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DraftKings and FanDuel Headed to New York Court
But UIGEA (pronounced “you-GEE-uh”) exempted fantasy leagues like Levine’s – season-long fantasy leagues. Dan Eaton, a lawyer and professor at San Diego State University, says that daily fantasy sports are not gambling.
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“The future remains bright for fantasy sports”.
The committees have invited Schneiderman to testify, along with the state comptroller, New York State Gaming Commission, New York Council on Problem Gambling, and New York Gaming Association. Court hearings about the issue begin tomorrow.
Petta is an elite daily fantasy sports player, a shark, as research and consulting firm McKinsey & Company calls them in a recent report. Both companies brought in legal heavyweights to argue their case, including David Boies, who is representing DraftKings and is best known for serving as lead counsel for former vice president Al Gore during the 2000 Florida vote recount.
“One thing is clear”, concluded Ifrah. But the companies contend they are games of skill, with some players relying heavily on statistics and projections to win. Schneiderman says the sites are digital bookies. But because daily fantasy did not exist at the time, those businesses were legally permitted. Kansas and Maryland have deemed it legal but its unclear if there will be an attempt to further regulate the industry by those states.
“Chance pervades fantasy sports activities”, McGee stated. We wanted to answer the core question of whether DFS is a game of skill or whether it’s gambling.
“What DraftKing and FanDuel really offer is a way to bet on sports”, she added.
Dr. Timothy Fong, co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, has a different take.
Although McGee made the case that daily fantasy players don’t have ultimate control, Kiernan suggested that even those who seemingly have control – the players on the field – don’t. If you’re looking to get in on some fantasy basketball action leading up to and throughout that game tonight, check out my favorite picks for today’s six games in my DraftKings daily picks on the following slides. He has earned a net profit on daily fantasy sports since 2012. “It’s a little less linear than that”. To the extent that NY courts have considered what the term “gambling” means, they have focused on whether the game is one of “luck or skill”. As a professional, he says, “if I can return 110 percent – a 10 percent profit – that’s acceptable and the number people shoot for”.
DFS sites that pale in comparison to DraftKings and FanDuel in terms of users but continue to gain traction among players looking for alternates to the big boys include: DraftDay, a Sportech plc-owned company; StarsDraft, a site owned by Amaya Gaming, the parent of PokerStars; Draft, a mobile-focused company founded with money from a range of venture investors, including Upfront Ventures and SV Angle; and start-ups Draft Ops and FantasyDraft.
That could favor daily fantasy sports operators in a lot of places.
For the first part of the hearing, both sides hewed closely to the briefs they had filed in advance of the hearing.
Abarbanel pointed out that the gambling arguments surrounding daily fantasy sports parallel poker – a betting game that ostensibly requires some skill.
And for Ben it’s not just about the money.
Daily fantasy sports sites are built on a contradiction: They feel like gambling, but DraftKings and FanDuel insist that they are absolutely not gambling. “That gives you kind of an idea this (fantasy sports) is not necessarily as big of a product as it appears”, he said.
Eric Schneiderman wants to stop the companies from doing business in the state.
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The listening to comes amid nationwide scrutiny, on the state and federal degree, as as to if the video games quantity to playing.