Risk and trading
Most of what a risk system does should be invisible: a coupon is priced, checked against the rules that apply to it, and taken. The part worth looking at is what happens to the ones that are not ordinary.
Each rule carries an auto-accept figure, an ask-trader figure and an auto-reject figure, compared against the coupon’s potential winnings. Below the first it is taken. Above the second it waits for a person. Above the third it is refused. Nothing in between is left to chance.
A rule belongs to a brand and can narrow to one sport, one competition, or only to live or only to pre-match. Rules carry a priority and the most specific match wins, so a blanket limit and a tighter one for a single competition can coexist without fighting.
A coupon over the trader threshold goes to an acceptance queue rather than being turned away. A trader accepts it, refuses it, or counters with different odds, and the player is told which — a refusal that arrives with a reason is worth more than one that arrives silently.
Open liability is tracked per outcome, with a multiple counting in full against each of its legs — the worst case, which is the only figure a risk desk can act on. A concentration watch proposes suspensions and never applies one on its own: it puts the proposal in front of a person and waits.
Beyond the thresholds, each rule caps the minimum and maximum stake per bet type, the maximum payout, the number of selections, the odds range and the total odds of an accumulator. These are the limits that stop a mistake before it becomes an exposure.
Questions
Answered here rather than in a call.
Before. The engine prices the selection at the moment of placement, works out the potential winnings, finds the rule that matches the brand, sport, competition and live-or-pre-match, and decides. A bet that has been accepted has already passed.
Yes — that is the ordinary case. Every rule belongs to an organisation, and a trader account can be confined to a single one. The confinement is applied on every request in the API, not by hiding menu entries.
No, deliberately. It scans open exposure, and when concentration crosses the threshold it proposes a suspension in the backoffice. A person confirms it. A system that suspends on its own will eventually suspend the wrong thing at the worst moment.
The coupon with its selections, the stake, the total odds and the potential winnings, alongside accept, reject and propose-new-odds. The queue refreshes on its own, because a bet waiting for a decision is a bet the player is watching.
This page is the summary. The pages it points at are where the screens and the contracts are described one by one.