+Connor Skudlarek He probably will. He's said before that he doesn't let his sponsors control his content. He did a story on the problems Draft Kings was having before.
I checked the source for their website, and they genuinely do have the keywords "british nerd, brit dork, news goof, birdy fact funny man". Lols. Commitment that!
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My proudest gambling moment was when I entered an ultra low stakes 10 cent online poker tournament. After spending 4 hours on it, I finished 181st out of 40,000. I won $2.20. I made $2.10 after 4 hours of work :(
ehhh low stakes games are less about money and more about the thrill which is why my favourite poker is in video games, but not in directly poker video games like watch dogs poker minigame is amazing because you both have stakes(your progress depends on ingame money) and you also dont have any irl stakes(losing ingame money wont cause any real life consequences) thusly its the best combination of thrills caused by risk and also not actually risking anything important
Familiar with that. Played a little poker with my friends, then started online. Was obviously new and tried to find my way. Played a free roll tournament which was either my first or second tournament online. Played something like 10 hours and won the fucking thing vs 3000+ opponents. First price was a million dollars! Then I realised that there's another section on the site - they called it 'real money games'... Felt a bit down but took the optimism of having won the whole thing as motivation to make a small deposit - only to notice that real money games are quite a bit different from just practicing poker with nothing at stake (which is pretty much like playing soccer with an imaginary ball). Never got anywhere near winning a tournament with that many players ever again. Still, I appreciate the lessons, most of all: poker IS a game of skill first and self-discipline is one of the most basic skills you need to have. I didn't have enough not to make costly irrational/emotional decisions from time to time so I gave up wasting money after a while. Playing was fun but I agree, you wouldn't accept any job with that kind of profit/salary per hour. Personally, I'd say that for the successful players both fantasy sports and poker are games of skill first. For the vast majority they are games of an absence of (sufficient) skill and luck can't counter that in the long run. Does that make them games of skill or gambling overall? I wouldn't put a label on it and believe both applies. As John Oliver said, no issue with making both legal but there need to be regulations to prevent gambling addicts from losing more than gambling money they got left to spend
Belgium has already declared lootboxes to be illegal gambling targeted at minors and forced every game company that puts lootboxes in their games to remove them from the Belgian versions. The rest of the western world needs to follow suit, so I also agree with this.
@@taylormiconi3993 Yeah keep defending this shit. What you get 98% of the time is worthles even compared to a pack of skittles and even the stuff that has some worth is obsolete a year later when the new online casino gets released.
I think it depends on if the loot can be converted back into money, and a lucky loot box can be converted into profit fairly easily. If so, you will feel tempted to spend more money than initially intended chasing a profit, hence gambling. If you can only loot the boxes and that's it, anything you would get stays there in the game, you were anyways gonna spend that money in-game and expect random items. It's not like you could've expected anything but a loss in matter of money.
+GamerPony or someone mistook John Oliver to be the real James Bond and the entire movie just consists of him trying to actively say he's not the real Bond - only to be either not believed or constantly interrupted.
+kevin mcneeley What? addicted? No im one of the smart ppl making my living playing poker for 15 years now. Just because i´m making common sense, you don´t need to try attacking me in person. I guess you are one of the losers out there overrating himself not being able to realize that you aren´t smart enough so you decide to call it "gambling".
+Roger Wilson know about probabilities, know about odds, know about presumed ranges of your opponent, know a LOT about math, know about body language, know about risk management in general. If all of this was gambling, then why is "trading" an official job description and why do ppl need to get certificates to be employed by a bank? Just longterm losers with a lack of brain call poker or DFS gambling, problem there: most ppl living on this planet are utterly stupid.. Anyway: keep "gambling" paying my bills guys :)
It would be interesting to see an update of how these companies pivoted into ACTUAL 100% gambling a few years ago and observe the chokehold they have on not only national advertisements, but content creators for the sports as well. They surely weren’t lobbying and waiting for any significant legislation changes were they?
also the state of NJ's court case that overturned the sports gambling ban, I imagine they got tired of not getting a piece of the action after busting organized crime operations that were already working out of casinos in AC.
Poker is a game of skill with elements of luck. And anybody who plays poker who says that it ISN'T gambling because it's a game of skill is an idiot. Because of the skill I have, I've won more money than the vast majority of less skilled players, but that doesn't stop one of the from occasionally taking down a big tournament for 4-5 figures. And while in the long term, good players will come out ahead and bad players will fall behind, in the short term, I could get busted (and have) by somebody who called off 70% of their stack with Q6 against my KK. But that's gambling.
+Gunman610 Here here! People need to realize just because there's an element of luck in a game it doesn't mean it's void of skill. Just like poker, just like fantasy sports.
+Gunman610 by stadistical distribution, small football teams will sometimes win over big, favorite, allways on top teams. That makes Football a gambling game? The very fact you mention "Because of the skill I have, I've won more money than the vast majority of less skilled players" is the proof that in normal conditions, you have much more chances to win against someone lacking your skills, stacking odds in your favor. Nobody knows for sure whos gonna win before the match ends, but if the Barcelona goes against my old school football team, i would bet my house and my soul to Barcelona, because of THEIR SKILLS. Every fucking game has elements of luck, even chess (bad decisions, unseen pieces, even a sudden mental condition), Implying some games don't is idiotic.
