With two races left in Sunday’s $8 Pick 6 Jackpot tourney, there were six entries still alive for a $12,633 windfall, and Charles McLaughlin owned two of the six. McLaughlin survived that next-to-last race but, in doing so, made a difficult tactical decision that may have ultimately proved costly.
We haven’t been able to been able to offer All Optional Live tourneys in quite some time…because, frankly, we haven’t had enough weekend tracks with which to create a 25-race schedule. That changes this week, however, with Santa Anita and Golden Gate back on board. We have six “AOL” featured tourneys—but those don’t start until Saturday. Our weekend begins on Friday, of course, and this Friday’s schedule includes an improved winning ratio in one of the week’s most popular events.
The recap blog is a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday. So there’s more ground than ever to cover—25 featured events, to be exact. The first of them was a brand new contest combining the best of two different worlds.
There won’t be many parades, but there will still be plenty of exciting gatherings here at HorseTourneys over Memorial Day Weekend. For the first time, we will be offering not one but two $1,150 Big Bucks tourneys—one on Saturday and one on Sunday. Those are just two of more than 20 featured events on tap during a holiday weekend that, for us, gets rolling on Friday.
Per a joint decision between HorseTourneys and Laurel Park, The BIG One will be played online this year at HorseTourneys.com. The dates will remain the same—Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19-20, 2020.
Due to popular demand — which has resulted in quick sellouts of late — Big Bucks tourneys will now be offered on Saturdays and Sundays each week. They had previously only been available on Sundays.
It’s barely half-over, but what a month of May it has already been for Steve Arrison.
The NHC qualifier offered each Wednesday at HorseTourneys will now also include cash payouts starting next week (May 20). It is the first time in the history of online, mythical-money tournaments that cash prizes will be available in an NHC qualifying event.
California, here we come…right back where we started from? Well…we hope that’s the case. Golden Gate seems poised and ready to resume on Friday. That could be the case for Santa Anita as well. If so, they will join our “old reliables”—Gulfstream and Tampa Bay Downs—in the HorseTourneys featured-tourney track lineup as we roll on with 18 featured events this weekend. The first four of those take place on Friday.
There were lots of Pick & Pray features last week, so it’s not too surprising that several players multi-tabled their way to more than one victory. However, a couple of those “two timers”got things started on Wednesday and didn’t conclude their winning ways until a couple of days later.
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