October 23, 2015
Reports out of Nevada as the week ends indicate that the partnership between the World Series of Poker and daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings has been put on hold following the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s finding that DFS constitutes gambling and should not continue in the state without the appropriate licence. DraftKings had already announced […]
June 30, 2015
The inaugural $1,500 buy-in DraftKings 50/50 NLHE competition (event 55 on the World Series of Poker schedule) has ended appropriately with a win for Las Vegas-based professional sports gambler Brandon Wittmeyer (31). Sponsored by the market leading DraftKings daily fantasy sports provider, the event was unusual in that it enabled fifty percent of entrants to […]
June 28, 2015
Few visitors to this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas will have failed to notice the high profile presence of one of the top sponsors, the daily fantasy sports provider DraftKings. That makes a lot of business sense, given the long-known cross-over interest between poker and sports betting, although the DFS industry will […]
May 29, 2015
The booming world of daily fantasy sports will intersect with live poker action at a special event sponsored by DFS market-leader DraftKings and the World Series of Poker in the current 46th edition of the prestigious Las Vegas tournament, which kicked off this week. WSOP spokesman Seth Palansky said that in keeping with the tournament’s […]