Running CS:GO Gambling/Betting Site - Any experience ?

[GVald]

Hey,

So I played CSGO for a long time when I was younger (reached eagle master, for the og), and as you might know, there's a big economy going around with skins, some of them are going for a quite a lot.

Anyway, there's plenty of gambling site just around CSGO skins and I bet there's making a killing. I believe the hardest part would be to drive traffic to the site, I have expertise in SEO. I saw a lot of people were doing youtube sponsored videos for these one.

Anyone of you have experience running gambling/betting CSGO site ? Would love to learn more about the back-end of the industry

 

[joseph k]

I played cs go a couple of years ago, and loved betting on it.

I remember I made around $60 worth of skins without anything invested, and then, lost everything on 1 bet.

 

[SaulCode]

Following

 

[Naughtyfatkid]

Hey,

So I played CSGO for a long time when I was younger (reached eagle master, for the og), and as you might know, there's a big economy going around with skins, some of them are going for a quite a lot.

Anyway, there's plenty of gambling site just around CSGO skins and I bet there's making a killing. I believe the hardest part would be to drive traffic to the site, I have expertise in SEO. I saw a lot of people were doing youtube sponsored videos for these one.

Anyone of you have experience running gambling/betting CSGO site ? Would love to learn more about the back-end of the industry

Nah, I don't think it's a good idea after the 7 day trade ban due to gambling... and motivating kids to gamble their money will always get your in trouble.

All of the big cs go gambling site's bots holding the items were VAC BANNED by steam.

Just not worth it but who knows.

 

[YMYL]

Hey,

So I played CSGO for a long time when I was younger (reached eagle master, for the og), and as you might know, there's a big economy going around with skins, some of them are going for a quite a lot.

Anyway, there's plenty of gambling site just around CSGO skins and I bet there's making a killing. I believe the hardest part would be to drive traffic to the site, I have expertise in SEO. I saw a lot of people were doing youtube sponsored videos for these one.

Anyone of you have experience running gambling/betting CSGO site ? Would love to learn more about the back-end of the industry

You need to gain a trust of user that your website is legit. This is the hardest part.
It would be nice if you offer something unique than other casino.

I owned csgo casino, let me know your questions

 

[DunderMannen]

Like someone else said - it's not worth it.

First off - your target audience is literally kids. The only way a CS:GO gambling sites continues getting paid is by getting more kids into a gambling addiction. If you don't care, then you should cause you already know kids can't afford gambling. You'll need tens of thousands of players to actually make a good profit, they will all be gambling with just a couple dollars each...

If you want to do skin gambling, those days aren't over like others are saying. There are ways around it, but putting your entire company earnings into someone else's digital system is not that smart, despite it working right now.

 

[KingMind]

Tbh go for a Crypto Casino instead...

 

[rauza]

All I know is, I completely regret listening to my friends who suggested it's not worth it and deciding not to jump on creating a betting site when I had the chance to 6-7 years ago.

Let's just say I know some of the owners of these betting skin sites, and they made so much money it's actually insane. Like, literally mind blowing insane how much money was made through skin betting sites.

Idk the landscape for CSGO betting nowadays, but it's probably a super small fraction of what it used to be when CSGOLounge was big (which began to pick up around the iBP bans).

 

[DunderMannen]

All I know is, I completely regret listening to my friends who suggested it's not worth it and deciding not to jump on creating a betting site when I had the chance to 6-7 years ago.

Let's just say I know some of the owners of these betting skin sites, and they made so much money it's actually insane. Like, literally mind blowing insane how much money was made through skin betting sites.

Idk the landscape for CSGO betting nowadays, but it's probably a super small fraction of what it used to be when CSGOLounge was big (which began to pick up around the iBP bans).

Yes indeed. Marketing money was literally so low cause everyone promoting it knew nothing about how much their exposure was worth. The big kid streamers got paid just a thousand or two, yet they referred thousands of players in the process.

