This is an audio cast of the Frontline Program, the Fantasy Sports Gamble,

broadcast February 9 on PBS, and available to watch online at pbs.org slash Frontline.

The United States Congress carved out a piece of legislation that says fantasy sports is not gambling.

I didn't make that decision, they did.

The underground world of online sports betting and the multi-billion dollar business of daily fantasy sports.

I've made hundreds of thousands of dollars doing this over the past two years now.

The core of what we do is about making sports more exciting.

Frontline and New York Times reporter Walt Buck Downish investigate the meteoric rise and new

challenges facing daily fantasy sports. It's clear to us that what they're doing is gambling.

There aren't investigations going on all over the country if you can't have unregulated gambling without running into problems.

How much do you estimate you lost?

Between 1665,000. Tonight on Frontline, the fantasy sports gambling.

So you don't view what you do here as gambling.

No.

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