Weird sports we didn’t know existed, available for betting

[EarnOnVictor]

Here in Serbia, everyone bets on popular games, and the cock fighting (just one example) is not popular here, but in illegal circles there are some dog fights. Still, I wish to discuss just "legal games" with available markets in some casinos. I guess a lot of people heard about these games from the article, but I didn't know that people actually bet on something like this. So I am interested if there is anyone here who bet on "not popular" sports/games, maybe some description, and where we can learn more about that game/sport.

Gambling is not easy and there is no escape route unless we are deceiving ourselves, it will get worse looking for extra games, especially if we are not familiar with them. We have thousands of games to choose from already, they may be popular or relatively popular, it doesn't matter, for me, they are enough to give us the winning we desire, or stress/frustration of their own as the case may be. This is because they will always rely on luck to win. So if I should advise you, I would only say that you should be contented with those you already know and not further look for gambling troubles.

Per country and culture, there are a lot of weird activities going on which include gambling and as you call some animal fighting games illegal in some countries, it is legal in many other countries. In mine, there is enough cock/bull/ram fighting where people will gather in an informal setting to place their bet. It is always fun but no one can know the winner, it's all about luck, so what's the difference?

The same goes for a particular game called "ayo olopon" in my country, one may bet on either side playing, but still, no one would know the winner, that's how tough gambling is.

[Ultegra134]

Strange sports... But I'm sure it won't be available in many casinos because it's not a sport most people are familiar with.

Rock Paper Scissors is a childhood game, but don't think it can be bet on, and how to judge this bet.

Carrying the wife? This is a little difficult for me to understand... maybe for sports or races there is something to bet on that is a little more difficult to figure out.

The article mentioned by the OP features a few casinos, such as Stake, BC Game, and a few others; perhaps these casinos offer them? Who knows? Anyway, it's the first time I'm encountering such a thing. I wasn't aware that such "sports" existed, let alone that you can bet on them. I've never come across them anywhere I've played, but to be honest, I wouldn't have noticed even if they were a thing. Perhaps they're a fun way to mess around with a few spare dollars; I'm not sure if I'd do it.

[$weetne$$]

There're only about six popular sports games that are mostly prioritized by gamblers in my country, and the most popular one is soccer. Although I know that there are some dedicated gamblers who can actually bet on any form of activity, they are aware that they can make a profit if the bet is successful.

I think people are only calling them weird sports because they do not know about the sports or are not betting on them but for those that patronized the sports, they would not find them wired. Watching the Olympics, I have noted many new sports that I did not know about and have not gambled on them. I will be doing more research on the sports and should be betting on them when the next Olympics comes around. This should mean there are many other sports too that we do not know about but we should not called them weird. I just discovered that there is a sport that involved people slapping eachother and you can bet on them too but for people who do not know about this sport, they will called it weird when they see people betting on it. People can make money in any sport they like.

[Mr.suevie]

Weird Sports You Didn’t Know Existed, Available for Betting Fun

After reading this article it got me thinking how many games are out there that most of us haven't even heard of, but they do exist and some groups of people bet on those games. Here in Serbia, everyone bets on popular games, and the cock fighting (just one example) is not popular here, but in illegal circles there are some dog fights. Still, I wish to discuss just "legal games" with available markets in some casinos.

I guess a lot of people heard about these games from the article, but I didn't know that people actually bet on something like this. So I am interested if there is anyone here who bet on "not popular" sports/games, maybe some description, and where we can learn more about that game/sport.

Many people might see this weird sports as opportunities to make money in gambling but I see it as a way the bookmakers take your money without stress. As simple as you think these games are they might actually be the hardest to predict, I even heard that a bet site added a food eating competition to their options to bet on,very funny. Personally I wouldn't even try to put my money there cause I'm not really familiar with them, I'm okay with betting on football, basketball and occasionally ice hockey

[acroman08]

article(full link below), in that article "cow chip tossing" was mentioned and did some more quick searching and found out that it is basically cow dung tossing contest.

What, you thought those were potato chips for cows? 
Oh, and coming from a guy who spent decades at a farm, those are dried just as the ones used for fuel were, they don't smell or anything.

