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title: 'I Made $280,000 Playing DFS Apps Like PrizePicks (My Exact Strategy)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=JMoiF64zk3U'
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date: 2026-08-04
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# I Made $280,000 Playing DFS Apps Like PrizePicks (My Exact Strategy)

> Source: [I Made $280,000 Playing DFS Apps Like PrizePicks (My Exact Strategy)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JMoiF64zk3U)

## Summary

The video breaks down the creator's DFS strategies for fixed-payout fantasy sports apps like Prize Picks and Underdog Fantasy, where he claims over $280,000 in tracked profit. He explains the importance of slip types, using sharp sportsbook data to find edges, and exploiting app quirks like Dabble's shield glitch.

### Key Points

- **Introduction and Profit Claim** [00:02] — The creator claims over $280,000 in tracked verified profit on fixed-payout DFS apps like Prize Picks and Underdog Fantasy.
- **List of DFS Apps Used** [00:31] — Apps used include Prize Picks, Underdog Fantasy, Better Picks, Owners Box, DraftKings Pick Six, and Dabble. Know House Advantage and Jock Market went out of business.
- **Prize Picks Payout Structure** [01:11] — Prize Picks offers a 6x payout for any three-pick entry, equivalent to a +500 parlay. There are no odds displayed on the site.
- **Example: DeAndre Swift Under** [01:37] — Took DeAndre Swift under on touchdowns. Sharp books like Novig had the under at -180, while FanDuel had the over at +135, indicating the under was more likely.
- **Using OddsJam Sharp Money Tool** [03:17] — The creator uses OddsJam's cross-market plus EV tool called Sharp Money to find profitable picks by comparing lines across sportsbooks.
- **Importance of Slip Type** [03:49] — Different DFS apps have different payouts for different slip types. It's crucial to know which slip type is mathematically optimal for long-term profitability.
- **Avoid Two-Pick Entries** [04:16] — Two-pick entries only pay 3x (plus 200 odds), making it nearly impossible to profit unless using promos. Break-even win rate is 57.74%.
- **Math Example: 55% Win Rate** [05:45] — Winning 55% of picks on two-pick entries results in -10% ROI, while six-pick flex plays yield +7.5% ROI.
- **Implied Odds Comparison** [06:30] — Prize Picks two-pick entries imply -137 odds per leg, which is three times worse than FanDuel's -112 juice.
- **Dabble Shield Glitch** [08:41] — Dabble's shields are supposed to be easier wins but sometimes don't shift payouts. The creator found slips with shields still getting 6x payouts, which is exploitable.
- **Dabble Optimal Slip Type** [10:47] — Three-pick entries on Dabble are optimal with -122 implied odds, compared to -119 for five/six-pick flex plays.
- **Correlation Strategy** [12:00] — Stacking a quarterback and his main receiver to both go over or under creates positive correlation, increasing the likelihood of both hitting.
- **Workflow with OddsJam** [13:41] — The creator filters books, starts with cross-market plays (highest confidence), then looks for line discrepancies, and uses the positive EV tool.
- **Line Discrepancy Example** [15:23] — Found a college football play where FanDuel had a lower line than other books, indicating value.
- **Positive EV Tool** [17:06] — The positive EV tool compares Dabble lines directly to sportsbooks, helping find picks like Desmond Bane's over.

### Conclusion

The key to beating fixed-payout DFS apps is understanding the math behind slip types, using sharp sportsbook data to find edges, and exploiting app-specific quirks like Dabble's shield glitch. Consistent profitability requires focusing on optimal slip types and high-confidence cross-market plays.

