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FantasyLand #10 - High Stakes

Rotoviz Radio

Blue Wire

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 β€’ 770 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 29 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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(Information correct as of February 7, 2016 - Original release date) The 10th episode of Fantasyland – The podcast that covers everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about fantasy sports. High Stakes: Fantasy Sports, Real Money "Smart guys." β€” Lance Turbes Host: Peter Overzet – Contributor to RotoViz and Host of @TheFFComedyHour Guests: Alex Kaganovsky – Co-Founder of the Fantasy Football Players Championship Eric Balkman – FFPC Media Coordinator and Cohost of the High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour Shawn Siegele – 2013 NFFC Primetime Champion, Proprietor of Money in the Banana Stand, former Lead Writer for Pro Football Focus Fantasy, Writer for RotoViz, and Creator of the Zero RB Strategy Blake Pyle – Winner of the 2015 Footballguys Players Championship and High-Stakes Veteran from Dallas, Texas Sandro Dussek – Youngest Main Event Drafter, from McLean, Virginia Ira Berman – 15-Year High-Stakes Veteran from St. Petersburg, Florida Lance Turbes – High-Stakes Player from San Mateo, California Marc Davidson – High-Stakes Player from Denver, Colorado Austin Roberts – High-Stakes Player from Denver, Colorado Mark Ray – High-Stakes Player from Lubbock, Texas Matt Jarrett – High-Stakes Player from Lubbock, Texas Remy Rhodes – High-Stakes Player from Fort Worth, Texas Sponsors: Fantasy Football Players Championship – The home of season-long high-stakes fantasy football. To register for a premium league starting at just $35, go to MyFFPC.com. RotoViz.com – A sports analytics website with over 1,500 groundbreaking articles per year and 20 proprietary apps. Go to RotoViz.com/podcast for 10 percent off a yearlong NFL pass. About the Show: Executive Producer: Fantasy Douche – Editor-in-Chief of RotoViz Producer: Matthew Freedman – Editor-in-Chief of FantasyLabs and Producer of the RotoViz podcasts Producer: Patrick Kerrane – Cohost of RotoViz Radio and Writer for RotoViz Music: Leo Kaliski β€” Composer and Proprietor of LeoKaliski.com Subscribe: iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and others β€” reviews are appreciated Twitter: @FantasylandPod Email: Fantasylandpod@gmail.com β€” Contact us if you have any good fantasy stories. We’d love to hear from you. β€”β€”β€” Thanks to the @RotoViz Radio Channel for syndicating this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up y'all? It's Druski, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast called The Do Zone with Drewski. Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like Jamal Murray. Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no? Was the Raptors even started around that time? Come on, bro. I ain't that old, fam. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, A.J. Wilson, and many more. You won't want to miss this.

0:03.4

Listen to The Do Zone with Drusky on Apple Podcast. I ain't that all, Phil. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, Asian Wilson, and many more.

0:21.8

You won't want to miss this.

0:23.0

Listen to the do zone with Drewski on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:31.0

A good number of players would tell you that they get excited for coming out to Vegas and drafting their teams as much as they get

0:37.8

excited for, you know, opening presents on Christmas Day. I mean, a lot of guys will tell you

0:41.8

that that is their Christmas Day is drafting their teams.

1:05.5

You You are listening to Fantasyland, the podcast that covers everything you didn't know you wanted to know about fantasy sports.

1:13.0

I'm your host, Peter Roversett, and in this episode, producer Pat Corain and I are going to give you a first-hand account of our baptism by fire in the world of high-stakes fantasy football. In September, Pat and I

1:20.1

met in Las Vegas to draft a high-stakes fantasy team alongside 800 other degenerates, and we're going

1:26.9

to tell you all about our season as high-stakes

1:29.6

virgins, but it all begins at the Westgate Casino. The Westgate has to be almost like a mecca

1:36.2

for people who don't mind gambling a little on sports. They have a monstrous sports book,

1:41.7

and they do that contest you might have heard about from Bill Simmons, the super contest.

1:46.4

Well, this year the Westgate was also the home to the fantasy football players championship

1:51.2

draft.

1:52.2

So Pat and I spent four days of our lives there, surviving on little more than Bud Lights

1:57.9

and Sportsbook hot dogs while we dreamed of taking down the $250,000

2:03.2

FFPC Grand Prize.

2:08.2

The array of drafters who come out to Vegas for FFPC is impressive, and everyone approaches

2:15.2

it in a different way. Some are all business maintaining a laser focus on their draft.

2:20.6

Others treat it like a total party. And throughout this episode, we're going to hear from drafters

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