I had the inkling feeling that it was what I thought it was (which is dried-up cow dung), I just wanted to be sure so I did a quick search just to be sure, I still find it funny that they found a sport for it 😂

In fairness to arm wrestling, this seems to be not that weird anymore as it's gaining popularity nowadays.

weirdly enough I never found arm wrestling as a weird sport to bet on.

[MainIbem]

I guess a lot of people heard about these games from the article, but I didn't know that people actually bet on something like this. So I am interested if there is anyone here who bet on "not popular" sports/games, maybe some description, and where we can learn more about that game/sport.

I just finished reading the article and I'm surprised that those sports could actually be betted on, normally individuals could bet offline in the arenas where those sports are held, but it's lovely to see that there's a platform where people could bet on those sports, one of the most interesting one that's caught my attention, is the Rock, Paper, Scissors, it's one of those sports games that made my childhood fun. In the article they questioned if it's more of a game of chance or skill, I think it's mostly a game of chance but then there's this skill I use in confusing my opponent which is looking directly into their eyes and smile in a way that would make them lose focus so skill is needed too. As for Quidditch am familiar with the game cause I've seen the Harry Potter movie but then I'm wondering how it's been played and betted on cause I know the players in the movie used magic to play the game, just curious you know and that's something I'll do my findings on.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Not everyone know about this games and not all bookies have them available in their game options. The truth is not everyone will be familiar with most of them these unpopular games and only few people place bet on them.

I think that most of us bet on the most popular sports, but to be more specific, most of us bet on the sports that we Know the most about. There are sports like Swimming , athletics and cycling that are very good sports, very hard, but in reality they don't have betting opportunities, it's very difficult for them to establish them, but also in the forum I have realized that at least there are many who follow cycling, in some way they may be practicing it or are Passionate about it, but I think that the casinos don't have them because it's not profitable to put them on.

[Mahanton]

I guess a lot of people heard about these games from the article, but I didn't know that people actually bet on something like this. So I am interested if there is anyone here who bet on "not popular" sports/games, maybe some description, and where we can learn more about that game/sport.

I just finished reading the article and I'm surprised that those sports could actually be betted on, normally individuals could bet offline in the arenas where those sports are held, but it's lovely to see that there's a platform where people could bet on those sports, one of the most interesting one that's caught my attention, is the Rock, Paper, Scissors, it's one of those sports games that made my childhood fun. In the article they questioned if it's more of a game of chance or skill, I think it's mostly a game of chance but then there's this skill I use in confusing my opponent which is looking directly into their eyes and smile in a way that would make them lose focus so skill is needed too. As for Quidditch am familiar with the game cause I've seen the Harry Potter movie but then I'm wondering how it's been played and betted on cause I know the players in the movie used magic to play the game, just curious you know and that's something I'll do my findings on.

You would really be able to see those changes yet we are living on a hi-tech or digital era on where things could really be possible to be offered online, payments or betting could really be done digital then it would really be that likely that they will really be making such option and thats why it would really be that possible that any one on the world or globe could be able to make up some bets but of course there would really be specific terms and conditions on which they could really be able to follow if someone would really be wanting to make bets specially on locally focused type of sports such as this. There would really be those weird type of things on which someone couldnt be able to see into those typical sports betting that we do really know. There are things that exist that we arent expecting that it could really be that possible.

When it comes to animal based or involved kind of sports such as mentioned on OP then majority will really be that skeptical on trying out to deal up with things just because they dont really like
about animals that are getting involved when it comes to this.So it would really be that varying on how you would really be handling out yourself on choosing on which betting
you would really be liking and on how you would really be that deciding to choose up.

[alani123]

I genuinely didn't know there were so many league of legends clones. Seems like so many companies have been looking to capture this market and amazingly at least on mobile many of these games seem even better than the original. It's interesting how much of an audience many of these games seem to have in many Asian countries.

But over here they'll be known mostly as league of legends rip offs. Well, interestingly stake and many other bookmakers take bets on several MOBA games now and not just LoL and Dota. Good to see competition but I guess that means no one game is going to be the king of the hill with the biggest attendance and audience as LoL and Dota used to compete with each other for.

[passwordnow]

In fairness to arm wrestling, this seems to be not that weird anymore as it's gaining popularity nowadays.

weirdly enough I never found arm wrestling as a weird sport to bet on.

