Over the last week, ESPN writers David Purdum and Ryan Rodenberg published an incredibly in-depth and well-researched piece that looks at the future of sports betting in the United States. After conducting dozens of interviews over a span of four months, ESPN has put together an extremely detailed look at the likelihood of legalized sports…
America’s largest casino and gambling trade association is all-in on sports betting. The American Gaming Association, which represents the $240 billion US casino industry, has upped its lobbying game this year in full support of legalizing the expansion of sports betting in the United States.
Update: The bait app has closed, with no plans to relaunch. A tech-savvy entrepreneur has big plans to take up social sports betting and remain on the right side of the law at the same time. Ian Peacock was studying at the University of South Carolina when he came up with the idea for an…
Fantasy horse racing contests provide the thrill of handicapping while simultaneously minimizing the inherent risk. You get a chance to win real money on horse races, but you’re not required to place wagers. Pay one entry fee and you now have a stake in multiple races with the potential to win a lucrative payout.
The daily fantasy sports is currently fighting for its life in statehouses across the country, but if you were to only listen to the DFS crowd you’d think it was the other way around, and it was the lawmakers who were coming to the DFS industry to lure them to the state. I feel the…
Over the past several years, legislatures from California to Massachusetts have looked into online gambling legalization, and while progress has been slow, there has been progress. But there is a newfound fear among some online gaming advocates that daily fantasy sports is stealing their spotlight.
In the very same week that iovation, a company with strong ties to the now-defunct and utterly reviled Ultimate Bet online poker site, was approved by Nevada regulators, a daily fantasy sports website, FantasyHub, appears to be unable to meet its obligations to its customers. And if that wasn’t bad enough, there is this part…
Kountermove customers received an e-mail this morning announcing that DraftKings Daily Fantasy has acquired the fantasy MMA site. The e-mail explained that current Kountermove customers can set up an account at DraftKings and transfer their funds over from Kountermove. Anyone who already has a DraftKings account can just transfer the funds over to that account.
On Tuesday evening, while many were glued to their television watching the results pour in from the New Hampshire primary, PBS’s FRONTLINE, with the help of the New York Times, aired an hour-long episode delving into the world of online sports betting and daily fantasy sports.
The daily fantasy sports industry is currently facing a myriad of legislative battles in statehouses across the country. There are the handful of frontline states where along with legislative efforts the states’ Attorneys General have weighed in on the subject: New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Florida, and most recently Texas, and while these states get the…
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