer make sense. On the other hand, artificial intelligence will clearly give the best tracks to follow to players who previously had only their instincts to follow when betting on sports.

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Algorithms to help bettors

The phenomenon is not really new, and artificial intelligence has already proved on several occasions that it can outperform the human brain in this field. Already in May 1997 the undisputed chess master Garry Kasparov lost to a computer. Since then, enormous progress has been made in this field and algorithms are now capable of prowess, including in the analysis of sports disciplines. Advanced analysis of statistics, data, and even images in order to better anticipate future results. This is notably the case with Boturfer which helps bettors to make the best choices on horse races (which we denounce as a cruel and immoral practice). Regular updates of all relevant data make this tool as accurate as relevant and up to date.

More and more sports concerned

If at the moment bettors can benefit more from the help of artificial intelligence on sports like tennis and soccer, the revolution seems to be just beginning. It seems that no discipline is now beyond the reach of the power of algorithms. Although, they are already actively used by some Italian gambling clubs, which at home are called siti scommesse sportive non AAMS. So beyond the most popular sports that it is natural to think of at first, such as soccer, rugby or formula 1, it is also the casino games that are concerned. Poker, for example, which is one of the great casino classics, is about to experience a small revolution. This revolution has a name, Pluribus. This software specially developed by Facebook for poker, has an artificial intelligence so powerful that it even takes into account the psychological dimension of the players to anticipate the best future moves attempted by the players but also the bluff attempts. Pluribus is so good at this that it has beaten five real professional players simultaneously in a six-player no limit hold'em poker game. It is easy to imagine what an artificial intelligence of this level could do in the hands of a bettor. For the moment, the designers of Pluribus prefer to talk about an experimental and non-commercial tool at this stage, but nothing says that they will stop there.

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Soccer would already have its reference AI with Datawin

After a test phase involving 1,500 soccer matches, and a few adjustments to its algorithms, Datawin is now available (March 2021). The ambition of this program is to offer to bettors the safest odds. This with a precision and accuracy rate of around 78%, levels that no human bettor, even a professional, can reach. Nevertheless, despite the high level of accuracy, no bet is infallible. Datawin offers the best possible odds but recognizes a certain margin of error. Thus, Datawin's artificial intelligence proposes odds between 1.50 and 1.70 for safe bets, but admits that the risk level increases with more ambitious odds. Finally, Datawin having signed an agreement with the ANJ, all the elements seem to be now gathered for a revolution in the world of bookmakers.