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The explosion of World Cup gambling industry has  shocked me.

Along with the development of esprots game, will the esports (electronic sports like LOL, Dota, Counter Strike, HearthStone, Call of duty and so on) gambling be huge in the future?

Guys, what's your vision about the esports gambling business? I'm planning to devote myself into this field. Any advice or suggestion?

I like playing video games like dota2. And recently I noticed there is a new project named ECoBetting that has attracted my attention. I'm considering to invest some money into that and then send an email to them to ask for a job in their company. How do you think about it?

Football (the folks over the pond tend to call soccer :D) is without doubt the most popular sport and the World Cup is obviously the most watched sporting event worldwide so the sportsbetting industry gets a lot of business during such international competitions. The public interest is so high that even people who don't usually bet or don't watch much sports have a punt or two just for fun. E-sports on the other hand is a niche business and its general public is mainly teenagers who play PC games whereas whole nations care about their national football teams. They are not exactly comparable in my opinion.

If these tournaments will be stable and consistent with their events and prizes, esports gambling business will always be at the peak. We are in the digital age so normally everything that's related to digital will emerge.

Are you planning to create your own e-sports casino?

You're right, but it's true currently. But I'm talking in the near future, like few decades later.

Right now, esports hasn't been admitted yet by most people all over the world. But several kinds of video games have already been added into the Asian Games. As for the Olympic Games, some dominate video games are applying to be added into the Olympics. In the future, personally, I think esports will be more popular than sports. It's more convenient. Like a saying that I believe (not exactly the same, but the meaning is), in the future, more people will become more lazy and dump, and fewer people will be more smart and become elite.

I'm considering but I'm not confident, it depends. Right now, maybe I should enter a company about esports casino and work there for some time. After getting some basic principles, resources, and experience, then I will do that with some partners.

E-sports are the sport of new era a perfect past times for millennial and teenagers this day and it has a huge potentials in the future that it can be as explosive as the world football cup. E-sports is still at the age of dawn but for the coming decades it is quite largely accepted to the masses.

well maybe but personally not a big fan of betting on esports even I do myself enjoy playing and watching some games like CSGO
the reason I hate betting is that so far haven't seen a successful guy who make money mainly for gambling these games , it's not like other sports where the liquidity is high and billions being wagered

also saw many articles about how some players tended to lose so they can win their bets , most of the times the rewards that players get are less what they could win in case they make a bet
so at least so far there is some shadiness going on regarding esports , but in future this may change 

I'm looking forward to the changes in the future. I believe with the blockchain technology, esports betting will be more transparent, public and fair to everyone. Recently, I've noticed that there is a new project named ECoBetting, don't know what the future of that project will be. I'm gonna keep an eye on that.

there are plenty of projects but I'm sure more than 99% will fail , so better just to keep an eye on and never get involved
just like coinpoker , they collected tons of money and now they are only happy while their investors suffering loss from the way that the site is running the business ( freerolls , giving away tons and no rake )

and if that project will use their own token or coin then most likely you will lose money with it

I think it would be the same only that there would be a lot of teams to choose from because teams in e-sports have same teams in same countries to represent. Probably they could transition to just one team per country  or just name the team as per country, in that way, it would be easy to track.

Yeah, I agree that most of these projects will fail finally, but we gotta pick up some that we believe. I've read their whitepaer several times, they design p2p betting system, and everything would be based on smart contracts, which is good to avoid the market manipulation. Also there will be 'follow' design in their betting platform, which is beautiful in my opinion. So, personally, I tend to believe this project would be successful. But who knows. If their dev team are not anonymous, I will trust them more.

However, why do you think that I'm gonna lose money if project will use their own token or coin? Please enlighten me. I don't fully understand you.

Hmm dude can you stop this thinly veiled advertisement for ECoBetting already?  ;D It's painfully obvious you are not asking genuine questions here and are looking to promote the aforementioned site. Can you enlighten us if you are the owner or the campaign manager for Bitcointalk forum?  ;) You are not fooling anyone by the way.

I had literally the same topic. Anyways I found out why e-sports gambling is hardly being known in crypto industry is because actual sports or physical sports is widely known and being enjoyed not be teenagers and younger generations but all age can enjoy it and to be exact there is not much gambler in our younger generations, but I see your point e-sports can be huge in the future if you'll ask me since it is getting some attention and I bet the people who will inherit the knowledge and usage of crypto will enjoy betting in some e-sports.

That's a good idea if you are planning to start a business then you must start familiarizing on the industry.

If you are just blindly entering it because you've overheard that there's a big money overflowing on it, when you face future problems I guess you can't take it and come up with solution.

esport betting already is exploding.You can find esport betting at almost any betting exchange and bookie.Estimates for esport betting are even bigger.Many events are even transmuted by tv even in vr technology
We will have good esport betting exchanges in crypto space

Ofcourse it will and I myself often bet in esports but when it is on the finals I mostly bet on dota. I find it very risky because even the weakest team can be defeated I seen it even if they predict it there's no guaranteed that they will win.

