The first one is your pick. The second is what you do while it plays out — hold, hedge, or cash out. Sakman watches the bets you've already placed and tells you, in plain English with honest math, exactly what that decision is worth at any moment. It's not a sportsbook: it never touches your money and never places a bet.
Open the web app Get the iPhone betaLink your sportsbooks and every bet appears automatically — you sign in on your book's own secure page, and Sakman never sees your passwords.
Games swing, and sometimes the odds swing far enough that covering the other side means you come out ahead no matter who wins — at the odds showing right then. Those windows rarely last. Sakman watches around the clock and sends a push with the exact amount to bet and where. You place it (or don't) — always your call, at your own book.
Spread moved since you bet? Sakman checks every possible final score and tells you if a "sure thing" actually has a gap where both bets can lose — and names the exact scores to worry about. Sometimes a moved line creates the opposite: a window where both bets can cash. It shows that too, with the real worst case in dollars.
Live chance-to-hit for every leg, which leg is your weakest, what your ticket would look like without it — and when you're down to your last legs, exactly what covering them costs and pays in every outcome.
Your book flashes a cash-out number? Type it in. Sakman compares it against holding and against hedging and tells you whether the offer is fair or a haircut.
What sports and bet types you're actually strongest at, with real ROI numbers. Whether you press your stakes after losses. How your prices compare to where the market closed. And when there isn't enough data, Sakman says "still learning" instead of making it up.
A scorecard shows what following Sakman's calls earned versus just holding — including the times holding would have been better. No cherry-picking. You'll always know if the advice is working.
The sakman is the great outrigger canoe of the Chamorro people of Guam — the fastest sailing craft of its age. European crews who first saw one couldn't believe their logs. Its secret wasn't just speed: a sakman never turns its back to the wind. When conditions change, it shunts — swaps bow for stern and keeps flying, outrigger steady, never losing its footing.
That's the whole idea. When the game turns, you don't panic and you don't freeze — you shunt.