Sharp bettors and syndicates watch odds move for a reason: when real money hits one side of a match fast, the market's implied probability shifts - often ahead of news (injury, lineup change, sharp money) reaching the public. By the time it's obvious, the value is gone.
Most sportsbook APIs make this hard to watch programmatically - DraftKings and FanDuel are geo-gated and sit behind Akamai bot protection, blocking datacenter IPs outright. Pinnacle doesn't. Its own guest API - the same JSON its web client renders - works cleanly from any datacenter IP, no proxy needed. It also happens to be the reference sharp book, the one line syndicates actually watch, not a recreational-book average diluted by public money.
This actor pulls Pinnacle's live league index every run rather than hardcoding a league list, and keeps everything matching a broad allow-list of major football nations and international tournaments, ranked by how many matches Pinnacle is currently pricing - a live proxy for where the real betting depth is. That means it surfaces World Cup or Euro matches automatically during a tournament and settles back to domestic leagues the rest of the year, no code change needed.
Every tracked match gets a snapshot (current odds + implied probability per outcome), and a signal fires when that probability moves between runs: a steamer when money is coming in fast, a drifter when confidence is draining out.
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