## Transcript

I'm going to be breaking down my DFS strategies to win on books like Prize Picks and Underdog Fantasy. So, I have made over $280,000 in tracked verified profit on these fantasy sports apps, these fixed payout
fantasy sports apps, these fixed payout DFS apps, prize picks, it works a little differently from a traditional sports book like FanDuel. So, first things first, let's go through all the different DFS apps that I use and have
available in Virginia where I'm living. I have Prize Picks, Underdog Fantasy, Better Picks, Owners Box, DraftKings Pick Six, and Dabble. There were a
couple others, Know House Advantage, and Jock Market that actually ended up going out of business. So, I used those while they were in business, but unfortunately, they were profitable books. they went out of business. But
the point of this video is to just explain the basics. This is how sharps, this is how, you know, pro betterers think when they're using these DFS apps and the strategies they're using to actually make money consistently. So,
the first thing is if you look at prize picks, you'll notice there's no odds on the site, right? There's no numbers. It's a very simple website. You just select players and basically any three picks you select, if you want to play a
three pick entry, any three picks you select, you are going to get a 6x payout. So you're betting 100 to win 600, 500 in profit. So a prize picks
three man is essentially just like a three pick parlay at plus 500 odds. So I'll give you an example of a short pick that I locked in. It was DeAndre Swift to not score a touchdown. I took his under. And you may be thinking why? Like
what's the math behind it? And essentially on prize picks, if I take him to score or to not score, I'm going to get the exact same payout, a 6x payout on my three pick entry. But if you look at all the major sports books,
for example, Novig is a really smart book. They had his under around minus 180. So the under was a big favorite. The over was around plus 135. The under
was around minus 180. So NOVIG is a really smart or sharp book. It's a data point telling us, hey, DeAndre Swift is a lot more likely to go under. Now, we don't just have to look at Novig. There's a bunch of other books and data
points in the market. So FanDuel, for example, they only have a one-way market. They only let you bet on a lot of these sports books. You can only take a player to score a touchdown. You can't bet on them to not score a touchdown. So
that's called a one-way market. But on FanDuel, they have DeAndre Swift touchdown at plus 135. That's underdog odds. So even though FanDuel is not giving us a two-way market because they have his over priced at plus 135, we
know for a fact, right, that is under. According to FanDuel, this $40 billion sports book, we know that FanDuel thinks he's a lot more likely to go under. So, we're using the data from these multi-billion dollar sports books to
essentially exploit edges and find profitable picks on prize picks. So, this play I found on the Odds Jam cross market plus EV tool. It's called Sharp Money and that's the main tool I actually use um to beat prize picks and
So, the second thing that's really important is all of these DFS apps have different payouts. So, for example, on prize picks, a five pick entry, a fivep pick flex play has a different payout than an underdog five pick flex play.
So, on all of these different DFS platforms, it's important to know which type of slip is mathematically optimal and it really affects things long term. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a brief little screen share.
I'm not trying to get too nerdy and go too deep into the math, but I just want to kind of show you exactly how important it is and why it really matters the type of slip that you're actually betting on prize picks. You do
not want to be playing two pick entries. A lot of people play two pick entries because they're easier to win, but you're only getting a 3x payout. So, when you're betting on two mans, you get the feeling of winning more often,
right? you get the feeling of but oh I'm hitting more consistently but because the payout is only plus 200 you're betting 100 to profit 200 get back 300 total in payout plus 200 odds it's actually two mans it's nearly impossible
to make money on them unless you're just playing two mans with promos. So let's go through the math briefly before I get into other key points and strategies to make money on these DFS apps. So, here you can see prize picks. And as you can
see, there's no odds, there's no numbers, and basically everything on prize picks. Here you can see my little mass spreadsheet. Everything on prize picks boils down to what percentage of your picks can you win. Again, prize
picks is giving you the same payout if you take a players's over or under. So, for a two pick entry, I got a 3x payout. I take, you know, Stephvenson to go over or under, I'm still going to get a 3x payout. So everything boils down to what
percentage of your picks can you win. So let's say you can win your picks at a pretty good rate. Prize picks is setting these lines to be roughly 50/50. But let's say you can hit your individual picks like Gabriel over under 6 and a
half rushing yards 55% of the time. Well, for two pick power plays, you're still going to lose money because the break even win rate is 57.74%. So, if you're winning your picks 55% of the time playing two mans, you're going
to have a negative 10% ROI. This is literally the math, literally the numbers, this is a fact, right? However, if you're playing six pick flex plays and you're hitting your picks 55% of the time, and you can change these numbers