As someone who is fairly involved in the CS:GO scene (participated at several events featured on HLTV.org, etc), I will say that the throwing of matches (intentionally losing for money) does happen, and I see it quite often and quite clearly, but everything is there to make esports gambling as a whole take off. There's already a very large audience for the game (mostly young people), and betting already occurs on a medium-to-large scale for some events and matches.

One point why it won't take off is that there's not many young gamblers because the minimum age is 18 in most jurisdictions is correct, and this is even more true in a game like Counter-Strike, where there was (and is) a sizeable number of young gamblers in the game primarily using means like weapon skins and cryptocurrency as an alternative means to gamble without using fiat payment methods- but this all ended when there was a 7-day trade delay put into place to combat gambling by Valve corporation. This essentially killed gambling through weapon skins (which was and still is a VERY large part of total bets on CS matches), but there have been creative solutions around this; however, they were too little too late and the CS:GO gambling scene was quite damaged by this.

In the end, I'm split about whether or not it'll take off. I'll leave my opinion as maybe and maybe not- I have a somewhat strong feeling esports gambling will stay like what it is now until there's an even larger audience for esports as a whole.

The explosive succees of world cup betting is no wonder, soccer is the most popular game for sport betting, and with big events like this there will be a lot of gamblers roaming around , and for the esport, I think it got potential, the popularity of the esport gambling has growm, a lot of sport gambling site already got esport gambling, so it probably could become huge in the future

I think it is going to be even bigger, because everything is going online and a lot of kids are not into contact sports anymore. They see the prize money and sponsorship of these eSport gamers and they also think it is cool to earn your living by being a professional gamer. If they just knew how much time and discipline goes into being one of these top players, then they might not be so keen to be one of them.

Still, I think it will become the betting platform of the future.  ::)

Opportunities to happen like that is very possible to happen. Esport is now one of the most sophisticated sector of users, even esports has become a work for some people. There are many famous names that we can see on the internet and a lot of esport references on youtube. now esport has even become the official sport in several world championships, so it's not unusual if there are many people who bet and choose who will win the game. This is a great opportunity and gambling game will go in this sector, now esport game is a common thing and I am optimistic in the future maybe we will see more prestigious match that will be held in esport.

maybe it will happen since we know that there are coins that available for the games only and I am sure that in the future, there are many devs that want to create a coin that will be used for esports. and when this is happening, the gamers will use the coins/tokens and it will get placed on the market too and the cryptocurrency will grow more. and I am sure that the game business will attract more people to come into cryptocurrency.

I'm sure that it will explode. Just think about the rate at which esports are growing. 20 years ago it barely existed. There was some Quake, CS and Starcraft where people were competing for 10k USD and that's it. Now competitions have very high prize pools, sometimes close to a million dollars and the number of competitive games is overwhelming. It will take some time before it starts to compete with sports but it will happen.

List of the best eSports Betting Sites see here: http://100bookies.com/best-esports-betting-sites-eng/

I think you are slightly behind the curve on this one.  Its already massive, has been for a while.   You can tell theres a fair amount of money available just from the possible prizes for these competitions, if that salary is there then you can have players dedicated to the sport.    More regular games come from proper assembled teams, building the possibility for opportunity on gambling stakes to do well.

I think there already is alot of esports gambling possible and some of the main stream firms have picked up an interest in it also.

From what I have noticed esports gambling way of deciding odds isn't as accurate as sports. The algorithm they use isn't safe for the site in longer run. What i mean by this is I used to watch csgo and mostly watched most of the matches in NA region. Because of this I had an idea of teams and when I decided to bet the odds for the team i was sure would win was 4 so i placed a bet and did win it. This wasn't the first time I such a odd it has happened couple of times

Im not sure what you are trying to say. At first you say the deciding odds are not as accurate as sports and your reason is because you lose a game? I kinda get what you mean , atleast it seems to me that you were betting for the favourites and lose. Even in football game like world cup, a favourite team could lose as well

I'm sure it will explode. We can say that it has already did because the number of people involved in esports is many times higher than it used to be. If the business is exploding then we can expect the same from gambling based on this business, don't you think?
I think the next stage will be virtual reality gaming and new competitive gaming will revolve around full 3d. Will it be as popular as normal sports? I don't think so.

eSports gambling will be huge :o. More people watch it than you would think. I read that one of the eSports finals had more viewers than the final game of last season's World Series.

That's certainly looks like an interesting topic to be focused on nowadays.
We can already see some explosion on Cryptocurrencies side and onto some new companies investing into Blockchain
Maybe you should question about some regular rules first and then approach yourself into those contexts.
Such example was CS GO (VALVE) closing some Out of the box gambling sites.

E-sport will not get much attention like a sport betting get because anyone can watch and bet on sports betting but in online games bets only there is small group of people will get involved for now.But in future the esports will get spreads to mlre people but it cannot come equal to normal sport watching people.

Not sure if I have already encountered e-sports gambling across the internet so it can’t be said that it is already as popular. If such practice already exists, then it’s quite possible for the e-gambling industry to prosper in the future. IMO, gambling is not so popular for the generation who engages in these e-sports which you have cited like Counter Strike, Call of Duty etc. and the like but businesses can find a market there.