Now - CS:GO betting is a lot less popular, CS:GO overall is less popular.

 

[Naughtyfatkid]

Tbh go for a Crypto Casino instead...

This is true. I lost $2000 in 20 mins. Hahaha that $2000 worth of btc would've been worth $6000 now.

The point is... it's quicker to lose money gambling online than in a real casino.

All I know is, I completely regret listening to my friends who suggested it's not worth it and deciding not to jump on creating a betting site when I had the chance to 6-7 years ago.

Let's just say I know some of the owners of these betting skin sites, and they made so much money it's actually insane. Like, literally mind blowing insane how much money was made through skin betting sites.

Idk the landscape for CSGO betting nowadays, but it's probably a super small fraction of what it used to be when CSGOLounge was big.

Yeah... One can only imagine man.

Those youtubers who secretly owned and endorsed their gambling sites. Those were the days.

 

[rauza]

Yeah... One can only imagine man.

Those youtubers who secretly owned and endorsed their gambling sites. Those were the days.

At the same time, I'm glad I wasn't a part of dumb little kids getting addicted to gambling through it. I'd say if I did start one, I would've probably been more ethical in my advertising efforts than the way some of the YouTubers were making it out to be that anybody could win big. I'd probably set an age restriction too. But even with restrictions, and throttled advertising, the market was so big at the time, it still would've made insane amounts of money.

 

[Naughtyfatkid]

At the same time, I'm glad I wasn't a part of dumb little kids getting addicted to gambling through it. I'd say if I did start one, I would've probably been more ethical in my advertising efforts than the way some of the YouTubers were making it out to be that anybody could win big. I'd probably set an age restriction too. But even with restrictions, and throttled advertising, the market was so big at the time, it still would've made insane amounts of money.

Unfortunately, I am one of those dumb kids you're talking about.

Awake at 3am doing coinflip bets. It's only fun until you start losing.

True, it was just insane back then. Even CS GO twitch streams were all about gambling.

Professional gamers.... Gambling. CS GO commentators... Gambling.

 

[Kocer0]

i remembered something. formerly i was playing CS GO a lot and i was have only 1 skin its cost 2$ later i deposied it to CS GO gambling site after play in this site i made 32$ later i took ak 47 vulcan
after 2 weeks again i deposited it to same site and i started play again i made 120$ and i wanted earn more i made 30 30 2 bet and i lost later i put all and again im at 120$ later my feelings said to me again put all and i made it and i lose all the money sad

 

[Naughtyfatkid]

i remembered something. formerly i was playing CS GO a lot and i was have only 1 skin its cost 2$ later i deposied it to CS GO gambling site after play in this site i made 32$ later i took ak 47 vulcan
after 2 weeks again i deposited it to same site and i started play again i made 120$ and i wanted earn more i made 30 30 2 bet and i lost later i put all and again im at 120$ later my feelings said to me again put all and i made it and i lose all the money sad

Exploiting human's weakness. Greed.

What makes it so lucrative is the fact that those youtube "salted" betting videos make it look easy for them to do the same.

 

[GVald]

I played cs go a couple of years ago, and loved betting on it.

I remember I made around $60 worth of skins without anything invested, and then, lost everything on 1 bet.

All in all I probably lost 5k$ easily. I remember loosing 1600$ in like 10 seconds on a coinflip.. Thanks god that money that I earned through gambling and betting, so not out of my pocket right away, still bad tho

Nah, I don't think it's a good idea after the 7 day trade ban due to gambling... and motivating kids to gamble their money will always get your in trouble.

All of the big cs go gambling site's bots holding the items were VAC BANNED by steam.

Just not worth it but who knows.

That's true, never saw if from that view point, interesting tho

All I know is, I completely regret listening to my friends who suggested it's not worth it and deciding not to jump on creating a betting site when I had the chance to 6-7 years ago.

Let's just say I know some of the owners of these betting skin sites, and they made so much money it's actually insane. Like, literally mind blowing insane how much money was made through skin betting sites.

