The daily fantasy sports website DraftKings defied an order from the Nevada Gaming Control Board to quit operating immediately within the state and accepted entries into its contests for the weekend.
Nevada regulators ruled Thursday that daily fantasy sports should be considered gambling, not a game of skill, and ordered the websites to suspend operations until the companies and their employees received state gambling licenses.
FanDuel and other smaller rivals did so, but a spokeswoman for DraftKings, Sabrina Macias, acknowledged that it made an exception for some of its customers in Nevada. The company, which is valued at more than $1 billion dollars and has the financial backing of Major League Baseball and the N.