DraftKings, FanDuel and three
other daily fantasy sports operators were cleared to resume business in New York yesterday, just in time for the approaching NFL season and Major League Baseball playoffs.
DraftKings and
other daily fantasy sites, including FanDuel, are able to charge money to enter contests and skirt online gambling laws because they're considered games of skill rather than luck.
Not exact matches
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Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as
other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers...
Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.
In January, Paxton said
daily fantasy sports games that charge players to compete can not operate legally in Texas, joining
other states in challenging the legality of such online contests.
New York has more
daily fantasy sports players than any
other U.S. state, according to Eilers Research, so being forced to shut down there could cripple the companies.
The decision could also set the stage for
other state to take similar measures, and it doesn't seem far - fetched to imagine local casino's attempting to offer their own version of
daily fantasy in the near future.
«No one should have to sit back and watch
others in
other states compete and play something like
daily fantasy sports and not be able to do it in the State of New York.»
Updates on two
other issues we've been following: There's reportedly a two - way deal on legalizing
daily fantasy sports, though the governor hasn't formally weighed in on it yet, and the effort to bring ride hailing apps like Uber and Lyft upstate have failed.
If they do not have civil servants telling them honestly what the
other Europeans think, not telling them honestly what is possible to negotiate, they'll live in this
fantasy land of what's possible, they'll live in a
Daily Mail world of what could be achieved.
Among
other end of session issues, a bill to legalize
daily fantasy sports, reclassifying them as games of skill, not chance, is likely to pass.
When the Assembly came to order on June 17 for a session that would last until 5:09 a.m. the next day, it still needed to pass an anti-heroin package, a roll - back of the state's Blue Laws, the legalization of
daily fantasy sports, a constitutional amendment that could make more elected officials convicted of felonies forfeit their pensions, a government transparency measure, and 57
other bills.
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