[exogeny]

Yeah, as someone who lived through this entire saga first-hand as well, it's...an OK article but it's really missing a lot of things.

DFS, in particular, was and is very legitimately a game of skill. (In fact, looking at it from an Elo perspective and from the perspective of "Who should win?", it's more of a game of skill than the sports themselves!) There was absolutely no reason for it to be made illegal, other than to protect the tribal gaming interests in California and Florida. They pushed back so hard and with such little justification that the tide really, really turned against them in a much more broad way than they ever anticipated.

The ironic thing is, Matt King at FD and Jason Robins at DK probably would have been perfectly happy if the outcome had been that they be allowed to merge and that DFS is legalized and regulated. Instead Robins is a billionaire and Flutter made the best corporate acquisition of the 2010s.

[aprilthird2021]

The article itself is garbage and I strongly believe it's AI generated.

But even on top of that, the coverage of this issue is severely lacking. There were already many online sports books "legally" HQ'd in the Caribbean or other offshore locales. They were pointed to as proof of how much money could be made and money won. That's the story. We allowed greed to addict millions of young men on sports gambling because we lost our spines in this country.

[bluecalm]

It doesn't matter if it's a game or skill it not. It's still gambling and it's still terrible. You can even argue that games of skill for money are worse than pure chance game because there is one more mechanism for people to get addicted: delusion of having an edge.

If DFS is legal roulette should be legal as well because it has fewer negative consequences for society.

I know it's popular narrative among pro gamblers that games of skill deserve a different (better) treatment but it's just self serving nonsense in my view (I've spent most of my adult life in a gambling world as both a pro player and software developer).

[HWR_14]

How is it being a game of skill better for society than random chance?

[xboxnolifes]

It's not a moral argument. Skilled games don't typically fall under gambling laws.

[lmm]

Much lower risk of people getting addicted to games of skill, and much less expensive for people who do get addicted?