PandaScore helping Smarkets boost its esports offering

[News Hound]

Betting exchange integrates provider’s esports odds feed and gives players access to innovative wagering tools such as a bet builder and micro-markets

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[jasonuk]

Will be interesting to see where this goes - the crypto markets have made a lot of noise about offering betting on esports where traditional books have lagged behind - either not offering it at all, or equivalent to a novelty market with tiny (e.g. £10) limits.

Saying that, this doesn't really "boost" their offering in the sense they built it and nobody has come - of the 44 matches today, 60% of them don't have a spread at all, and only one has a formed market (under 110%) and that traded £16. The other exchanges face a similar issue - Betfair used to offer markets (currently 4 matches) but that has been pushed to their sportsbook, Matchbook and Betdaq both offer nothing at the time of writing.

In the traditional sense, it's always been about Pinnacle, and it seems that is still the case today despite the significant growth in esports.