It was hard to imagine Peter Puhich improving on his Day 1 performance when his two entries finished Thursday in 3rd and 7th places. But that’s just what the Renton, Wash., resident did on Friday—registering the second highest Day 2 total on one of his entries, and doing well enough on his other to finish the day occupying the first and second positions in the overall standings.
On a day when longshots were in short supply, HorseTourneys qualifier Brett Wiener didn’t need them. The 50-year-old business owner from Clearwater, Fla., strung together a series of winning mid-priced horses to finish atop the heap of 571 entries after Day One of the three-day Horse Player World Series (HPWS) at The Orleans in Las Vegas.
When you win or purchase a seat to a live tournament, you literally do secure yourself a seat—or a bench or a stool, as the case may be. The question then becomes, “Where should that seat be located?”
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Congratulations to all of the winners!
It seemed like tourneys went to one extreme or the other this weekend. One day, prices were hard to come by; the next day, bombs were dropping all around. Two important races from a Kentucky Derby standpoint were Saturday’s Spiral Stakes from Turfway and Sunday’s Sunland Derby. They proved to be important from a HorseTourneys standpoint as well.
March is not going out like a lamb at HorseTourneys.
For the second consecutive weekend, we’ll offer an NHC doubleheader—one qualifier on Saturday, one on Sunday—along with valuable qualifiers to The BIG One, the Keeneland Grade One Gamble and Spring Challenge, Monmouth, Wynn, Surfside and the Horse Player World Series (your last chance to get to The Orleans!).
But this weekend we are mixing in a $50,000 Guaranteed All-Optional cash game, a Kentucky Derby Betting Championship qualifier and a First Chance for you to qualify for the Treasure Island Wager to Win tournaments on May 19-20 (Preakness weekend). For the most part, we will be Picking & Praying, but there are some live-format events as well.
Bill Roth doesn’t always play multiple tourneys with one set of picks. Even when he got up last Sunday morning, he wasn’t sure how many contests he might enter. The day’s menu was to his liking, however, and after handicapping the featured tourney races, he grew a bit more enthusiastic. Then he took a look at how many people had entered the various contests.
Our featured tourneys awarded 39 seats to important on-site competitions and $46,000 in cash last weekend. Much of that was offered on Sunday when we hosted 10 featured events, including no fewer than eight qualifiers. With such a full schedule, it presented an opportunity for someone with good opinions to have a truly memorable day. On Sunday, that someone was William Roth.
This weekend—a predominantly live-format weekend—has a little bit of everything: Another cash game with increased purses, a blowout mega qualifier, a first chance to qualify at one place, a last chance to qualify at another place…
What it has a whole lot of is NHC seats—as many as eight—spread out over two tournaments, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. These NHC qualifiers make up two of 16 (!) featured events this weekend.
It was another big weekend at HorseTourneys. No fewer than 23 seats to important, onsite contests were awarded over the space of about 28 hours. Meanwhile, on the cash front, $33,000 was earned by HorseTourneys players and that was just counting our featured tourneys.
