CORONAVIRUS IMPACT ON SPORTS GAMBLING

[TheGreatPython]

I guess it will eventually be over, I know sportsbooks have costs as well and their only downs are not when people end up winning, all the staffs and servers and offices and many other things do exists even if they put all the games on hold, which means they have to make some sort of profits to cover all of those, however this is temporary so if they have a bit of money saved up somewhere that means they can wait out the storm, offer people like esports stuff for now and just hope that games will be back soon enough to cover all expenses and debts they acquired during this period. Hell even taking out a loan to pay the costs these days makes sense considering when this is all over people will be back eventually.

Many places also find non-sportsbook games like dice a great source of income as well.

[Juggy777]

This topic is very interesting. The big question is, how can we have any sports gambling without any live sports? Now this is not something that can be done with the past matches, or the tournaments that may happen in the future. For sports gambling, you need real-time sports events. And perhaps the only event that is ongoing right now is the Belarusian Premier League.

There is chance for some sport events to be held at the end of the year, some are only postponed with hope that things will slowly get back to normal
However, for majority of sports this year is lost, as well as for sport gambling so the choice is very poor at the moment. Personaly I'm not interested in gambling in past events, that mskes no sense.

@Vishnu.Reang gamblers these days are turning their attention to different sports, and I had made a thread out here highlighting how gamblers are now gambling on marbles and trotting. @bitbunnny there’re various reports which say that many football leagues will resume in May, but it’ll be without fans and though this is welcome news for gamblers as a football fan it’ll irritating to watch them play in empty stands.

Sources:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1661301/sport

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-european-football/

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/spain-set-to-finish-football-season-without-fans-in-stadiums/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240004.0

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/is-football-without-fans-better-than-nothing-1.4232588

[GDragon]

 I personally starting to feel like not that big of a deal anymore, I mean think about it we are so addicted to regular sports that we forgot how beatiful esports could be. I know you are used to watching physical sports where people are not only talented but also very fit as well, however as a gamer myself who never really looked at esports before, I realized I really enjoy esports as well, never looked at it like this before but this pandemic and league cancellations made me watch it by force because there was nothing else to watch, and I always assumed there was just cs:go and lol and dota etc etc games for esports but thanks to this I realized there is much much more to go around and I have seen esports tournaments of the games I really love playing myself, so watchin these amazing players who are x100 times better than me play and win something really is enjoyable.

 I don't know if I will get back to regular sports after this, esports does turned me into even a higher level of geek. I think maybe NBA only and not anything else for now before I probably get sick of esports as well.

Before this Pandemic, I'm more into Esports and the only live sports I watch is NBA. but during this lockdown, many people missed the regular sports and start sharing awesome highlight videos and now I just watched tons of baseball, swimming, football and soccer games which I don't really watched before. I think you will probably get sick of esports too.

Regular sports are full of real emotions, we are actually seeing real athletic people. I'm impressed with how they achieved those greatness. I'm impressed with esports players too, but damn, I'm starting to miss those superhuman athletes.

[robelneo]

All sports gambling herein our country are put on hold until this pandemic is over, they are going to lose a lot of revenues, this is understandable but this pandemic is the first thing that everybody should address and not the loss of any company, it's not only the loss of revenues we are talking about but the loss of lives too.

[Oasisman]

This topic is very interesting. The big question is, how can we have any sports gambling without any live sports? Now this is not something that can be done with the past matches, or the tournaments that may happen in the future. For sports gambling, you need real-time sports events. And perhaps the only event that is ongoing right now is the Belarusian Premier League.

I guess this would also be the perfect time for the sports betting to have at least a break. Though there were rumors about the NBA is coming back soon, which I also wonder does America disregard the danger of the virus?
I have seen many Americans rallying about their freedom asking the government to lift the community lockdown, does that mean they are going to resume the sporting events in the country as well?
We'll just hope the pandemic will end asap. I've really missed the NBA playoffs.

[Dr.Lender3]

This topic is very interesting. The big question is, how can we have any sports gambling without any live sports? Now this is not something that can be done with the past matches, or the tournaments that may happen in the future. For sports gambling, you need real-time sports events. And perhaps the only event that is ongoing right now is the Belarusian Premier League.

