Fantasy Football, APP League, and dabbling with the GCPC

Phone...Y U NO work??

So The NFL Lockout is finally....FINALLY over and of course and over flow of Fantasy Football drafts are about to begin. I was iffy on deciding to play this year as last year was a crappy year and just missed the playoffs in 2 money leagues (small money) but the shit talking in these leagues were immense and Tilted me like no other. The fact that I had to wait 6 months for my upgrade because I got pissed off and broke my phone because I missed the playoffs in MY OWN LEAGUE was just icing on the cake for the year. It was all the fact that the Fantasy Football rookie of the league made a genius move to grab Deion Branch from the waiver wire when he was acquired by the Patriots, remembering the chemistry Branch and Tom Brady had when they Consistently won Super Bowl after Super Bowl. I give him credit for his impeccable memory but what was worse was his no name team just started going on a tear at the end of the year, and where there is success, there is shit talking. And with the ridiculous amount of shit talking he received earlier in the year by other team owners of the league, he decided to let it all unfold on the Commish who happened to be playing him that week and then continue to rub salt in the wound after he defeated that said Commish (and you can figure out who the commish was.....the guy with the broken phone). Well, needless to say being the poor sport that I am, I immediately gave all commissioner privileges to My best friend and best man since he thought he could be a better commish. I happily obliged and said well here you go buddy I'm done with it. I literally felt like I was a part of the TV Show "The League"

Well, getting antsy about the 2011 football season I joined an enormous 20 man league with way too many people on the roster mainly as far as defense but it's a free league, so I don't really care. But I also started getting on the new commissioner of our league to start rallying the players and to get a draft going. Already, some new changes have been implemented in the league so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. I'll be glad I won't have the unnecessary BS of being a commissioner anymore and will just enjoy destroying this years competition. Watch out Bayou Fantasy Football cause the Cleveland Steamers (Cause I usually suck) are gonna wreck shop!!

Well here's My roster for the 20 man Free league I am In. The offense is pretty standard but its the individual Defensive players I have never dealt with before so it should be interesting. I like my team's chances for the most part.

QB Kyle Orton (annoyingly this was auto pick and he's about to be traded from what I hear)
QB Alex Smith 49ers
RB Maurice Jones Drew (another auto pick I showed up a lil late for the draft and would've picked ray rice but he's not bad either)
RB Knowshown Moreno (I think he'll have a breakout year this year)
RB Roy Helu (I like him especially where he's at with Washington)
WR Jeremy Maclin
WR Dwayne Bowe
WR Sidney Rice (The last auto pick I wanted to punch my computer when I saw this)
WR Austin Pettis (another rookie)

Super Sleeper 2011 Roy Helu Jr.

TE Todd Heap
TE Jacob Tamme
K David Akers
Def GB Packers
Def ATL Falcons
2 DT's Ive never heard of

DE Glenn Dorsey

DE Kyle Vanden Bosch
LB Ray Lewis
LB Paul Polzunsky
LB James Laurinitis
LB James Farrior
LB Barrett Ruud
CB Deangello Hall
CB Joe Haden
CB Ronde Barber
SS Kerry Rhodes
SS Earl Thomas
Bench Abram Elam
Bench Ike Taylor

What do you think about the team ( I know I'm weak at QB)

My league game is about to wrap up as we only have about 4 games left of the season that has been going on since January and I am Still at the top of the leader board with 72 points. A buddy of mine is right on my heals with 71 points but hopefully I can keep him at bay. I am kind of proud of this feat as I have been told my home game isn't like the typical home game. All the guys that come play are very competitive and more than capable of winning each night. I can safely say that I have an average of about 18 well rounded poker players that come play and can safely brag that I am atop the leader board. We are all fighting to stay in the top 9 for

APP 2010 Champion Dustin Norris

the most part as this is the Championship Free-roll where all top 9 spots are paid. There are 4 new categories that can also earn $100 each. Mixed Game Point Leader (currently the guy in second) Overall Point Leader (currently me) Most Final Tables (also me) Most cashes (there is a 3 way tie for this and tie breaker is 2nd most FTs) Last year First place of the Championship FreeRoll got the APP plaque and $400 and a big shout out from the guys at www.GulfCoastPoker.net Hopefully this year there will be more money for each spot since there was an average of more players each game but with the $100 added it definitely helps.

GCPC Schedule

If you aren't friends with me on Facebook then you probably haven't noticed that I create Events for upcoming Casino Tournament circuits. The next one in line is Beau Rivage's annual Gulf Coast Poker Championship. This casino hosts multiple tournament circuits with prices affordable to those that want to dabble in large Multi Table Tournaments and even strike some success with a 4 or 5 figure score. They even host the televised WPT Event, the Southern Poker Championship. Players from all over the south gather in Biloxi, MS to play at these events and create some of the juiciest Cash games as well. My plan this year is to play 3 events from Tuesday August 30 until Thursday Sept. 1st. I booked my room for Aug 30 and Aug 31 but the only way I can play all three events is if I sell enough of myself to accommodate for the buy-ins. I have offered to sell 60% or 12 shares for a total of $720. That is $60 for 5% of my action. Alot of people usually put a mark up of about 20-25% but this is my first time doing this so my Mark up is very small at around 9-10% just so I can pay for gas to get out there. So far I have sold 3 of my shares and currently have 9 shares left. If someone is interested I may even offer 2.50% shares at $30 each, but I find that my price is more than affordable. The possibility of gain on income is very high too! The fields should be smaller since its middle of the week tournaments, but 1st place could still be between 10-20k depending on re-buys! So if you have 5% of that action that is $500-$1000 off of $60 bucks. If I am unable to sell all of my action, I will definitely be playing either the $230 Half NLHE/PLO event or the $130 plus $100 Rebuy Event. Either way I will be going into it confident. If you're wondering about the schedule, click on the link under the picture (Left). I Will be keeping updates during the tournaments on my Twitter account @AcadianaPkrPlyr and Hope to see you guys there!

Good Luck,
Matt Stroud