Seriously, these guys build an entire industry — including ownership of all the ‘independent’ associated sites — and it’s not supposed to be rigged from the start? And I’m not even talking about Fantasy Labs because, hey, take advice from whoever you want (“Oh shit! Manziel says he’s really fired up this week! I believe him and will put $85 on the Browns to place!”). I’m talking about the culture of these businesses. Even if you are hiring on employees to just do X, they see the end game for these companies; the “vertical integration”, the hard sell, the oligopolic conditions — and they know that DFS isn’t about screwing customers using the rules of the game (the way casinos do) but, rather, by getting them in the game and then getting your hand in their pocket from any angle. Now, I know that this is many-a-successful-business-model but, in general, you’re usually better off getting established well before people realize the extend of your ass fuckery so that everyone just shrugs it off (see: Kathy Lee + Sweatshops; Lance Armstrong + PEDs; Wall St + Wall St Day to Day; Tom Brady + PEDs).

In conclusion, I hope the wealthy investors of the DFS industry try to blame this on the marketing companies and just railroad the people who came up with these horrible HORRIBLE ads that played nonstop because Sloth never won shit on anything.

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