There is chance for some sport events to be held at the end of the year, some are only postponed with hope that things will slowly get back to normal
However, for majority of sports this year is lost, as well as for sport gambling so the choice is very poor at the moment. Personaly I'm not interested in gambling in past events, that mskes no sense.

I agree with you too. I think this moment is very important for us. The world economy is currently in recession, how logical are gamblers at this time?

[Smokey23]

I suppose there are no sports left to gamble on except these so-called 'e-sports'.

[peter0425]

I suppose there are no sports left to gamble on except these so-called 'e-sports'.

Yups there are only online Sports that is running in this kind of situation,just like the DOTA competition that happens last week and many gamblers bet on that game.

All sports gambling herein our country are put on hold until this pandemic is over, they are going to lose a lot of revenues, this is understandable but this pandemic is the first thing that everybody should address and not the loss of any company, it's not only the loss of revenues we are talking about but the loss of lives too.

it is all over the world mate because the spread of virus need to be stopped and that is by social distancing .

[michellee]

I only said that if a man is cured of coronavirus, he should be all right in the future! It's not AIDS or hepatitis!
I had pneumonia, yes - it's a serious disease, but I'm fine!
Especially if we are talking about professional athletes who sometimes break bones, tear ligaments and tendons!

Yes, we hope that person will be alright in the future.
I don't know if coronavirus is a new strain of pneumonia. Because I heard that coronavirus is a disease that attacks the respiratory tract. And the sign starts from getting flu, cough, and something like that.
I am sorry, I don't know if you had pneumonia. I hope you can get the right medicine. But the most important thing is you need to take care of yourself better and stay clean.

[Debonaire217]

I want to answer one question about this OP. What are people doing now? Perhaps, they are concerned not in sports gambling, they might be playing card games, slots, dices, and other fun alternative gambling games aside from betting in sports, or the worst part is not gambling at all.

With the lack of income these days, there is a tendency that people might stop gambling for a while, and to focus their concern about their necessities, their needs to survive.

But for people who are earning online like us, mostly we still bet especially in crypto gambling sites. Such as what I usually play, Hi-Lo, Dice games, black jack and poker.

[Smokey23]

I want to answer one question about this OP. What are people doing now? Perhaps, they are concerned not in sports gambling, they might be playing card games, slots, dices, and other fun alternative gambling games aside from betting in sports, or the worst part is not gambling at all.

With the lack of income these days, there is a tendency that people might stop gambling for a while, and to focus their concern about their necessities, their needs to survive.

But for people who are earning online like us, mostly we still bet especially in crypto gambling sites. Such as what I usually play, Hi-Lo, Dice games, black jack and poker.

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[Botnake]

I want to answer one question about this OP. What are people doing now? Perhaps, they are concerned not in sports gambling, they might be playing card games, slots, dices, and other fun alternative gambling games aside from betting in sports, or the worst part is not gambling at all.

People are not affected without gambling, its the gambling sites because they are losing money while people were able to save money at this time.
So somehow, this helps people to save financially while the site owner will have to accept that their income will reduce.

With the lack of income these days, there is a tendency that people might stop gambling for a while, and to focus their concern about their necessities, their needs to survive.

But for people who are earning online like us, mostly we still bet especially in crypto gambling sites. Such as what I usually play, Hi-Lo, Dice games, black jack and poker.

True, earning money now is difficult as most of us are ordered to stay at home, this is a big hindrance and actually those who earn are those people who work online, however, it's still not good to be aggressive in gambling as working online is not stable.

[Raflesia]

This topic is very interesting. The big question is, how can we have any sports gambling without any live sports? Now this is not something that can be done with the past matches, or the tournaments that may happen in the future. For sports gambling, you need real-time sports events. And perhaps the only event that is ongoing right now is the Belarusian Premier League.

There is chance for some sport events to be held at the end of the year, some are only postponed with hope that things will slowly get back to normal
However, for majority of sports this year is lost, as well as for sport gambling so the choice is very poor at the moment. Personaly I'm not interested in gambling in past events, that mskes no sense.