I guess before that it's weird when it's a plain sport and kids playing this on the playground. But it has become in some way that because of the emergence of sports betting and it's already attached to it. And there's a growing community on it and that's why the popularity of it is becoming bigger nowadays and there are more audience that are watching these kind of contents on the web. It's no longer weird at all and it has become a norm sport and I guess just some more recognition on it and we'd see more international competitions about arm wrestling. What's weird here is that skinny boys that I've watched are stronger in arm wrestling than of those with huge muscles and biceps.

[GreatArkansas]

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After reading this article it got me thinking how many games are out there that most of us haven't even heard of, but they do exist and some groups of people bet on those games. Here in Serbia, everyone bets on popular games, and the cock fighting (just one example) is not popular here, but in illegal circles there are some dog fights. Still, I wish to discuss just "legal games" with available markets in some casinos.

Same here in the Philippines, cockfighting was also legal before but after a lot of criminal cases related to cockfighting government halted all operators from cockfighting there are still a lot of underground cockfighting events which it is really illegal, some making it available online so you can bet online but some are afraid because those matches could be only replay of fights before.

It's kinda weird for me but but for other countries that it's common, it's not weird.

[alegotardo]

Weird Sports You Didn’t Know Existed, Available for Betting Fun

After reading this article it got me thinking how many games are out there that most of us haven't even heard of, but they do exist and some groups of people bet on those games. Here in Serbia, everyone bets on popular games, and the cock fighting (just one example) is not popular here, but in illegal circles there are some dog fights. Still, I wish to discuss just "legal games" with available markets in some casinos.

I guess a lot of people heard about these games from the article, but I didn't know that people actually bet on something like this. So I am interested if there is anyone here who bet on "not popular" sports/games, maybe some description, and where we can learn more about that game/sport.

Nowadays people are inventing everything to make some money.
The strange thing for me, actually, is that you call it "sport", for me, a lot of what is mentioned there is just an invention to make more money... or would they exist beyond the game if there weren't money involved?

Sport is something that people practice as a hobby, a leisure activity, a profession or a way of exercising, but if it exists only to encourage a bet involving money... then it can be anything, but never a sport.

Anyway... I prefer to stick to what is more traditional and safe for my bets.

[Darker45]

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Same here in the Philippines, cockfighting was also legal before but after a lot of criminal cases related to cockfighting government halted all operators from cockfighting there are still a lot of underground cockfighting events which it is really illegal, some making it available online so you can bet online but some are afraid because those matches could be only replay of fights before.

It's kinda weird for me but but for other countries that it's common, it's not weird.

Cockfighting remains legal until today. However, it has to be in an actual arena and betting is done manually. What was made illegal are online cockfighting betting operations, which became very popular during the pandemic because actual cockfighting in arenas were prohibited following the directive that mass gatherings should be avoided. Online betting on cockfights was controversial on various grounds. Other than the crimes related to it, the social cost of it was also quite high. It was too accessible and was operating 24/7. That caused massive addiction among bettors.

Now, everything's back to normal. Cockfighting resumes but limited to physical arenas. No more online betting.

[bubilas]

It's been banned in a ton of countries and hopefully, soon in every single one of them, it's the most pointless game of all, this and bullfighting need to end, if anyone says anything about tradition then we should also ring back gladiator games too.

Absolutely right, such an activity as bullfighting has no place in the modern civilized world in 2024.
Gambling contains a huge variety of games, and everyone can find something to their taste.
Animals should not suffer because someone wants to observe stupid traditions or because he likes animals torturing each other.

[LogitechMouse]

Truly, all sports are turning into business, and not only for athletes. But a game like "Rock, Paper, Scissors" made me laugh out loud when I learned that it is also a gambling game for money. What next? Will we compete in everything where we can be first, hoping only for luck? Since such entertainment as wife-carrying or cheerleader dancing was simple, beautiful, and funny, however, the simpler the idea of the game, the less a person needs to be literate in something and think, and therefore, it is easier to throw away your money.

Back when we are just kids, we are used to gamble in a spider fight. Like literally 2 spiders fighting with each other and the winner will eat the other one. I know it sounds absurd and it doesn't happen in most countries, but we find it entertaining at that time. Maybe we might see something like that in the future as well? I mean I didn't expect a sport called "Powerslap" emerged. Also, these very basic games are the ones that we didn't expect to be available for betting online, but it happens.