+Julio Francisco Gómez Stoppello "That makes Football a gambling game?" Most ridiculous analogy ever. (1) The players are not betting. (2) They control everything, as opposed to things actually be based on luck and statistics (i.e. what card turns or is likely to turn). It's like saying betting on horses is the same as riding the fucking horse. Do you know anything about betting and gambling? lol
This is how you should look at games that are based on a mixture of luck and skill: In the short run, the law of large numbers don't really apply, and thus, luck is king. If it's a game about rolling dice, and I win on a roll of 1 to 4 and lose on 5 and 6, it's not out of the question that I could hit that 33% bad luck patch and end up losing despite the odds in my favour. After all, it's just one roll. In the long run, the law of large numbers will apply, and thus, skill is king. Taking the same game as above, over thousands and thousands of rolls, it becomes very unlikely that I'll end up a loser. In fact, I should be winning 2/3rd of the time in the long run. The skill element comes from only betting when I'm statistically more likely to win than lose, and make these correct decisions repeatedly. Thus, DFS and poker are both skill-based games in the long run.
***** Except in poker you eat away at the role luck plays by being more skilled. In DFS, you do it both through skill AND bankroll AND throwing hundreds of more darts than your opponents. To use an obvious example, if I'm in a tournament, there is only one of me at a table competing and I'm on level playing as every other individual. In DFS, the top something like 15% make up over 50% of all lineups. Thus, the reason they win more in the long run is NOT solely due to skill, which makes it substantially distinguishable from poker.
The thing is that poker also shouldn't be illegal and is different than regular gambling. It is a skill game, just because it has a small chance that relies on something else means nothing in the long run. If it is made illegal, make the stock market illegal, the exact same premise, a small % of people who study the market and can develop models make most of the money. Why do you think the New York AG is on it? It's hurting Wall Street.
+SharkAcademy Chess is a game of skill; playing the slots is pure chance...poker is somewhere in between, and I think the element of chance is much bigger than you are making out. You only need to look at the number of hands that are decided by two players going all in pre-flop in a 'coin flip' to see how much chance is actually involved. The stock market is not gambling as you are purchasing an underlying asset.There may be an element of speculation involved but that does not make it gambling.
+thewanderandhiscomp Now it is not. The shares you were buying were actually part of company wealth and the company was obligated to buy them back from you if you desired so. They are not anymore. The shares are at the moment worth as much as other people are willing to pay for them. So as long as the company does not sell more than 50% shares - those shares present no actual value.
Whole logic in this show was broken. Next step is : make stock trades gambling.... Instead of spreading awarness of how advanced you have to be in predicting your action outcome (fantasy/poker/STOCKS) it prefers to just "hell I have no idea how these guys won so let me insult it calling it gambling.
“The most addictive thing you can do on a phone” someone tell him about Gacha. All the predation of gambling with far less financial gain and vastly more targeted psychological and emotional manipulation!
12:13 it's incredibly ironic to see FanDuel offering the promo code "Astroturf" just a few minutes after we saw FanDuel employees essentially astroturfing in Union Square
Anyone else up in the middle of the night and bout to go to bed and just found this was uploaded a minute ago and said "alright ill just watch this"?????
+Prophet Muhammad Safe to assume, that Johnson Lee genuinely meant that it was "gold". That being said, no Seth Rodent wasn't as unfunny as he usually is... He was unfunny alright, just not as unfunny as usual.
+Antonio Díaz Her name is Kathryn Hahn she played a killer role in Step Brothers and a ton of other really funny movies. www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1177928-kathryn_hahn
Let me tell you how great legalized sports gambling has been for sports fans. It's awesome to have to hear about people's dumb, uninteresting bets all the time as if it's legit sports fandom.
Goldfish are actually quite smart with quite good memories. They can remember their owners faces and even remember what time their going to be fed and can perform tricks
Our goldfish only responded to the color red, which is my mother's favorite color. She wears a lot of red and feeds them, so they didn't remember time, they just associated red = food
+Zetsubou Risuikun See, that is the problem. There are still People out there, that do not know about it. Its the Transatlantic Trade Partnership between the US and the EU. It is Made to "normalize" industrial rights and Stuff, which basically means: Fuck our rights, fuck our lives, the Industries need to have all the rights they want.
Daily Fantasy Sports fundamentally involve betting and odds, and whether you're using a complex algorithm or not (comparable to counting cards), it's still ultimately up to chance. There is no way anyone could look at that and not call it gambling. It just IS.
Yeah, investing is also a gamble, but the stock market plays an imperative role in regulating and stimulating capitalist economies. Throwing money down a lottery hole doesn't :P
Ebob agreed, but then the idea of having a definition of gambling is largely a pointless affair. Which is not to say that these companies and industries shouldn't be regulated, but just on a different basis.
It's not gambling. In gambling you get at least some money back. The crate system is more like the "throw the ball to destroy the bottle pyramid" game (except you do it blindfolded), where you get most likely a cheap item that you could buy cheaper in a supermarket. Or if you are really REALLY lucky you get a hat with some glitter on it, which you just put on the shelf where it collects dust,just to impress some strangers for 3 seconds.
I just realized this is probably the whole reason that sports betting was legalized nationwide a few years ago. Specifically that so many large corporations were invested in it.
I know this is a 5 year old video, but... why HASN'T "007 - Aversion To Violence" starring John Oliver as James Bond been made yet?? I'm guessing it would put Austin Powers's take to shame.
+windingpath Then they need to ban the lottery here in NY also. While they are at it all the slot machines and cancel the new casinos they gave the green light to.
+Chosay No Way Aldo Dies Dec 12th (EIRE EIRE) even if it's 90% chance that you'll win, it's still considered gambling since luck determines whether you win or not.
+windingpath You are getting confused as to why they don't want to be seen as gambling. It is all about taxes. They are not objecting on moral or ethical grounds, which is why you could argue why can't anything be considered gambling (life itself), they just do not want to lose their profit margin by having to shell out money for local/state taxes for what is deemed gambling. This is like Scientology being a "religion". It's just bullshit tax dodging.
+David Schwartsman -- He'll forever be a cult favorite and I think he's okay with that. No one cheered for Jerrod Carmichael, either, and that dude is funny as hell.
