{"id":35857,"date":"2016-05-12T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=35857"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:18:02","slug":"dfs-congressional-hearing-hijacked-by-nj-sports-betting-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/dfs-congressional-hearing-hijacked-by-nj-sports-betting-push\/","title":{"rendered":"DFS Congressional Hearing Hijacked by New Jersey Sports Betting Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Congressional hearing to examine the legality of daily fantasy sports (DFS) was snubbed by industry leaders DraftKings and FanDuel yesterday. Both companies are understood to have declined an invitation to attend the meeting of the Subcommittee of Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, which was called at the behest of New Jersey Assemblyman Frank Pallone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Frank
New Jersey Assemblyman Frank Pallone, who made no secret of the fact that this week\u2019s DFS hearing was really about the campaign for New Jersey sports betting. (Image: politico.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Instead, representing that group yesterday were Peter Schoenke, president of Rotowire.com and chairman of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association<\/a>, along with Steve Brubaker, head of the Small Business Fantasy Sports Trade Association. Rotowire primarily offers DFS-oriented news to its audiences.<\/p>\n

Also offering testimonies were key figures in the fields of law, sports management, and sports integrity.<\/p>\n

If DraftKings and FanDuel stayed away because they suspected the hearing would be little more than a platform for Pallone to push New Jersey\u2019s case for legal sports betting, they had been well-informed.<\/p>\n

Real Reason for the Hearing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing for me is that I would like us to legalize sports betting,\u201d confessed Pallone, right off the bat.\u00a0\u201cI am hoping this panel and the statements that were made about why it doesn\u2019t make sense to allow (sports betting) to go underground and run by organized crime would lead us to some kind of legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point is allowing sports betting to be legal in states like New Jersey who want it.\u00a0That\u2019s what I was hoping this would contribute to, primarily.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s attempts to legalize sports betting in the past at its racetracks and casinos have been persistently blocked by the major sports leagues, and yet many of those leagues benefit either directly or indirectly from the DFS industry, which they claim isn\u2019t gambling, but rather skill.<\/p>\n

Speaking Frankly<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pallone\u2019s moment of glory arrived when, with Rotowire head Schoenke on the stand, the assemblyman demanded to know why DraftKings had applied for and received a gambling license in the UK if the contests were not gambling.<\/p>\n

Schoenke replied that gambling laws in the UK were different and \u201cmore restrictive.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, he\u2019s talking about the same United Kingdom that has a betting shop on every street corner in which it\u2019s possible to wager up to \u00a3100 ever 20 seconds on fixed-odds video games like roulette. Yep, that UK, where \u201crestrictive\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to be a very apt adjective for its public gambling consumption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds like the difference is that in one country they have a lot of smart lawyers or lobbyists that are defining things in one way and in the other they\u2019re not,\u201d Pallone shot back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While there was some discussion of the need for consumer protections and prevention of underage gambling, the hearing didn\u2019t break much new ground and there was no suggestion that any kind of legislation or regulation was likely to come out of it.<\/p>\n

Some committee members also appeared to be ill-informed about the nature of the contests and the finer points of the issues being debated.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s safe to say, for now at least, that the federal government appears content to keep its nose out of daily fantasy sports for the next stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Congressional hearing to examine the legality of daily fantasy sports (DFS) was snubbed by industry leaders DraftKings and FanDuel yesterday. Both companies are understood to have declined an invitation to attend the meeting of the Subcommittee of Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, which was called at the behest of New Jersey Assemblyman Frank Pallone. 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