About Betting Service

Betting service enables you to organize various types of betting events.

Sports betting is the general activity of predicting sports results by making a wager on the outcome of a sporting event (e.g. horse or car races, football matches, baseball matches, or other). SMS Studio enables you to organize betting events where bets are placed through SMS messages.

Betting service uses game rules, such as number of items, list of predefined items, allowed separators, and duplicates and permutations options to verify received messages. Only messages with the correct syntax are accepted. After all the bets are collected, winners can be identified by entering winning pattern into the Select Winners dialog, and notified with replies.

Betting service can automatically export bets to a database. If the automatic export feature is not used, bets may also be exported manually. There is also a possibility of manual data import from an external database.

Example 1 - Horse race (order bet)

This example describes a horse race betting where users are making a wager on the outcome of the race (predictions about the first, second and third place). The predefined list of items could be as follows:

Given above are full names of ten race horses, along with their aliases which also can be used in betting messages. Examples of correctly placed bets, assuming comma as separator, are:

Cat Daddy,CC,9
Nobiz Like Shobiz,Hunter,Any Given Saturday
SS,NLS,CC

Example 2 - Multiple football matches (parlay bet)

This is a type of betting in which punters try to predict the winning teams (e.g. in 6 matches). The parlay bet wins if every one of the individual wagers win. If any single wager loses, the entire parlay bet is lost. There are three possibilities to end each game: either home team wins (1), or visitor team wins (2), or neither wins (0), so the predefined list of items is:

0
1
2

In this case duplicates are allowed, and betting messages can easily be processed even without separators. (e.g. 122102).