Hello DFS players, my name is Travis Pettey aka Petteytheft89 on DFS and I am here to turn people into winners. This year I was finally able to stop cashing out constantly and build a strong roll that would allow me to play in some of the highest games. In the NBA, I am ranked #6 currently according to RotoGrinders leaderboard. This leaderboard is definitely flawed in some ways and doesn't include everyone but I consider myself to be top 10.

I'm currently coaching 2 students right now since the start of the new year and both have had amazing early success. I'm looking for 1-2 more people to join the team. I require a decent time commitment per day and a strong effort. Please understand that this is not for everyone. More details can be discussed via PM or skype.

As for those of who are very new and are looking for a very strong boost in your research skills, I have several tools for you. I will do 1 hour sessions with anyone where I'll guide you through many tools that I use myself. This will cost $250.

Cliffs:

- Looking for 1-2 more students, pm me if interested and include something about your DFS experience + yourself.

- Newer people: $250/hr where I will speed up your learning curve greatly. I can promise you that this will be worth $250 if you play enough. If you don't think it helped you enough, feel free to ask for your money back.

I've received a couple of pm's that were a little confused about this so I want to clarify. The people who are my students have a long term arrangement that is different than the $250/hr. The people doing 250/hr are those looking for a quick boost to save them a lot of trouble figuring things out themselves that could be very costly.

Travis is very good, smart, and successful. The times that we have talked about NBA have been positive experiences. I would highly recommend him, especially for cash games.

Are you #6 in TPOY or grinders ranking or just a particular sport?

do you use a model? do you use projections?

I use models and projections yes. I'm #6 currently in the NBA for this whole basketball year (into 2014).

do your students get access to those models and projections?

Of course. I teach them everything I know. My demands are large (can discuss via pm) but I try to make them into better versions of myself.

MANJI

(thumbs up)

are you taking students or stakees? The way you discuss it make it sound like the latter.

In some ways both. If need be, I can stake my students but I am teaching them everyday. Staking seems like a passive approach while I am fully hands on with the players.

What kind of winnings are we talking about.
I know in poker this info is public.
What's the biggest win u cashed?

I am not going to publicly say my winnings. I will say I did not build my bankroll with a gpp bink. I've had some decent gpp cashes but most of my money was made from cash games.

i apologize in advance bc i know i ask the same question in like every coaching thread, but ive never really received a satisfactory answer, so...

if you're a top 10 nba dfs player in a world where theres not much edge to begin with and what little edge you might have seems to be decreasing every day, why on gods green earth would you want to educate the fish???

like wouldnt you have to sell TONS of hours before it would be profitable for you? like if you needed an extra $250 and you are the 6th best nba dfs player or whatever, wouldnt you just like jam a bunch more games? it just seems like such a huge potential cost to you for not much of a benefit.

i mean its like "lets see i have this ability to make tons of money playing nba dfs. should i:

a) play a bunch of games and make tons of money
b) educate smart 2+2ers and thereby reduce my edge for a pretty small fee"

I'm not teaching people how to play like me. This is catered to beginners who don't know where to look. It's basically an introductory course that puts you in the right places. A lot of knowledge isn't out there and I don't mind giving it out. I've been told by a few people that the price is too low but it's not meant for the person with a massive roll.

ok fair enough but op kinda makes it sound like you are creating a team full of mini-mes ready to do battle on the nba dfs community.

I am coaching people to be my mini me's but that's a longer term thing. The hourly thing is for the beginners who want to know where to look.

I think looking at the scoreboard is deceiving...the edge the "best" players have in DFS is getting smaller and smaller...and with the rake the only way to make real money playing cash games especially given the high rake is tons of VOLUME. When looking at the scoreboard & the type of wins that are reported, it seems to me that's what Petteytheft needs to rely on, massive volume, and that's not a knock on him but the reality of dfs cash game grinding. When looking at the rotogrinders scoreboard don't just get caught up in seeing how many wins the person has...ask yourself what it means when that player has a 2-4 days a week of not really reporting many wins. it's not because they're not entering scores of contests that day.

Basically DFS is already becoming very difficult to beat and even the "best" players like Jumanji are resorting to entering 100's of contests a day at stakes as low as a $1-$2 and even there their edge is pretty small. It's too bad though that it's getting so bad that people are already trying to coach and make money off it before the games become even less profitable. At the the same time they're ultimately making the games worse and worse for all of us.

At any rate, DFS is MUCH MUCH easier to get a handle on than poker and you can probably figure it out pretty well even by fidgeting with rotogrinder's tools and analyzing your game by starting at microstakes.

but you just wrote 4 messages ago:

Agreed, I found that to be contradicting (sorry this is not meant to be a knock on you at all Jumanji but that was my reaction as well).

Also, this is not meant to single you out, but since it appears this forum is going to start having multiple coaching threads, I assume you are paying advertising fees to 2+2 for this thread to be allowed? I know 2+2 requires payment for threads like this one to exist, so just wondering how I can know if new threads are approved or not? (maybe this is a better question for the mods).

As for me, I'm not going to buy anything this year as I am focused on getting my own product ready for the upcoming MLB season, but the NBA is my weakness and I will be looking for coaching prior to the next NBA season.

A question for your long-term students, are you looking for students with skills that can contribute back to you as well? For example, I can write programs and design databases, and would be willing to write a program that takes your criteria into account and saves you time in exchange for knowledge on how to beat NBA DFS, however you might already have something like this in place.

I think he made it pretty clear he has a 1 hour boot camp type thing for newbs to help them get started, and something else for more serious players.

If it lasts longer than 12 hours, it's approved.

Thanks, that is good to know, I almost asked the same question in your thread!

I don't understand why you say the best players need volume to make money then proceed to knock for me just that.. high volume. I don't know specifics about RotoGrinders scoring, but it seems to make a lot of sense that your best cashes would be on the same day. I only run one lineup a day and that's probably why I don't have as many big cashes in GPP's as guys who run 5+.

I do play as low as $1-$2 but I also play as high as $270 on a daily basis. If you think my edge is small, I don't think you understand the DFS landscape fully. There are a lot of things out there that people don't understand becaues they don't play enough.

I don't use RotoGrinders at all. In fact, I don't even go on their site anymore except to check their forums once in awhile. I think their tools are pretty dangerous for newer players. I was once one of them and I don't like the way I progressed.