Three similarly named communities. One has 11,291 members. The other two have six and one.
This is the most confusing naming situation in betting on Reddit, and it catches out a lot of people who are otherwise doing everything right.
| Community | Members | Status |
|---|---|---|
| r/EVbetting | 11,291 | The real one |
| r/PositiveEV | 6 | Restricted, empty |
| r/EVbets | 1 | Restricted, empty |
| r/valuebetting | 162 | Exists, tiny |
The one you want is r/EVbetting. The others are registered names with effectively nobody in them, and they still appear in search results looking like plausible destinations.
What the community is for
Positive expected value betting is the practice of taking a price that is better than the true probability, and accepting that a good bet still loses most of the time when the price is long enough. It is a completely different discipline from picking winners.
r/EVbetting covers the practical end of that: odds boosts worth taking, promotional offers that convert at a known rate, markets that are priced wrong relative to the wider market, and the arithmetic of working out whether something is actually an edge or just a nice-looking number.
The conversation assumes a certain baseline. Nobody will explain what closing line value means. If you want the ground floor, our guide to sports betting strategy covers the concepts, and the modelling side lives in r/algobetting.
How it differs from the arbitrage community
People conflate these two constantly and they are not the same thing.
Arbitrage locks a profit by taking both sides at prices that cannot both be right. The outcome is known before the event starts. The risk is operational: getting limited, having a bet voided, or one leg not going on.
Positive expected value takes one side at a price you believe is better than the true odds. You will lose plenty of them. The edge only shows up across a large sample, and the discipline is in continuing to place bets that feel bad.
The two communities overlap heavily in membership and share the same eventual problem, which is that both behaviours get accounts restricted. r/arbitragebetting, with 39,011 members, covers that side.
The unavoidable consequence
Everything discussed in r/EVbetting eventually runs into the same wall. Consistently taking the better side of a price is exactly the behaviour books look for, and the account does not last forever.
That is not a reason to avoid the approach. It is a reason to understand that where you hold the account matters as much as the bets you place. Books differ enormously in how much winning they will tolerate, and the general pattern is that offshore books tolerate more than regulated ones. We cover it in our guide to sportsbooks that do not limit winners.
Holding accounts across several books is the other half of the answer, because the whole approach depends on being able to take the best available number rather than whatever one book is showing. Our sportsbook rankings cover which ones price competitively and take real action.
Questions people ask
What is the positive EV betting subreddit?
r/EVbetting, with 11,291 members. Two similarly named communities, r/PositiveEV and r/EVbets, exist but are restricted and effectively empty, with six members and one member respectively. r/valuebetting has 162 members.
What is the difference between +EV betting and arbitrage?
Arbitrage takes both sides at prices that cannot both be correct, locking in a result before the event starts. Positive expected value takes one side at a price better than the true odds, which loses frequently and only shows a profit across a large sample.
Will +EV betting get my account limited?
Over time, very likely. Books identify the behaviour of consistently taking better-than-market prices regardless of intent. This is the most persistent topic in both the +EV and arbitrage communities, and it is why holding accounts at several books matters.
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