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Posted date | 05.03.2026

Oddin.gg Co-Founder Marek Suchar Joins Bet It Drives: Everything You Need to Know About Esports Growth

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Season 4 of Bet It Drives ends the way it started: with uncomfortable iGaming truths and a guest who actually walks the walk. In Episode 4, Marek Suchar, Co-Founder & Managing Director (Partnerships) at Oddin.gg, joins host Yevhen Krazhan in Barcelona during ICE to break down what most people still get wrong about esports betting. Marek built Oddin.gg from a four-founder startup into a global B2B layer for esports odds, trading, and risk management.

During the ride, Marek digs into

  • How Oddin.gg spots suspicious betting patterns in real time

  • What pisses him off in the industry

  • What’s the next chapter for esports

  • Can anyone inside an odds/trading provider bet, and what are the rules

  • What’s currently happening in the esports market

  • Which country is bound to become the largest regulated market for esports?

  • Where growth in this industry comes from

  • The big number: why Marek pegs global esports betting handle near $100B

Besides the deep dive on where esports betting is heading, Episode 4 brings the chaos back. Marek gets pushed into Confess or Call, spins the wheel, and ends up making a high-stakes prank acquisition call—“We’re exploring buying NAVI this year… and possibly Vitality right after.” 

“This episode is for operators who want esports done properly,” said Yevhen Krazhan, CSO at GR8 Tech and host of Bet It Drives. “Marek is blunt about integrity, what regulators misunderstand, and which companies are just talking.”

Season 4 kicked off with a CEO debate between Cedomir Tomic (Alea) and Oleksandr Feshchenko (GR8 Tech), then went through Akhil Sarin on marketing at Stake and Max Krupyshev on crypto risk and trust. Episode 4 closes the season with the infrastructure view on what makes esports betting grow faster.

Watch or listen to Season 4, Episode 4 on:

About Bet It Drives

Bet It Drives Show, powered by GR8 Tech, is your Front Seat in the iGaming World. Take a ride with iGaming leaders discussing today’s industry challenges and future opportunities. This is not your average podcast: guests get pushed to answer bold questions and spill industry secrets.

It’s a rolling conversation, from quick laughs to hard truths, mixed with quickfire games and yes, even some singing. Driving the show is Yevhen Krazhan, Chief Sales Officer at GR8 Tech, joined by iGaming masterminds as they cruise past iconic landmarks worldwide.

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