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The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast)

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Fantasy Sports Betting - Is It an Act of Skill or a Chance?

The question of whether playing fantasy sports was an act of skill or chance, this became a very rtant question for draft kings and their biggest rival, fanduel. The federal trade commission blocked a draft king's van duel merger on the ground that the new company would control more than ninety per cent of the u.S market for paid daily fantasy sports contests. So the companyes state separate fan duel, wound up being acquired by patty power bet fare, which is now known as flutter....

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