Display & behavior

Overview

Display and behavior preferences are stored in your account and apply everywhere in SmartStake. You can reach them through the settings button on any tool. Changing a preference takes effect as soon as you save — you do not need to revisit each tool individually.

Odds format

SmartStake can show odds in one of three formats.

• American — the default. Positive numbers show profit on a $100 stake (+150 means $150 profit); negative numbers show the stake needed to profit $100 (−110 means stake $110 to win $100).
• Decimal — the total return per unit staked, including your stake. 2.50 decimal equals +150 American.
• Percent — the implied probability of the price, the way prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket quote it. A contract there pays $1 if it wins, so a 40¢ price reads as 40.0%. 40.0% equals +150 American and 2.50 decimal.

The format affects every odds display across all tools: bet cards, the Odds Screen, the Arbitrage Finder, and any line shown in the Bet Tracker.

On American and Decimal, odds from an exchange or prediction market also carry the implied probability in small text, on the bet card, in the bet's detail view, and in its calculator.

On card tap

When you tap a bet card, SmartStake can do one of three things.

• Expand — the default. On a wide screen, tapping opens the card in place to show the full detail (fair odds, books, stake fields). On narrower layouts it opens the bet's details instead: from tablet width up, a panel slides over the right side of the page while the feed stays live beside it, so you can click another bet to switch to it and press Escape to close it. On a phone the details fill the screen; tap the back arrow at the top left or swipe right to go back.
• Pin — tapping pins the card to the top of the feed so it stays visible while you scroll. If the bet drops off the board, the pinned card is marked Stale and its prices turn grey. Opening it shows the same greyed prices in its details, so you know to check the book before placing it.
• Both — tapping expands the card and pins it at the same time.

Choose Pin or Both if you frequently compare several bets before deciding which to take.

Hidden bets

When you hide a bet using the hide action on a card, it disappears from your feed. Hidden bets are saved to your account, so a bet you hide on your phone stays hidden on your computer. A hidden bet stays hidden until a day after its game starts, so it doesn't come back while the game is still live. This preference controls whether those hidden bets are visible.

• Hide — the default. Hidden bets stay out of view.
• Show — hidden bets appear in the feed alongside normal results, making it easy to unhide something you dismissed by mistake.

Taken bets

When you take a bet, SmartStake records it in the Bet Tracker. By default the original card stays in the feed, since the line may still be live or you may want to take another leg.

• Show — the default. Taken bets remain in the feed.
• Hide — removes any bet you have already taken from the feed, reducing visual clutter once you have acted on an opportunity.

Correlated bets

Two bets are correlated when their outcomes are not independent — for example, a team moneyline and that same team's first-half spread in the same game. Parlaying correlated legs does not multiply your edge the way truly independent legs do.

• Show — the default. All bets appear regardless of correlation.
• Hide — removes bets that SmartStake identifies as correlated with a bet you have taken on a game that has not finished yet, however far ahead you took it, keeping your view focused on independent opportunities.

Same odds bets

Several sportsbooks often offer the same selection at exactly the same odds. In Positive EV, Arbitrage, Smart Money and Insiders, this preference controls whether those bets take one row or one row each.

• Collapse — the default everywhere except Arbitrage. Bets that differ only by sportsbook share one row. The row shows the first two sportsbook icons and a count of the rest. Click the icons to pick which sportsbook to open; on a phone the list opens from the bottom of the screen with a Cancel button. Your bookmaker order decides which sportsbooks come first.
• Separate — every sportsbook's bet gets its own row. This is the default in Arbitrage, which keeps its own copy of this preference: changing it there does not change the other tools, and changing it elsewhere does not change Arbitrage.

Pinning, hiding or opening a collapsed row applies to the whole row, so hiding it hides every sportsbook's bet. Tracking or reporting a collapsed row asks which sportsbook you mean. On an arbitrage, each side collapses on its own, so you choose a sportsbook for each side, and the button that opens both sportsbooks at once is hidden on that row.

Related settings

Some settings panels also include controls specific to a single tool — for example, which books appear in the Market view or the pregame refresh interval. Those are covered in the relevant tool documentation.

For the full list of books you track odds from, see Bookmaker selection and order. To configure how stake sizes are calculated, see Bankroll, Kelly & stake sizing.