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Seeing all the commercials I finally took the bait and signed onto DraftKings.

The FIRST thing they want is your money. Here's the deposit page:

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I went for the $25 and started out with a $3 entry fee, fantasy football one. They give you a "Salary cap" of a fake $50K and you choose your players. Here's what I did:

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It's on like Donkey King.

Anyone here wanna sign up please let me know, I get big credit and love from them if I refer people. So please PM me your email address you wanna use for this and I will generate a invite for you.

Football fantasy contest I entered goes live in 12 hours.
 

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I did Draft Kings for the first time last week. I put in the $25 but played a free game they were advertising. Out of 383,000 people I placed 74th and won $400. Not bad, I owe a lot of that to Hyde who went off in that night game.

I'm playing again this week, although I don't like the match ups that much.

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I did Draft Kings for the first time last week. I put in the $25 but played a free game they were advertising. Out of 383,000 people I placed 74th and won $400. Not bad, I owe a lot of that to Hyde who went off in that night game.
That's pretty good though. Hell they might grab you for a future commercial spot.
 

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Eh so far it's looking like I bombed this week.
I am doing well for a beginner, since I have Dallas D in there and it is pitching a shutout currently!

I think I wind up finishing out of any money though.
 

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How are you doing so far? I have thinking about trying it out.

Fyi... The attachments come up system error. Contact the admin.
 

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I wound up outta the money due to two reversals of on-field TDs
 

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I think I figured this out a bit more.

Instead of going with players I know and like, I figured out you can toggle the lists by their average of fantasy points they score. So I started picking the highest scorers at each position. But their salaries are HUGE, leaving me with little money to spend on a flex player and on a defense/special teams team.

So, we'll see how this goes.

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You can see on the first one, at the right, I left "a lot of meat on the bone" with $8500 still of salary cap space available. My new lineup, on the left, only has $200 cap space left.
 

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I entered 6 different fantasy contests with this lineup. Three of them are "qualifiers" whatever that is. Two of them are doubles - any winnings are double payout. I am now $36 into this.
 

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I just flat bombed out last week but feel better about the chances this week with updated roster.

NOW I am looking not only at their salaries and their average fantasy points, I found where they also rank the opponent each player faces this week. So that when let's say a Julio Jones is going up against the #1 pass defense, maybe you drop him and go with a "lesser" wideout who has Rodgers as QB and is going up against the #29 pass D, and who also scored well above his average in fantasy points last week? And is $1,500 cheaper?

Also with the return of Chancellor, I dumped the Dallas D and went with Seattle. I am leaving NO "meat on the bone" anymore, spending every dime of the salary cap now.

Potential winnings this week is only $102,000 though, would have had to pay more money to get in some of the better paying events. I'll make a deposit next week if I still want to play after this week.

But, this IS fun and it's relatively cheap entertainment so far.
 

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How much are you spending? Always see the commercials but never tried.
My balance right now is 0 but I have spent $25 total.

They only charge you when you apply your roster to one of the contests, which range in price from 3 bucks to upwards of 300 or more. I play the cheap ones.

If you wanna get in PM me the email address you wanna use and I will send a invite through there, this gives me playing credit for the referral!
 

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No matter who I choose, they either get hurt or they don't do shit in their games that week.

SO...

This week my roster is LOADED with New England Patriots!
 

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I'm doing fan duel and really like it.

already entered in 5 contests for week 5.

Im going to try $100 a week for the rest of the season to see if I can hit big. I lost $58 for the weekend.
 

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I lost $58 for the weekend.
I've had $50 total at risk, so far and have lost $42 of it.

We're suckers financing the winners.

I just discovered we can have different rosters for every event though, and the rosters of other players including the winners are publicly viewable. So, I'm picking up pointers.
 

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I went $200, or there about this week. In like 6 or 7 different contests.

Ill let you guys know when I win like $75k
 

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Weeks 2 and 3 I didn't hit shit. Week 4 I hit $5. I felt good about some match ups this week and wanted to play a few games but only got a couple in before I ran out of time.
 

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$87. Witten and Matt Ryan really fucked me out of a few big payoffs.
 
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