Judging by the current debates and talking points being bandied about by both advocates and opponents, it appears the Daily Fantasy Sports industry is rocketing towards a day of reckoning with regulators and state legislatures like NASA’s New Horizons zooming towards Pluto. At some point in the not so distant future the industry is going…
Now that the baseball season is in full swing, it’s time to start looking ahead to the big season-end finales to be hosted by all the major fantasy sites. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is, of course, FanDuel.com. They recently revealed the details of the upcoming World Fantasy Baseball Championship (WFBC), and it’s going…
On June 4th, the New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) issued a Director’s Advisory Bulletin advising online betting affiliates to stop promoting unlicensed offshore sites to players in the United States. People who currently promote illegal gambling sites have 150 days to fall in line and receive amnesty from any future legal action.
This post contains outdated info. Click here for the latest US betting news. In between Sheldon Adelson scaring us all with his promises to ban online gambling “whatever the cost” and various anti-gambling bills proposed at the federal level, there is some reason for optimism over the long run. There’s a small but unmistakable trend…
Steve Ruddock outlines his take on fundamental problems the booming daily fantasy sports market is experiencing as growing pains while the legal market takes shape and continues to grow as a legal alternative to sports betting. 1. Two Daily Fantasy Apps Control 95% of Marketshare When it comes to Daily Fantasy Sports websites there’s DraftKings…
Unlike during the Poker Boom, when online gaming options were limited to traditional casino and sports betting, in 2015 there are a number of “gaming” style entertainment options to choose from on the Internet. There is the remains of the once prosperous online poker and casino industry, and in some locales the emergence of licensed…
Note: As of 2023 Disney is now fullly involved in sports betting, as the parent company of ESPN, which is launching the ESPN Bet app. The post below is relevant, but dated information on Disney’s path to embracing sports betting. Don’t be surprised if you start seeing DraftKings ads flood ESPN. As a part of…
If you’ve been trying to avoid the Daily Fantasy Sports bug you may want to reconsider. The DFS industry saw massive growth over the course of 2014, and with the industry poised to break into the mainstream in 2015, there has never been a better time to dive in and signup at a DFS site.
Big investments and bold claims are the name of the game as DraftKings and FanDuel jockey for the top spot in online daily fantasy. Recently, the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division recommended that DraftKings stop making the claim that it is the largest US-based daily fantasy site in the country.
Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) is widely regarded as little more than a small segment of the larger Fantasy Sports market, and because of this one would expect that most DFS players either come from a background in Fantasy Sports or have an interest in participating in both DFS and season-long Fantasy Sports.
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