For anyone disappointed that this week's main story isn't the Paris attacks, John talked about it as the first story in the show and spent a considerable amount of time lambasting the perpetrators (he used the fact that he's on HBO and unbound by the restrictions of other public venues/media to not offer a moment of silence, but deliver a tirade). Ultimately, since the main story requires an enormous amount of research to put together, there simply hasn't been enough time between Friday and Sunday to do so.
The irony with MLB's partnership with Draft Kings is that Pete Rose has been banned for over 40 years for gambling. They won't even give him his rightful place in the HOF.
do you know what is also gambling? Microtransactions in some games. Like CSGO, call of duty, Overwatch, Team Fortress 2 ect. That shit should be illegal.
Not all gambling is for money. If you can pay money in exchange for only a chance of getting something valuable out of it, some states consider that gambling. It's why sweepstakes on product packages have to say "no purchase necessary" and let you mail in for a free ticket/token/whatever even when the prize isn't money. I said way back when Valve introduced their crates and keys that they were asking to get shut down for it. So far it hasn't happened, and I can only assume it's because nobody has bothered trying to sue them. You'd probably have to be someone who has actually lost a substantial amount of money to them for it to stick, which is probably why they've never gotten in trouble.
If it smells like gambling and sounds like gambling, then it's probably gambling. If you pay money for odds of winning more money then it's 100% gambling.
Andrew eby the game in its whole its skill based. but if you ever played poker, and i mean tens or hundreds thousand hands you ll see most players dont use skill. they just gamble
A good follow up to this episode @LastWeekTonight would be to look at the freemium mobile games phenomenon who use very similar tactics to gambling games - Essentially the candy for children of the gambling world training them up for when they can legally gamble...
As an *actual professional risk manager,* I need to say this: If it's possible for players to win in an infinite sample, it isn't gambling. OR Absolutely everything is gambling.
20 years ago, In india, a single digit daily lottery started. And people got addicted to winning or losing daily - celebrate or brood daily. It destroyed a lot of lives until government banned it.
Saying they are games of skill is such an evasion. Blackjack is also a game of skill, yet it is a form of gambling. As is poker, and many other casino games. About the only ones that aren't are slots and lotto.
It clearly is gambling but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad or should be illegal. Literally every argument you could use against daily fantasy could be used against regular sports betting, and no one's calling for the banning of that. There are statisticians that participate in regular sports gambling too, there are also gambling addicts that have thrown their lives away playing slot machines, same thing.
+Joe Vargas There are people who have thrown their lives away eating cheeseburgers. The whole "let's regulate and control vices" attitude never helps the problem, and only creates more problems.
If it's a game of skill then how can Janice from accounting fucking win?
+DoomHemlock You legend
+BryceStawski Because she has a master in statistics.
+BryceStawski Do not underestimate the mathematical powers of accountants.
+BryceStawski why do you think she was hired on the first place? that bitch is a beast with spreadsheets
uyWithAnAmazingHat
Who else saw this and wondered if Phillip DeFranco is going to respond to this video?
OOOOOH BABY A TRIPLE
Oh that's right, he always talks about John Oliver. Awkward
Haha!😂 literally the first thing I thought of. I'm praying he does respond to this.
+Connor Skudlarek He probably will. He's said before that he doesn't let his sponsors control his content. He did a story on the problems Draft Kings was having before.
So true that these sites sponsor everybody. (even defranco and jon oliver)
I checked the source for their website, and they genuinely do have the keywords "british nerd, brit dork, news goof, birdy fact funny man". Lols. Commitment that!
I was wondering if they really did hahaha
I figured they did tbh, i'm glad u confirmed it unless u are lying
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@@rockleefanlj if a joke, my bad, it went way over my head.. Don't take it so personal.. Gessh!
@@rockleefanlj Do you abuse all forms of punctuation as much as you do random people on the internet, or is there something about commas that makes you hate them as much as someone expressing a view that differs from yours?
"Do they pay something to play? Do they win something? It's gambling."
Tell that to EA and Ubisoft
Ah yes all the money you can win in EA und Ubi games.
@@punkazecke3881 The quote was "do they win something" not specifically the word money but ok
@@punkazecke3881 you're right. It's worse than gambling because you get things worth less than monopoly money
@@jaimedanielhernandezrios5398 thats my point
@@punkazecke3881 you do realize that lootbox items can be sold for cash in many cases, right?
In case anyone's curious, the only teams not involved with daily fantasy are the Saints, Seahawks, Cardinals and 49ers.
Seahawks probably because Washington has a tough sports gambling act
Go niners!! 🤣🤣
Almost the whole NFC West. Cool! Fuck the Rams lol
So the NFC west lol
Hey good to know that my team decided not to do that, thought the deflators are
Draft Kings advertises on porn sites and if it advertises on porn sites, you know you shouldn't try it.
can i ask how exactly did you discover those ads?
+34cvc
by looking at porn
MasieWTF [Papa Masu] by doing lots and lots of research.
Highly extensive research
ahouyearno what would be some good sites for me to research too?
I'll watch a 007 movie with James Bond portrayed by John Oliver :)
truth
+keanehgz and Janice from accounting lol
John as James Bond.
Janice in accounting as Bond girl
And of course, his weapon of choice is a silk horse tranquilizer that is Kenny G's 'Going Home'
+Trevor A i definitely would watch that
+keanehgz Instead of killing he will just invite his opponents to have a civil discussion on the matter.
My proudest gambling moment was when I entered an ultra low stakes 10 cent online poker tournament. After spending 4 hours on it, I finished 181st out of 40,000.
