Resorts Casino Hotel launched FastPick, a daily fantasy sports game in which customers choose head-to-head player matchups of real-world athletes. If the customer’s slate of picks outperforms those assigned to the casino, the customer wins.
For example, a customer can choose whether New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady or Green Bay Packers signal-caller Aaron Rodgers will have a better statistical day playing football on a given Sunday.
"I’m very excited about this new business,” Resorts President, Mark Giannantonio, told The Associated Press. "We expect it to be exciting for our online customers, and soon, for those who play at our casino. The idea has always been for the brick-and-mortar casino to be integrated as much as possible with our online business.”
The move marks the expansion of daily fantasy sports into a new casino market. But even as the activity has taken off across the country and abroad online, it has been rather slow to catch on at casinos in the US.
Steve Doty, a spokesman for the American Gaming Association, said the group does not know of casinos outside Nevada that offer daily fantasy sports games for money.
Daily fantasy sports contests allow people to deposit money in accounts, create fantasy rosters of sports teams by selecting real players and then compete against other contestants based on the statistical performances of those players to win money. Proponents say it’s a game of skill, not
At first, the daily fantasy contests will only be available online. But Casino Hotel hopes to have kiosks up and running on the casino floor by the time football season starts to patrons in the casino. Giovanni Garcia, who runs TheFantasySportsCave.com, a website about the daily fantasy sports industry, said Resorts might have found a way to get people like him to visit a casino.
Source: GMB / AP CD Gaming Reports
