DFS site FantasyUp shuts down - Not paying out customers

Corruption exists in literally every industry that's ever existed, past or present. This just underscores the need for regulatory oversight, which is imminent.

DFS will be fine. I know in CA, they've just passed a regulatory bill through their Assembly committee. When it looked as though things were doom and gloom in NY, DFS has now been granted a permanent injunction until the NY trial brought by the NY AG is resolved. Illegal practices by a small company by industry standards isn't going to derail what's going on right now.

I can't deny that this is a black eye for the industry, but not necessarily indicative that this is a industry-wide problem. Certainly hurts the other small companies trying to build themselves up to challenge a Fanduel or Draftkings.

Lol found this from 5 months ago. From their support.


While support can’t address Mountain_Cobra specifically, we can share the same info we have shared to customers/vendors:
FantasyUp is in process of finalizing a deal with a national-wide brand and raising significant funding to dramatically increase its exposure, marketing, and product offerings. At the current moment, our accounts are being held in escrow. While this is an exciting time for FantasyUp and it’s players, it is frustrating as well. We pride ourselves on exceptional and speedy customer service. That being said, we must continue to wait for this deal to finalize (or our period of exclusivity to expire) before we proceed. Closing has taken longer than anticipated.
We appreciate your patience and as always, please contact support if you have questions.
Kind Regards,
FantasyUp Support
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There were many poker site scams and even the major ones were shady.

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The major ones weren't shady at all. They still run their business with other players outside the US.

It's the US govts fault US players can't legally play legit poker outside of casinos. Want to know why? The casino lobby bought politicians that tacked on an illegal banking amendment to a PORT SECURITY bill. The guy who proposed it said gambling should be illegal yet he took a $50k contribution from the casino lobby.

Laws in the US are bought.

The Full Tilt guys money laundering wasn't shady? Stealing money had nothing to do with laws.

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Anyone else have any thoughts on fanduel taking away a users wins on their profile? I see why they did it, especially since some people were using bots but think it just tilts things even more towards the "pro" players

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I wasn't aware of this. Do you mean that they no longer display how many wins a player has?

If that's the case this is good. Pros use programs to search for weak players with a low win count. They can't do this if no wins are displayed.

Maybe but it is dumb for a newbie to post matchups anyway and they're still going to get scooped if they are a new user. And those pro programs have user data all the way up to a few days ago and other users have nothing.