Games like league of legends and counter strike have become a very popular and they have made the e sports scene explode with massive and huge number of audience number at world events even surpassing some of the sports audience, and this shows how much popular they are getting and some collages are even considering offering scholarships and develop their own e sport team at various games, and with this there is not doubt that the gambling scene concerning it will grow even bigger and more popular sites will start implementing them .

I play lol and counter strike for years, very popular games but there is free space for them to grow more. New generations are more into games then older people. I`m one of the few people among all people I know that plays online games like cs and lol. Mostly people say its for kids, but I`m not a kid, and new generations are playing this games and earning big money, that contribute to popularity of this games.
E-games and betting on e-games is growing industry. There will be more players in the future, more games, more of everything connected with that. Their progress in past few years will continue with same pace in next few years.

C'mon man, let's develop a little bit. That old PC games are trash for some, see games like titanfall, ghost recon and etc...
Despite the fact that we have games with high end graphics, very detailed textures and etc, still it will never/ever be able to become popular.
Now let's look why current real life games are popular and take football for example: It's game almost everyone likes, it's very exciting when you are on stadium and look how FC Barcelona and Real Madrid plays against each other... Great skills of Messi... It's amazing...

I love gaming and esports is starting to get recognized around the world and even in my country, one of the local channel is airing some of the esports comeptition. I think gaming has a bigger industry than real sports so gambling owners are not going to miss the chance to make profit from it.

There are actually gambling websites available for each ESPORTS game and the currency that they use are in-game currencies and/or money converted to their respective resource. Not to mention, the gaming industry has boomed through the following years (especially MOBA games like Dota2, LOL, HON, etc.) and if you are going to observe their prize pool, it reached up to millions of dollars.
I know some industries that gamble on ESPORTS games and in my country, it is actually prominent and famous. Since our world is inevitably and slowly evolving into the digital revolution, it may even take over conventional gambling in the future!

Personally, I find esports gambling explosive currently since most individuals are shifting from this change.

The part of devotion caught my attention as to why a young man (maybe not) would only want to devote his time to gambling activities. The industry is growing and something to be aware of but I don't think its enough to commit to it in its totality in the areas of either playing or investing to build a project around it. The reason for that is because the growth cannot be compared to World cup gambling. World cup is played every four years that unify the whole world irrespective of the cultural, political, economic or religious differences. In addition to that, its a sport that have little or no cabal influence (at least to what we can see). compared to an outright electronically controlled sports. World cup will end in less than fifteen days after which the whole paparazzi will end and we are back to the normal setting.

I hope so since big fan of esports.  Wish more books would introduce league play and live league play.

Esports gambling is a totally different market from sports gambling, and the ongoing world cup 2018 held in Russia is an important event that is very popular among all the football fans around the world, so it is not surprising to see huge amount of money betting on all the matches played in the world cup. In my opinion, I don't think Esports gambling would be able to compete with sports gambling in terms of market share at least for now.

this will be one of the popular gambling sites in the future because the dilihar of enthusiastic people towards sports is so high then this will be a huge opportunity.

No that's not what i meant like in esports let's say one team is winning all matches and other team is playing shit so generally odds will be high for shit team and low for good team. But suddently the high team chokes and loses. So when the next match takes place all of a sudden the shit team has lower odds compared to other team.
It's a bit confusing to understand

With the esport world cup being pretty good in no time, not sure for the future as it is very new nowadays there is no big reaction to the whole world or not too familiar, most sports gambling only succeed in its first debut but for the future still do not know, stay cautious I think not too much to try then the trusty course for now, take advantage of the momentum of the world cup it's very good, all will not run after people back to bend for better.

I don't really think it would have a big future. it's not bringing people together like sports. and the training and effort aspects are different than real sports which makes it less passionate in my opinion

I definetly think so. Think about it back in the day noone even cared about esports games and year by year games have been getting more viewers and the prize for winning it getting bigger each year. I have never seen any esports betting like 10 years ago but there was still some esports, by each year they all started popping up here and there.

Today you can even bet on some of the least important esports games. That only shows that with time esports gambling will be as big as any other sports betting out there.

I was very happy with this modern technology that is helping us to get entertain at our homes but now this really seems so sad that opal are using it for wrong purposes. Bitcoin is making amazing performance but when you use them for gambling and even for online gambling, this is really not good. There must be some steps to be taken to keep people away from this loss.

It is not new today since esports was long started already in the past but not given some attention to a bigger company. Valve did it when they finally start to accept games from different genre and specially in DOTA2 scene whereas most players give their best to supports the company not to mention their own game the CS:GO where it gains more popularity in most countries.

This is the modern countries of technology today, where new kind of games existing just like the VR games and many more in the future.

maybe we can see that esports gambling will explode in the future because there are any of sports bet in out there and it seems, there is a big fan of them that use the site to place a bet. but I don't know exactly because I am not one of that fan and I don't make any bets in the sports gambling except doing with my friend.