Esport Betting: Common Esport Bet Types

The e-sports industry, a licensed professional sport in the Philippines, is booming, leading to increased e-sports betting by bookmakers. Passionate gamers can make money from their passion and become rich. Today, Xgame will introduce the various types of e-sports betting.

What is Esport? What games does Esport include?

Electronic sports, or Esport Sports, is a sport that uses video game scripts or simulates traditional sports. The competition takes place directly between many people, especially professional players in a virtual environment.

Unlike regular sports, esports athletes compete in a virtual environment, need to have the ability to coordinate teams, understand the video games they participate in and go through the process of training to improve skills, apply appropriate tactics and techniques, especially the ability to use the mouse and keyboard,…

Esport is not just ordinary video games; it is considered a professional sport. If traditional sports include football, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, athletics, tennis, swimming, etc., e-sports frequently concentrate on well-liked game titles that have a large fan base. There are many esports content such as Free Fire, PUBG, AOV, CS:GO, LOL, Dota,…

Currently, e-sports has been supported and allowed to operate by many countries such as:

• Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Brunei, Philippines, East Timor, Vietnam),
• East Asia (China, Korea, Mongolia, Japan, North Korea),
• South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal),
• North America (USA, Canada, Mexico)

What is Esport betting?

Esports betting is a form of betting on a certain electronic sport related to matches or tournaments. Currently, there are many famous tournaments such as Dota 2, LOL, CS:GO, PUBG…

Players bet at bookmakers in the forms and odds provided by the bookmaker, similar to sports such as football, volleyball, table tennis,…

This is a very hot electronic sport with a high payout ratio and fast speed. Therefore, Esport betting is very popular with bettors in Philippines.

Forms of e-sports betting

Bet with real money

This is a very popular form of betting. Bets are similar to football betting, volleyball, basketball, badminton…

Players rely on betting odds to bet the amount of money they have on the odds. If you win, you will be rewarded by the dealer, if you lose, you will lose your bet.

Skin Bet (Item Bet)

It is a form of betting virtual items in the game between bettors with each other.

Challenge Betting – Head-to-head Betting

In this form, the gamers will compete against each other. After the match is over, the winner will receive real money, skins or items.

In addition, players can participate through the bookmakers’ websites. Players, gamers and teams will spend money to participate. The match ends, if you win, you will be rewarded with the prize minus the amount paid in advance.

Social Betting

This is a fairly popular form. Players can join friends and relatives to bet on the outcome of the match. You can choose to bet with money or skins, game items,…

Fantasy Betting

This form, if considered technically, is not the same as normal betting. This is almost the same as traditional sports. Players need to build a squad to play with friends or other esports players.

Esport betting rules at the dealer

Each bookmaker will have the same or different rules; we would like to share the common rules at most bookmakers, including:

Payment and reward transactions will be based on the results of the relevant governing body of the designated competition.

• If a match does not take place as scheduled or is postponed, if the match does not take place within 48 hours after that, the match bets will be voided.
• If a player or team with a nickname is mistaken or with a smurf account, the results and betting sessions will still be counted unless it is certain that it is not the player/team playing in the match.
• If the strategy is revealed even 1 way before the start of the match, all betting sessions for the match will be voided.

Handicap bets and Over/Under bets will be voided if the match is not completed or the number of scheduled maps/rounds is changed after this bet is offered.

Popular betting odds in Esport

• Full match win bet

Players will predict which player/team will win the match. Match information, participants will be provided by the dealer before the match. Players predict and choose the team/athlete they think will win to bet.

• Full Match Handicap Bet

This form is very popular in other sports such as the king sport, football, volleyball, table tennis, baseball, … Experts who predict the house’s odds will give comments on the strong and weak teams from which the house will give the corresponding odds as well as the number of different handicaps.

• Over/Under Full Match Bet

Based on the number the dealer provides, players choose Over (greater than) or Under (less than).

Experience in placing easy-to-win Esport bets

You need to pocket the following experiences to play and bet on esport subjects to increase your chances of winning:

• Understand the betting rules of the esport subject you want to bet on at the participating dealer.
• Observe and analyze the match history of the players you bet on to know if their form is good, whether this match is easy to win or not. If you see that it is not ok, change the team with a higher chance of winning.
• Have a suitable stopping point. If you have lost many games in a row, you should stop to come up with a reasonable strategy, do not just focus on placing bets according to your feelings and forget about the analysis. Divide the money into many small spaces, absolutely do not use all the money you have for 1 bet.
• Stand firm, do not follow the crowd effect.
• The most important thing is to choose a reputable esport betting site, avoid encountering fake websites and bookmakers.