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Post by Fishooked on Oct 6, 2015 16:23:58 GMT -5
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Post by jcappy on Oct 6, 2015 16:30:27 GMT -5
Hopefully this is the end of their everywhere in your face advertising at the very least - can't even walk down the street without billboards being shoved down my throat. Literally plastered all over the subway, billboards, busses, taxis, radio, every other commercial
PROMO CODE ANY FUCKING WORD EVER
These sites are straight up sports gambling, which is still illegal for some reason but is illegal nonetheless, and they found their loophole/brief window and are exploiting the shit out of it as much as they can before the bubble bursts and they get taken down. I've been doing normal season fantasy for over a decade with friends - these sites make a mockery of it. And ESPN and these other networks bending ass up for them, selling out even more than they already have to have fucking advertisements in the middle of broadcasts - as if ESPN wasn't already a cesspool of a channel. Yeah I play fantasy, I don't need the broadcasters talking about fantasy implications during a fucking NFL football game or MLB playoffs
Bill Burr called them out months ago - stands true today
Anyway, I've won a little over $100 off of them, better cash out now before they get raided or go under
/rant
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Post by DDNYjets on Oct 6, 2015 16:33:14 GMT -5
Was only a matter of time.
And the leagues have gotten into bed with these companies.
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Post by adpz on Oct 6, 2015 16:47:31 GMT -5
100% - these companies are gross IMO It's just fcking gambling - which should be a fun pastime not some soon-to-be-public pile of corporate horseshit. Relatedly - MSFT's new Edge browser spies on your web acitivty about as much as someone hiding in your closet - truly breathtaking in it's creepiness. The last thing anyone should want is more BIG DATA© in their life - espc their vices....
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Post by 2foolish on Oct 6, 2015 16:51:25 GMT -5
pretty much definition of insider trading...regulations here we come...i would stay away until they do...
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Post by thebigragu on Oct 6, 2015 17:01:07 GMT -5
Suddenly the bookie nunzio on union street dont seem so bad does it. Fuck the New America
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Post by Fishooked on Oct 6, 2015 18:33:06 GMT -5
Hopefully this is the end of their everywhere in your face advertising at the very least - can't even walk down the street without billboards being shoved down my throat. Literally plastered all over the subway, billboards, busses, taxis, radio, every other commercial PROMO CODE ANY FUCKING WORD EVER These sites are straight up sports gambling, which is still illegal for some reason but is illegal nonetheless, and they found their loophole/brief window and are exploiting the shit out of it as much as they can before the bubble bursts and they get taken down. I've been doing normal season fantasy for over a decade with friends - these sites make a mockery of it. And ESPN and these other networks bending ass up for them, selling out even more than they already have to have fucking advertisements in the middle of broadcasts - as if ESPN wasn't already a cesspool of a channel. Yeah I play fantasy, I don't need the broadcasters talking about fantasy implications during a fucking NFL football game or MLB playoffs Bill Burr called them out months ago - stands true today Anyway, I've won a little over $100 off of them, better cash out now before they get raided or go under /rant These two companies have spent over 150 million in advertising in just the 3rd qtr alone this year. I guess if they dont go under maybe it's only a matter of time before they get their own bowl game named after them
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Post by Big L on Oct 6, 2015 18:38:31 GMT -5
Think about it - these dooshnozzles spend so much money in advertising, because you give it to them. Obviously, chances are you're gonna lose when you play there. If even 10% of the people won, they couldn't afford to spend that much on advertising.
Stay away. Save your money for booze or weed.
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Post by Big L on Oct 6, 2015 18:39:11 GMT -5
And my God, totally sick of hearing their ads.
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Post by nyahaybus on Oct 6, 2015 20:04:37 GMT -5
NY AG has opened investigation into Fan Duel/Draft Kings insider trading allegations.
New York Attorney General Opens Inquiry Into Fantasy Sports Sites
By JOE DRAPE and JACQUELINE WILLIAMSOCT. 6, 2015 Photo The New York attorney general asked DraftKings and another daily fantasy website, FanDuel, for details on how they prevent fraud.
The New York attorney general began an inquiry Tuesday into the prospect that employees of daily fantasy football sites have won lucrative payouts based on inside information not available to the public, asking two leading companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, for a range of internal data and details on how they prevent fraud.
Word of the inquiry came as the revelation that DraftKings and FanDuel allowed their employees — many with information not available to customers — to play at each other’s sites and win large amounts of money continued to rattle the sports world.
Some of the industry’s primary sponsors raised questions or distanced themselves from lucrative advertising and sponsorship deals. On Monday, both companies told The New York Times that they had temporarily prohibited their employees from playing in money games.
Major League Baseball, which owns a stake in DraftKings and has a sponsorship deal with it, said in a statement that it had a policy that “prohibits its own players and employees from participating in fantasy baseball games where money or something of value is at stake, and did not know that the situation was different at DraftKings.” Continue reading the main story Breaking News Alerts
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“We have reached out and discussed this matter with them,” it said.
