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Puntt – a new UK-based esports betting operator – believes it will become the predominant esports player betting site over the next five years and beyond.
The operator is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission and based in Liverpool.
Puntt (Puntt.gg) is the world’s first esports player betting site and launches in the UK today with betting pools on CSGO in time for the ESL Pro League. This will be followed by Dota2 and other major titles later in 2020.
“Puntt has been built to fill a glaring gap in the esports betting space – offering a fair and exciting betting product through which you back individual players as opposed to betting fixed odds on teams alone.”
Phill Adams, Puntt
UK customers over 18 years old are now able to bet on CSGO players, not just teams, for the first time in history. Other new markets are now available, including most kills.
Puntt also enables customers to bet against each other, rather than taking odds set by a bookmaker.
Puntt says it will offer leading odds on all tournaments in the CSGO Major Championships and that its pool betting product has been two years in the making.
It’s been built on a UK licensed proprietary platform specifically to offer esports fans a ‘fair, dynamic and well-regulated betting experience’.
Puntt says it was built on four principles:
• To provide engaging product that is not available elsewhere
• Treat all customers fairly and equally
• Be well regulated and responsible at all times
• To support charity and esports (Puntt will donate a percentage of its turnover to charity)
Phill Adams, CEO at Puntt, said: “Puntt has been built to fill a glaring gap in the esports betting space – offering a fair and exciting betting product through which you back individual players as opposed to betting fixed odds on teams alone.
“After 18 months work to bring Puntt to market, and despite the current difficult circumstances, we’re incredibly excited, that we will be launching in the UK during the ESL Pro League – Season 11.
“For Puntt, this is just the start, with more player betting markets and more esports to be introduced over the coming months.”
There’s more info over at Puntt.gg
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
