Zesty Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I've never gambled on esports and never will. It's too risky and I don't really like it that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 (edited) Gambling on e-sports is just like any other gambling market choice, you're just betting at risk, since you don't know who's going to emerge victorious. Edited April 16, 2022 by Justin11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Just now, Justin11 said: Gambling on steam is just like any other gambling market choice, you're just betting at risk, since you don't know who's going to emerge victorious. Based on this and the last post I quoted on you on, I'm starting to wonder if you actually know what Steam is. It is not a lot of things, including a casino. Justin11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, Shagger said: Based on this and the last post I quoted on you on, I'm starting to wonder if you actually know what Steam is. It is not a lot of things, including a casino. Oh no, it was an error, I was just thinking about the high number of steam PC users. Such is meant to cover up for E-sports betting option via gambling platforms. The user which is @Zesty made mention of not gambling around E-sports. I try to answer his/her comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head_Hunter Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 I can't forget the day I lost it all in betting, which signalled the end of my betting career. I lost $40 in an accumulator bet using Asian handicap in most of the games, they didn't play as I directed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Blake Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 I saw my roommate scrolling through a betting website. It literally had all the games and sports categories to bet on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 15 hours ago, Ryan Blake said: I saw my roommate scrolling through a betting website. It literally had all the games and sports categories to bet on. Your roommate is a gambler indeed, I hope he/she is winning bets? I don't bet anymore, because my profit came below my loss that's why I stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egghead Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 There is one blockchain based game that I am interested in gambling, however, the problem I have now is I cannot fund my account through a bank or card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonassis Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 The industry changed a lot in the past 4 years, I'm trying to avoid it in general, not because I'm not up for it, but because it's not standardized properly yet. I was working as a marketing consultant for a few operators and saw the switch from "We don't know what esports is" to "Ok let's offer esports betting on our site" and most of the larger operators who had an actual license to do it got burned in their first year. I'm not gonna name any companies, but the process looked like this basically, the operators thought that - they can do the numbers in-house with their own traders, not keeping in mind that their traders are not savvy with esports and don't know the market at all. - they can believe the "large brands" within the esports world, and the more noise a team has generated on social media, the better they must be. - the IESF organization will be open for partnerships (spoiler: they weren't) - (most important) the users who will gamble will be mostly 18+ for Europe and 21+ old for Canada In return what they got was an influx of minors with fake ID's and mom and pa's credit cards who wanted to gamble, and those who were old enough were also experienced within the esports world and knew the teams/players good enough to win almost every bet there was. I remember that the biggest flop was that match where we had a female team competing in one of the earlier LCL's, I think the name was Vavictus or something along those lines. In other words, the first few years were a disaster. Until the pandemic kicked, then all of a sudden the old traders were replaced by experienced esports traders, and the whole industry has somewhat matured. Nevertheless, there's still no historical data on a bunch of teams, and it's hard for the traders to set up the correct numbers. Justin11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 Ever since I learned that I have no future betting on eSports matches, I stopped playing. I don't have funds to forecast any match since their is no guarantee for success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForwardSlashDownPoke Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 On 7/23/2018 at 8:31 PM, 9Online said: I've never officially placed wagers online for eSports but I've thrown money on the table around friends over COD matches! Does anyone here actually place bets on eSports? People do it all the time, but I never have. I think there may be ways to do it legally, but it's already been proven with multi-country investigations that some of the e-sports gambling is basically organized crime groups (which is obviously illegal). The crime groups pressure the younger players into throwing a match so the crime groups make a large amount of money and the players get a small slice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lens Posted September 10, 2024 Share Posted September 10, 2024 Yes, I've placed bets on eSports matches before! and I've actually wagered on some major tournaments too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Button Posted September 11, 2024 Share Posted September 11, 2024 Same here as I've also wagered on League of Legends and Dota 2 matches. It's so thrilling to watch the matches with a stake in the outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
