Resorts Casino in Atlantic City plans to be the first of New Jersey’s casinos to launch a daily fantasy sports site.
The site will be run through a partnership with DFS supplier Sports AD and available only to New Jersey players. The site will be called FastPick and Resorts hopes to launch the site in June pending final from the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement.
New Jersey’s legislature is currently debating a statewide DFS bill, but has passed regulations allowing Atlantic City casinos to offer games of skill, including fantasy sports.
According to Resorts, the site will not operate like other DFS sites. FastPick will challenge players to pick a winner from a series of three to ten player match-ups, such whether Tom Brady will score more points than Aaron Rodgers in a given week, according to a press release.
Sports AD’s John Brennan believes that the dynamic of staking money on these parlay-style propositions makes it the closer to sports betting than the traditional DFS offerings.
“We wanted to get something as close to a traditional single-game play as we could, but still have it be compliant with fantasy rules,” John Brennan of Sorts AD told ESPN. “I think this is as close as you can get right now.
