Calling Out Touts

Sports betting has exploded on social media, and with it has come an endless wave of self-proclaimed “experts” preying on inexperienced bettors. Most newcomers don’t yet understand what real long-term winning actually looks like, which makes them easy targets for flashy records, confident language, and selective screenshots. That’s why calling this stuff out publicly matters.

While it may seem far-fetched, it would be extremely beneficial if everyone got into the habit of calling out these shitty, scamming cappers. Sure, they will block people in response, but all it takes is for one person to read the message and think twice about continuing to follow these accounts for it to make a difference. A true collective effort is needed to drive newbie bettors away from them, and we have nothing to lose by being blocked.

What they are doing is essentially a scam. They are selling people on the idea that they can get rich quick from sports betting. Anyone who knows anything about winning long-term in sports betting will tell you this is simply not possible. It feels eerily similar to the multi-level marketing schemes of the 2000s. On top of that, you have to pay them for access to their losing plays, which makes it twice as bad. You lose money buying their picks, and then you lose money again betting them. These touts have endless methods of deception, from deleting tweets to manipulating records to re-posting or recapping only wins.

Another tactic they use is manipulating their records with varying unit sizes. Real sports bettors will rarely bet more than five units on a single play. Professionals sometimes have bets with over 200 cents of closing line value (CLV), and even being aware of the potential for that much line movement, they rarely risk more than three units on a single match. There is simply too much uncertainty in tennis, which is a good thing, but that is a topic for another time.

From what we’ve seen, most of these guys are just throwing darts and covering it up with scamming techniques. If you read their write-ups (if they even have them), it’s almost always surface-level analysis that is already fully priced into the odds. Anyone talking about head-to-head records, “current form,” or saying things like “Player X looked great yesterday” and betting based on that alone is broadcasting that they do not understand how markets work.

Anyone claiming to “know” who will win a match is 100% full of shit. Anyone betting parlays will never win long-term. And the moment you hear someone say “I’m the best tennis bettor,” that should be an automatic unfollow. The best tennis bettors are people running rating systems, betting early, and consistently moving lines.

Calling out these accounts isn’t about hate, jealousy, clout, harassment, or feeling superior. It’s about protecting people who don’t yet know better and disrupting a system that relies on silence and ignorance to keep working. Even if the tout blocks you, even if nothing changes immediately, the effort still matters. If enough people push back, the illusion cracks, and fewer new bettors fall into the same trap. That alone makes it worth doing.