{"id":622610,"date":"2026-10-06T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622610\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:42:08","slug":"heres-what-happened-when-a-reporter-posed-as-a-problem-gambler-on-draftkings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622610\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what happened when a reporter posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/jake-pearson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Pearson<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/draftkings-sports-gambling-problem-vip-fanduel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">problem gambler<\/a>, losing thousands of dollars a night betting on sports, and a DraftKings VIP, lavished with special offers for free gambling money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pearson is also a reporter for ProPublica who says one of the country\u2019s biggest sportsbooks rewarded his recklessness and put profit over protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Scott Tong speaks to Pearson about the booming business of online sports betting, and gives an insider&#8217;s view of what it&#8217;s like to ride the rollercoaster of problem gambling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on October 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Pearson is a problem gambler, losing thousands of dollars a night betting on sports, and a DraftKings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-622610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}