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If you are younger than 50 and live in North America, chances are you know peers — or dozens of peers — who

play fantasy sports. Led by the most popular sport, football, an estimated 58 million players in the U.S. and Cana-

da played in at least one league in 2015. However, a new kind of fantasy game, daily fantasy sports, has drawn

the eye of regulators as its popularity has skyrocketed. Among the fans are these patrons at Taphouse in Down-

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moving to regulate daily fantasy sports as a form of gambling. One Idaho legislator thinks Idaho will consider it

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Within two weeks, gam-bling regulators in Neva-da banned daily fantasysports from the state. InNovember, New YorkAttorney General Eric

It wasn’t only NewEngland Patriots fansgrimacing as startight end Rob Gron-

kowski writhed in painnear the end of a lossSunday night to the Den-ver Broncos.

“Gronk” had carriedmillions of teams amongthose created by an esti-mated 58 million fantasysports players in the U.S.and Canada to strongseasons and office brag-ging rights. Those mayhave buckled with Gron-kowski’s right knee.

Gronkowski’s injurymay have cost hundredsor thousands of dollars toplayers of daily fantasysports, a wagering varia-tion of traditional fantasy-sports games. Daily play-ers at such sites as Fan-Duel and DraftKingsstaked as much as $5,300in each game they playedthis week in hopes ofwinning millions. Someplayers may have hopedGronkowski could score alate-game touchdown thatwould bump their scoresinto the ranks of the topfinishers, earning the bigchecks shown on FanDueland DraftKings commer-cials that run endlessly onsports TV channels.

The ads promise easygame play and a chance atbig returns. As their pop-ularity kept growing thisfall, a scandal erupted:Investigators foundDraftKings employeesused insider informationto win hundreds of thou-sands of dollars on Fan-Duel. Regulators andlawmakers around thecountry started asking theobvious question: Aren’twager-and-payout gameslike those offered byDraftKings and FanDuelgambling?

Schneiderman sent cease-and-desist orders to thecompanies, saying thegames are illegal there.Legislatures in 15 stateshave or are expected to

soon debate bills thatwould either regulatedaily fantasy games orexempt them from stategambling laws, accordingto GamblingCompliance,

an industry research com-pany. Idaho has not tack-led the issue, though onelawmaker expects it to.

FANTASY BOOM

Fantasy games havechanged the way fansfollow sports, said TimCampbell, general man-ager of Taphouse, a barand restaurant at 760 W.Main St. in DowntownBoise. Patrons there split

their attention betweenthe row of TVs, eachshowing a different game,and their smartphones,where fantasy apps dis-play scoreboards thatchange with each recep-tion, run or touchdownalmost as soon as it hap-pens.

Campbell, 33, playsseason-long fantasy foot-ball, where players assignreal players to imaginaryteams and earn pointsbased on the players’performances in realgames. He said Taphousepatrons are subtler thanthose at bars he has vis-ited in California, wherefans post up with laptopsso they can easily monitorseveral teams.

Fantasy has changedsports bar culture, he said.

“The majority of peoplecome to watch football,and even the older peopleseem to be in at least onefantasy league,” Campbellsaid.

Brett Grieser, 34, of

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DARIN OSWALD doswald@idahostatesman.com

Steve Richardson, right, and his son Kyle Richardson watch a Washington Redskins game at Taphouse in DowntownBoise on Sunday. Owner Brian Forde said fantasy sports — including the daily variety — bring in patrons.

FANTASY SPORTS

Skill or chance? Stateseye game regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A new form of fantasy sports encourages more betting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Idaho hasn’t yet joined growing list of states considering legislation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Boise psychologist predicts daily fantasy sports will appeal to gambling addicts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

500,000Estimated number of U.S.and Canadian fantasyplayers in 1988, accordingto Fantasy Sports TradeAssociation

57 MILLIONEstimated number of U.S.and Canadian fantasyplayers today

$58.5MILLION2014 revenue from Idahoreported by DraftKings

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MIAMI

The crowd that lined uparound a megachurchhere last week — largelyHispanic and mostly poor— came for the Saturdayservices, but also for the

free flu shots that werebeing offered in thechurch, and for theThanksgiving turkeysbeing given away justoutside.

