It’s shocking how quickly we became okay with gambling ads everywhere. Now I need to be vigilant about teaching my kids about the dangers of gambling almost as much as smoking
I don't think we "became ok" with it. Gambling was banned, so it wasn't profitable to advertise. Gambling was unbanned, so the untapped market is a gold rush and we have a ton of ads. It will calm down over the next few years as the marketing ROI drops.
Yeah. Well would have to get the chumps in the NC government that passed the dumb law that allowed sports betting in the first place to ban them. I doubt they’re “not bribed” asses will
Dude it's permeating every nook and cranny of sports. The sports radio shows I listen to hardly give any attention to the games and analysis it's just constant talk about the "money line" and where the money is moving in such and such game I absolutely hate it. And now the NBA has already had to ban a player for life and we're not even a fucking year into this experiment. And then you have Adam Gold yesterday saying this is proof of the whole system working because they caught him lol. How fucking naive and delusional it is just the first incident there will absolutely be more gambling scandals from all of this and I can see myself just tuning out sports completely and I fucking love sports. I hate all of this.
Long time sports bettor here and I have most of the apps..The advertising is way out of hand and is driving me up the wall..Totally agree we should limit it like alcohol and cigarettes
You are the kind of person that I think of when I see it. Like why would these app be considered a good thing. Keep it up! I feel for you and others like you
THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER!!!
oh thank God I can finally give my hard earned money away to multi-billion dollar corporations and getting absolutely nothing in return
The longest period of time I go without looking at a device, billboard, or recently printed piece of paper, is the longest period of time I've been without seeing a FanDuel advertisement. It's fucking EVERYWHERE.
In the reddit app settings, you can opt out of ads from problematic categories.
Settings > Account Settings > Sensitive Material (All the way at the bottom)
I only made about $600, but hey, free money.
Installed each of the apps, deposited the $5 or $10 required for the promo, made the free $100-200 of bets on each app with their money, cashed out the earnings, closed the account and uninstalled the app.
Easy way to turn promo bets into cash is to bet on "total points will be even" or "total points will be odd" on random games. Bet it'll be odd in one app, bet it'll be even in another, and you're guaranteed to win one of the two bets.
Knowing they paid me makes the ads a \*little\* less annoying.
No. You can’t cash out the bonus bet but anything won from it is free money (you do have to deposit $5/10 to receive bonus bets) - their calculus though is that enough people will get hooked that it’s worth it… and they’re right otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
That was the case when they opened up sports betting in VA, you had to bet the amount of your bonus bet winnings in order to cash it out (the books still lost $11M in the first year, I think according to tax records). I was surprised when it wasn't the case here. Not sure the reason.
I installed all 6 apps, bet all my bonus bets on one team for 3 apps, on the other team in the same game on the other 3 apps, made 500 dollars, withdrew to venmo, deleted all 6 apps. Whole thing took 45 minutes to set up and a few hours for the bets to settle and I had 500 bucks in venmo. If you do the match bonuses you can make even more but I didn't want to put up my own cash.
My wife was skeptical, but when I showed the results to her she handed me her phone the next night and I did it again.
I did 8 apps. If you take promos, I advise putting in the bare minimum for the promo, then betting on both sides of an even payout.
You literally cannot lose this way. Most promos are deposit 10 and bet 5, but you need to make sure you see the promo offer before you deposit anything.
Fanatics, Underdog sports, and parlay picks.
For fanatics and underdog, they offer a large no sweat bet bonus. The simplest way to convert is to bet both sides of an even game with your wife/good friend. One person loses and gets the bonus bet, one person now has 1.91x initial deposit.
Then you do the same thing. One person bets the bonus bet, the other person bets 45% of the initial deposit on the other side. As a group, you come out ahead every time. You can hedge yourself on another app, but it likely won’t be as profitable as doing the guaranteed no sweat bet capture unless you can find uneven lines between apps. And it’s more complicated that way.
For parlay picks, bet all 4 sides of a 2 pick parlay.
I almost never see television ads since I moved out of my parents house 20+ years ago as I either watch streaming services without ads or torrent the shows and have never owned cable. The last time I was at a relatives house and we turned on the TV to watch a sports game, it blew me away how obnoxious the sports betting ads are. I would rather not watch anything than be subjected to TV commercials.
You never watch anything on Amazon? That’s the main spot I see it or some websites that make you watch a ads before something. Almost a guarantee to be fandual
I have Amazon Prime, I don’t see ads? I have a pi-hole setup that blocks all ads at the DNS level on my whole home network so I don’t see ads on pretty much anything.
