If you are playing this weekend (and aren’t we all?), one tourney that should absolutely be on your agenda is Sunday’s 5-seats-guaranteed NHC qualifier. Why? Because it’s free—as long as you’re a 2021 NHC Tour member. 

Sunday was a yearmaker of a day for George Bosch.

On Saturday and Sunday, September 11th and 12th, HorseTourneys will host a brand new event, the $50,000 Guaranteed Exacta Extravaganza. It’s a two-day exacta box tourney requiring players to select a three-horse exacta box in each race, and it carries a $500 buy-in. There will be two contest tracks each day, Kentucky Downs and one other (most likely either Woodbine or Monmouth), and players make a selection for each race of the full cards at both tracks. It figures to be a lot of fun…and rather lucrative as well.

Conditions were ripe for multi-tablers to have a big day on Sunday. Not only was it a Pick & Pray day/weekend, but there was one main longshot to have among the day’s 12 contest races—Mr. Walsh ($34.40, $18.00) in the 8th at Keeneland. If you came up with Mr. Walsh, you were in pretty good shape…in however many tourneys you might have played that day.

One of the more interesting live-bankroll tournaments of the year to date will take place on Saturday, May 1st. It’s the Derby Day Challenge at Xpressbet, where plans call for you to start out with a stake of $2,000 and go to town on the full, Kentucky Derby Day card from Churchill Downs. 

With one notable exception on Thursday, it was a very competitive week of featured events, with plenty of close scores and the grand prize winners well distributed (again with one notable exception…this time on Friday).

With the ink barely dry on Dan Wilde’s $213,000 Players Championship check, it’s time to turn our attention to—and begin trying to qualify for—the third and final leg of the 2021 Tourney Triple, the $300,000 Guaranteed Spa & Surf Showdown here on August 14-15.

When Dan Wilde woke up on Saturday morning, he knew he had a long road ahead.

Things weren’t looking too good for Dan Wilde when Day 1 of the $555,346 Players Championship concluded. After 15 plays in Friday, the 58-year-old electrical engineer from Cedar Park, Tex., was mired in 137th place with a score of $37.60—$99.20 less than the leader Chris Bertolucci.

Alan Levitt has a whole lot to play for this Friday and Saturday.

After capturing January’s Flo-Cal Faceoff, the Baltimore doctor not only won $205,000, he earned a shot at at a $1 million bonus should he win either this Friday and Saturday’s Players Championship or August’s Spa & Surf Showdown with his designated entry. A clean sweep of these three Tourney Triple races would mean total bonuses of $2 million. No wonder this man is smiling.