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Jake Pearson

@JakePearsonProP

New York Joined April 2013
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Jake Pearson @JakePearsonProP
VIP CLUB: In his Jontay Porter/sports gambling addiction opus, @NickBerardini obtains FanDuel internals showing VIPs make up <.5% of monthly company users but are responsible of $600M in revenue. FD reportedly had $2B in revenue that year.

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www.newyorker.com An N.B.A. Player Got Hooked on Sports Betting. Soon, He Became the Bet The N.B.A. player Jontay Porter got deep into FanDuel, and in debt to the wrong people. The only way out, it seemed, was to gamble on himself.
Jake Pearson @JakePearsonProP
POLITICAL PARLAYS: Betting companies are making big $ donations via an innocuous sounding PAC to New York D reps, gov and AG. Watchdog says the goal is so that the “…good deed will hopefully be remembered down the line — and repaid.” @nysfocus nysfocus.com/2026/10/19/new…
nysfocus.com DraftKings and FanDuel Double Down on Political Parlays in NY Super PACs backed by sports betting companies spent $4 million on New York elections since the June primary — most of it spent in recent weeks.
Jake Pearson @JakePearsonProP
FIGURES: A West Virginia researcher crunching state betting numbers finds 43M bets placed by just ~16K bettors. And when does demand spike for slots? Every second, third and fourth Wednesday — Social Security payday. @MyBuckhannon mybuckhannon.com/high-roller-a-…
www.mybuckhannon.com High roller: A WVU doctoral researcher watches the odds WVU doctoral researcher Matt Mullis is using statewide gambling data to study betting behavior, loss chasing and potential ways to protect consumers.