Game veteran Louis Castle is launching a game dubbed Live-Bet, a free-to-play web app that enables players to bet virtual currency on live football games. In the Live-Bet app, players predict what’s going to happen in a football game, and then they find out immediately if they guess right or not.
Louis Castle of Live-Bet Sports
The HTML5 web app is launching just in time for the Super Bowl. It isn’t a real-money gambling app, but it could be used for that at some point in the future. In this social-sports game, you bet virtual currency, and you can do it hundreds of times in a single football game. Life-Bet measures immediately how competitive you are on the leaderboards versus your friends.
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