the description. If you're hitting your picks 55% of the time, you are going to have an ROI for a six- pick flex play. You just pair six picks, winning 55% of the time, you're going to have an ROI of 7.5%.
So, it really matters what type of slip you go with. And you can basically convert prize picks odds in their payouts into implied odds. So, I'll give payouts into implied odds. So, I'll give you an example is if I look at FanDuel,
you an example is if I look at FanDuel, right? They're charging me -12 -12 juice, right? So, if I zoom in a bit, if I want to take Herbert's over or under, I'm getting -12 -12. These books, that's the juice. They're charging a 24 cent
spread. So, if you're betting, assume, you know, prize picks had the exact same line. 255 half prize picks was slightly different. Assume you're playing a two pick entry. You're getting minus 137 odds. So you
are getting three times worse odds than FanDuel right on these player prop lines if you are playing two pick entries. And for underdog I also have a math spreadsheet. You can see you know six pick flex plays are mathematically
optimal and you're getting minus 116 implied odds. So, long story short, it recommend take some time, play around internalize how prize picks is working
because this may be confusing like why is a two pick entry minus 137. And again, on prize picks, you're getting a 3x payout. So, you are betting getting a 3x payout. So, you are betting 100, right, to win 300. 200 in profit.
So, a two pick entry on prize picks is basically just plus 200 odds. So you're getting two plus 200 odds. So if you go to a parlay calculator, which odds jam to a parlay calculator, which odds jam has once I pull one up, right? If you
are betting a parlay on FanDuel where each leg is minus 137 and you're playing a two pick parlay, you're getting a 3x payout or plus 200 odds. Right? This says plus 199.26, but you get the point. There's some rounding error. So prize
picks is basically giving you minus 137 odds for any pick in a twoman. Two mans are horrible. You're getting double the juice of five pick entries as you can kind of see in this spreadsheet. Sometimes again I will run three pick
power plays if there's three really good picks and I just want to lock them in before the odds change. So my next little pro tip is all of these DFS apps have their own little quirks that are super exploitable. So, for example,
Dabble is one of the fixed payout fantasy books I use. Unfortunately, unlimited. You can see right here, they give me like $10 a slip at this point, which is BS, but whatever. You know, kind of is what it is. Um, I had a good
run on Dabble, but you'll notice my profit graph goes flat because I made like 30K in a month because it's extremely exploitable, and then they just decided to essentially cut me off with $10 betting limits. But long story
short, this app basically they have these shields, right? So you can see two these shields, right? So you can see two shields right here and they say 7x. So what Dabble is supposed to do is these are supposed to be easy wins. They're
much more likely to hit. Sometimes these shields are hitting 70% 75% of the time is they're supposed to add a payout shift. They're not supposed to give you the same payout if you start including shields in your slip, but sometimes they
literally forget to, which is absolutely insane. So, you can see a play right here on MA, right? I'm still getting a 6x payout on Dabble. You know, a regular
slip type. Three pick or five pick entries for a regular threeman on Dabble, three regular squares. They give you a 6x payout. Here I included Ma who
was a 7x shield and there's no payout shift. I'm still getting a 6x payout which is insane. So it's the same thing here. If you look at this other slip with Judkins where I'm on Judkins, you know, under 69 and a half um rushing
yards, I included a shield, no payout shift. I'm still getting a 6x payout. So why did I decide to take Judkins under? So this was a play from the odds jam sharp money tool crossed market tool. So on dabble I ran a threeman because
that's the optimal slip type and it's minus 122 implied odds. So anything similar to how prize picks was minus19 you know depending on the slip you're going with. Five and six pick flex plays was -19 on dabble for three mans it's
minus 122. So basically you take judkins over under you're getting the same payout. you should assume you're getting minus 122 odds. And you can see on minus 122 odds. And you can see on Novig, Novig is an extremely smart or
sharp book. They have Judkins over listed at plus23 with a ton of liquidity, $2,000. So if a trading firm is offering his So if a trading firm is offering his over at plus 123, his over 69 half, that
means they want to bet the under 69 half at minus 123, right? The opposite outcome. If someone's offering the over at plus123, they want the under at minus123 for like thousands of dollars. So these peer-to-peer betting sites are
very sharp. So if Jodkins is plus 123 to go over, that's where he's being offered. We know he's an underdog to go over and the under is the favored, the more likely outcome in the sharp pick we want to be on in our dabble slip. So,
another thing you can do on these fixed payout DFS apps is correlation. Okay, so add in payout shifts if you correlate too much. So, I should mention that. But on prize picks, if you take a player's
over or under, you're getting the same payout. So, what you can do is you can payout. So, what you can do is you can stack a quarterback and their main wide receiver to both go over or both go under. So, for example, in this prize
pick slip, I took McCall's under. I took Conception, his main receiver, under. And you can see Conpson, his receiving yards line is like a third, 33% of McCall's line. He's the main target. So, if McCall goes under and that pick wins,
