Bookmakers offer a wide range of bets on https://esports-bets.uk/esport-live-betting/. Among the disciplines: Dota 2, CS:GO, League of Legends, FIFA, PES, PUBG, Fortnite, Overwatch, Valorant and many others.
Despite the large selection, the main disciplines in the lines of bookmakers remain three: Dota 2, CS:GO and League of Legends. A lot of tournaments with solid prize funds are held on these games. For example, in 2021 at The International tournament on Dota 2 played 40 million dollars, of which the winner, the Russian Team Spirit, took 18 million!
Advantages
Betting on cybersports has its own peculiarities and advantages:
The complexities of bookmakers in setting odds. To compile the line, BCs keep a whole staff of analysts, in which there is not always a specialist in cyber games. Often different bookmakers offer completely different odds for the same event. This can be used by an experienced bettor. If he has a good understanding of cyber sports;
Convenience of analysis. For example, in Dota you can see the game through the eyes of any gamer with the help of the Dota TV tool, numerous broadcasts on streaming sites like Twitch are also available;
A good selection of events. BCs realize that cybersports is gradually taking over the minds of bettors. Therefore, every day more and more cyber disciplines, tournaments and matches are becoming available in the lines.
Disadvantages
To the disadvantages can be attributed still a decent number of contractual matches. Tournament organizers and other controlling organizations are actively fighting this phenomenon, but to roll a “contract match” in cybersport is not so difficult, so they are found in significant numbers. By the way, one of the most famous Russian players in Dota 2 – Alexey “Solo” Berezin – was caught in the early days of his career. He was caught betting against himself to the tune of $322. For this, he was suspended from tournaments for a year. Since then, the number 322 has served as an analogy for the expression “match-fixing” in the cybersport environment.
Odds on Cybersport
Remember, a betting company will never be an “ally” of the bettor. Otherwise, all BCs would have gone bankrupt long ago. Therefore, odds on cybersports and any other disciplines predict only the preferences of players about which team will win, rather than showing you who really has a chance to win. That is, by putting up low odds, the bookmaker does not tell you “This team is the favorite” – he just assumes that bettors consider this team to be the favorite!
Large bookmakers have staffs of analysts who form their own lines, assessing the chances of teams in cyber sports. But if a bookmaker misjudges the odds, he will not make a profit. This is where bettors have a chance to catch high or just wrong odds and make a successful bet.
Remember that different bookmakers can give different odds for the same outcome. Oddspedia recommends that you choose your odds carefully. By choosing the highest of them, you can win more. Many players do not attach importance to the odds, but this approach is wrong. Even putting a margin of 1-2% in the quotes, the office will beat more than 95% of customers on the distance, and they will not notice it.
You can bet on cyber sports at any bookmaker. 1hbet, GGBET, Parimatch, Fonbet, Marathon offer a good lineup and good limits. GGBET generally positions itself as a purely cyber sports bookmaker and gives not only a very wide line, but also a large selection of marquees for this or that match. On our website you can familiarize yourself with the full list of verified Russian BCs offering betting on cyber tournaments.
The Most Common Types of Bets on Cyber Sports
Most bookmakers only offer lines on the main disciplines such as Dota 2, League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. FIFA simulcasting has the most cybersport events, with hundreds of matches being played every day at various levels, from regional to global. In addition to the basic outcomes (victory of one of the opponents), you can bet on team forfeits, card totals, individual player statistics, as well as a lot of special bets that are offered only in a particular discipline (for example, who will be the first to kill Roshan in Dota 2).
Betting on Outcomes
As in many regular sports, betting on outcomes is the most popular in cyber sports. Players are asked to guess whether one of the teams will win (P1 or P) or draw (X). The tournament formats in the 3 major cyber sports disciplines (Dota 2, LoL and CS:GO) are such that draws are extremely rare.
Keep in mind that physical fitness does not matter in cyber sports, so it is a bit more difficult to win “with class” than in soccer or hockey. If we are talking about a major tournament like The International in Dota 2 or Major in CS:GO, the class of the teams there will be approximately equal.
Handicaps
Handicap is a term with English roots, which essentially means the same thing as handicap (we will talk about it below). These two concepts are synonyms, denoting the final score difference in favor of one of the teams.
Some bettors confuse the concepts of “handicap” and “handicap”, because the second term is most often used with the adjectives “Asian” and “European”.
Asian handicap is familiar to all domestic fans of betting on cybersports. It is denoted by an integer or half decimal. For example, F1 on cards (-1,5) means that you bet on the victory of the first team with a difference of 2 cards (2:0 in best-of-3 format or 3:0, 3:1 in best-of-5 format). F2 on cards (+1.5) means that the second team must take at least one (best-of-3) or at least two (best-of-5) cards.
European Handicap. This is a bet on the main outcome with the addition of the exact score. European handicap is denoted in the bookmaker’s line in the form of the outcome and the score, with which the match conditionally starts: P1 (0:1), X (0:2), P2 (2:0). For example, when betting P1 (0:2) you agree that the match starts with the score 0:2 in favor of the guests, but you still choose the success of the home team. The bet will be played only if the first team wins with a difference of 3 or more goals. Note that you cannot get a refund on European handicap, unlike Asian handicap.