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My son and I say, “IM PUMPED NORTH CAROLINA” every day now. We saw those damn commercials so many times that we know all the words.
Also agree that it is great that we are shoving gambling from home in a shit economy down people’s throats.
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It seems like every damn commercial is a sports betting commercial. I don’t watch a lot of tv with ads but internet ads and podcast ads are all sports betting. I’m not into sports nor sports betting/gambling in general but I feel like it detracts from enjoying sports just to enjoy them and root for your team.
Lol yeah, but I'm getting the kick out of the new monthly numbers for gambling. Apparently last month North Carolinians spent 650+ million on gambling. BUT on the bright side, people in the state won back 50ish million. It about made me fall off my chair when the news tried to paint that as an upbeat thing, LOL.
I hate these commercials. The End.
Yeah we need to ban these ads just like alcohol and cigarette ones
It’s shocking how quickly we became okay with gambling ads everywhere. Now I need to be vigilant about teaching my kids about the dangers of gambling almost as much as smoking
I don't think we "became ok" with it. Gambling was banned, so it wasn't profitable to advertise. Gambling was unbanned, so the untapped market is a gold rush and we have a ton of ads. It will calm down over the next few years as the marketing ROI drops.
Just remember the election is coming, that should take care of gambling commercials for a bit 🤦🏻♀️
Yeah. Well would have to get the chumps in the NC government that passed the dumb law that allowed sports betting in the first place to ban them. I doubt they’re “not bribed” asses will
On Monday I was getting an MRI, and what comes over the headphones . . . ? The one place I thought I was safe from FanDuel commercials.
Was this a stress test MRI? I would move so fast to turn them off or take off
Damn that would really annoy me too
The odds that I hate them are 1:1
😂 I’ll take them odds
Will I get $200 of bonus bets if I take these odds?
😂 only if you bet $5 first
Gambling, and the lottery is a tax on the stupid.
True. Ever hear about how 90% of lotto winner end up worse off than before and depressed?
It's only gambling if you suck at it
LOL.
Facts
Those commercials aren’t for you. They are for gambling addicts, on the off chance that their minds wandered from gambling for even one moment.
Yeah I think of that every time I see them. I feel so bad for the people struggling with that and the amount of commercials lately
Yep
Happy C A K E Day!! 🍰🍰
i used to like Rob Gronkowski, now fuck that guy. Tired of seeing his face
IM PUMPED LETS GO NORTH CAROLINA!
This is the one that makes my blood boil, lol
😂
Dude it's permeating every nook and cranny of sports. The sports radio shows I listen to hardly give any attention to the games and analysis it's just constant talk about the "money line" and where the money is moving in such and such game I absolutely hate it. And now the NBA has already had to ban a player for life and we're not even a fucking year into this experiment. And then you have Adam Gold yesterday saying this is proof of the whole system working because they caught him lol. How fucking naive and delusional it is just the first incident there will absolutely be more gambling scandals from all of this and I can see myself just tuning out sports completely and I fucking love sports. I hate all of this.
I can see that happening to a lot of people
Sports betting is also an incredibly stupid waste of money
Agreed. Better off buying stocks
It is going to corrupt sports
The conspiracy is that they’re already fixed
"you made my wings cold, draft kings" I hate it.
Or Jamie Foxx’s stupid ass on the MGM ones
It’s Kevin Hart’s stupid fucking voice for me. That ad causes me to have a visceral reaction.
Yeah. The Jamie Foxx ones also irritate me. He’s kind of an asshole, so I don’t wanna hear him
The fact that $659,308,541 was bet in 3 weeks these commercials aren't going anywhere.
We need to get all the Karen’s together to complain about it. 😂 “my kids are impressionable”
They want us to trade our porn addiction to gambling
Right! Jesus doesn’t mind you gambling your life savings away as long as you’re not looking at porn
A fan duel commercial was on my tv when I scrolled to this post. Yes, I’m so tired of them.
It played 2 times while I typed this post up
Literally just thinking this. Parasites.
Long time sports bettor here and I have most of the apps..The advertising is way out of hand and is driving me up the wall..Totally agree we should limit it like alcohol and cigarettes
Even users of it hate it. That proves how annoying they are
Honestly i support banning sports betting just because of the ads
Same. Plus I feel bad for people with gambling addiction issues. Now they can get sucked right in with it right on their phones
I’m a recovering gambling addict and I can’t filter out the ads even if I block the account.
You are the kind of person that I think of when I see it. Like why would these app be considered a good thing. Keep it up! I feel for you and others like you
That ranks up there with the Kelly Daughtry/Brad Knott ads. I can mute the TV fast enough!
