Fan Duel / Draft Kings....
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
2% of players make most of the money.
Having read some of your posts, I'm figuring you aren't in the top 2%.
2% of players makes most of the money? So what, you dont have to be first. If the winner makes a million and 25000th place makes $25. is there something wrong with being the guy that makes $25.
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Liberator Dad
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Peat,
I have a good friend who uses both sites in addition to betting on games during regular trips to Vegas. He like the Fan Duel site better and has won a little over $5000 there this year. I think they must operate on the same programming as the employee from one company did so well on the other site.
I have a good friend who uses both sites in addition to betting on games during regular trips to Vegas. He like the Fan Duel site better and has won a little over $5000 there this year. I think they must operate on the same programming as the employee from one company did so well on the other site.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-wont-win-money-playing-daily-fantasy-sports/
Here's a depressing article for you to show the money breakdown. That said, I still play. Put in $200 (with $200 match) on DK, and play a few piddly FD games. I think it might end up costing me $100 if things go batcrap wrong. Which, over the course of a season, is a fair price for all the fun. I don't hold any delusions about getting rich. Read enough on pairings and combined matchups to really frustrate myself. Don't have the mathematical mind to dive into the analytics, nor the capital to play in hundreds of games/week. But I did drop out of my big money fantasy league (for me, big money) and put that money in DFS. It has been much more fun.
A bit of advice...if you're going to play in the big millions games, leverage them out with smaller 50/50 games. That's why I think I can manage the losses to around about half of my initial deposit, in the worst of scenarios. And you don't have to be very good to cash in the 50/50 games.
I just wanna get rich quick or die trying!!!
Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
Mike McDermott taught me this valuable lesson long ago. I've walked away from plenty of tables with this thought in my head.
I play Draft Kings and feel obligated to play in the $20. 1.2 mil to the winner tourney but definately like the 3.00 100,000 guaranteed and the 3 and 5 dollar monday thursday leagues. Im up close to a grand but did get 600 of it from the PGA Tour Championship. Got a good one going this week need decent games out of Hyde, Kearse and Graham to cash great games to do very well. I like it but I like to gamble. I get the reading stats and past matchups to where it drives you crazy I want to run head first through the wall after a few hours. It is fun and for as cheap as 25. dollars a person with a little luck could play for quite awhile.[/QUOTE]
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I've only played NFL, for whatever reason. The numbers for that seem to work so much differently than the others. I pay far more attention to correlations and reverse correlations in the millions games. You've just got to have a magical week to cash in those, and that seems to be the best way to do it. Play matchups more in the 50/50 stuff, again trying to leverage out the week. It's not perfect by any means, but it seems to work a bit.
Agreed, the DF stuff is just fun. I'm the type that would lay down action on just about anything. Product of playing a lot of golf at a really young age with a bunch of older guys that always seemed to have a wad of singles and fives. And they were easy targets once I turned about seven. If you could put action and play odds against it on a golf course, I've probably done it. I graduated to online poker some years ago. Haven't played that near as much in the past few years. DF is replacing that for now. But card tables are my real hangup. In 15 years or so when I retire, I totally expect to spend a good deal of time in Vegas. Not many things get my juices flowing like a PLO table or an all-nighter of no-limit. Just don't have the time for it now.
I'm a tourney player. For whatever reason always have been. I like to gamble a little more early and build up a stack then cruise into the money rounds before I loosen up. Play NL but not real aggressive. Cash games get me in trouble especially with a bunch of aggressive youngins. Love the game though. Would play 5 days a week if momma would let me, lol. Of course I'd golf, fish, duck hunt, anything but work 5 days a week if she'd let me. Good Luck in your ventures Eagle somebody has to win might as well be one of us.
A coworker of mine won $3000 on Draft Kings about a month ago in baseball. He picked like 5 Royals and they went off for 12 runs. He got second place out of 35,000. Missed the 5k first prize by 0.1
Thanks Peat. You too! I'd play seven nights/week if there were a game and I had time.
I like tourney play a lot more too. Cash games, especially if small buy, are littered with guys that stay in and river hunt. So random and hard to bluff. Tourney play requires much more skill. I swear, anymore in cash games I only go if I've got cards. Sadly, most of the people I play with now know this. Call, check, raise...I wear that out in cash games. About the only play I've got left in the familiar games. Slow play it until they're pot committed, and then have to hope they don't hit something.
Its crazy in the big games, 1 mil or so. You can be sitting really good to cash and then your defense gives up a score and you fall 5000 places out of the money. With a half million people playing every point counts so much...
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