How bet alerts are chosen
Notifications & alerts · iOS app · Last updated September 8, 2026
Quick answer
A bet alert means one sportsbook was, at that moment, offering a price better than the bet is worth — and that price had just moved. Alerts fire on movers, not on the whole board, and you get at most one per pass: the strongest bet, with the rest counted on its last line.
What an alert is actually claiming
One thing: when it was sent, a sportsbook was offering more for that bet than DawBets thinks the bet is worth. That gap is expected value, or EV — a percentage of your stake. A bet reading +8.0% EV is priced about 8% above the fair price DawBets works out by stripping the margin out of the sharpest books’ lines. It is a statement about the price, never a prediction about who wins.
Alerts are deliberately not a mirror of the bet feed. The feed is where you browse everything that qualifies; a push is for a price that just appeared and probably will not last.
What has to be true before one is sent
The alert job runs on a short loop in the background. On each pass, all of this has to hold before a bet reaches your Lock Screen:
- You are on Plus or Pro. Free accounts are never sent bet alerts, however their switches are set. An active trial counts as entitled.
- Three switches are on — the iOS notification permission, your account’s master Notifications switch, and Bet alerts. They are separate; granting the OS prompt alone delivers nothing.
- The price just moved. Only bets whose price changed in the last few minutes qualify. A standing +EV bet that has sat on the board unchanged never alerts, however good it is.
- The edge clears your minimum. New accounts start at the Must Bet line. Below a small fixed floor nothing is fetched at all, and above a ceiling an edge is treated as a stale or suspended price rather than a gift.
- The game has not started. Bet alerts are pre-game only. Live and in-play prices are excluded before anything is considered.
- It clears your own rules, and you have not already been alerted about that exact bet.
An alert is a snapshot, not a reservation
Books move and pull lines in seconds, and if your phone has been offline a while Apple drops the alert rather than deliver a dead edge. Check the price in the app or at the book before you stake anything. Sports betting is 21+ and an edge is not income.
Why you only get one at a time
Each pass sends at most one bet alert: the highest-EV bet that cleared your rules, named in full, with the others counted on the last line as · 3 more. No setting raises that. The rest are not queued for later — they are on the feed already.
When the same selection is priced at several books, those rows collapse into a single alert naming the book paying the most for it, so one bet never arrives four times. Once you have been alerted about a bet, it will not alert you again; that memory is pruned after a couple of days.
The rules you control
On iOS: Open Settings → Alerts → Notifications, then tap Bet alert rules under the Bet alerts switch. If iOS is blocking notifications, the rules are still there and still saved — they take effect the moment you turn notifications back on.
- Alert me about — Every Must Bet (every Must Bet on your favorite sportsbooks — the ones in My sportsbooks — with no other filter) or Only bets matching my filters, which opens the Filters section below it.
- Badge — the first row under Filters: the lowest badge that wakes your phone, Must Bet or Strong Bet (what each badge means). New accounts start at Must Bet, so choosing Strong Bet is what widens the net. The server fetches edges well below the Strong Bet line, so a lower minimum can be set from the AI assistant connector; only a Strong Bet or better arrives as a time-sensitive alert — anything weaker arrives quietly and never breaks through a Focus mode.
- Daily alert cap — the most bet alerts you will get in one day. Once it is spent, alerts stop until the count resets the next day. Settlement notifications do not count against it. The last few slots are held for Must Bets, so a strong morning cannot crowd out the best bet of the evening.
- Filters — Sportsbooks and Leagues are rows beside the badge; More filters holds Markets, Teams and the Odds range. Sportsbooks and Teams follow your My sportsbooks and My teams lists until you choose Any or tick your own. Leagues and Markets are Any until you tick some. The odds range is American odds, blank for no limit; saved back to front, DawBets ignores it rather than silencing every alert.
Note
Quiet hours live on the Notifications screen, not this one, and the two kinds of push behave differently inside them. Quiet hours and daily alert limits covers that, and which midnight your daily cap resets at.
| Bet alerts | Settlement notifications | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan needed | Plus or Pro | Plus or Pro |
| Inside quiet hours | Discarded, never delivered late | Held, then delivered when it ends |
| Counts against the daily cap | Yes | No |
| Focus / Do Not Disturb | Strong Bet or better: time-sensitive, can break through. Weaker edges: respect silence | Respects silence |
Reading the alert
Every bet alert is the same three lines, in the order you need them:
- The bet itself, complete —
Under 10.5 Total Runs. - The matchup and kickoff, rendered in your timezone, not the server’s.
- The price and the book —
−105 at BetRivers— then the badge and the edge as a percentage, plus· N morewhen other bets qualified.
Tapping it hands you to the book holding that price; with no link for that specific bet you land on the bet card in DawBets instead. Long-press for Open Sportsbook, View in DawBets and Track This Bet.
On the web: Browser notifications are not live. The web Settings page shows a Push Notifications card marked Coming Soon, no browser is ever asked for permission, and nothing is sent. Bet alerts are delivered by the iPhone app only today — but the rules above can be read and changed from a laptop through the AI assistant connector: ask your assistant for a different minimum edge, cap, quiet window or filter set and it confirms the change with you before saving it.
Common questions
Why do I only get one alert when several good bets appear at once?
By design. Each pass sends the single highest-EV bet and counts the others on its last line. The rest are still on the feed — the cap on interruptions is deliberate, and no setting increases alerts per pass.
Why didn’t I get an alert for a bet I can see on the feed?
Alerts fire on prices that just moved. A bet sitting on the board unchanged, a live or already-started game, an edge below your badge, or a day where your cap is spent will not alert. See [Not getting bet alerts](/help/not-getting-bet-alerts).
Must Bet or Strong Bet?
Strong Bet to see more bets, Must Bet to spend your daily cap on the strongest ones. Those are the two choices on the iPhone screen today; through the AI assistant connector you can set a lower minimum, down to the server’s fetch floor, with the caveat that only a Strong Bet or better interrupts a Focus mode.
Why am I getting alerts for a sportsbook I don’t use?
Bet alerts follow your My sportsbooks list — under Every Must Bet it is the only filter read — so the book is probably on it. Remove it there, or choose Only bets matching my filters and pick Only these under Sportsbooks.
Can I get bet alerts in my browser?
No. Web push is not released — the Settings card says Coming Soon and no browser permission prompt exists. Alerts are delivered by the iPhone app — see [DawBets on iPhone](/help/dawbets-for-iphone).
Related help
Why am I not getting bet alerts?
A checklist for silent alerts: your plan, iOS permission, the account switch, quiet hours, the daily cap, your badge, and filters that match nothing.
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Stop overnight buzzing without losing your results: what quiet hours discard, what they hold until morning, and how the daily alert cap counts.
iOSTurn on notifications on iPhone
Allow notifications, switch on bet alerts and settlements, set quiet hours, and send a test push to prove delivery is working.
iOSExpected value and fair price
Plain-English EV: what a fair price is, how we strip the vig out of a benchmark line, and what an EV percentage actually promises.
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