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Regardless, Vegas Matt has never postured as an activist against problem gambling. He was just a fun older dude who played slot machines in casinos, had a little gang of additional characters who hung out and also participated (kinda like co-hosts), and showed both the wins and the losses. I don't feel it's Matt's responsibility to restrict his gambling to venues where it's less likely someone will become a problem gambler. I think it's 100% fine that Matt broadcasts from wherever or whatever makes interesting content. The only exception would be likely scam casinos which either would cheat customers or no-pay them, but that's obviously not the case with FanDuel.
Fanduel ambassador, as I previously stated I am ok with. I get it. However, personally I believe if his millions of dollars of compensation is in anyway tied to his viewer’s losses, that is what I would find objectionable. It feels super dirty to me if that is the case here. We probably will never know. It wasn’t until I saw that affiliate link that I came to that conclusion. If all he is doing is uploading a shitty video every couple of weeks….God Bless him. I am fine with that.

Just to be clear while I may have a dim view of the gambling landscape and particularly online casinos….that’s not important to me in this situation. How his deal is structured is of interest to me.

I am in no way saying where I draw the line is correct. That’s for each person to decide on their own. Just like so many who saw the video made their own judgment. I can’t put myself in Matt’s shoes. I am sure I would have taken the deal and I also think I would have made my sticking point be that my compensation is in no way tied to my viewer’s losses. But who knows? I’m no where near the stratosphere of Matt’s accomplishments. I absolutely respect what he built.

Anyways that is just my opinion. This is complex. What I am sure about is many of his viewers were disappointed and Matt’s rant today was dismissive of all of them. I think to say all of them are “haters” is unfair and tone deaf. I would like to see him fix that.
JD, I feel the same as you regarding how the deal would be broken down. I would feel a lot better if it is just an "Ambassador" type deal. Like most, there is just something I can not get past with the "% of losses" type of deals.

It is possible that the affiliate link is used to merely determine their return on investment with Vegas Matt. I'm sure whatever deal they have now is locked in (most likely a multi year deal), but they could use this to determine the value of a future deal. As JD said, he may get an additional amount on top of his Ambassador deal for actual loss or even theoretical loss.

For Matt to admit the deal was "Millions of dollars" big mistake.

One thing that does surprise me is their will only be a video "Every 2 or 3 weeks". I would think Fan Duel would need much more exposure than that, but then again I'm sure Matt will have to mention Fan Duel in a positive light in each and every video.

When push comes to shove, as much as I don't like it, I can't blame him. His YT channel could crash tomorrow, and he will still be guaranteed that money as long as he upholds his end of the contract, x number of videos, even if no one is watching. With all these shady non regulated casinos, their contract with you is worth nothing. With Fan Duel, he knows he will be paid, or force
payment through legal action.

In the past few years, the general YT gambling audience has learned how many of these scummy affiliate type deals work. If I was Matt, I would make a video to address a few things. Tell the viewers that he understands their concerns and knows that there are scummy practices in the Affiliate marketing gaming sector. Assuming these things are true (I have no idea if they are). He should state: 1) He is playing with REAL money, that is HIS own money. 2) He gets paid a flat "salary" to be an Ambassador to promote a legal/safe site, and that he is NOT paid a % of losses from the players that use his affiliate link. 3) To the best of his knowledge he is playing with the same RTP (Return to Player) as anyone else on the site, and Fan Duel is NOT "Setting the odds in his favor" to win, when he is streaming. 4) He puts out 30 videos per month, and a video every 2 weeks would amount to 1 in 14 videos, and percentage wise tbis is a very small portion of his content. This would be assuming this is all true, of course.

How Fan Duel must be feeling right now, seeing all the hate he is getting after giving him a multimillion dollar deal lol.

It will be interesting to see going forward if he makes the thumbnail and title similar in the Fan Duel promotional videos, as he does in his regular brick and mortar videos, since there will be a significant amount of people that watch one set of videos but not the other. And if he does, what the difference in views will be.