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Big money in fantasy football attracts fans and legal scrutiny

Peter Jennings works four computer screens mounted on the wall of a converted office in his elegant Lone Tree condominium, a reality of big-time fantasy football.

The 27-year-old monitors reports, statistics and rumors with the focus and passion he used to employ in his old work as a stock trader.

It wasn't just luck that helped Jennings win more than $1 million last year playing fantasy football, a fast-rising, well-funded pastime that's inundating the TV airwaves, online advertising and even RTD buses in downtown Denver.

"It's just like investing, but instead of stocks you're trading in athletes," said Jennings, the game's first known six-figure winner in 2012 when he won $150,000 on a $10 entry fee.