What's next? Aside from spider fight that I said, I wonder if we have a sport for arm wrestling already? Anyway, sports are becoming weirder and weirder nowadays. It's all about money like you said at the end of the day, and they don't care about the entertainment factor.

[EluguHcman]

So I am interested if there is anyone here who bet on "not popular" sports/games

Something we may not know about gambling is that most gamblers only bets on certain nature of games that they are familiar about, games they could find fun playing with the ability to fit analysis the games and not just leaning of picking the odds lon zigzag.

Some gamblers occasionally visits some kind of weird games to bet on at times definitely giving an utmost lucky trial if they might be able to win even though the games seems uninteresting.

So literally... There could be those games listed in the casinos which are unfamiliar to you but are being familiar with some other players. The thing is that majority of gamblers love to bet on popular games.

[Kelward]

I learned recently that there is usually a game between rams organized by the owners of the ram. These rams are not trained for the sports so I don't know how they get them to fight each other, It's not like they fight for real but what the rams do is lock horns. They stand at a distance facing each other then run at each other and hit each other with their horns then go back again and do it again. They do it till one ram dies, passes out or gives up.
Meanwhile, gambling is going on in that very instant. People are placing bets on which animal will win and are cheering and roaring with a lot of bant. I don't know how legal that is but it's not hidden, especially during festive holidays in some parts of the country.

I grew up seeing this type of gambling, especially during festive seasons, ram owners and people who bought rams for celebration will be carrying them to popular spots for entertainment and gambling. The owners of the rams and bystanders will bet on the rams that will win, the rams will continue to lock horns until one of them injures or gives up on defeat. Although the sport is less popular now than it was before, maybe there's a restriction on it now. I doubt that any casinos will put up a game like that because of animals rights protection.

[Jawhead999]

What's next? Aside from spider fight that I said, I wonder if we have a sport for arm wrestling already?

Yes there's!

The World Arm wrestling Championship was founded in 1977, the competition has been exist for 47 years. If I'm not mistaken arm wrestling quite popular in the last 1-2 year(2).

Sport is something that people practice as a hobby, a leisure activity, a profession or a way of exercising, but if it exists only to encourage a bet involving money... then it can be anything, but never a sport.

Quidditch fall to a way of exercising.
Cheerleading fall to practice as a hobby.
Rock, paper, scissors fall to a leisure activity.
Wife carrying fall to a way of exercising.
Underwater Hockey fall to a way of exercising.

Isn't all of them are sports based on your definition?

[Ultegra134]

Something we may not know about gambling is that most gamblers only bets on certain nature of games that they are familiar about, games they could find fun playing with the ability to fit analysis the games and not just leaning of picking the odds lon zigzag.

Some gamblers occasionally visits some kind of weird games to bet on at times definitely giving an utmost lucky trial if they might be able to win even though the games seems uninteresting.

So literally... There could be those games listed in the casinos which are unfamiliar to you but are being familiar with some other players. The thing is that majority of gamblers love to bet on popular games.

I am placing bets on football; it's the only sport for which I have some generic knowledge that I can put to use. Occasionally, I also bet on basketball, but I'm mostly a football fan. I'm understanding that there's an audience for these "sports" to be provided by casinos. I'm guessing people are mostly messing around since I can't find a plausible reason to bet on something that can't really be considered a sport and, second, on something that you're completely unfamiliar with. This is why the majority of gamblers avoid such games.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I think people are only calling them weird sports because they do not know about the sports or are not betting on them but for those that patronized the sports, they would not find them wired.


 This should mean there are many other sports too that we do not know about but we should not called them weird.

 I just discovered that there is a sport that involved people slapping eachother and you can bet on them too but for people who do not know about this sport, they will called it weird when they see people betting on it. People can make money in any sport they like.

People will call it weird because weird is an unusually action or activity and when you (anyone) are not conversant with something, you will not see that thing as strange to you but it can be strange (weird) to another person probably because the person has not seen such action/activity before or the person doesn't like like such kinds of activity.

For example, apart from the slapping game you mentioned, someone also mentioned about a game of eating dog meat where gamblers are betting on the game. Earlier before now, I have heard about a game where gamblers place a bet on someone to eat a large chunk of raw beef. Those are weird for me because I have not witnessed it and even if I do, I will only place a bet but can not take part in eating such things.