Dota 2 bets using skins and items

After all, skins are an essential part of Dota 2. When they appeared, some kind of madness happened in the game. And Valve was warming up this madness with some events like Diretide, New Bloom, and others. Bets, using Dota 2 skins, became popular almost at the same time. What to say, casters always talked about what skins and on who they had bet in another match. We want to talk further about this.

Skins (items) in Dota 2

Skins in Dota 2 simply drop to a player for good results in a match or participation in an event. You can also purchase them on Steam Community Market or exchange with someone on something.

Skins are just a picture of your hero. They provide nothing but a cosmetic effect. This is an appearance of your hero almost always but models of skills change sometimes, however, skills don’t become stronger in this way.

Regarding the price of skins, it depends on its class, rarity, and beauty. Players are ready to pay big money to own a very rare skin for a hero to stand out among others.

Bookmakers and skin bets

With regard to Dota 2 bet sites, which can provide bets on Dota 2 matches using skins, there are lots of them in the modern esports. It’s difficult to say exactly what they do with the kins they win but one thing is clear that they don’t suffer losses. They can sell them to some players, host giveaways and make a profit from an advertisement of a resource, they can a website with roulettes and earn money on them.

The main thing is one. This is about making a profit and pretty good, considering how popular skins are now, and this is reflected by prize pools, which Valve detach for The International. Because prizes are collected by usual people who buy compendiums and skins.

Is there a difference between a money bet and a skin bet?

If there is, it is not that significant. It is more about a psychological and moral point of view than a mechanical one. The thing is that many players are simply afraid of risk with their money. And skins are just skins, what is more when they have simply dropped and they didn’t pay for them. The money came and simply went, generally, it’s not that disappointing to lose if we compare to money.

If we talk about where to bet and on what to bet, various bookmakers provide different conditions. For example, there are websites where you can bet your inventory only on esports events. And there are websites where you can make a skin bet on football or basketball.

There are websites, which convert your items into money and offer you to earn a winning percent with money or skins, or both of them.

Everything depends on how you bet and on what conditions.

How to make a bet using Dota 2 skins?

Like in a regular case, bookmakers provide odds for bets. The higher the odds, the higher your reward will be. Everything depends on the deal you make and what you bet.

With regard to the way of making bets, it depends on a bookmaker. But the majority of them have the same system. Initially, you will need to register on a website and connect your Steam to it.

Then, you choose a match, on which you want to bet. After that, you will receive a trade. Basically, you confirm the transfer of skins to a bookmaker website.

Regarding the receiving of a reward, you will obviously have it only in the case of victory. You will have to go to a website, find a match, on which you have made a bet, and if you have won, you will receive a trade with your skins and a reward, which will vary depending on the odds and conditions of the deal.

Where can you make a bet using Dota 2 skins?

Dota2Lounge can be called the most popular and famous one. This website was promoted by the majority of domestic casters and players.

Smaller bookmakers include Bets4, Dota 2 bestyolo, VPgame, GosuGamers, and others.

All of them provide almost similar conditions for bets but odds differ, so don’t be lazy and search for a place where you will be offer the most profitable conditions, especially if you are sure in your result.

Who should you bet on?

Speaking about this information, everything is like in usual betting. If you want to risk but to earn a big winning, you will have to bet on an outsider. If you want to earn a bit but for sure, you will have to bet on a favorite.

The only thing is that you should not forget that Dota 2 is a game and everything might happen, so bet wisely, having learned matches and histories of teams in advance.