Idk the landscape for CSGO betting nowadays, but it's probably a super small fraction of what it used to be when CSGOLounge was big (which began to pick up around the iBP bans).

Man, CSGOLounge were the good old days, they were big, like the main betting site

You need to gain a trust of user that your website is legit. This is the hardest part.
It would be nice if you offer something unique than other casino.

I owned csgo casino, let me know your questions

The hard part.. Sweet, so how did you advertise your site? Cashing out via selling skins on the market? Any number you're willing to share about it ? Thanks for replying

 

[rauza]

The hard part.. Sweet, so how did you advertise your site? Cashing out via selling skins on the market? Any number you're willing to share about it ? Thanks for replying

I know this question is directed to the guy that has experience over this but as a person who was on the other end of things watching these sites get big, the biggest thing I noticed was just having them go viral socially through favorite Twitch streamers + Reddit. You'd probably just have to invest a few $$$ to get some people to start shouting you out, start building traction through CSGO Betting subreddits, and make your way from there.

Once the link is out there, and the site works as it should, all it takes is word of mouth to quickly spread. I'd probably start with doing giveaways or some sort of mini-games/competitions through social media for the initial push. So you'd have the site locked for like a week or two, and slowly let it build emails, give users requirement to like, comment, share and follow/subscribe (depends on medium you're using). And then announce a winner and give away a big skin. Once the curtains for your site unveil, you'll have a userbase to work with and start gaining traction from there.

At least, this is how I logically see it being done from when I saw all this unfolding in its prime.

 

[DunderMannen]

I know this question is directed to the guy that has experience over this but as a person who was on the other end of things watching these sites get big, the biggest thing I noticed was just having them go viral socially through favorite Twitch streamers + Reddit. You'd probably just have to invest a few $$$ to get some people to start shouting you out, start building traction through CSGO Betting subreddits, and make your way from there.

Once the link is out there, and the site works as it should, all it takes is word of mouth to quickly spread. I'd probably start with doing giveaways or some sort of mini-games/competitions through social media for the initial push. So you'd have the site locked for like a week or two, and slowly let it build emails, give users requirement to like, comment, share and follow/subscribe (depends on medium you're using). And then announce a winner and give away a big skin. Once the curtains for your site unveil, you'll have a userbase to work with and start gaining traction from there.

At least, this is how I logically see it being done from when I saw all this unfolding in its prime.

+1

Also, if you were to actually go through with this OP. You'd need at least $20-30k in marketing, just throw it out to youtubers all over the place.

Plus you need a ton of skins in the inventory to begin with, maybe $10k there too. Imagine a whale comes along, but he doesn't find enough skins to cashout, that'll ruin your rep...

 

[733899]

Betting sites are profitable. MattCS said he makes 10k monthly from his bdtting site but there is alot competition. Beside SEO, doing some giveaways might get some traffic to your site and a YT channel will help alot

 

[FlyingGains]

Used to bet on csgo lounge. Was a lot of fun but I lost a lot haha

 

[rauza]

+1

Also, if you were to actually go through with this OP. You'd need at least $20-30k in marketing, just throw it out to youtubers all over the place.

Plus you need a ton of skins in the inventory to begin with, maybe $10k there too. Imagine a whale comes along, but he doesn't find enough skins to cashout, that'll ruin your rep...

Yeah, at this point I personally don't find it worth getting in to but I also haven't been following the CSGO scene to any capacity for a while now so I wouldn't be 100% informed to make that call. I also don't like using the word "saturation" or discouraging people from doing something that may actually be winners for them because who am I to say.

But at least in my own opinion, I don't think it's worth it now a days, with the moral ambiguities behind it being another reason for me not to go for it.

A really decent way as someone mentioned, is if you have an already established CSGO Youtube Channel, you can already start seeing a few $100 a month probably just by putting that as your intro. But I'd imagine OP is starting from scratch.