On Memorial Day, Gary Machiz won both our $12,600 Pick & Pray and our NHC Lower Ratio qualifier. Little did we know he was just getting warmed up.
Bill Rendino, a 62-year-old retired New York City fire chief, turned his starting bankroll of $1,000 into a final total of $10,375 to finish first among 205 entries in the June 2 Monmouth Park Pick Your Prize Tournament.
We’re very excited about our $75,000 Guaranteed, No-Limit tourney on Belmont Stakes Day, June 9. There’s a lot of lucrative action between now and then, however, including this upcoming weekend when we’ll see two new events join the HorseTourneys 2018 roster of qualifiers, and we’ll also be offering a last-chance play-in game for the big money Belmont Stakes Handicapping Challenge.
It was a very wet Memorial Day weekend for many horseplayers—and a very profitable one for others.
Last Chances and first chances abound at HorseTourneys this weekend on a Memorial Day Weekend when the vast majority of featured events will be run as Pick & Prays.
As many of you have undoubtedly already noticed, HorseTourneys this week unveiled a redesigned website. The idea is a clearer, better-looking site, but also one that offers even better, even faster functionality.
The crummy weather in Baltimore on Preakness Day seemed to do a couple of things. It created a surface at Pimlico that generated a lot of short-priced winners—and the uncertainty of slop and boggy turf contributed to a reduced field in our Preakness Day $100,000 Guaranteed tourney. But HorseTourneys’ misfortune meant good fortune for contest players…in the form of a positive-expectation contest run at a 1.3% overlay to participants.
What promises to be the richest game in HorseTourneys history—a Preakness-Day 14-race, live-format up-to-$150,000 tourney—leads a parade of 14 featured events during the upcoming Friday-Saturday-Sunday weekend.
The notion that tournaments reward those who are great, not good, is already baked into contest play with top prizes reserved for those who finish only at or near the top. Many players take this fundamental concept to the next level by playing multiple tournaments in a single day. Three of them—Adam Thoutt, Anthony Trezza and Ken Seeman—profited handsomely from that practice this past weekend.
Next weekend, Pimlico officials will be telling you to “Get your Preak on.” This weekend, we tell you to “Get your Pre-Preak on” with several valuable tourneys that will bridge the gap between Derby and Preakness and then some.
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