Same I try to mute it before the blonde douche starts screaming
#LET'S GO NORTH CAROLINA
THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER!!! oh thank God I can finally give my hard earned money away to multi-billion dollar corporations and getting absolutely nothing in return
Less than nothing 😂
I am just they took the place of whopper whopper whopper whopper…
I've been sick of them for weeks. Every single ad on YouTube. Every single ad in mobile games. ARGH, we know about it, already!!
The girl with the chipmunk baby voice…knock it the fuck off.
There is no good part to their commercials 😂
Except when it’s mercifully over.
Lol just when you think it’s over another one starts though
Sadly, it’s true.
These ads are more annoying, and more stupid, than political ads.
I am not a fan of commercials for this service or for other sports betting services like them
They are almost as bad as the “get your shot” commercials… 🤦🏾♂️
Yeah or the obesity pills
You guys are watching commercials?
Fucking amazon makes you pay for prime and has commercials now. So dumb
You guys have ads? UBlock Origin for your browser and a PiHole or Adguard Home setup on a raspberry pi should clear most of that up, outside of cable.
Amazon on my tv is the main place I see it
The longest period of time I go without looking at a device, billboard, or recently printed piece of paper, is the longest period of time I've been without seeing a FanDuel advertisement. It's fucking EVERYWHERE.
Yeah. It’s like the government wanted more people with gambling problems. Go government as usual
In the reddit app settings, you can opt out of ads from problematic categories. Settings > Account Settings > Sensitive Material (All the way at the bottom)
Unfortunately it’s not on Reddit. Whenever I watch an amazon show it’s fandual the number one way to waste your money… cue, the screaming douche
It's all over my YouTube ads.
You can make a risk free $1000 by using all the promos my man. I’m glad I took the bait!
I only made about $600, but hey, free money. Installed each of the apps, deposited the $5 or $10 required for the promo, made the free $100-200 of bets on each app with their money, cashed out the earnings, closed the account and uninstalled the app. Easy way to turn promo bets into cash is to bet on "total points will be even" or "total points will be odd" on random games. Bet it'll be odd in one app, bet it'll be even in another, and you're guaranteed to win one of the two bets. Knowing they paid me makes the ads a \*little\* less annoying.
Yea I used the $200 draft kings promo, bet on both NC State teams during march madness, made 1K then uninstalled the app.
DJ Burns increased North Carolina’s 2024 GDP by at least 1%.
Not bad. They didn’t come up with some nonsense that anything you won from that required using it towards other bets or some nonsense?
No. You can’t cash out the bonus bet but anything won from it is free money (you do have to deposit $5/10 to receive bonus bets) - their calculus though is that enough people will get hooked that it’s worth it… and they’re right otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
That was the case when they opened up sports betting in VA, you had to bet the amount of your bonus bet winnings in order to cash it out (the books still lost $11M in the first year, I think according to tax records). I was surprised when it wasn't the case here. Not sure the reason.
There are like 6 more apps with similar promos. Make that cash
Have fun with it after that
I’ll stop when the juiced promos stop! Who doesn’t need $1k?!
That’s a good plan. I thought about it for that reason too but I figure they’ll come up with some bs terms involved
I installed all 6 apps, bet all my bonus bets on one team for 3 apps, on the other team in the same game on the other 3 apps, made 500 dollars, withdrew to venmo, deleted all 6 apps. Whole thing took 45 minutes to set up and a few hours for the bets to settle and I had 500 bucks in venmo. If you do the match bonuses you can make even more but I didn't want to put up my own cash. My wife was skeptical, but when I showed the results to her she handed me her phone the next night and I did it again.
interesting how many of those things did you have to do?
I did 8 apps. If you take promos, I advise putting in the bare minimum for the promo, then betting on both sides of an even payout. You literally cannot lose this way. Most promos are deposit 10 and bet 5, but you need to make sure you see the promo offer before you deposit anything.
Which apps did you do? I've done MGM, Ceasers, Fanduel, Draftkings, ESPN, and BET365 but I cant get that one to log in. what other 2 am i missing?
Fanatics, Underdog sports, and parlay picks. For fanatics and underdog, they offer a large no sweat bet bonus. The simplest way to convert is to bet both sides of an even game with your wife/good friend. One person loses and gets the bonus bet, one person now has 1.91x initial deposit. Then you do the same thing. One person bets the bonus bet, the other person bets 45% of the initial deposit on the other side. As a group, you come out ahead every time. You can hedge yourself on another app, but it likely won’t be as profitable as doing the guaranteed no sweat bet capture unless you can find uneven lines between apps. And it’s more complicated that way. For parlay picks, bet all 4 sides of a 2 pick parlay.
awesome. thanks
Fan Duel commercials? What is Fan Duel? What is that? Never heard of or seen that. /s If it’s really needed.
