Larejo is a mid-stakes tournament mastermind who specializes in outmaneuvering 150-max players with a small number of entries
If you’re a GPP-chaser like me, you come to the realization that you may never hit the big one. I’ve talked about it plenty in this space, about how irrational any get-rich-quick scheme is, yet like many of you, I take some of my hard-earned money each week and dabble a bit in the “GPP lotteries.” You know, the massive, mega tournaments with tens or hundreds of thousands of entries. And every Sunday, you can find me at 12:45 pm ET as confident as ever, like this is the week it will happen. I’m delusional, in a good way, though. If I’ve learned anything in DFS over 10+ years, it’s that I may never allocate the time necessary to truly grind out a profit. I got involved in this in the first place for the constant chance of being that one mistake each week, the lucky and skilled mistake that somehow, someway gets the cards to break right. To play any other way just feels too risky and too wrong for my makeup.
But I’ve realized you’ll nearly always get out what you put in when it comes to DFS. Time, research, and effort – it’s why the primary contributors on this site are so sharp and have seen sustained success. I’d be the first one to admit that I actually learn the most about DFS from my “peers” (not peers, these dudes know their shit on this site) week in and week out, and then I try to take those learnings and teach myself literally while I am writing sometimes.
I wrote in the Week 2 Angles about not chasing your tail from Week 1. Sticking to your gut and instincts, analysis, and lineups from Week 1 and seeing them through (e.g., not overreacting). I wasn’t alone in this sentiment, but I felt that not chasing your tail was a little more catchy. Then I went out and did some tail chasing of my own.
My lovely “cover boy” from Week 1 was Russell Wilson. He unabashedly flopped in the opening week, thus bringing my lineups featuring him and Malik Nabers down with them. Then Week 2 happened, and with 0% Giants, the Wilson-Wan’Dale-Nabers stack took down most tournaments! Have I learned nothing? Maybe. But I was locked in on a different game last week, and that’s just what happens sometimes. On a positive note, I did continue to play Jameson Williams in Week 2 (and talked about it in Willing to Lose, how you should just play him every week!), and he helped cash my only lineup. Now here we are in Week 3, I’ll continue chasing the big one. What I have learned is that if I do stick the landing, that’ll be my retirement from DFS on the spot. But until then, I’m going back to my Week 1 article here with none other than…
