Betting on CS:GO is now a massive industry in its own right, and players can bet on the esport at a huge variety of bookmakers, including big names like bet365, Betway and Pinnacle.

CS:GO has earned its title as a top tier competitive esport because of its insanely fast-paced action and multi-layered strategy. Betting on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is hugely exciting, especially when betting on one of the game’s Majors, where prize pools often exceed $1 million. On this page you can find the best CS:GO betting information there is to offer, including upcoming matches, esports bookies, bonuses and match odds.

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Before we get into the betting proper, it’s important to understand how match odds are written, as the formatting is concise but not necessarily intuitive. Let’s start with an example to make it clear.

Let’s suppose that Team A is playing against Team B in a match of Counter-Strike. A betting site is offering 3:1 odds. That means if you bet on Team B to win and they follow through, your bet will yield $3 for every $1 that you put down. That means a $50 bet turns into a $150 return. That’s pretty straightforward, right?

You can also use these odds to work out what your betting site reckons the chances are that a given outcome occurs. Let’s use the previous example once more, where Team A has 3:1 odds over Team B.

We sum 3 (Team A’s part) and 1 (Team B’s part), giving us a total of 4. We take the inverse of 4, meaning we divide one by that value. That’s 1 over 4, which is equal to 0.25; that means the bookie thinks that Team B has a 25% chance of winning.

If you believe that Team B has a much better shot, you could back the underdog and potentially make a tidy profit. Similarly, if you think Team A has an even greater chance than 75%, you could bet on the favourites to get a smaller, but relatively safe.