Pinnacle review: who runs it, and are the odds any good?
4.30%
median margin
15.8%
best price on board
9,441
markets · 7 days
Across 9,441 markets observed in the last 7 days (9 sports, 84 leagues), Pinnacle's median bookmaker margin was 4.30% — rank #9 of 141 tracked books (lower is better for bettors). Where at least five independent operators priced the same market, Pinnacle had the single best price 15.8% of the time.
Margin, last 22 days daily median across every Pinnacle market we captured · +0.6 pts over 22 days (widening — worse for bettors)
Is Pinnacle trustworthy?
2/5checks
verified
verified
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Operating company
Not established — Omenizer has not yet verified who operates this book. That is a gap in our research, not a finding about the book.
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Licence
Not established.
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Licensed markets
AU, CA, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, NO, PT, US — reported to us and not yet verified against a regulator, so treat as a lead rather than a fact.
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Fees
No commission — cost is in the prices, about $4.12 per $100 staked all in
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What Omenizer has measured
9,441 markets across 9 sports and 84 leagues in the last 7 days, priced against the rest of the market.
How Pinnacle's prices compare
| Market family | Median margin |
|---|---|
| Moneyline / match result | 4.75% |
| Handicaps / spreads | 3.84% |
| Totals | 3.85% |
Pinnacle margin by sport
| Sport | Median margin | Best price | Markets (7d) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soccer | 4.18% | 14.8% | 3,691 |
| Tennis | 4.68% | 25.3% | 2,811 |
| Baseball | 3.95% | 7.8% | 1,759 |
| Basketball | 4.83% | 11.7% | 654 |
| American Football | 3.85% | 14.7% | 401 |
| Fighting | 3.84% | 24.4% | 61 |
Who runs Pinnacle
Availability: licensed in AU, CA, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, NO, PT, US; accessible from BR, FI, MX.
The margin is the bookmaker's built-in fee: the amount by which its implied probabilities exceed 100%. A 4.30% margin means that, on a typical Pinnacle market, prices pay out 4.30% less than a fair-value book would. Omenizer's fair prices remove this margin using sharp reference sources — the methodology explains how.
FAQ
- Is Pinnacle legit?
- Omenizer has not yet verified which company operates Pinnacle or what licence it holds — a gap in our research rather than a finding against the book. Independently of that, Omenizer has measured 9,441 Pinnacle markets in the last 7 days against the rest of the market, so its prices are observable rather than taken on trust. We publish the checks we can evidence and flag the ones we cannot — we do not certify bookmakers.
- Who owns Pinnacle?
- Omenizer has not yet verified the company behind Pinnacle. We record an operator only when we have read it on the operator's own site or a regulator's register, so this is an unfilled gap rather than a guess we declined to make.
- Is Pinnacle licensed?
- Not established — we have not confirmed a licence for Pinnacle.
- What is Pinnacle's betting margin?
- Measured across 9,441 markets in the last 7 days, Pinnacle's median margin (overround) was 4.30% — rank #9 of 141 bookmakers Omenizer tracks. Lower is better for bettors.
- How often does Pinnacle have the best odds?
- Where at least five independent operators priced the same market (clone brands sharing one price feed count once), Pinnacle posted the single best price 15.8% of the time over the last 7 days.
- How is Pinnacle's margin measured?
- Omenizer records every price on every tracked market, converts them to implied probabilities, and sums each market's sides; the amount over 100% is the bookmaker's margin. The figure here is the median across all of the book's observed markets — measured, not quoted from marketing material.