But before they receivedtheir turkeys, those in linewere asked to answer afew questions: Were they

more likely to vote for aRepublican or a Democratin the 2016 presidentialelection? And did they feelthat the governmentshould increase or de-crease federal spending inorder to improve the econ-omy?

Volunteers, holding

clipboards and speakingmainly in Spanish, collectedthe names, telephone num-bers and email addresses ofeveryone who showed up.

The approach — a freeturkey in exchange forsome personal information— captures the mission ofLibre, a multimillion-dollareffort financed by the con-servative billionaires Char-les and David Koch anddevoted to winning overHispanics with the messagethat economic freedom and

smaller-government prin-ciples will yield opportuni-ty and prosperity.

With an increased em-phasis on Hispanic out-reach, the Kochs are hop-ing to step in where theRepublican Party has, bymany accounts, failed.After the 2012 presidentialelection — Mitt Romney,the Republican nominee,won just 27 percent of theHispanic vote — a report

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Koch brothers woo Hispanic voters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Libre effort takes names, phone numbers, email addresses in exchange for turkeys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Message is that opportunity and prosperity will be there with economic freedom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

BY ASHLEY PARKER

New York Times News Service

‘‘THEY’RE POURINGSIGNIFICANTRESOURCES INTOOURCOMMUNITIES TOGET LATINOS TOVOTE AGAINSTTHEIR OWN BESTINTERESTS.

Cristóbal Alex, presidentof the Latino VictoryProject

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the point where a consensus ofscientists say oceans will rise tolevels that will cover islandnations, snowpacks in moun-tains will melt and large por-tions of the world will becomeuninhabitable.

For this goal to be reached,developed nations will need tomove away from economiesbased on fossil fuels and devel-oping nations will have to leap-frog past coal and oil to buildtheir new economies on low-carbon energy. It’s a tall order,but for Payton it’s a responsi-bility that comes from his patri-otism, his faith and his love ofgrandchildren Alec and Tessa.

“The science is in. There areno ambiguities of the nature orcauses of climate change,” hesaid by telephone from Paris.

“We as Americans have theresponsibility to deal with cli-mate and energy issues in ourmidst and to assist those in theworld least able to addressthem.”

Payton was the 2015 recipientof the Keith and Pat AxlineAward for Environmental Activ-ism, the Idaho ConservationLeague’s highest award. He hasworked hard opposing new coalterminals in Washington statethat would make it possible toship coal from Montana andWyoming to China and India.

For him, the coal trains arenot simply a global issue, butone of safety and health forNorth Idaho, through which1.5-mile-long trains full of coal I

daho doesn’t have an offi-cial representative at theParis climate talks, butSandpoint’s Gary Payton is

there, representing thePresbyterian Church and the

Idaho Conservation League.Payton, who spent 24 years as

an officer in the U.S. Air Forcespecializing in Eastern Europeand Russia, has spent the sec-ond half of his life dedicated topeace, service and protectingthe environment in Idaho andthe globe. He paid his own wayto join the 21st session of theConference of the Parties to theUnited Nations FrameworkConvention on ClimateChange, along with 151 heads ofstate; national negotiators; andleaders of global faith commu-nities, environmental organiza-tions and businesses. The Paristalks continue until Dec. 11.

The talks aim to craft aninternational agreement to keepglobal warming from rising bymore than 2 degrees Celsius,

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Meridian, started playingseason-long fantasy foot-ball around 2009 andusually plays in two orthree leagues each foot-ball season. Grieser, whoworks as a loan documentspecialist at Wells Fargo,said he was swayed by adsfor FanDuel and Draft-Kings to try daily fantasylast season.