ESPN reduced its association with DraftKings as well. On the network’s “Outside the Lines” show, the host, Bob Ley, announced that while the network will continue to air regular advertisements for the daily fantasy sites, it will no longer run individual segments sponsored by the sites.
The N.F.L., which recently struck a three-year deal with DraftKings to become a partner of the league’s International Series in Britain, declined to comment.
The attorney general’s move may shed light on the inner workings of the sites, which charge a fee and allow participants to build rosters of hypothetical teams and score points against hundreds of competitors based on the actual performance of players. The sites say payouts can reach $2 million. Continue reading the main story Document: New York Attorney General Letter to FanDuel
In a letter to both companies, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman demanded the names, job titles and descriptions of any employees who aggregate and compile a wide range of data that perhaps could be used to gain a personal advantage — including ownership percentages and pricing algorithms. The companies have until Oct. 15 to respond. Mr. Schneiderman also demanded that the companies turn over details of any internal investigations into their employees, including the one at the center of the current scandal, Ethan Haskell of DraftKings.
It was Mr. Haskell who admitted last week to inadvertently releasing data before the lineups of all N.F.L. games were locked in for the third week of the season in late September. That same weekend, Mr. Haskell, a midlevel content manager, won $350,000 at FanDuel.
The two companies said they had investigated Mr. Haskell and cleared him of wrongdoing.
“It’s something we’re taking a look at — fraud is fraud,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a radio interview early Tuesday before the inquiry was announced. “And, consumers of any product, whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football, our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can’t commit fraud.” Continue reading the main story Document: New York Attorney General Letter to DraftKings
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Neither DraftKings nor FanDuel would specify how many of their employees competed and won money on other sites.
In Washington, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and a member of the House Judiciary Committee, called on the panel to examine “whether permitting a multibillion-dollar industry to police itself serves the best interests of the American people,” while Senator Robert Menendez and Representative Frank Pallone Jr., both Democrats of New Jersey, asked the Federal Trade Commission to implement safeguards to ensure a fair playing field for enthusiasts of the daily fantasy games.
Daily fantasy has its roots in informal fantasy games that began years ago with groups of fans playing against one another for fun over a full season. They assembled hypothetical teams and scored points based on how players did in actual games.
But companies such as DraftKings and FanDuel have set up online daily and weekly games based on a similar concept in which fans pay an entry fee to a website — from 25 cents to $1,000 — to play dozens if not hundreds of opponents, with prize pools that can pay $2 million to the winner. Critics have complained that the setup is hardly different from Las Vegas-style gambling that is normally banned in the sports world.
Eilers Research, which studies the industry, estimates that daily games will generate around $2.6 billion in entry fees this year and grow by 41 percent annually, reaching $14.4 billion in 2020. So high are the potential financial rewards that DraftKings and FanDuel have found eager partners in professional sports teams and leagues and major media companies.
Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and Robert K. Kraft of the New England Patriots have stakes in DraftKings. In addition, DraftKings has tapped hundreds of millions of dollars from Fox Sports, and FanDuel has raised similar amounts from investors like Comcast, NBC and the investment firm KKR.
Between the tens of millions of dollars in television advertising blitzing the airways and the potential for abuse in an unregulated industry, lawmakers now seem willing to examine whether daily fantasy games are pushing the boundaries of an exemption in a 2006 federal law that has allowed them to operate. The law prohibited games like online poker, but permitted fantasy play, deemed games of skill and not chance, under lobbying from professional sports leagues. The games are allowed in all but five states.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 20:08:45 GMT -5
I hate fucking cheaters.
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Post by Big L on Oct 6, 2015 20:10:55 GMT -5
Games of skill? Really?
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Post by Hotman on Oct 6, 2015 20:33:07 GMT -5
It's basically a coin flip of who the refs will choose to act as victor of their "exhibitions" that's right, they are no longer called "GAMES" by the NFL. Fucking frauds all of it. May as well bet on WWF. Same fucking thing, no difference at all. Makes New England even MORE of a joke and fraud. Fucking Boston cunts destroyed the game, it's done. dead. All so they can pretend to be champions in their fucked up little incest bubble of false reality.
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Post by Ff2 on Oct 6, 2015 20:50:18 GMT -5
Improprieties on online gambling?
wHo could of possible seen that coming.
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Post by Ff2 on Oct 6, 2015 20:53:36 GMT -5
It's basically a coin flip of who the refs will choose to act as victor of their "exhibitions" that's right, they are no longer called "GAMES" by the NFL. Fucking frauds all of it. May as well bet on WWF. Same fucking thing, no difference at all. Makes New England even MORE of a joke and fraud. Fucking Boston cunts destroyed the game, it's done. dead. All so they can pretend to be champions in their fucked up little incest bubble of false reality. o I knew this was the Pat's fault.
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