I won $2.20. I made $2.10 after 4 hours of work :(
CONGRATULATIONS BIG WINNER
ehhh low stakes games are less about money and more about the thrill
which is why my favourite poker is in video games, but not in directly poker video games
like watch dogs poker minigame is amazing because you both have stakes(your progress depends on ingame money) and you also dont have any irl stakes(losing ingame money wont cause any real life consequences) thusly its the best combination of thrills caused by risk and also not actually risking anything important
Familiar with that. Played a little poker with my friends, then started online. Was obviously new and tried to find my way. Played a free roll tournament which was either my first or second tournament online. Played something like 10 hours and won the fucking thing vs 3000+ opponents. First price was a million dollars!
Then I realised that there's another section on the site - they called it 'real money games'... Felt a bit down but took the optimism of having won the whole thing as motivation to make a small deposit - only to notice that real money games are quite a bit different from just practicing poker with nothing at stake (which is pretty much like playing soccer with an imaginary ball). Never got anywhere near winning a tournament with that many players ever again. Still, I appreciate the lessons, most of all: poker IS a game of skill first and self-discipline is one of the most basic skills you need to have. I didn't have enough not to make costly irrational/emotional decisions from time to time so I gave up wasting money after a while. Playing was fun but I agree, you wouldn't accept any job with that kind of profit/salary per hour.
Personally, I'd say that for the successful players both fantasy sports and poker are games of skill first. For the vast majority they are games of an absence of (sufficient) skill and luck can't counter that in the long run. Does that make them games of skill or gambling overall? I wouldn't put a label on it and believe both applies. As John Oliver said, no issue with making both legal but there need to be regulations to prevent gambling addicts from losing more than gambling money they got left to spend
CONGRATULATIONS! COULD HAVE MADE MORE MONEY WORKING MINIMUM WADGE!
@@zacharysmentek576 That certainly was the joke, sir.
I love the reoccurring Janice in Accounting gag lmao "She just don't give a fuck!"
She'll never get old.
+ackbarfan5556 And if she did... you know that she wouldn't give a fuck about it
+PhoenixXZY Somewhere there's an actual Janice, who works in accounting, and she's watching this. And she just does not give a fuck.
Same with the "except you didn't notice, this isn't (country), this is (country)" and Gwyneth not being able to wear things.
+PhoenixXZY Really? I hate it. I don't get it. It is just a lame running gag.
Anyone can succeed; but only only 1% win most of the money. Is he talking about Fantasy Sports or the American Dream?
The American dream, unlike fantasy sports, is not primarily skill based.
Ehh about 50/50
The answer; Yes.
Yes.
@@trentrubenacker9718 to be
wtf I'm actually beginning to wonder if Janice in Accounting is an actual person that works for HBO
she is she has been on the show she works bts at last week tonight
@@metin5408 BUT, does she give a fuck?
@@supergluehotty after the retirement plan episode, yes she does.
@@FrostSylph forgot about that.
her name's Jill Twiss. she's a writer on the show :)
90% of what is said in this episode equally applies to lootboxes... Get on it john, we need them dealt with.
I wholeheartedly second this motion.
Belgium has already declared lootboxes to be illegal gambling targeted at minors and forced every game company that puts lootboxes in their games to remove them from the Belgian versions. The rest of the western world needs to follow suit, so I also agree with this.
The difference with lootboxes is that you ALWAYS get SOMETHING, not just nothing
@@taylormiconi3993 Yeah keep defending this shit. What you get 98% of the time is worthles even compared to a pack of skittles and even the stuff that has some worth is obsolete a year later when the new online casino gets released.
I think it depends on if the loot can be converted back into money, and a lucky loot box can be converted into profit fairly easily.
If so, you will feel tempted to spend more money than initially intended chasing a profit, hence gambling.
If you can only loot the boxes and that's it, anything you would get stays there in the game, you were anyways gonna spend that money in-game and expect random items. It's not like you could've expected anything but a loss in matter of money.
I definitely want to see John Oliver play James Bond. It's an idea whose time has come.
Johnny English done right or basically the British version of SPY where an intelligence agency desk jockey gets upgraded to field agent
+GamerPony
or someone mistook John Oliver to be the real James Bond and the entire movie just consists of him trying to actively say he's not the real Bond - only to be either not believed or constantly interrupted.
Peter Sellers aka The Pink Panther was in a James Bond type film
Kal Jak Yes, it was Casino Royale, but it didn't really bear any relationship to the novel.
Lee Brown lol
"Hey Jocks, how does it feel to be a nerd's bitch?"
My new favourite line in this entire series.
"I understand math" is also great
That quote screams dnd to me idk why
Edit: holy fuck I got it. Artificer to a barbarian
I feel like having a firm understanding of math makes life a lot easier
Mine is whenever he dissmisses any thing with just a ”coool”
16:26
God that was brilliant on so many levels. John is the man!
+amsedelm no it wasn´t. He did prove that DFS is in fact NOT gambling but still called it gambling. lmao
+SigiPower1982 so, basically you are defensive because you are addicted to this stupid fantasy shit.
+kevin mcneeley
What? addicted? No im one of the smart ppl making my living playing poker for 15 years now. Just because i´m making common sense, you don´t need to try attacking me in person. I guess you are one of the losers out there overrating himself not being able to realize that you aren´t smart enough so you decide to call it "gambling".
+kevin mcneeley so, basically you didn't read anything he said and made up some shit about him being defensive.
+Roger Wilson know about probabilities, know about odds, know about presumed ranges of your opponent, know a LOT about math, know about body language, know about risk management in general. If all of this was gambling, then why is "trading" an official job description and why do ppl need to get certificates to be employed by a bank? Just longterm losers with a lack of brain call poker or DFS gambling, problem there: most ppl living on this planet are utterly stupid.. Anyway: keep "gambling" paying my bills guys :)
John Oliver's unrelenting, self-deprecating humor is the best aspect of his show. Also, John Oliver for the next James Bond!
