| I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP. Illustration by Simone Noronha for ProPublica It was late May, the French Open was on and DraftKings was pushing me into the action. A promotion pinged on my phone. 'BET & GET,' it boomed, offering to boost my profits if I threw down on tennis, punctuating the point with a cartoon stack of cash. I was already in the middle of a two-hour betting spree, ripping 64 wagers on the clay courts of Paris from my office chair in New York City. |