Betting on curling with crypto: a winter sport most books ignore

I grew up watching curling on late-night TV during the Olympics and never expected to bet on it with crypto. Last winter a friend who plays at a club in Edinburgh sent me a weekend slate of European mixed doubles matches. I opened three crypto sportsbooks I already use and found that only one listed more than the outright winner.

That one book had match winner, handicap by ends, and total ends. The other two had nothing. Curling sits in the same neglected corner as biathlon and luge for most operators. If you want to bet it regularly, you end up following whichever book bothers to price it.

The sport itself suits small crypto stakes. Matches take two to three hours, the pace is slow, and you can watch every stone. I usually bet match winner before the first end and leave it alone. Live markets exist, but the odds jump after every steal, and I have chased myself into a bad position more than once.

Handicap by ends is where I spend most of my time. A strong rink priced at 1.40 to win often sits around even money with a −1.5 ends line. That is the kind of price I actually look at. Total ends markets are thinner; I only touch them when both teams are known for defensive play.

Settlement has been clean so far. Results are public within minutes of the last stone, and my crypto books have paid the same day. The harder part is finding the events in the first place. International federation calendars and club streams are more useful than the sportsbook’s “winter sports” filter, which often buries curling under skiing.

Before I moved any ETH over for that first weekend, I checked CasinoCryptoRank to see which reviewed sites even mentioned niche sports coverage. The comparison pages helped me shortlist books that treat secondary sports as more than a checkbox. Curling will never be as liquid as football, but for a winter hobby stake it has been more fun than another Premier League accumulator.

Published 5 November 2026.