{"id":64571,"date":"2014-05-16T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T11:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64571"},"modified":"2014-05-16T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T11:57:42","slug":"bet-on-dota-2-matches-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/64571-bet-on-dota-2-matches-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Bet money on Dota 2 matches in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports betting company BetXchange has noticed the growing popularity of e-sport events and is now offering betting odds on the Dota 2 International tournament to South African punters.<\/p>\n<p>BetXchange has a South African presence, with 8 branches across the country and a website offering live-betting across a variety of sports.<\/p>\n<p>To check out the Dota 2 International betting options, head on over to the <a title=\"BetXchange\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betxchange.co.za\/sport\/E-Sports213\" target=\"_blank\">BetXchange site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dota 2 betting is apparently only the beginning, with plans to add betting for other e-sport tournaments on titles such as Starcraft 2, League of Legends, Counter Strike: GO, and Black Ops.<\/p>\n<p>Would you make use of such a betting service and place down real-money bets for the Dota 2 International tournament? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64557-halo-5-gets-release-date-and-new-title.html\">Halo 5 gets release date and new title<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64533-toxic-bunny-leads-indie-royale-bundle.html\">Toxic Bunny leads Indie Royale bundle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64529-steam-game-releases-in-2014-smash-records.html\">Steam game releases in 2014 smash records<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports betting company BetXchange now offers real-money betting on Dota 2 tournaments, starting with The International 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":64575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2218,21,6582,12445,697],"class_list":["post-64571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dota-2","tag-headline","tag-the-international","tag-the-international-2014","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64577,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64571\/revisions\/64577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}