For the most part, no. Whether you are placing bets on horses, football players, or people killing each other’s virtual minions in a competitive video game, basic mechanisms such as stakes and odds remain largely unchanged. What changes with video game betting is the type of bets you can place. In addition to betting on overall winners, there are also bets on map or round winners (in most competitive esports games, players compete over several maps/rounds), first blood (the player/team who will score the first kill), and many others.