Coming up soon on DraftKings, a popular daily fantasy sports site, is the $150K Walk-Off that’s part of a massive $300,000 Hardball Hit Parade tournament series in celebration of the beginning of baseball season. One of the people looking forward to it all is longtime PocketFiver and poker player Jonathan FatalError Aguiar (pictured), who has been kind enough to talk about his ongoing journey through the fantasy sports world. This is our latest sit-down interview with the poker veteran.

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Baseball can be quite a grind. As Aguiar put it, “Baseball, unlike other sports, is a six-month grind. That’s why yearlong fantasy baseball is so brutal and people like that daily element. A series like the one DraftKings is offering is a fun way to give focus. We’re going to try out a bunch of different price points and game types and end it with a big Main Event. That worked for sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt.”

DraftKings is mirroring what PokerStars has done with its SCOOP series, breaking the Main Event up into tiered price points in order to accommodate various bankrolls. “We have something at just about every price point,” Aguiar told us. “The Main Event is a big $150K and it’s kind of like Stars’ style where there’s a $200 tournament, a $27 tournament, and a $2 tournament, so there’s something for everyone.”

The $150,000 Walk-Off is scheduled for April 12 and comes with a $200 entry. The top 100 will get paid and Aguiar told us he is expecting about 700 entrants. He explained, “Baseball is the root of fantasy sports. Roto baseball was the first fantasy game. It is the sport that daily fantasy sports were made for. I think the demand will be there.”

Besides a big series coming to DraftKings, the FTOPSis ongoing on Full Tilt and SCOOPis on the horizon at PokerStars. Aguiar said that he’d be in Boston during the tournament series, but would try to head north to Canada on the weekends to play. Also coming up is the WPT Championship in Las Vegas: “It’s rough every year at this time with SCOOP, the WPT Championship, and the EPT Championship. They always move around within a week of each other. You have to pick two of them to go to.”

The WPT is in its 11th season, but is still going gangbusters. As Aguiar put it, “The WPT at the Bellagio in December was crazy. There were like 500 entries. It was great. Bay 101 was the biggest event they’ve ever had. They had to color up people on Day 1 because they didn’t have enough chips. The WPT has done a really great job of picking their best sites and cutting away some of the unpopular stops.”

Meanwhile, the WPT Championship, a $25,000 buy-in tournament, will allow one reentry per person this year. “Everyone complains about that,” Aguiar remarked. “But, for the people who reenter, money isn’t an issue. They want to build up a stack and win the WPT Championship. I’m not sentimental about bracelets and trophies; it’s all about the money for me. I’m just going to play my single bullet.”

One parallel between daily fantasy sports and poker is the concept of Multi-Entry Tournaments. Many DraftKings games allow you to enter more than once and many FTOPS events afford the same luxury. Aguiar remarked, “If you can spread out your risk and get five, six, or seven entries, you’ll at least have a few batters you can sweat in the West Coast games. Multi-Entry Tournaments allow people to enjoy the process a little more.”

Aguiar is a WSOP bracelet winner, having taken down a €10,000 No Limit Hold’em Mixed Max event during last year’s WSOP Europe festivities in Cannes for $336,000. He also bubbled the televised final table during the WPT’s stop at the Bellagio last December, but earned $143,000.

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