Strategy for Week 1 Betting Pools and Survivor (Episode 436 with Adam Levitan, Peter Jennings, Mark Dankenbring)
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This is the first-ever episode of Establish The Pool! Adam, Peter, and Mark discuss strategy for NFL survivor, pick'em, and confidence pools ahead of Week 1's action.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to week one of the first ever established the pool. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Adam Levitan and each week on this show I'll be joining my Mark Duncan |
| 0:17.4 | Brain and Peter Jennings to talk you guessed it NFL pools that means survivor, pick them, |
| 0:25.3 | confidence pools, all that good stuff, Peter, good afternoon. |
| 0:30.4 | We're also coming off an incredible 3v3 victory where we were all teammates so |
| 0:36.2 | working hard as usual. Great morning. How are you guys doing? |
| 0:40.1 | Another tough one. It's perfect. I'm doing well. Mark has it going. |
| 0:44.5 | It's great. I'm honored to be here with you two fine gentlemen and talk football, man. It's |
| 0:48.8 | finally here. Let's go. Finally here. Yes, I thought that last nice game was very, very good |
| 0:54.2 | for me personally and so that's all that really matters. Anyways, on today's show, |
| 1:00.6 | we're going to talk through week one through the lens of pools. I know everyone out there is in |
| 1:05.4 | kind of a bit of a different format, likely with their pools. We're mainly going to talk normal |
| 1:08.6 | survivor. We're going to talk the confidence pool that we're running with our friends at Run Your |
| 1:12.9 | Pool and we'll talk to super book contest style stuff. And by the way, the betting show that I'm |
| 1:17.8 | doing with David out later tonight, I think it should help with the super contest style stuff. |
| 1:21.7 | Also, but anyways, before we get into it, I wanted to quickly remind everyone of two things. |
| 1:25.3 | First, this free pool that we are running, you can still enter it. It's totally free, |
| 1:29.5 | chance to win 10k cash, prizes for the top 100 finishers, see my Twitter for details on how to |
| 1:35.3 | get in to that pool that we're running. Also, if you do not have our in-season package yet, |
| 1:41.8 | what are you waiting for? Be sure you grab it. Everything we think you need to win at DFS season |
| 1:45.6 | long includes this show we premium at times and the betting show with David out. Tons more shows |
| 1:50.2 | and contacts around all our projections in our ownership projections. Be sure you cop that. |
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