Nah, he should be the next Jonny English.
Too perfect.
My friends and I were in a fantasy football league, and we all lost to my mother, who knows nothing about sports.
Game of Skill! Game of Skill!
Hehe, I kid.
And it's especially aggravating because you know your mother doesn't give a fuck about sports. SHE DON'T GIVE A FUCK!!!
Janice has children now? Soon, the lack of giving a fuck will spread.
Yeah, you guys are dumbasses!
Rev Doe it's a joke
OMG. You are my new favorite show. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. LOVE IT!
"Hey jocks, how does it feel to be a nerd's bitch?" Amazing.
It would be interesting to see an update of how these companies pivoted into ACTUAL 100% gambling a few years ago and observe the chokehold they have on not only national advertisements, but content creators for the sports as well. They surely weren’t lobbying and waiting for any significant legislation changes were they?
also the state of NJ's court case that overturned the sports gambling ban, I imagine they got tired of not getting a piece of the action after busting organized crime operations that were already working out of casinos in AC.
Who else googled 'Birdy Fact Funny Man' immediately after watching this clip?
did it work?
yep,lol
Mikurunrun lol
I stopped the clip and looked at the source code of the web page. And yes, it is true!
Jochen Hormes me too lol
#Oliverfor007
If you clone him he's OO7
+Dank Salamander ♟♞♝♜♛♚
Manga Chess by David Cortese
♙♘♗♖♕♔
+Dank Salamander If he is the Bond, I will watch it. 3 times.
+Dank Salamander #notmyjames
I would love to see that... ♡
John Bond: The British Spy Comedian that will K.O. you with his jokes
I'd watch it.
_Oh, Beyonce, you're so exposed._
so knockoff Austin Powers
is that what "Johnny English" is?
Lets's make John Oliver Bond again !
i love last week tonight with bird fact funny man
Poker is a game of skill with elements of luck. And anybody who plays poker who says that it ISN'T gambling because it's a game of skill is an idiot. Because of the skill I have, I've won more money than the vast majority of less skilled players, but that doesn't stop one of the from occasionally taking down a big tournament for 4-5 figures. And while in the long term, good players will come out ahead and bad players will fall behind, in the short term, I could get busted (and have) by somebody who called off 70% of their stack with Q6 against my KK. But that's gambling.
+Gunman610 Here here! People need to realize just because there's an element of luck in a game it doesn't mean it's void of skill. Just like poker, just like fantasy sports.
+Gunman610 by stadistical distribution, small football teams will sometimes win over big, favorite, allways on top teams. That makes Football a gambling game?
The very fact you mention "Because of the skill I have, I've won more money than the vast majority of less skilled players" is the proof that in normal conditions, you have much more chances to win against someone lacking your skills, stacking odds in your favor. Nobody knows for sure whos gonna win before the match ends, but if the Barcelona goes against my old school football team, i would bet my house and my soul to Barcelona, because of THEIR SKILLS. Every fucking game has elements of luck, even chess (bad decisions, unseen pieces, even a sudden mental condition), Implying some games don't is idiotic.
+Julio Francisco Gómez Stoppello
"That makes Football a gambling game?"
Most ridiculous analogy ever. (1) The players are not betting. (2) They control everything, as opposed to things actually be based on luck and statistics (i.e. what card turns or is likely to turn). It's like saying betting on horses is the same as riding the fucking horse. Do you know anything about betting and gambling? lol
This is how you should look at games that are based on a mixture of luck and skill:
In the short run, the law of large numbers don't really apply, and thus, luck is king. If it's a game about rolling dice, and I win on a roll of 1 to 4 and lose on 5 and 6, it's not out of the question that I could hit that 33% bad luck patch and end up losing despite the odds in my favour. After all, it's just one roll.
In the long run, the law of large numbers will apply, and thus, skill is king. Taking the same game as above, over thousands and thousands of rolls, it becomes very unlikely that I'll end up a loser. In fact, I should be winning 2/3rd of the time in the long run.
The skill element comes from only betting when I'm statistically more likely to win than lose, and make these correct decisions repeatedly. Thus, DFS and poker are both skill-based games in the long run.
*****
Except in poker you eat away at the role luck plays by being more skilled. In DFS, you do it both through skill AND bankroll AND throwing hundreds of more darts than your opponents.
To use an obvious example, if I'm in a tournament, there is only one of me at a table competing and I'm on level playing as every other individual. In DFS, the top something like 15% make up over 50% of all lineups. Thus, the reason they win more in the long run is NOT solely due to skill, which makes it substantially distinguishable from poker.
Fantasy Football is like Dungeons & Dragons for the guys who used to beat up the people who play Dungeons & Dragons
Lol
@D P Sports Larpers
Except without all the input and fantasy. I'd say Blaseball is similarly absurd but they're kind of a completely different beast.
My old boss used to call it dungeons and dragons for jocks lol
The thing is that poker also shouldn't be illegal and is different than regular gambling. It is a skill game, just because it has a small chance that relies on something else means nothing in the long run.
If it is made illegal, make the stock market illegal, the exact same premise, a small % of people who study the market and can develop models make most of the money. Why do you think the New York AG is on it? It's hurting Wall Street.
+SharkAcademy I'd go with the second proposition. Making stock market illegal - hell yeah.
+SharkAcademy Chess is a game of skill; playing the slots is pure chance...poker is somewhere in between, and I think the element of chance is much bigger than you are making out. You only need to look at the number of hands that are decided by two players going all in pre-flop in a 'coin flip' to see how much chance is actually involved.
The stock market is not gambling as you are purchasing an underlying asset.There may be an element of speculation involved but that does not make it gambling.