“I really love playingfantasy football,” he said.“Any additional fantasyfootball is a plus.”

He said he started anaccount on FanDuel be-cause the site offered tomatch his deposit up to$200, a promotion stillavailable today.

Grieser won back hisinitial wager of $20 dur-ing his first week. Thenext week, he enteredseveral tournaments andwon $150. His winningspetered out after a fewmore weeks of playing, sohe quit.

This year, Grieser said,he wagered $50. After afew small wins, the depos-it again dwindled and hegave up. He said the in-sider trading scandaldampered his enthusiasm.

“I quit FanDuel becauseI felt like I was throwingmoney away,” he said.“When the story came outabout DraftKings employ-ees using information toget an advantage on Fan-Duel, it soured me on thewhole thing.”

FanDuel and Draft-Kings blanketed TV air-waves with ads in 2015,outspending the beerindustry from Aug. 16through the opening weekof the NFL season, CNNreported.

DraftKings spent $131.4million to broadcast TVads more than 40,000times through Oct. 5, upfrom about 8,700 airingsthrough the same periodlast year, according toCNN. FanDuel spent$74.5 million for about21,500 ad airings in thatperiod, up from about14,000 the year before.

Grieser said competingindustries, such as casinos

and Las Vegas sportsbooks (the parts of casinosthat accept bets on sportsevents), were bound torespond by complainingto regulators.

“Both FanDuel andDraftKings were so in ourfaces with commercials atevery break,” Griesersaid. “I feel like theybrought it on them-selves.”

REGULATORS TAKE

NOTICE

The daily sports indust-ry argues that its gamesare games of skill, notchance. The industryleans on a 2006 law thatcracked down on Internetgambling but specificallyexempted fantasy sports.

Industry critics say thelaw intended to exemptseason-long fantasy sportsthat prohibit unlimitedwagering, which FanDueland DraftKings allow.Players may have paid$50 dues to join a season-long league in 2006.FanDuel came along in2009 and DraftKings in2010.

Laws in six states al-ready categorize dailyfantasy sports as illegalgambling: Washington,Montana, Iowa, Arizona,Louisiana and Nevada.

Legislatures or attor-neys general in 14 statesare considering whetherdaily fantasy sportsshould be deemed legal,according to Gambling-Compliance. Most propos-als, including one inWashington state, wouldregulate DraftKings, Fan-Duel and similar sites,said James Kilsby, man-aging director of Gam-blingCompliance in NorthAmerica.

“There’s every indica-tion that the issue will nolonger be whether dailyfantasy sports will beregulated. It’s how,” Kils-by said. “It’s now a matterof how strict regulationswill be.”

Until recently, the dailyfantasy sports industryinsisted that it is not sub-ject to regulation. That

has changed in recentmonths, Kilsby said.

“It’s better to be at thetable than on the menu,”Kilsby said. “That’s howthe industry is approach-ing this issue.”

Most states consideringregulation want basicconcessions — such as theindustry taking steps toensure children cannotplay or that player depos-its are guarded from busi-ness failure — that theindustry will accept, Kils-by said.

A proposal in Illinoiswould take a light ap-proach, setting 18 as theminimum age and prohib-iting insider play by daily-fantasy employees. Thebill would designate thestate’s attorney general asa regulator, but the in-dustry would largely self-regulate.

A tougher Californiaproposal would requiresites to pay licensing feesand taxes, and it wouldset 21 as the minimumage. The California De-partment of Justice wouldtake a more active role asregulator.

The industry is focusingits lobbying efforts inhigh-population states fornow, Kilsby said. Idahohas not considered anyproposals on the topic.Any bill would likely passthrough the Idaho SenateState Affairs Committee,chaired by Nampa Repub-lican Curt McKenzie.

