FAQ

What is Gambly?

Gambly is a suite of AI tools designed to help sports bettors find and place the bets you want as efficiently and profitably as you can.

Our motto is simple: get you from idea to bet as quickly as possible.

We started as a sports betting chat bot but have since built all sorts of AI tools uniquely equipped to remove the struggles sports bettors face today.

 

What products and features does Gambly offer?

Gambly’s suite of products includes:

Chat

Use natural language to quickly identify bets. Simply tell Gambly what you’re searching for–from best bets in the Yankees game to Cowboys 1Q moneyline odds to Joe Burrow futures–and we’ll provide real-time odds in seconds (with one-click betslips that load directly onto your sportsbook).

GamblyBot

The mission for GamblyBot is simple: get you to a one-click betslip immediately via text, image, or link.

You can use GamblyBot right here, or on X, where you can mention @GamblyBot in any thread to send you a betslip.

So if your favorite influencer posts a screenshot of their bets, mention @GamblyBot and we’ll send you a one-click betslip with your bets pre-loaded on every relevant sportsbook.

Or if you just made some bets and want to share them with your friends, take a screenshot–or use text to tell GamblyBot the bets–and we’ll provide a deeplinked betslip for you to easily share.

GamblyBot is currently available on Gambly.com, X, Discord, Telegram, and iMessage.

 

Optimizer (Lite)

Once you create a betslip–whether through Chat, GamblyBot, or elsewhere–our Lite product gives you the ability to optimize the betslip.

Gambly analyzes your bets and finds better variations of what you already want to bet. The Lite product suggests superior alt lines on your current bets, or better related bets. So gaining a few percentage points in edge by betting over 249.5 (+120) passing yards instead of over 239.5 (-110) passing yards, or knowing that over completions is actually the best bet for your quarterback on a particular sportsbook.

You can alter these bets manually, or quickly optimize your entire betslip with just one click.

 

Bet Builder (Pro)

Our Bet Builder product is meant to make it as easy as possible to quickly build profitable betslips. Whereas the Lite product is meant to help optimize a betslip you’ve already built, the Pro subscription gives you access to a real-time feed of bets sorted by edge.

This is our flagship product that combines every piece of information we have–historical data, real-time odds, data science on derivatives and alt lines, line moves, etc.–to give you a feed of all the best bets for any given situation at any moment in time.

 

Taeks

Taeks is a Gambly project that uses AI to “listen” to podcasts and “read” articles, providing a feed of expert sports betting opinions–”taeks.” The idea is to aggregate all of the various expert analysis in one place, providing overall sentiment analysis and consensus betting cards. Use the Taeks filters to narrow down the exact sports, games, players, and even expert opinions you want to see.

 

What is GamblyBot?

We literally just told you. Are you even reading this? 

 

Why should I go Pro?

The goal of our Lite and Pro subscriptions is to get you to the best possible bets for you as quickly as possible.

Our Lite membership analyzes any betslip you’ve built–whether it comes via chat, GamblyBot, or elsewhere–and supplies higher-ROI recommendations. For example, maybe you want to bet over 87.5 receiving yards (-110) for Malik Nabers on DraftKings. Using historical data and ranges of outcomes via simulations, Gambly can project the probability of Nabers exceeding, say 95.5 yards. Perhaps that bet at +150 is actually 1.5% better. Or maybe the best bet on Nabers is actually the over on his receptions. Gambly’s Lite betslip optimizer lets you quickly find the best bets that are similar to what you’re already looking to bet, manually changing them or clicking a single button to optimize the entire betslip.

Our Pro subscription is centered around Bet Builder and takes finding the best bets a step farther, supplying a real-time feed of every bet sorted by edge. Using filters and preferences, you can quickly uncover the best bets for any scenario: specific matchups, players, odds ranges, bet types, etc.

Whether you’re watching Monday Night Football and want to bet the best combination of overs on player props, have a strong lean on a player or team and want to identify the best bets, or simply want the most high-return +EV bets available at any given time, our Bet Builder is the simplest way to build profitable betslips–fast.

 

How does Gambly calculate a bet’s edge?

Gambly uses a top-down approach to price markets and identify inefficiencies. We leverage real-time market data and historical sportsbook accuracy to determine what a fair price “should be,” then calculate the expected ROI of a bet by analyzing how far off it is from the true line.

There are a variety of factors that go into these calculations, including:

• current market structure (the odds across all sportsbooks in real-time)

• historical accuracy of each sportsbook for each sport

• derivatives: comparing -6.5 (-110) to -7 (+105) in NFL, for example

Basically, Gambly uses real-time odds across the entire market to establish an accurate “source of truth,” then finds which bets offered at certain sportsbooks are most off from that number. If every sportsbook has 49ers first-quarter moneyline at -140 except DraftKings, who has it at -120, there’s a good reason to suspect DraftKings’ number is off, especially if they didn’t recently change their odds ahead of others sportsbooks.

 

What are Gambly’s one-click betslips?

Our one-click betslips allow you to load any bets you want directly on the sportsbook of your choosing. Whether it’s a single bet, a parlay, or your entire betslip, one simple click gets you from Gambly to any sportsbook with every requested bet already loaded and ready to go.

No more searching endlessly on a sportsbook or clicking through a plethora of tabs to find the bet you want. Using Gambly, you can get to bets faster than you can on the sportsbooks themselves.

On top of this, our shareable widgets allow your friends and followers to automatically load any of your bets (or your entire betslip) with the same single click. Want to bet together with friends? Gambly makes it fast and easy.

 

What can I do with Gambly Chat?

As a chat bot trained on historical and real-time sports betting data, Gambly’s ultimate goal is to reduce all the friction involved with getting quality bets placed on sportsbooks. Simply tell Gambly what you’d like to bet or ask Gambly for help in finding the right bets for you.

