Fantasy sports vs. poker

dirtymoose · Sep 4, 2014

Real simple question, why are fantasy sports (the gambling part) legal and considered games of skill but poker isn't?

hno:

DwayneBowe · Sep 4, 2014

FairWarning · Sep 4, 2014

Because they have the blessings of the leagues.

LoCalDallasGuy · Sep 4, 2014

makes no sense to me.

dirtymoose · Sep 5, 2014

I don't get it either. You have no control of your fantasy team. At least in poker, it's you making the decisions...

PatsFan1283 · Sep 6, 2014

its because they have better lobbyists and the leagues secretly love fantasy sports so the UIGIEA made an exception for fantasy sports

obv its all BS but lawmakers don't care

dirtymoose · Sep 6, 2014

Yea that's the way I fee as well. Sucks, I miss internet poker so much these days.

PatsFan1283 · Sep 6, 2014

its all in the #s....fantasy football players watch like 3-4x more football than the avg fan, read like 2-3x more about it during the week, etc

If your leagues main revenue stream is from advertising on television then having people watch the 4th quarter of a 35-13 game is a beautiful thing