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Tuesday 18 July 2017
APNewsBreak: New Jersey casino launches daily fantasy sports

By WAYNE PARRY real players and then com- floor by the time football
Associated Press pete against other contes- season starts to patrons in
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) tants based on the statisti- the casino.
— New Jersey’s first casino cal performances of those Giovanni Garcia, who runs
has become the first in At- players to win money. Pro- TheFantasySportsCave.
lantic City to let patrons ponents say it’s a game com, a website about the
play daily fantasy sports of skill, not chance, and daily fantasy sports indus-
contests for money. shouldn’t be regulated the try, said Resorts might have
Resorts Casino Hotel on way casinos are, but many found a way to get people
Monday launched Fast- states consider them to be like him to visit a casino.
Pick, a daily fantasy sports forms of gambling. “I won’t really want to go to
game in which custom- The game being offered a football game. I’d rather
ers choose head-to-head by Resorts, which opened stay at home and watch all
player matchups of real- in 1978 as the first casino the games,” he said. “But
world athletes. If the cus- outside Nevada, lets cus- if they make it an experi-
tomer’s slate of picks out- tomers choose three to ence, offer all the games
performs those assigned to 10 players from a series of to watch and meet all my
the casino, the customer head-to-head matchups needs, then I’ll go to a casi-
wins. Player matchups are shown on the screen of a computer laptop across a range of sports. no and I’ll spend money on
For example, a customer in Atlantic City N.J. on Monday July 17, 2017 shortly after Resorts Those selected players will food and drinks and prob-
can choose whether New Casino Hotel became the first New Jersey casino to launch a form the customer’s lineup, ably play poker and black-
daily fantasy sports site.
England Patriots quarter- Associated Press while the other players in jack while I’m there, too.”
back Tom Brady or Green those matchups are as- Joe Pollock, who runs The-
Bay Packers signal-caller for the brick-and-mortar man for the American signed to the casino. If the FantasyTakeaway.com, a
Aaron Rodgers will have a casino to be integrated as Gaming Association, the customer’s player amasses website focused on fantasy
better statistical day play- much as possible with our casino industry’s national more fantasy points than football, said he would be
ing football on a given Sun- online business.” trade group, said the group the casino’s player, the interested in trying Resorts’
day. The move marks the expan- does not know of casinos customer wins that match- new offering.
“I’m very excited about sion of daily fantasy sports outside Nevada that offer up. Customers need to win “A lot of people don’t
this new business,” Resorts into a new casino market. daily fantasy sports games all their matchups to win know the rules of casino
President Mark Giannan- But even as the activity has for money. money. table games, but really a
tonio told The Associated taken off across the coun- Daily fantasy sports con- At first, the daily fantasy lot of people know how to
Press. “We expect it to be try and abroad online, it tests allow people to de- contests will only be avail- play daily fantasy sports,”
exciting for our online cus- has been rather slow to posit money in accounts, able online. But Resorts he said. “It’s something
tomers, and soon, for those catch on at casinos in the create fantasy rosters of hopes to have kiosks up pretty simple that can be
who play at our casino. U.S. Steve Doty, a spokes- sports teams by selecting and running on the casino attractive to them.”q
The idea has always been

Tour de front in the mountains and main contenders.
to set a punishingly fast Froome has also showed
France tempo - all designed to great composure and

Continued from Page 17 prevent others from attack- calm when in trouble. In
ing. If Froome is in form, he danger of losing the cov-
“It’s the hardest fought will be untouchable. eted leader’s jersey, he
battle in terms of Tours de The collective strength of did not panic while Bardet,
France I’ve done before,” the Sky Team was on dis- Uran and Aru failed to join
Froome said during Mon- play Sunday when Froome forces at the front.
day’s rest day. “I’m just was forced to change his “I think Chris was strong be-
grateful I’m on the right rear wheel in the final 40 ki- cause he was calm. The
side of those gaps.” lometers and got dropped. temptation can be to go
Froome has the strongest “I was just standing there too hard too quickly, you
team and remains the fa- on the side of the road with panic a little bit, go really,
vorite to win in Paris, de- my teammate Michal Kwi- really deep to get on too
spite some rare signs of atkowski, trying to change quickly and of course you
weakness. wheels. I thought it was just explode,” Team Sky
He endured a bad day in potentially game over for manager Dave Brailsford
the Pyrenees during a gru- me,” Froome said. said.
eling stage to the ski sta- But Kwiatkowski quickly Froome’s rivals have now
tion of Peyragudes, when Britain’s Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jer- handed over his wheel and to find a way to unsettle
he lost the overall lead to sey, grimaces, as he climbs with France’s Romain Bardet, right, Froome was helped back and isolate him in the Alps
Colombia’s Rigoberto Uran, second left, and Italy’s Fabio Aru,
Aru after wearing the race left, during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race to the front by teammates before Saturday’s time trial
leader’s yellow jersey for over 189.5 kilometers (117.8 miles) with start in Laissac-Severac Sergio Henao, Vasil Kiryien- in Marseille, where the Brit-
seven days. But the Team l’Eglise and finish in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, Sunday, July 16, ka and Mikel Nieve, erasing ish rider will have the upper
Sky leader recovered in 2017. a 45-second gap. hand in the race against
style two days later, when Mikel Landa, who looks the clock.
Aru was trapped at the strong enough to be a Here is a look at the other
back of the peloton in Ro- superiority by riding at the rival. leader in another team, contenders ahead of Tues-
dez. front when the peloton Froome’s main asset in was riding at the front but day’s Stage 16 that will
On a windy day in the south stretched out and man- the final stretch will be the waited for Froome to catch lead the peloton to the
of France, Froome and his aged to put 24 seconds strength of his teammates. up and the pair worked gateway to the Alps in Ro-
teammates showed their into their leader’s closest Expect them to ride at the together to finish with the mans-sur-Isere.q