McKenzie said he hasheard no chatter about adaily fantasy sports bill,but he expects lawmakersto become conversant as

other states vote on pro-posals.

“There’s enough moneyat stake and enough peo-ple who play theseleagues that I’m not sur-prised that states arelooking at it,” McKenziesaid. “I wouldn’t be sur-prised if it was somethingthat came before theIdaho Legislature in thenext couple of years.”

ADDICTS BEWARE

Daily fantasy sportscould lead to debt, di-vorce, depression and allof the other problemscaused by gambling ad-diction, Boise psycholo-gist Charles Rice said.

Like poker, slot ma-chines or any other formof gambling, daily fantasysports reinforce the beha-vior with wins and pro-vides ample opportunityto wager compulsivelyafter losses.

“It’s an expectation inyour imagination for ascore, and intermittentlyit’s reinforced to keep yougoing,” Rice said. “All ofthese things empower thechemicals in your limbicsystem, the pleasure cen-ter for the brain.”

While Grieser stoppedafter losing his deposit onFanDuel, he said playerswith more addictive per-sonalities might doubledown.

“Several times when Ilost money I had that urgeto deposit more, thatmaybe I could at least winback what I’d lost,” hesaid. “I could easily dumpa bunch of money in it,because when I won that$150, it seemed easy, likeI was pretty good at it.”

Daily fantasy could beparticularly tempting forpeople with addictivepersonalities who are not

comfortable with seedierpeople or places wherepeople may place bets orbuy drugs, Rice said. Plus,the Internet is anonymousand fast, which Rice saidhas already led to an in-crease in sex addiction.

“That’s the thing aboutthe Internet: It’s so easy,”Rice said. “You don’thave to hang out withother gamblers. You don’thave to deal with socio-paths to buy cocaine. It’ssafe, so you can be a clos-et gambler.”

STACKED DECK

FanDuel and Draft-Kings commercials oftendepict average-lookingguys who struck it rich,but analysis shows playerslike Grieser don’t win bigchecks.

Bloomberg reportedthat only 1.3 percent ofplayers on daily fantasysites won money during athree-month period, andthat another survey found70 percent of more than1,400 fantasy sports play-ers lost money during athree-month period.

So, who wins thosemillions? Bloombergfound that most wereplayers like Saahil Sud,who worked in the datascience field beforeswitching to playing dailyfantasy sports betweeneight and 15 hours eachday, plugging numbersinto advanced predictivemodels. Sud told Bloom-berg he risked an averageof $140,000 per daywhile entering hundredsof baseball and footballcontests. He earned an 8percent average return.

Grieser said he con-sumes news and analysisabout the NFL and fanta-sy football voraciously,but he resists the urge tothink he is a step ahead ofother fantasy players.

“If I continued to play,maybe I’d win somesmaller payouts,” he said.“But I know the top spotswill be taken by profes-sionals who are doing thisfor a living.”

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THE WEEK OF OCT. 12, DRAFTKINGSAND FANDUEL COMBINED TO TAKE 7.5 MILLION CONTEST ENTRIES AND $45 MILLION IN ENTRY FEES. THEYPAID OUT NEARLY $40 MILLION INPRIZES, ACCORDING TO ESPN.

‘‘IT CERTAINLY IS A FANTASY. Psychologist Charles Rice

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THE DAILY FANTASY SPORTS INDUSTRY HAS HIRED 17 LOBBYING FIRMS LOCATED IN 14 STATES, ACCORDING TO GAMBLINGCOMPLIANCE.

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ZACH KYLE

Zach has played season-long fantasy football for yearsbut hadn’t tried a daily fantasy game until losing $10while reporting on this story. In one season-long leaguehe plays in, he faces 11 opponents scattered across theU.S. and Europe who exchange hundreds of trash-talkemails each week. He has met two of them. He has nevermet Ryan Molenkamp, a Seattle professional painter whodraws slightly warped portraits based on Facebookphotos of the player with the highest score each week(like one he drew of Zach, left). Zach’s wife hates thehalf-dozen portraits he has accumulated over three yearsof earning high scores.