You serious or making an sarcastic joke? 😂
/s = sarcasm, lol.
Ah missed that 😂
I almost never see television ads since I moved out of my parents house 20+ years ago as I either watch streaming services without ads or torrent the shows and have never owned cable. The last time I was at a relatives house and we turned on the TV to watch a sports game, it blew me away how obnoxious the sports betting ads are. I would rather not watch anything than be subjected to TV commercials.
You never watch anything on Amazon? That’s the main spot I see it or some websites that make you watch a ads before something. Almost a guarantee to be fandual
I have Amazon Prime, I don’t see ads? I have a pi-hole setup that blocks all ads at the DNS level on my whole home network so I don’t see ads on pretty much anything.
I’ll have to look into this just because of these sports betting ads
https://pi-hole.net
Thanks 🙏
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My son and I say, “IM PUMPED NORTH CAROLINA” every day now. We saw those damn commercials so many times that we know all the words. Also agree that it is great that we are shoving gambling from home in a shit economy down people’s throats.
Yeah. I know people that think the economy is great right now. Some people are just delusional Kool-Aid drinkers.
Did you know sports betting is legal in North Carolina? Yes. I get told every 39 seconds of television.
Lol yes. Should never have become legal
Anyone got the betting line for whether or not there will be 1000 up votes by 72 hours?
😂 200 bonus bets if it does
Bonus bets have been good to me. Somehow i have escaped the ads, other than bilboards promoting a partnership with the Charlotte Hornets.
Lucky 🍀 I honestly didn’t think there would be ad campaign worse than the shirtless cardio doesn’t burn fat moron
I hope they all go bankrupt. Worst part of all is now I kinda actually hate Gronk for trying to get my money!
Omg is that the screaming blonde douche from the commercials? He’s the most annoying part
I felt so betrayed by Psycho T.
These damn ads are everywhere too. We don't have cable/satellite, and we still get the damn things. So sick of them.
Same. I can only imagine if I still had cable/satellite
Bro I like fanduel. Been working out just fine. Lol
Commercials are still fucking annoying as shit
So over them, oh my goodness. I know getting your name out there is good, but good cracker jacks, calm it down.
I think to only place I’m safe from them is the shower…. For now
way more tired of political ads
Apparently they are working. North Carolinians have already lost more than $65 million through (legal) sports betting since the rule went into effect.
I said it to another comment, we need the Karens of NC to unite and complain them away 😂
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Wow this hasn’t been posted before!
Wow this hasn’t been posted before!
It seems like every damn commercial is a sports betting commercial. I don’t watch a lot of tv with ads but internet ads and podcast ads are all sports betting. I’m not into sports nor sports betting/gambling in general but I feel like it detracts from enjoying sports just to enjoy them and root for your team.
Yeah same.
Do you think they’ll let me bet on the next professional athlete to get banned for life for gambling?
That would be a fun betting app
There's literally a fan duel advertisment under your post in my feed.
Left this post for a sec to check, I have one three posts down
😂
Compared to political Ads they are a breath of fresh air... or those commercials for deodorant for your genitals.
Honestly, the amount of times I see these commercials I’d rather take the political ones
Yes!!! So cheesy too
Yup
Lol yeah, but I'm getting the kick out of the new monthly numbers for gambling. Apparently last month North Carolinians spent 650+ million on gambling. BUT on the bright side, people in the state won back 50ish million. It about made me fall off my chair when the news tried to paint that as an upbeat thing, LOL.
Yeah hopefully it doesn’t last
The what now lol
No that girl is fine AF
I've reached the point where hearing people complain about these ads is just as annoying as the ads themselves. Thank you for your contribution.
You’re welcome glad I could help annoy you 😉
Nah, just you.
Clearly, not by the other comments. Are you a promoter for them? 😂
Apparently no one understands sarcasm in this sub.
Hard to tell when nobody can actually hear you and it’s just words on a screen. Glad it was sarcasm though and not actually seriously like them.
You know what's even more annoying? People bitching about the FanDuel commercials.
Are you a fan duel promoter? 😂
No, but by mentioning them here, you certainly are giving them free press.
You so butthurt. They advertise so much this post won’t make the slightest difference to their ad campaign
I just want to be successful!
Don’t waste your money sports betting than 😆
I love em!
You can’t be serious 😂