+thewanderandhiscomp Now it is not. The shares you were buying were actually part of company wealth and the company was obligated to buy them back from you if you desired so. They are not anymore. The shares are at the moment worth as much as other people are willing to pay for them. So as long as the company does not sell more than 50% shares - those shares present no actual value.
Whole logic in this show was broken. Next step is : make stock trades
gambling.... Instead of spreading awarness of how advanced you have to
be in predicting your action outcome (fantasy/poker/STOCKS) it prefers
to just "hell I have no idea how these guys won so let me insult it
calling it gambling.
+SharkAcademy reenact glass steagall, or should we go further?
This might actually be Seth Rogan’s best work.
15:48 What's her name again? How do I know her?
Katheryn Hahn. She was the horny/crazy wife of Adam Scott in Stepbrothers that John C. Reilly sleeps with.
Protips i
@@protips__ And now she's in WandaVision! crazy, didnt expect to see her here lmao
Wouldn't take much.
“The most addictive thing you can do on a phone” someone tell him about Gacha. All the predation of gambling with far less financial gain and vastly more targeted psychological and emotional manipulation!
We need a Last Week Tonight episode on Genshin Impact.
12:13 it's incredibly ironic to see FanDuel offering the promo code "Astroturf" just a few minutes after we saw FanDuel employees essentially astroturfing in Union Square
he makes boring topics interesting and looks like an owl
spot on
Or like a near-sited parrot
Who works at a bank
this a job for trey the explainer.
funny birdy man.
Anyone else up in the middle of the night and bout to go to bed and just found this was uploaded a minute ago and said "alright ill just watch this"?????
Me. Fucking 100 percent me. And i got work in 4 hours. Damn you john!!
+Dustin Lee Literally what happened to me.
na its 1 pm here :)
+Mukul shah you an Aussie?
+Thrasher_ 92 na!
The bit at the end was pure gold.
Fun fact: One of the best Fantasy Football players in the world (being rank 1 at a point) is world chess champion Magnus Carlsen. So yeah
That is not a real thing. Stop spreading misinformation.
the way the payouts from the fantasy sports companies go (90% of earnings to
+MalikEmmanuel inb4 Bernie Sanders becomes President of Daily Fantasy Sports and demands change.
+MalikEmmanuel True, except with fantasy sports, you can choose not to play.
+MalikEmmanuel Just pointing that out, or do you dislike it enough to want to try and change it?
That Seth Rogen cameo is gold xD
+Johnson Lee (ไททนส) If by that you mean he's as unfunny as always, then I agree.
+Prophet Muhammad Safe to assume, that Johnson Lee genuinely meant that it was "gold". That being said, no Seth Rodent wasn't as unfunny as he usually is... He was unfunny alright, just not as unfunny as usual.
+Jorah The Andal (Soundtrack Medleys)
Kathryn Hahn.
I loved Mike Birbiglia's, too: "I turned $35 into $2 million into $40 into $0."
That wolf pack-through-the-doggy-door metaphor is top notch ahahaha!
I love this video. I just found 75% of my sources for a mock debate on why gambling should be banned.
Who is the actress with Seth Rogen?
+Antonio Díaz She's a helluva an actor, I'd like to know too.
I think she's the chick on step brothers lol
+Antonio Díaz Her name is Kathryn Hahn she played a killer role in Step Brothers and a ton of other really funny movies.
www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1177928-kathryn_hahn
Unorthodo_x thanks :)
+Antonio Díaz Kathryn Hahn
Meanwhile Biff is building an empire off of his winnings.
Yeah, and biff was smart enough to not use fanduel. He did normal ol' horse racing and sports bets.
+Arcadio Buendia You're Supposed To Be In Switzerland You Little Son Of A Bitch!
THE RETURN OF JANICE IN ACCOUNTING!!!
Isabella Green I like her. She gets it.
She drank all the hazelnut creamer again...
She did that before taking the money pot...
Janice finally decided to give a fuck and, in doing so, won the office pot. Good on her.
Who else died at "super divorce", and not to mention this whole video, his fucking awesome i love this dude!! ^^
I laughed out loud at "If there was we probably couldn't afford it".
18:35
#JaniceFromAccountingForPresident!
+Eric Williams Cant happen cause she dont give a fuck about anything
+Eric Williams
Janice's campaign slogan:
"Meh"
+UnknowinglyDerpy
She is perfect for the job then... completely non-biased.
+Eric Williams Still better than Bernie Sanders
+Eric Williams ♟♞♝♜♛♚
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Let me tell you how great legalized sports gambling has been for sports fans. It's awesome to have to hear about people's dumb, uninteresting bets all the time as if it's legit sports fandom.
Goldfish are actually quite smart with quite good memories. They can remember their owners faces and even remember what time their going to be fed and can perform tricks
Thanks, goldfish whisperer
Our goldfish only responded to the color red, which is my mother's favorite color. She wears a lot of red and feeds them, so they didn't remember time, they just associated red = food
which is better than I can say about most humans
No TPP? I'm disappointed.
I doubt he's ever going to talk about it.
+Manmadespacecraft what is that?
+Manmadespacecraft agreed.
+Manmadespacecraft He's already talked about it.
+Zetsubou Risuikun See, that is the problem. There are still People out there, that do not know about it.
Its the Transatlantic Trade Partnership between the US and the EU. It is Made to "normalize" industrial rights and Stuff, which basically means: Fuck our rights, fuck our lives, the Industries need to have all the rights they want.
I particularly loved the skit with Seth Rogen and his 'wife'. The actress was great too.
Isn't that his actual wife?
@@cameronharris4788 No, the woman in the video is Kathryn Hahn, who's absolutely brilliant.
Mike Birbiglia, too!
