HAHA. Who wants to do a Fanduel league again?

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Originally Posted by Lex Luthor

I thought it was an interesting experiment last year. I'd do it again, except I lost a little faith in the fairness of all of these Daily Fantasy Sports sites.

I remember the week when a brand new player finished in something like 3 out of the top 5 spots in the contest. The player had just created his account a couple of days before the weekend, and he picked 3 winners. Not only that, but if I recall correctly, the only reason his teams won were because Ben Roethlisberger returned early from an injury (he wasn't expected to play at all that day).

This guy's teams won several hundred thousand dollars, and it all just seemed a little fishy to me. I couldn't help but think someone on the inside did some manipulation during or immediately after the Steelers game. It reminded me of the incident a few years ago where a guy who was a system administrator on one of the legal poker sites installed a hack that let him play the games and see what everybody's down cards were. He made a killing before he was caught.

I'm sure there are all kinds of safeguards in place at Fanduel and Draft Kings to prevent things like that. Yeah, whatever.

I did a Google search, and I found a story about the incident:



http://freakonomics.com/2007/10/17/t...own-wide-open/

So, Absolute Poker investigated the incident and determined that one of their owners was not directly involved in the cheating. That doesn't sound very convincing to me, and that is why I'm not terribly interested in giving my money to Fanduel or Draft Kings.

Interesting read. Yeah I remember that Roethlisburger week. Def shady. This is actually why I advocate playing some of the lower stakes tourneys. I actually won one of those for baseball last year. The million dollar or whatever tourneys probably attract all the sharks and/or scammers.

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Originally Posted by Lex Luthor

I thought it was an interesting experiment last year. I'd do it again, except I lost a little faith in the fairness of all of these Daily Fantasy Sports sites.

I remember the week when a brand new player finished in something like 3 out of the top 5 spots in the contest. The player had just created his account a couple of days before the weekend, and he picked 3 winners. Not only that, but if I recall correctly, the only reason his teams won were because Ben Roethlisberger returned early from an injury (he wasn't expected to play at all that day).

This guy's teams won several hundred thousand dollars, and it all just seemed a little fishy to me. I couldn't help but think someone on the inside did some manipulation during or immediately after the Steelers game. It reminded me of the incident a few years ago where a guy who was a system administrator on one of the legal poker sites installed a hack that let him play the games and see what everybody's down cards were. He made a killing before he was caught.

I'm sure there are all kinds of safeguards in place at Fanduel and Draft Kings to prevent things like that. Yeah, whatever.

I did a Google search, and I found a story about the incident:



http://freakonomics.com/2007/10/17/t...own-wide-open/

So, Absolute Poker investigated the incident and determined that one of their owners was not directly involved in the cheating. That doesn't sound very convincing to me, and that is why I'm not terribly interested in giving my money to Fanduel or Draft Kings.

I personally know the guy who busted that open on 2+2. He's head of security now at PokerStars. Crazy times in the poker world. It's amazing to think Absolute could have gotten away with it much longer if they didn't accidentally send out that smoking gun spreadsheet. The hand that really stuck out was the guy calling a bluff with like 10-high to win the tournament.