There are enough bookmakers who are interested in this game. This was already apparent when in 2016 the big Hearthstone tournament came up, and sports betting portals voluntarily included it in their portfolios. As well as the largest tournament, the Hearthstone World Championship, this year another tournament is being added. The Championship Tour will be brought to life, with three events. 

How is Hearthstone played?

As with most other eSport games, Hearthstone is played online. Nowadays the game has over 800 different playing cards, which create an extensive choice of entities, weapons and spells. Each player receives 30 life or health points, which the opponent has to reduce to 0 in order to win the game. Before the game each player chooses a deck of 30 cards from nine different categories (shaman, druid, warrior, rogue, paladin, hunter, warlock, mage and priest). Each card can occur a maximum of twice in the deck, apart from legendry cards which can occur only once.

Cards are playable with so called mana crystals, and a card can only be played if enough mana is available. For each move, a player receives one mana in his pool, and mana used in previous rounds is also returned to the mana pool.

The game is ended when one of the counterparts is able to reduce his opponent’s health to 0, and thereby claims victory.

General Introduction to betting on Hearthstone

Because of the rapid growth of the game it is now possible to place bets on big events. Next to games like League of Legends, Dota 2 and Counterstrike, Hearthstone remains in the shade, and has few tournaments on which one can bet. The fault could lie with Blizzard itself, as there is only one large tournament. However, there are a great number of Leagues, through which one can qualify for BlizzCon, and the large tournament that takes place there. Nevertheless, one should concentrate much more on the tournament mode, and seize the opportunity to offer all players of this beloved card game a stage to possibly make it even bigger and more popular.