"Is there something stronger than a divorce that we can get? Like a superdivorce?"
Daily Fantasy Sports fundamentally involve betting and odds, and whether you're using a complex algorithm or not (comparable to counting cards), it's still ultimately up to chance. There is no way anyone could look at that and not call it gambling. It just IS.
+zh11147 from one specific federal regulation.
+Ebob So... isn't investing also gambling then? But its still not defined as such. Hell, everything is fundamentally probabilistic in nature.
Yeah, investing is also a gamble, but the stock market plays an imperative role in regulating and stimulating capitalist economies. Throwing money down a lottery hole doesn't :P
Ebob agreed, but then the idea of having a definition of gambling is largely a pointless affair. Which is not to say that these companies and industries shouldn't be regulated, but just on a different basis.
+PotaTOES if you work in stock exchanges there is allmost no gambling involved but if you are an outsider looking it that is what it looks like.
16:25 "Hey jocks, how does it feel to be a nerd's bitch?"
WIN!
Your show is one of the kind, I can barely believe it's real it's so good and helpful and funny
"Is there something stronger than a divorce?" Well, there's murder-suicide. Hmmm....too dark?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
@@depressedbreakfast2614 I don't know
@@bigmarty11288 Can you repeat the question?
"I hate you." "Fantastic, well I hate me too." Too relatable, just too relatable.
Might as well start looking into Valve's crate bullshit.
+Alexandre Potvin what do you mean. I don't link Lord Gaben will think to fondly of your comment. How about 100 years of only blues as punishment?
+Alexandre Potvin It's not gambling, it's an offering to our lord and saviour lord Gaben so that he lays his benediction upon us!
GabeN be prasied and let the console peasants forever be banished to 720p!
+CrYsYs The salt, oh the salt
It's not gambling. In gambling you get at least some money back.
The crate system is more like the "throw the ball to destroy the bottle pyramid" game (except you do it blindfolded), where you get most likely a cheap item that you could buy cheaper in a supermarket. Or if you are really REALLY lucky you get a hat with some glitter on it, which you just put on the shelf where it collects dust,just to impress some strangers for 3 seconds.
I just realized this is probably the whole reason that sports betting was legalized nationwide a few years ago. Specifically that so many large corporations were invested in it.
Draft kings is a literal booky site now and the NFL's preferred choice for game betting
This is the one John Oliver deep dive Philip DeFranco aint going to cover
I was just thinking I wasn't going to see this on the PDS tomorrow xD
+xXjesperoXx My thoughts exactly. Lets see if that draft kings money is going to keep him silent
+xXjesperoXx He sold out a long time ago.
Even if he gets dropped from Draftkings he will still be making money.
not as much as if he didn't get dropped. They even set up his own website for draft kings.
You are a british man on a suit, all you need now is a taste for martinis and you're basically ready
*in*
OASDMLGKA'DLKG OMFGG INCENDERE YESSS I LVOE YOUV SSKSKSKSKLASJKLD
This needs an update so badly. With the legalization of sports betting these ads are absolutely EVERYWHERE.
This is a quite light topic
+Khandar William
Your face is a light topic.
+Status Q do you have to troll ?
+Dennis Gaffney
I was cursed by a witch as a child. My dick will fall off if I do not.
+Status Q Weird witch
Lynch2507
Most are.
Bravo to Oliver for being able to pronounce "chutzpa" properly, way to be culture sensitive/savvy enough to pull that off
👏👏👏
It's definitely closer than basically any non-Hebrew speaker I've ever heard has said it, but it's not perfect. A pretty good "ch," though.
+gkidz4 Hey, he used to work for Jon Stewart. You'd figure he'd pick up a bit of Hebrew here and there... ;-)
He's Jewish, guys.
So everyone who is just not able to pronounce it perfectly is not culture sensitive???...... These things have nothing to do with each other....
When Gillfolye comes out I split the meal from the mount! xD
Same here:D
I know this is a 5 year old video, but... why HASN'T "007 - Aversion To Violence" starring John Oliver as James Bond been made yet?? I'm guessing it would put Austin Powers's take to shame.
"If you own a television, you cannot have missed their adds" SO TRUE AND ITS ANNOYING
15:46 Hey it's Agnes! I'd recognize that smile anywhere! :3
Finally. Sunday night fap routine. Thanks John!
OMG ITS METROGNOME I LOVE YOUR STUFF :D
Draft Kings advertises on porn sites and if it advertises on porn sites, you know you shouldn't try it.
any game with element of chance is gambling, even if it requires skills. given the odds (85% were losers), they are better off playing slot machines.
+windingpath Then they need to ban the lottery here in NY also. While they are at it all the slot machines and cancel the new casinos they gave the green light to.
+windingpath Almost every single game I can think of involves at least some degree of chance.
+Ben Luschen You don't put up money to win a prize.
+Chosay No Way Aldo Dies Dec 12th (EIRE EIRE) even if it's 90% chance that you'll win, it's still considered gambling since luck determines whether you win or not.
+windingpath You are getting confused as to why they don't want to be seen as gambling. It is all about taxes. They are not objecting on moral or ethical grounds, which is why you could argue why can't anything be considered gambling (life itself), they just do not want to lose their profit margin by having to shell out money for local/state taxes for what is deemed gambling. This is like Scientology being a "religion". It's just bullshit tax dodging.
I would genuinely watch "Aversion to Violence"
Kathryn hahn and seth Rogen were amazing in that skit🤣
I keep forgetting these skits have celebrities. I only remembered because Seth Rogen sticks out like a watermelon in a pumpkin patch.
@@kavukkii He can take the funny out of anything. 🤦♂
Thank you, Last Week Tonight, for making something I don't care about both informative and hilarious.
