We all love Presidents—especially when we’re staring at their pictures in our wallets. You can add to your collection of such photos (as well as some of Ben Franklin) during the upcoming Presidents Day weekend replete with four days of featured-tourney cash games and qualifiers.

Steve Wolfson Sr. and Jr. share more than a first name and a love of thoroughbred racing. 

The son and grandson, respectively, of Louis Wolfson, owner of 1978 Triple Crown winner Affirmed, the two Steve Wolfsons are each NHC Hall of Famers—and after this past week, they will now both be contestants in the $350,000 Guaranteed Players Championship.

The latest NHC is in the books, and now it’s time to work on getting back there (or getting to the BCBC). For many contest players, one of the favorite ways to accomplish that mission is to participate in the Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge, slated for June 4 at Monmouth Park. 

Patrick Mahomes and Matthew Stafford weren’t the only ones to have a memorable Sunday. So did Alexa Zepp. 

With the ink barely dry on David Snyder’s Flo-Cal Faceoff winner’s check of $183,750, it’s already time to start focusing on the second leg of the 2022 Tourney Triple series, the Players Championship here on April 9-10. An All Optional Live competition in which contestants make 15 plays from 30 available races each day, the Players Championship offers a purse guaranteed to be at least $350,000.

There are at least two things that 2022 Flo-Cal Faceoff winner David Snyder is clearly very good at. One is his job. He is the Chief Information Officer for a major West Coast-based restaurant chain.

When David Snyder, the 2019 NHC Tour Champ, noticed on the day before the Flo-Cal Faceoff the the purse for the first leg of the Tourney Triple had reached $400,000, he decided to buy himself an entry. When he saw that the purse was nearing half a million dollars about a half an hour before the first Saturday race at Gulfstream, he plunked down another $1,500 for a second entry.

Hundreds of the best handicappers in the land will again do battle this weekend in the third annual Flo-Cal Faceoff, a two-day, $250,000-guaranteed event that calls on players to make mythical $2 win-and-place selections on every race of the Saturday and Sunday cards from Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita Park.

Between the demands of his job as a project service manager in the oil and gas industry and his status as a Houston, Texas, resident, Jorge Cruz-Aedo sometimes finds his horseplaying options a bit limited.

“I don’t really have time to look on weekdays or at smaller tracks…and there are no ADWs in Texas…THIS is where I play,” the 35-year-old said, referring to HorseTourneys.

This Saturday is the Tampa Bay Downs High Rollers Tournament Presented by HorseTourneys. That means that McKay Smith and I will be down at the picturesque Oldsmar, Fla., track to mingle with players, hand out a few goodies and perhaps help support the local parimutuel handle a bit. 

It also means that we have the wherewithal, in this instance, to offer qualifiers to this on-track contest right up until the day before. So a Last Chance Tampa play-in is a prominent part of this Friday’s featured schedule.