Michael Caposio is a busy guy—but he has a “system”.

The Temecula, Calif., car dealer likes to multi-table his selections when he plays, but even when our featured tourneys are hosted in Live-format—as last Sunday’s were—he enters all his picks at the beginning of the day and does not change them. He approaches the games like they are Pick & Prays.

There were so many prolific winners last week that it’s a little hard knowing where to begin. But we’ll start with the feat that used to be almost impossible—but has become slightly less impossible in recent times.

By winning $131,250 in last weekend’s Players Championship, Brian Graziano added his name to the very short list of those who have won “majors” at HorseTourneys. He doesn’t see himself quite fitting into that group, however.

Trailing by $34.30 with just Sunday’s 12th race at Santa Anita remaining, Brian Graziano of Manahawkin, N.J., made his final mythical win-place wager on 11-1 shot Kawazaki. When the son of Holy Roman Emperor prevailed in deep stretch by a neck and paid $24.60 to win and $11.40 to place, it moved Graziano from third place to first—just $1.70 ahead of runner up Evan Trommer, who had spent much of the Players Championship’s Day 2 atop the leaderboard.

Thanks to our friends at Breeders’ Cup, HorseTourneys is delighted to offer — for the first time ever — a special, high-end Pick & Pray tourney focused on horse racing’s championship weekend. Appropriately enough, we are calling it the Breeders’ Cup Pick & Pray.

Sunday’s featured tourneys were sabotaged by the always-dangerous combination of heavy rain and loud music. Things were sufficiently dry and quiet on Wednesday through Saturday, however, and that meant good things for several HorseTourneys competitiors—especially our 2020 Spa & Surf Showdown champion Scott Fiedler.

It’s always a heady feeling to hit a 50-1 winner. Can you imaging hitting two in one day…over the course of just 12 plays? 

Andy Asaro can.

While many of our very best players—including Dan Piazza, who earned both of his NHC entries right here at HorseTourneys—were out in Vegas doing their thing, Eric “Skeet” Boyd was doing HIS thing…playing in and winning our featured cash games.

Perhaps unfortunately for the other 600 or so competitors in this weekend’s NHC, Dave “Gambling Actuary” Nichols is coming in hot to Vegas.

Jay Johns, the 2022 NHC Tour champion, had an excellent start to the featured-tourney week. The recently retired president of IHOP also had a rooty tooty fresh n’ fruity finish to it.