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THE GROWTH OF FANTASY

Fantasy sports are nothing new. An estimated 500,000residents of the U.S. and Canada played in 1988,according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.Those numbers swelled to nearly 58 million this year. Ofthose, 70 percent played fantasy football, echoing therising popularity of the NFL.

But traditional leagues were relatively low-stakes. Inseason-long, head-to-head fantasy leagues, people draftplayers who remain on their roster unless they waive ortrade them, and their stats — for example, yards andtouchdowns in football — contribute to their team’songoing performance week to week. Players use fantasyservices available on a plethora of websites, includingpopular sites such as Yahoo! and ESPN.

Some season-long leagues have buy-ins distributed tothe eventual winner or top finishers at the end of theseason. Many leagues are free.

Regulators never targeted fantasy sports untilDraftKings.com and FanDuel.com started offering a newkind of game: daily fantasy sports. In daily fantasy,players wager between $1 and thousands of dollars toenter in daylong and weeklong contests, sometimescompeting against thousands of other online players fora chance to win millions. The potential for high stakesand the game structure allow players to bet repeatedlyduring a season or week.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34 PERCENT Share of fantasy playerswho are women, accordingto Fantasy Sports TradeAssociation.

$216 MILLIONTotal spent on TV ads byFanDuel and DraftKings in2015 through Oct. 5,according to CNN

would travel. He also haspushed ICL to get in-volved in renewable ener-gy issues in southernIdaho, said Rick Johnson,its executive director.

Payton is bucking Ida-ho’s political establish-ment. Gov. Butch Otterhas favored renewableenergy development buthe, along with the entireIdaho congressional dele-gation, opposed PresidentBarack Obama’s newrules to reduce carbonemissions from electricpower plants by 30 per-cent.

To make sure the worldknew Republicans op-posed Obama’s efforts,the House passed twobills aimed at stopping therules from being enforcedon the day Obama ad-dressed the Paris talks,which Payton watched.

“The existing powerplant rule would effective-ly put into place a cap-and-trade system, eventhough many economistsagree that such a system

is not the most effectiveway to reduce the impactsof climate change,” IdahoCongressman Mike Simp-son said in a news release.“Without global participa-tion in such a program,including heavy pollutersin growing economies likeIndia and China, U.S.industries will be unableto compete on the worldstage and American jobswill be forced overseas.”

But that debate is whatthe Paris climate talks areall about.

While Payton was inParis, theFrenchambassa-dor to theUnitedStates wasin Boiseand NampaWednesdayto supportthe French

food companies that haveinvested more than $335million in Canyon Coun-ty. Gerard Araud alsovisited Micron Tech-

nology, hoping to get theBoise company to investin France.

In an interview at Mi-cron, Araud told me theParis talks are not goingto solve the climatechange issue. Instead, hesaid, they can be the placewhere the world beginsthe many-decades effortto bend the curve on car-bon emissions.

“Paris would be the firsttime when all of us are onboard,” Araud said.

That’s not just nations,

he said. Cities, nongov-ernmental organizationsand businesses also mustput in place the tech-nology that will eliminatecarbon while driving de-velopment.

“Paris is a success ifeverybody is serious aboutglobal warming,” Araudsaid.

Payton is already se-rious. For him, the climatetalks are not about thisyear’s election or even hisown lifetime.

“My prayer is for to-

day’s negotiators, thatthey never lose sight ofthe impact of climatechange on tomorrow’sliving beings,” he said.

Rocky Barker:208-377-6484,@RockyBarker

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Gary Payton, of Sandpoint, at the climate talks in Paristhis week.

GérardAraud

The Associated Press

Activists protest against polluters at the United NationsClimate Change Conference on Wednesday in Paris.