The possibility of sports gambling will be resumed in the middle of the year but that also hasn't been decided yet because the corona virus pandemic continues to spread so from that there are still other options besides sports so I like playing gambling with crypto and some other games also of course covid-19 brings the effects of other gambling so that those who prefer sports will tend to stop a bit and do some gambling in other places.

[Finestream]

The possibility of sports gambling will be resumed in the middle of the year but that also hasn't been decided yet because the corona virus pandemic continues to spread .....

Therefore they should not make an estimate when they don't know how the virus will be contain as that's the first thing that they should do, then with that, they can make a clear estimate. Why are we even talking about when it will resume, the world is in serious trouble, millions are already infected and its' growing, and I'm afraid in US it will reach 1 million soon.

[JollyGood]

You might be on to something there but to say it as not take seriously might be an overstatement and a bit on the strong side. By the time various countries took action to curb the impact of the virus there were too many deaths and too many infected citizens. Leaders of those countries took action they thought was for the best as soon as they made their own assumptions about what the future infection rates would be and based on how fast the virus was spreading.

As for the view that sports events might re-start in August or September, sadly as of yet there is no guarantee that will happen. I am highly skeptical of that happening, nobody can give a clear indication as of yet what will happen therefore we will need a little more time before we get clarity.

I think this virus was not taken seriously when it began spreading outside China.Only when it spread like crazy starting in Italy and then diffusing in other European countries extreme restrictive measures to contain it were taken.We are still under these restrictions and I think we can start to think of sport betting minimum in late August and early September.

[Starlight2]

You are absolutely right, most people tolerate coronavirus without serious complications at all. I read that different varieties of it are now appearing in different countries of the world. But people are recovering and remain the same, everything is okay.

People are recovering but in overall, the number of infected is really huge.
It would be alright if some would not die, but they die also while some recovers, we are talking of almost 2 million people that are already infected all over the world, this is a serious threat although some have recovered. 

Didn’t understand the phrase: "players who went through corona will never be the same as a player"? Today everything and everybody are on the verge of stress, try not to sow panic, but be calm and follow recommendations.

We will never know until they will start playing again, that's just a speculation or theory for now.

Well, yes, but you know this is very strange to me. People spend a really huge sum of money for casinos, bets, sports, space flights, politics, and when humanity was confronted with a virus, it became a worldwide catastrophe. I am sure that we need to take care of the immune system of our body, make up for the deficits. And I am very sorry that people are dying, I hope this will end soon.

[Clark05]

To the player who are favorite to bet in the sport gambling they don't have any choice so I think they play another new gambling games.

The reason they cannot bet in sport because they don't events so there is no gambling sports at this moment but after this it will resume and they can start again betting their site bur for they need to find alternative gambling games.

[peter0425]

To the player who are favorite to bet in the sport gambling they don't have any choice so I think they play another new gambling games.

The reason they cannot bet in sport because they don't events so there is no gambling sports at this moment but after this it will resume and they can start again betting their site bur for they need to find alternative gambling games.

They may be playing another games now but they may also betting in other sports betting because i have seen a post here about sport still running even in this pandemic though it is not some popular games.
there are Marble race i think and the another form of horse racing but i forgot the thread.

[KnightElite]

To the player who are favorite to bet in the sport gambling they don't have any choice so I think they play another new gambling games.

The reason they cannot bet in sport because they don't events so there is no gambling sports at this moment but after this it will resume and they can start again betting their site bur for they need to find alternative gambling games.

Most of the major sports are been postponed and cancelled due to the pandemic, there are now a lot of gamblers who switching in different gambling games in order to satisfy their desires. I know a lot of gamblers who really addicted to do gambling and the postponement of major games have big impact to them because they cannot place any bets.

They are used to bets in sports gambling and that is why they are adjusting whenever they try alternative gambling like betting in esports where it is operating even there is a pandemic. They can also play dice games and some other card games in order for them to not be bored.

[DeLeonardo]

What is evident is that we are living war and that our enemy is Covid19. We must follow the protocol to stay safe and take care of others. There are many things we can do online as well as learn new skills. We will return to Sports Gambling soon when it is the best time.

Now the truth is that the whole world has moved to another level and many things can really be done online, and some of them were not needed at all. But what about the spectacular game with the fans.. I miss this very much