{"id":1328,"date":"2016-04-12T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T23:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:32:01","slug":"daily-fantasy-sports-progresses-different-directions-whereas-online-poker-stagnates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/daily-fantasy-sports-progresses-different-directions-whereas-online-poker-stagnates\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Fantasy Sports Progresses in Different Directions Whereas Online Poker Stagnates"},"content":{"rendered":"
As states in the US choose to reject or embrace the daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry, the landscape is becoming more and more a jumbled legal patchwork. Recently several states have decided about DFS status.<\/p>\n
Last week Alabama declared DFS to be ilegal gambling. FanDuel and DraftKing were given until May 1 to conclude their businesses in the state.<\/p>\n
Also Tennessee decided earlier last week that DFS as well as all forms of fantasy sports are illegal in the state. However there is still a bill to pass in Tennessee regarding a licensing framework of some types of DFs, the Senate voted in favor of this bill, but a House committee stalled it.<\/p>\n
In Missouri a bill has passed that would regulates DFS but not tax it. Daily fantasy sports is seen as a game of skills and not as gambling. If the law is approved a set of consumer protections will be established and operators will have to pay an annual fee of $5,000.<\/p>\n
Even though the House passed the bill, not everyone is in favor of it:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not in favor of calling fantasy sports anything other than sports betting. It is being intellectually dishonest to call it anything other than that\u201d said Representative Rory Rowland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
New York<\/h3>\n
According to New York Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, DFS regulation has high chances of happening this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith regards to daily fantasy sports, the passage of the legislation that I am going to propose, if I was going to handicap it, it would be like betting on Secretariat in the Belmont Stakes, it\u2019s better than even money\u201d Pretlow said, and added: \u201cprobably have a bill by the end of April\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Meanwhile, the poker bill is getting nowhere. In an early draft of New York\u2019s budget plan, there was a glimmer of online poker, but it was crossed off the list.<\/p>\n
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