In the US, “daily fantasy” games were legal before general sports gambling because they were argued to be games of skill. In daily fantasy, you pick players you

In the US, “daily fantasy” games were legal before general sports gambling because they were argued to be games of skill. In daily fantasy, you pick players you expect to do well that day and enter the line up into a pool of opponents with tiered payouts based on your rank at the end of the day. It’s different from betting money lines but I’m not sure it’s that different. At the same time, poker, which has a very clear skill component (I’d lose my shirt if I sat down at a table against World Series winners) is gambling.