John, you in the lead role is probably the only way I could be persuaded to watch a Bond movie.
You, or Dame Helen Mirren.
16:09 Why did no one cheer for Martin Starr?
+David Schwartsman ♟♞♝♜♛♚
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+David Schwartsman I was exited! Silicon valley!!
+David Schwartsman -- He'll forever be a cult favorite and I think he's okay with that. No one cheered for Jerrod Carmichael, either, and that dude is funny as hell.
I'm impressed! John Oliver can pronounce the "Ch" sound in "Chutzpah" :)
For anyone disappointed that this week's main story isn't the Paris attacks, John talked about it as the first story in the show and spent a considerable amount of time lambasting the perpetrators (he used the fact that he's on HBO and unbound by the restrictions of other public venues/media to not offer a moment of silence, but deliver a tirade). Ultimately, since the main story requires an enormous amount of research to put together, there simply hasn't been enough time between Friday and Sunday to do so.
I would watch "007: Aversion to Violence".
All hail John Oliver the birdy fact nerdy man
Kathryn Hahn is literally everything.
Please, Santa, can John be the next James Bond!? I've been good this year!
If Rowan Atkinson can star in a Bond film, so can Oliver
Rowan, it's a genius
Is That Seth Rogen and Kathryn Hahn at 15:55?
“Hey jocks... How does it feel to be a nerd’s b***h?”
The irony with MLB's partnership with Draft Kings is that Pete Rose has been banned for over 40 years for gambling. They won't even give him his rightful place in the HOF.
Fact check: The show's official website does indeed include the keywords he described, along with a few more mundane ones. Good one!
"The name's Oliver.
John Oliver."
13:16 Am I the only one who kept on getting distracted while this guy was talking by asking what exactly was going on with those sideburns?
The disappointment I felt when I found out Daily Fantasy Sports wasn't Quidditch
do you know what is also gambling? Microtransactions in some games. Like CSGO, call of duty, Overwatch, Team Fortress 2 ect. That shit should be illegal.
In ow (and in the majority of game where microtransactions are involved) u dont pay to win money, so by definition this aint gambling
Not all gambling is for money. If you can pay money in exchange for only a chance of getting something valuable out of it, some states consider that gambling. It's why sweepstakes on product packages have to say "no purchase necessary" and let you mail in for a free ticket/token/whatever even when the prize isn't money.
I said way back when Valve introduced their crates and keys that they were asking to get shut down for it. So far it hasn't happened, and I can only assume it's because nobody has bothered trying to sue them. You'd probably have to be someone who has actually lost a substantial amount of money to them for it to stick, which is probably why they've never gotten in trouble.
by that definition, blind bag toys are gambling, so..
Crate openings are not gambling. You cannot "lose" a crate opening, you get what you pay for.
Rocket-Bot you pay 5 bucks to open one crate and in return you get a skin that is worth 2 dollars
I'd be HAPPY to watch "Aversion To Violence".
If it smells like gambling and sounds like gambling, then it's probably gambling. If you pay money for odds of winning more money then it's 100% gambling.
Janice from Accounting needs her own segment each episode
We're dogs woof tell em WOOF lol
Was that Mike Birbiglia in the fake ad?
Yeah it was! I fucking love that guy!
+Troy Wullbrandt " i'm the hulk, i'm the hulk!!!"
"What I SHOULD have said was 'Draft Kings is clearly gambling, I shouldn't do this.' What I DID say was 'I'll take Tom Brady for $50!'"
+Rise Of The Kumquat Oh my god yes he is my favorite comedian. "When I should have stopped, was $2,000,000. When I did stop, was never."
I KNOW, RIGHT!?
Poker is a game of skill, statistics, psychology, reading people, and knowing your opponent. Still considered gambling. 😂😂😂
Andrew eby the game in its whole its skill based. but if you ever played poker, and i mean tens or hundreds thousand hands you ll see most players dont use skill. they just gamble
A good follow up to this episode @LastWeekTonight would be to look at the freemium mobile games phenomenon who use very similar tactics to gambling games - Essentially the candy for children of the gambling world training them up for when they can legally gamble...
Fantasy Sports is a perfect reflection of the American Dream: The mere fact you exist means you are a candidate for “success.”
As a videogame designer, I need to say this: IF THERE'S CHANCE, IT'S GAMBLING.
Do you consider stocks to be gambling?
@@DrFunk-rk6yl No, that's just stupidity. Or a scam. Whichever you prefer. But don't compare cars to ham.
As an *actual professional risk manager,* I need to say this:
If it's possible for players to win in an infinite sample, it isn't gambling.
OR
Absolutely everything is gambling.
20 years ago, In india, a single digit daily lottery started. And people got addicted to winning or losing daily - celebrate or brood daily. It destroyed a lot of lives until government banned it.
That slight delay when the audience hears “chutzpah” and then it clicks lol
Leave the wolves alone John. Woof. Lol
woof. imma dog. woof
#Notallwolves.
Saying they are games of skill is such an evasion. Blackjack is also a game of skill, yet it is a form of gambling. As is poker, and many other casino games. About the only ones that aren't are slots and lotto.
Replace Draft Kings with Electronic Arts, and you can simply rerun this video each year with every new EA sports game release.
It clearly is gambling but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad or should be illegal. Literally every argument you could use against daily fantasy could be used against regular sports betting, and no one's calling for the banning of that. There are statisticians that participate in regular sports gambling too, there are also gambling addicts that have thrown their lives away playing slot machines, same thing.
+Joe Vargas it's not about banning it's about regulation.
Biddybalboa Numerous states have already banned it
***** I'm talking about the video
+Joe Vargas There are people who have thrown their lives away eating cheeseburgers. The whole "let's regulate and control vices" attitude never helps the problem, and only creates more problems.