FanDuel Appears To Be Getting Ready To Offer Poker

It’s looking increasingly likely that FanDuel Poker is about to become a thing, with PokerStars going under the rebrand knife. If true, FanDuel will for the first time be offering poker on its sites.

Signs that point to this happening are starting to trickle out, as Pokerfuse reported last week.

For starters, FanDuel has a job posting that directly references poker. The job is “analytics engineer,” which by itself isn’t so telling. But the fine print gives it away.

“We are looking for an Analytics Engineer to join our Poker Analytics team,” the posting reads. “You will support the Poker business, driving scalable analytics products (data assets, dashboards, visualizations, tools/services), and analytic frameworks.”

Again, as of this moment, there is no FanDuel “poker business.”

Next up, Pokerfuse reported “a long-time product manager at PokerStars made a move to FanDuel,” and a quick LinkedIn search points to David Murphy, who wrote that he is “starting a new chapter as Product Director at FanDuel, still within the wider Flutter Entertainment family. Leaving PokerStars isn’t easy — it’s been an incredible place to grow, learn, and work alongside some of the most talented and genuinely supportive people I’ve ever met.”

Additionally, the Pokerfuse report claims FanDuel has been testing subdomain names that feature poker.

The report also suggests that some soft evidence points in the rebrand direction: PokerStars has not combined its Pennsylvania player pool with Michigan and New Jersey’s yet; the company also canceled its 2025 flagship Championship of Online Poker (COOP), through vowing it will return in 2026.

PokerStars goes way back

PokerStars launched in late 2001 and caught its first big break in 2003, when Tennessee accountant Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event after qualifying through a PokerStars satellite. The “Moneymaker Effect” triggered a global poker boom, and PokerStars was perfectly positioned to benefit.

When the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) passed in 2006, it prompted publicly traded poker sites like partypoker and 888 to leave the U.S. market, while PokerStars and other privately held operators continued serving U.S. players and grew their relative share. Then Black Friday hit in April 2011 and PokerStars stopped offering a poker platform to its U.S. customers.

The company eventually passed through several corporate owners before landing inside Flutter Entertainment’s portfolio in 2020, the same parent company that owns FanDuel. The two brands have been corporate siblings ever since, though operating on entirely separate tracks. That arrangement may finally be about to change.

Emails to FanDuel executives were not returned as of the publication of this article.