When Will All States Legalize Sports Betting + The History of DFS (Episode 376: One-on-One with FSGA's Peter Schoenke)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Peter Schoenke has been on the front lines of the legal battles around DFS and sports betting for the last decade. He sits down with Adam Levitan to discuss the inside scoop on what happened before and what happens next.
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Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Was DFS almost dead in 2015?
- Fight: Season-long vs. DFS
- How lobbying works
- State-by-state issues with betting
- Tons more
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Timestamps:
3:06 - Peter’s background
8:53 - Animosity between Season-long and DFS
11:31 - Why Peter went into lobbying
12:35 - Reacting to DFS in the 2015
15:17 - An insider view on lobbying
17:30 - Was DFS on the ropes?
19:29 - Writing to representatives
21:05 - Present day takes on DFS
23:45 - Why DFS isn’t legal in certain states
28:55 - Betting and Taxes
33:46 - Why draft props aren’t legal in some states
38:31 - Passing sports betting in Texas and California
49:51 - Poker’s online future
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, no one welcome to episode 376 of the official established the run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm one of the co-founders here at ETR and today we have a very, very, very special guest |
| 0:30.0 | is a young man who I think a lot of us owe a big debt of gratitude to played a big |
| 0:35.1 | role in keeping DFS legal when it was on the ropes. |
| 0:39.6 | He's out there or at least he was out there. |
| 0:41.5 | Maybe still is out there traveling the globe, stating our case against the enemies of |
| 0:47.3 | fantasy sports. |
| 0:48.7 | He's a fantasy player himself finished fourth in the Scott Fishbowl last year. |
| 0:53.8 | Actually a crazy accomplishment to finish fourth in that. |
| 0:55.9 | It is Peter Shanky of Rotawire, president of Rotawire, former chairman, current government |
| 1:02.4 | affairs for the fantasy sports and gaming association. |
| 1:06.8 | Peter, thanks for doing the show. |
| 1:08.3 | How's it going? |
| 1:09.0 | That's going great. |
| 1:10.4 | I guess this was a radio show. |
| 1:11.6 | I'd say first time long time. |
| 1:13.6 | So big fan of the show and big fan of your work all the way all the way back to the days |
| 1:17.8 | when we were going toe to toe with the roto world, the roto wire back and forth battles |
| 1:22.8 | of player notes. |
| 1:23.7 | And anyone that had to go through the pain of trying to figure out the Tony Dungy and |
| 1:29.6 | Bilbao Jack entry reports and post player notes on it has my respect. |
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