How to bet on curling ?

How to bet on curling

💡What is Curling?
🔍Popular curling betting options
🎉Curling betting guidance and tips
✨How to place a curling bet with your bookmaker

First played in Scotland in the 1500s, Curling is a winter sport that has an enduring and lengthy history, not just in Scotland but also in Canada and the Nordic countries in particular. While not a massively televised sport, Curling at the Winter Olympics does draw a large TV audience and with it plenty of betting! In this guide, we will take a look at how best to bet on Curling, exploring the sport, its major tournaments, its most popular bets and some strategies to help you get the stones rolling!

Let’s begin our exploration of this curious, unusual yet highly strategic and dramatic sport, where just one poorly judged slide can be the difference between success or failure!

Keys to curling betting is the number of tournaments contested in the world each year, two years or four years. Before we take a look at some big tournaments and popular Curling betting markets, let’s learn a little more about the sport.

What is Curling ?

Curling is a winter sport where two teams compete by sliding granite stones on a sheet of ice, aiming to land their stones on a 12-foot-wide target. The team that manages to get one or more stones closest to the target on each ‘end’ of the game wins the same number of points as they landed stones closest to the target for that end, provided they finish inside the target (‘the house’).

The target comprises four concentric circles, starting with a blue circle on the outside, a white circle inside, then a smaller red circle, and finally, the centre of the target is a white circle. There is one target at each end of the playing area.

A Curling team comprises four players: the ‘Skip’, the team captain, who is the leading strategist and who decides where, how and how fast to slide the stone, and the other three players sweep the ice to try and assist the stone to land where the Skip wants. In a doubles game, there are just two players per team. Usually, a curling match comprises between eight and 15 ends.

The game originated in 16th-century Scotland, with the official rules drawn up in 1838. It became an Olympic Sport in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, but was not officially added as an Olympic Sport until 1998.

Popular curling betting options

Curling is a game that is played by teams of male competitors and is equally popular with female players, too. Most big tournaments are geared around male or female only teams, but there are a number of mixed competitions which feature both male and female players. The pinnacle of the sport is the World Curling Championships and Winter Olympic Games.

The sport has a good following in several countries, notably Canada, Great Britain, the United States, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden.

Most of the top curling competitions below are international-based events and tend to be the tournaments and contests that are most likely to be available to bet on. For non-international events, teams are usually club teams competing in domestic league or knockout competitions.

Top Curling tournaments

Winter Olympics
World Curling Championships (Also Junior & Senior Championships)
World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships
European Curling Championships
Continental Cup of Curling
Montana’s Brier
Scotties Tournament of Hearts
USA Men’s & Women’s Curling Championships
Canada Cup of Curling
European Mixed Curling Championships

Popular Curling betting markets

Some of the most commonly available and popular curling betting markets include:

Moneyline
Totals (Over/Under Game Points)
Correct Score
Handicap
Accumulators and other Multiple-Selection bets
Outright Winner Bets
Player to make the first score
Total Points a Player Will Score
Total Points a Team Will Score in a stated End.
Odds on a team to Burn a Rock.

When major Curling tournaments are in progress, you can find In-play betting with the best bookmakers alongside the usual pre-match and outright odds markets.

Curling betting guidance and tips

What have we learned from our experience of betting on Curling in the past? In this section, we hope you will benefit from our experience by offering you some key betting guidance and hints and tips on how to get the most of your curling wagers.

The team that slides the last stone has the advantage : unlike some sports, such as tennis, where going first (serving) is an advantage, curling sees the team playing last as an advantage over their opponent.
In-play betting may offer more scope for longer odds bets: momentum in a game of curling can change quickly. As such, in-play betting on games can see large changes in odds for markets.
Outright markets offer good value: in bigger tournaments, you can find better odds on both to win and each way markets on outright tournament winner bets than you can on single market result bets.

How to place a curling bet with your bookmaker

The good news is that it is as easy to place a bet on Curling with your bookie as it is any other sport. As we will show you via our simple step-by-step guide below.

Log in to your chosen bookmaker.
Navigate to the Curling section on the site.
Browse the markets and betting options available to find a bet you like.
Click on the odds to add the selection to your bet slip.
When all selections are added, open your bet slip.
Select the type of bet you wish to make.
Enter your betting stake and click the button to place the bet!

It is worth noting that curling is a very seasonal sport and may not always be available at your chosen bookmaker. It is worth checking the Curling calendar for when the major tournaments will be contested to help you select when to bet on the sport!

With its strange equipment list, detailed strategy and unique gameplay, Curling is a fascinating winter sport that offers customers fabulous betting options when tournaments are available. Why not give it a try at your chosen bookmaker when the next big Curling event is taking place?