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With a shaky legal foundation, are daily fantasy sports a billion-dollar house of cards?

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imageDraftKings will sponsor professional poker players like Ken Weimer – indicative, perhaps, of the demographic they're courting.World Poker Tour/flickr , CC BY-NC

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