Jacob Rapoport is CEO of esports firm RumbleMonkey.
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RumbleMonkey lets Hearthstone gamers compete with each other for real money

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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RumbleMonkey has created a platform that let gamers play their favorite games for real money winnings. So far, it is supporting competitive play for real money in Hearthstone.

It’s based on the notion — as embraced by everything from gambling to prize-based esports — that competition gets more interesting when the stakes are higher, said Jacob Rapoport, CEO of Seattle-based RumbleMonkey, in an interview last week at Casual Connect game event in Seattle.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.