Draftkings/Fanduel Scandal breaking: Goodell's downfall?

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This is nothing new. A lot of those gambling exchanges like BetFair do this. If I had that kind of edge over the field, I'd use it, too.
 

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If it's scam this $15,000 dollar check I received from fan duel must not be real.

I will admit it's tough winning the full jackpot but I entered a $25.00 dollar 5 million dollar tournament just one time and won 15k

So I can't complain.

It was lucky as fuk though. Don't know if I'll ever come close to winning that type of money again

I think regular ppl can hit it right on the head, sometimes. It has to, otherwise word of mouth would spread that nobody was winning and nobody would play.

No different than a casino needs ppl to win.

They prob saw how much you won tho and tweaked the system. :heh:
 

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If it's scam this $15,000 dollar check I received from fan duel must not be real.

I will admit it's tough winning the full jackpot but I entered a $25.00 dollar 5 million dollar tournament just one time and won 15k

So I can't complain.

It was lucky as fuk though. Don't know if I'll ever come close to winning that type of money again

Its a scam in the way that people think they have a legit chance of winning big money when in fact they have similar chance of playing the lottery. Of course you can win but like you said its mostly luck based. Especially when you're up against hundreds of entries from the top players. If it was 1 entry per player its a different story. But thats where the "scam" portion lies
 

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If it's scam this $15,000 dollar check I received from fan duel must not be real.

I will admit it's tough winning the full jackpot but I entered a $25.00 dollar 5 million dollar tournament just one time and won 15k

So I can't complain.

It was lucky as fuk though. Don't know if I'll ever come close to winning that type of money again

Yeah my buddy won't $1,000 two weeks ago doesn't mean it's not a scam. They have to show SOME normal people winning or people would be turned off from it. :snoop:
 

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If it's scam this $15,000 dollar check I received from fan duel must not be real.

I will admit it's tough winning the full jackpot but I entered a $25.00 dollar 5 million dollar tournament just one time and won 15k

So I can't complain.

It was lucky as fuk though. Don't know if I'll ever come close to winning that type of money again
Some people caught up in Ponzi schemes made money too, breh
 

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Its a scam in the way that people think they have a legit chance of winning big money when in fact they have similar chance of playing the lottery. Of course you can win but like you said its mostly luck based. Especially when you're up against hundreds of entries from the top players. If it was 1 entry per player its a different story. But thats where the "scam" portion lies

no where near the odds of the lottery. only 400k entries in draftking big tournament and 250k in fan duels. Not great odds, but a lot better than the lottery. plus, someone has to win each week. not so of the lottery.
 

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no where near the odds of the lottery. only 400k entries in draftking big tournament and 250k in fan duels. Not great odds, but a lot better than the lottery. plus, someone has to win each week. not so of the lottery.

Casino is a more accurate comparison I suppose. The only ones making money are the pros and the 1% who hit the jackpot now and then. The other 99% are either losing, coming out even or win very little. The difference is the majority havent yet realized they're part of the 99% when it comes to DFS yet. People running it are eating good tho who can blame them :yeshrug:
 

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I think it will come out that DK and FD are not rivals, but owned by the same ppl. Or ppl who know each other.

And they're just all getting rich off the other side.
 

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Like someone else said. They know this is a sham so they went full blitz with the advertising.

Build up as much hype and hysteria as fast as possible and make a ton of $$$ bc when the hammer drops it drops fast.

But I bet they've got everything covered and all these guys winning have their money in a safe place already.
 
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