• If you played the game or are familiar with the world around it, then know that betting or gambling is way more fun, as it relates more to your personal life.
Although the growth of the game Counter Strike Global Offensive player base is shrinking, the gambling and betting around the esport scene is not. Esports like traditional sports are a fan-favourite for betting or gambling. If you played the game or are familiar with the world around it, then know that betting or gambling is way more fun, as it relates more to your personal life.
CS:GO gambling or betting is something not supported or condemned by the owner of the game Valve in any way whatsoever. However, efforts to ban the cs:go betting and gambling industry have been slow to none. They know more people betting and gambling on the game increases the popularity of the game, Counter Strike Global offensive.
So with all this money getting thrown around at these betting sites what are the things to keep in mind?
With all betting or gambling going on, some good practices and guidelines are needed. CS:GO esports get played in brackets like regular sports. You can either bet on an individual on the team vs another team or you can bet on what team wins the bracket. Often, the rewards on the bracket bets are way higher than betting between two teams. This is because the csgo odds of a team vs team is 50% and a bracket is often 12% or less when there are more than 8 teams in one bracket.
Outside of regular betting on esports teams, you can also gamble your skins. Gambling your skins is a great and cheap way to pick up a new look or skin. You can trade your cheap or ugly skins in a cs:go casino and get credited for them. With credits, you can then play casino games and win better and nicer skins. Often, this is like a case-opening experience or it can be player vs player. For example, the game “coin flip” is literally 2 people that bet their skins, and the one who wins tails or heads wins all the skins.
Of course, Valve hates the cs:go skin casinos out there because they miss out on transaction costs on the stream market, which gets charged when you buy a skin through them. Also, in some countries like Belgium and The Netherlands, simply opening cs:go in game cases are seen as illegal gambling and are banned. So, in Belgium or in The Netherlands, you can’t open any cs:go cases. This makes people get drawn to casinos more.