Paddy Power, Ireland's biggest and most successful bookmaker, that also has a major presense in the UK, is offering odds on the Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament at ESWC.After a successful pilot event in the form of Steelseries Esports Challenge, we're pleased to announce that Paddy Power will be continuing their trip into the world of esports, and they've even moved it out of the "novelty bets" section!
With 300 shops across the UK and Ireland, and a highly popular online service, it's exciting to see Paddy Power taking such an interest in competitive gaming.
Currently you can bet on the outright winner, or match betting on who will get further in the tournament, with Evil Geniuses vs compLexity (USA) and SK Gaming vs Fnatic (Sweden). Early tomorrow group betting will also open up, allowing you to place bets on the winner of each of the eight groups.
New customers can get a great offer by betting £10/€10 and receiving a free £20/€20 bet, but current Paddy Power customers will be sure to find great odds too. For the free bet promotion, head over to paddypower.com by clicking (
HERE). The direct link to the ESWC markets is:
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/esports/electronic-sports-world-cup.
With 300 shops across the UK and Ireland, and a highly popular online service, it's exciting to see Paddy Power taking such an interest in competitive gaming.
it sint here twice=D
but good news
fnatic/SK is just too hard to call any tournament, wouldn't bother.
Outright winner is just too hard to call for anybody. If you've got some spare cash, any of the usual suspects of fnatic,na'vi,frag executors, SK would be a decent shot.
And you'd have SK>Fnatic or Outright winner?
EDIT: Although his profile states 20 years old. Not sure then ^^
edited 2010-06-28 20:29:47
The odds are by PP's traders, but I'm heavily involved with them setting it all up.
The day fnatic performs on DH tbf
Dreamhack and IEM Chengdu.
I'd say the odds are stacked in fnatic's favour if the two directly meet. But who knows how the draw would happen for the groups and who each team would meet in the 2nd round. Hence why i didn't bet on that one.
www.paddypower.com/bet/esports/electronic-sports-world-cup?ev_oc_grp_ids=331851
Evil Geniuses are events to win their group, sounds like a great bet to me o/
Cool skill, handsome boys
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but seems there's another chance to see them~ Wow beatit.msi.com