Dueling with Kings: High Stakes, Killer Sharks, and the Get-Rich Promise of Daily Fantasy Sports Audiobook (Free)

In the spirit of Bringing Down the House as well as the Wolf of Wall Street, “an engrossing and frequently hilarious behind-the-scenes go through the characters, compulsions, and chaos inside the fantasy sports gold rush. It’s the perfect meld of a sports activities and business publication, engagingly written just like a fun, page-turning book” (The Wall Street Journal).

Daniel Barbarisi quit his work as a fresh York Yankees defeat writer and began a pursuit to join the top 1 percent of Daily Dream Sports (“DFS”) players, the thus- about Dueling with Kings: High Stakes, Killer Sharks, and the Get-Rich Promise of Daily Illusion Sports activities called “sharks,” in hopes to find the secrets behind this phenomenon-and potentially make some money on the way.

DFS is illusion sports activities on steroids. It’s the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole right into a billion-dollar sector by allowing sports activities fans to wager piles of cash constructing fantasy teams.

Yet mainly because Barbarisi quickly realizes, what should have been a fun partner to casual sports activities viewing was rather a ferocious environment infested with sharks, a top tier of advantages wielding complex algorithms, drafting hundreds of lineups, and wagering 6 figures daily as they bludgeon unsuspecting amateur “seafood.” Barbarisi embeds himself in the globe of DFS, befriending and signing up for its rogue’s gallery seeing that he tries to beat them at their personal game.

In a function equal parts adventure and rigorously reported investigation, Barbarisi wades into this chaotic industry at the second its existence is threatened by lawmakers fed up with its Wild West atmosphere and pushy advertising. Almost all their cash made FanDuel and DraftKings appear invincible; but, as Barbarisi reports, they made plenty of dubious-perhaps actually scandalous-moves because they vied for market supremacy.

In Dueling with Kings, Barbarisi uncovers the tumultuous inside story of DFS, all while capturing its peculiar cast of character types, from wide-eyed newly minted millionaires, to sun-starved math geeks, to bros living an unlimited frat party of keggers and Playboy Bunnies. Can he outwit all of them and make it to the top?