then our second pick, Concepts under, is a lot more likely to hit as well. Right? If McCall throws for 200 yards and he cashes his under, his main receiver, right, who's a third of his passing line, is much more likely to go under as
well. So, positive correlation is super effective on prize picks. Some of these other DFS apps, the only thing you have to be careful about is payout shifts. I mean, some of these DFS apps because they have fixed payouts, they literally
block, you know, the ability to play a wide receivers's over with their main with their quarterbacks over. But I've made a ton of videos about prize picks, optimal slip type. So, what I kind of wanted to do to end this video, and if
you have any questions, drop them below. Also, let me know other video ideas. I love making sports betting content. I love helping people learn how to beat questions, other video ideas, comment them below. But I'm going to run you
through a brief example of how I use OddsJam to find the sharpest picks on these different DFS apps uh to kind of conclude the video. Hopefully, you find it helpful to put some examples and this theory into practice. So, let's get into
it. So, what I'm going to do in this video is just take you through kind of how I use, you know, odds jam and math to create profitable dabble slips. So prize picks, whatever. For the sake of example, let's just do dabble.
Typically, what I do is I just filter all of the books I want to look at. Prize picks, better, all of them in. I see which one has the best value. But for the sake of example, I have dabble up on my phone. Let's just run a dabble
slit. So I typically start on the cross market EV tool, Sharp Money. Cross markets, in my opinion, it's not even really an opinion. It is. These are the highest confidence bets. Dabble has tens of thousands of lines up. You want to
take the cross money plays first because you have very high confidence in your edge. Novig is an extremely sharp book. They have Judkins over at plus 123. If some if they're offering the over at plus 123, that means these trading firms
setting lines are want to bet for thousands of dollars. Like high liquidity means higher confidence in your edge. They want to bet his under at minus 123 and we're essentially getting minus 122 on dabble in a three pick
entry. So I typically start here. So Judkins, Murray, those are examples of plays I could take. And then oftent times I'll look for line discrepancies. times I'll look for line discrepancies. So let's see here if any of these work.
Again, sometimes it really is important to move quick because the best plays get bumped quickly. But like check out this play. Trinidad Chamblas, college football play. His line is 37 half. You know, they're starting to post college
football lines. All these books set their own unique lines. FanDuel bet MGM. All the other books have his line lower, right? FanDuel's a $40 billion company. you want to put some weight into their odds. So maybe I take this play, another
play, and then I have a few different options. I could just take that Jamal Murray play that was across market and is it still available or did they bump it? They may have bumped it. So we can try to find a shield where there is no
payout shift. So like let's see this here. Nah. So you can see how quickly they moved it. So if I add in one of these shields, I oftent times try to
play around. Usually the 7x ones are better, but again they may add a payout shift. That's kind of the problem. So, let's refresh this and let's see if this other college football pick is available. So, this was Lacy under 72
half rushing. So, here we have it. And it looks like they're already bumping it, man. So, usually they're not this quick. I can't usually they're not this quick. I can't I can't even lie. But let's see here
what we can do about this. So let's go back here and let's just see here. Yeah, so the Murray play got removed. Now you can see it's gone. So sometimes what I do, I would say this is my last option. I prefer like cross
market plays is I'll look at the odds jam um positive EV tool. So basically what this does is just compares the lines, you know, on dabble directly to sports book. So, for example, for Desmond Bane, this is a play
um from the Odds Jam positive EV tool here. We would have three picks, but you can see now they're adding in a payout shift when I include my shield. But Desmond Bane, all of these sports books, Novig's a really smart book. You have
FanDuel, a $40 billion company. They have Bane's over heavily favored. So, they're data points, right? Telling you, hey, he's a lot more likely to go over hey, he's a lot more likely to go over as opposed to under. So again, you kind
of need to play around with this. And here you can see for some reason it's not adding in a payout shift. Now I'm getting 6x. The other one I was getting 5.7x. So I can lock it in. Again, they're
giving me a very low betting limit. But we have three sharp picks. We have a shield. This is essentially the shield glitch. That's what I like to call it. Shields are like goblins on prize picks. I mean, if you start to include these
goblins, right? If you start to include these they're supposed to be the easier wins. Prize picks massively reduces your payout from 6x to 2.4x, right? They
usually give you a 6x payout on three mans. Now, they're giving you 2.4x. Dabble is just like forgetting to do it sometimes. It's absolutely insane. So, we got in a super good play there. So, that's basically how I use OddsJam to
maximize my profits on these fixed payout DFS apps. If you have any questions, comment them below. And again, thank you so much for your time,