There’s a wide range of potential uses for Gambly, but some of the main reasons users love Gambly include:

• Identify the best bets in real-time based on current market structure

• Find very unique bet types in a matter of seconds with natural language

• Automatically load your entire betslip onto any sportsbook of your choice–one click from Gambly and there’s no more searching through sportsbooks to find your desired bets

• Create parlays and immediately find the best cumulative odds

• Share bets or your entire betslip with friends and followers

If you want to find obscure bets, compare lines on every bet type, or know when specific odds are posted, you shouldn’t need to scour sportsbooks to find this information.

Wouldn’t it be much easier to just tell Gambly things like…

“I’d like to place a bet on Sam LaPorta to be the second tight end taken off the board at whichever sportsbook has the best odds.” (This scenario was actually the exact inspiration for Gambly.)

…and then get linked directly to that bet at your desired book.

Or maybe “What are the top three player prop bets on overs for Monday Night Football?”

…and then receive the three best bets at the best odds, according to real-time market data.

Or how about “I want to bet the Giants over, Cubs under, and White Sox first-five inning moneyline. Find the best parlay odds for me and create the bet.”

…and then have a betslip generated that you can easily share with friends and followers, all of whom can click to load your exact bet or entire betting card directly onto sportsbooks.

With natural language, the possibilities are endless.

 

What’s so great about top-down betting?

There are a multitude of ways to make profitable bets, all of which ultimately come down to determining the “fair price” for a bet and uncovering situations when sportsbooks are most off from that number.

Top-down betting is the optimal path for almost all bettors, though, because it allows one to leverage the cumulative knowledge of other smart bettors. When Pinnacle–a sharp sportsbook that takes action from the best gamblers–moves a line to -115 and FanDuel is still at even money, it signals that Pinnacle has information (likely from a sharp bettor) that signals even money at FanDuel is probably now a good bet.

The benefits of top-down betting include:

• Timeless–no need to continually update a model and worry if it’s still beating the market

• Ability to leverage the work of sharp bettors

• Far larger pool of available bets

• More bets, less bankroll variance

• A higher degree of confidence in being on the right side

• Can be used in combination with a bottom-up handicapping approach

The reality is that almost all bettors are better off starting with a top-down approach and then searching for the bets which are most intriguing to them based on personal factors, which is exactly what Gambly is built to help you do.

 

What are derivatives?

Derivatives are betting markets that are related to the three main markets. This includes a wide range of potential bets, including things like first-half and first-quarter bets, alternative spreads and totals, and so on. Sportsbooks typically derive these numbers using historical models and the current numbers on the main markets.

Pricing these markets can be quite difficult…

Should you bet an NFL favorite at -1 (-115) against the spread or at -125 on the moneyline? How does the answer change if the total is 38.5 versus 51.5?

When looking at alt markets, how do you know which of the many different spreads and totals is mathematically the best option?

Gambly provides you with the expected ROI on all derivates, letting you compare lines across different markets.

This process is also important for comparing spreads and totals, which are often different across sportsbooks. How often do you see the exact same spread or total across every sportsbook? It’s pretty rare. It’s absolutely pivotal to know if you should be betting over 46.5 (-110) or over 47 (+100).

Building these models to compare apples-to-oranges bets is extremely difficult but absolutely necessary to get the best odds. Gambly does the hard part for you.

 

What’s synthetic hold and why is it so important?

Hold percentage is the amount of money a sportsbook takes for every dollar wagered. You can calculate it by adding up the implied probability on both sides of a bet. The amount by which it surpasses 100% is the hold.

Synthetic hold is an implied number calculated by looking at every sportsbook and comparing the best possible odds on each side of a bet.

The reason synthetic hold is so important is because low synthetic hold increases the chances of a bettor being profitable by blindly picking one side of a bet. If a market that’s properly priced has -110 on both sides, a bettor must overcome a 4.76% house advantage to win. Compare that to a 2.44% if the best odds on each side are reduced to -105. That’s a giant difference.

Occasionally, synthetic hold turns negative–meaning it’s long-term profitable to wager on both sides of a bet. If DraftKings has a team at +102 to win and FanDuel has their opponent with the same odds, for example, a bettor can lock in a 1% profit by betting on both teams at their best odds.

When it doubt, you should place bets in markets with low synthetic hold. Not only does synthetic hold tend to be lower in smaller markets (where you should be looking to bet anyway), but it also increases your odds of being right (and paid favorably) just by chance.

Gambly calculates real-time synthetic hold to help you find profitable betting opportunities.

 

Can I create parlays with Gambly?

Yes. You can create parlays using natural language, i.e. “Give me the best three-leg parlay on DraftKings using the Chiefs over as one of the bets and two player props as the others.”

Or, you can build parlays directly in your betslip.

 

Can I exclude sportsbooks from my results?

Yes. While we recommend using every possible sportsbook that’s available in your area, you can choose which sportsbooks you want to see in your settings.

 

Which sports do you support?

Gambly currently supports NFL, NBA, PGA, MLB, NHL, NCAAF, NCAAB, WNBA, and Tennis.

 

Do you have an app?

Yes, we currently have an iOS app and an Android app.

 

Why should I give you my email?

You can use Gambly without giving us your email, but it’s recommended for the best experience. In addition to gaining access to more features, such as the ability to set your desired sportsbooks, Gambly can better customize its answers to your specific queries when it has access to your chat logs, which are saved for all free users who provide their email.

 

Is it free?

The majority of the Gambly product is completely free. You can use all of our tools–GamblyBot, Chat, Bet Builder, Optimizer, and Taeks–for free in some capacity.

For best bets, edge calculations, the ability to generate profitable parlays, and anything else EV-related, however, you’ll need to pony up some dough.