Youdacao, One of the Biggest Winners in the History of DFS, Reveals His Secrets (Episode 538, One-on-One with Adam Levitan)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with the legendary Youdacao, easily one of the top-5 players in the history of DFS.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Why Youda is going public now
Youda's process
High stakes ecosystem
Your listener questions
Tons more
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Timestamps:
0:59 - Youdacao becoming public
2:54 - How we got his start
6:07 - Youda’s best sport
7:38 - The DFS Process
11:38 - Projections into the process
16:15 - A standard work week for a DFS grinder
19:58 - Game Selection
24:59 - Youdacao’s physical setup
29:09 - Sustainable lngevity in DFS
35:23 - Has sports betting damaged DFS?
40:09 - Late-swapping process
43:58 - Listener Questions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 538 of the Official Established The Run.com podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | My name is Adam Levittin and today we have a very, very, very special guest. |
| 0:25.6 | This is a young man whose screen name I have known since. |
| 0:29.3 | I guess roughly 2015 and I know this screen name because he's undoubtedly been one of the biggest winners |
| 0:35.7 | and most feared DFS players in the world ever since then. |
| 0:39.0 | This is a young man I'd easily consider one of the top five players in the history of DFS |
| 0:43.1 | but he's done it very, very quietly and without much fanfare. |
| 0:47.6 | Of course, of course, until now it is Yudekau. |
| 0:52.1 | Yudek, thanks for doing the show. How's it going? |
| 0:54.8 | No problem. Good to be here. |
| 0:56.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:58.1 | For sure. I think off the top, you know, you've been kind of mysterious, not |
| 1:02.7 | like a lot of people in front of the camera or talking a lot on Twitter. |
| 1:05.8 | I think you have like three tweets lifetime or something like that. |
| 1:08.3 | I think people are curious and I'm curious too, I guess, why the change of direction now |
| 1:14.4 | in terms of your public engagement. |
| 1:16.0 | You did ask me anything in the ETR Discord last month, which was awesome. |
| 1:20.3 | Now you're doing the show here today. |
| 1:21.6 | I guess a lot of people are probably just wondering why or why now. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, I just like anyone I enjoy talking sports, talking DFS and prior to this, |
| 1:33.2 | I think it was just natural for me to not really want to give away anything, protect my edge. |
| 1:39.9 | But I think talking DFS more publicly now, from my perspective, I'm significantly |
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