You don’t want to be around Stephen Thompson when he’s working and—these days—you don’t want to be around him when he’s playing either.
Though the ink is barely dry on the results for the $225,000 Flo-Cal Faceoff that saw Thomas Blosser of Cornville, Arizona win over $88,000, there’s no time like the present to begin qualifiers for the next high-stakes cash game on the schedule, the $150,000 Spa & Surf Showdown
It had already been a fun and profitable 2021 for Thomas Blosser. On February 6, he won $31,850 plus a 2021 NHC seat for coming in first in the Bally’s First Chance/Last Chance tournament. The following week, he finished third in a $75 NHC qualifier at HorsePlayer. So he entered the weekend of February 29-March 1 leading the 2020 NHC Tour standings. He had given no serious thought, however, to playing in the inaugural Flo-Cal Faceoff.
The qualifying is almost over. The buy-ins have begun. It’s time for the Flo-Cal Faceoff.
Are people inherently lazy?
There’s a long-standing tradition in psychology characterizing humans as “cognitive misers.” Misers, in the sense that all things being equal, humans will tend to avoid tasks that require elevated cognitive effort. In other words, zillions of differentiating factors aside, we all tend to try and avoid tasks that require complex, arduous brain thinking for other tasks that might not be so intellectually demanding.
Humans also value their effort. All day and everyday, our brains are masterfully calculating the “cost” of spending that brainpower vis-a-vis the reward that we might stand to obtain as a result. The greater the reward, the harder our brains are willing to work.
All of this sounds obvious, right? What in the world are you getting at, Smith?
For what was sort of a quiet, “in-between” weekend on the racing calendar, things sure were busy around here. We had 24 featured events on Friday. Saturday and Sunday. In the process, next weekend’s $100,000 Guaranteed Flo-Cal Faceoff transformed into the $106,000 Flo-Cal Faceoff as we blew past the guarantee. That purse will continue to grow, of course, as we conduct our final qualifiers this week. We also offered several All Optional Live tourneys on Saturday and Sunday. As usual, however, Friday belonged to Pick & Prays.
Have you ever gotten ticked off when you picked five winners out of 12 races and got beat by someone who had one or two longshots? Then our new “Points Based” tourneys may be just what you’re looking for.
A lot of All-Optional Live (“AOL”) tourneys are coming your way this Saturday and Sunday. In those you make your 10 plays from 25 eligible contest races. But on Friday, you can “dial up” five featured Pick & Prays.
It was a four-day weekend stuffed with 27 featured tourneys—and even two holidays. The first of those calendar signposts was Valentine’s Day. And though their link was purely circumstantial, Sally Wang Goodall and Eric Boyd were quite the pair on Friday.
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