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DraftKings
including sportsbook DKSportsbook remain strongly
positioned in pro wrestling and mixed martial arts
scene
Following
WWE - TKO
Group - Netflix
deal as well as challenger brand situation with WBD
(FKA Warner Bros Discovery)
Well
aware of pros and cons of platforms such as:
Twitch
YouTube
Discord
Media
Man: Numerous additional win-win-win opportunities
present for both legacy/traditional media players
as well as independent, agile and hungry potential
partners. Niche, established and strongly Google
indexed media entities are well positioned to
help rocket DraftKings to the next level. The next
step or two in the right direction by DraftKings could
be yet another industry game changer.
Media
Man has worked and collaborated with over a dozen
sports
betting and online
gaming based promotions over the past two decades
such as Bwin, Virgin Games, Crown and bet365.
"Yes,
some markets are somewhat saturated but somehow the
industry keeps growing. Pro wrestling, mixed martial
arts and sports betting including fantasy sports just
keeps getting bigger.." Greg Tingle, Media Man
Group
Flashback
World
Poker Tour (European Champtionship)
2007
Daily
fantasy sports (DFS) leader DraftKings has signed
on as a sponsor of the World
Poker Tour (WPT) European Championship, this per
a press release issued by the WPT. The poker festival
will be held at the Speilbank Casino in Berlin, Germany
from January 5th through January 10th, with the Main
Event beginning January 10th.
DraftKings
will be sending eight people to the WPT European Championship
via daily fantasy qualifiers. Three of these contests
have already taken place; the next one is an NFL DFS
contest scheduled for this Thursday, Thanksgiving
Day in the United States. The entry fee is $75 and
the contest has a maximum capacity of 119 entries.
The top prize is a WPT European Championship package,
while the second through fifth place finishers will
win cash.
The
winners prize package includes a €3,300
seat in the WPT European Championship, a six-night
hotel stay in Berlin during the festival, and $1,500
to pay for flights and other travel expenses.
DraftKings
is also running satellites in to the main qualifier
starting at 25 cents.
It
is with great pleasure that we welcome industry leader
DraftKings as a sponsor for the Season XVI WPT European
Championship, said World Poker Tour CEO Adam
Pliska in a press release. We look forward to
providing a great experience for World Poker Tour
players.
DraftKings
and the World Poker Tour have worked together in the
past. In 2013, DraftKings became the WPTs exclusive
daily fantasy sports partner. With that came all the
expected marketing efforts: advertising at WPT events,
DFS qualifiers for the WPT tournaments, and the sponsorship
of the events live streams. Anywhere it could,
DraftKings would establish tie-ins to the World Poker
Tour and try to court poker players.
As
legal entanglements for DraftKings grew a couple years
later, the sponsorship ended, presumably so the company
could focus its time and money on battling state lawmakers
and Attorneys General.
DraftKings
also sponsored the World Series of Poker in 2014 and
2015. The DFS leader was actually the most represented
at the 2014 Main Event final table, with three players
wearing a DraftKings patch. There was even an event
named after the site in 2014: the $1,500 DraftKings
50/50, an unusually structured tournament in which
half the field made the money. This echoed a popular
DFS tournament format, one where players sacrifice
the chance for excessive winnings at the top of the
standings in exchange for a much better chance to
profit.
In
2015, Max Steinberg qualified for the World Series
of Poker Main Event via DraftKings and went on to
finish fourth in the tournament. Unfortunately for
him (an odd thing to say for someone who almost won
the Main Event), he was unable to wear a DraftKings
patch because the Nevada Gaming Commission ruled that
DFS qualified as sports betting and thus DFS sites
had to have a license to operate in Nevada. As a result,
DraftKings had to withdraw its sponsorship of the
WSOP shortly before the Main Event final table.
(Poker
News Daily)
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