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Mack McClyment Wins $26,987 in Preakness Day Event; Eric Moomey Picks & Prays His Way to $13,253 at the Same Time; Another Triumph for Exacta Tourney Specialist Frank Fosbre (Weekly Recap September 30-October 4)

It wasn’t a Spa & Surf Showdown or Flo-Cal Faceoff weekend around here…but thanks in good measure to the better-late-than-never Preakness Stakes, more than $162,000 still went flying out the door last week—and that was just in our marquee events. The featured tourney fun—and winning—got rolling on Wednesday.

Fourteen-Race, All-Stakes Race Menu to Serve as the Test for Players on Preakness Day During $50,000 and $20,000 Guaranteed Cash Tourneys—Two of Twenty-One Featured Events This Weekend

We have $80,000 in Guaranteed cash headed out the door across three featured cash tourneys on Preakness day. If you like stakes races, Saturday just might be your day as all 14-contest races that day will be of the added-money variety. Pimlico and the Preakness serve as the centerpiece of an exciting weekend with 21 […]

Scott Fiedler Secures his Spot in the Flo-Cal Faceoff; Cash-Game Players Aren’t Happy with Tom Arndt; John Farrar Delivers Potent One-Two Punch (Weekly Recap September 23-27)

Scott Fiedler can certainly afford to buy his way into the $150,000 Guaranteed Flo-Cal Faceoff—but now he won’t have to.

Free Saturday Tourney Offers Three of Seven Guaranteed NHC Seats to be Won During a Weekend that Also Includes Last-Chance Santa Anita Qualifier, $25,000 Cash Game and More

It’s hard to keep up with the sporting calendar this year (as evidenced by the fact that the Preakness is a week from Saturday). Among all the other “how-can-this-be’s?” is the fact that we’re also already up to the final free NHC qualifier for the 2020 season. It takes place on Saturday, and it’s one […]

Ted Apple Experiences the Score of a Lifetime in The BIG One

As the two-day The BIG One was about to begin, Ted Apple smiled at his wife Cheryl and retreated to his upstairs “man cave” that he calls “The Paddock.” Cheryl knew that meant he had a contest to play, but Ted didn’t share any further details with her. “I didn’t want to say anything about […]

Ted Apple Captures $91,550 and BCBC Entry in The BIG One; Brett Wiener Wins Four Times in Just Three Friday Tourneys; Edward Wright Right Twice on Sunday (Weekly Recap September 16-20)

It was The BIG One—but for Ted Apple, it really was more like The BIG Hour.

Weekend Schedule Topped by The BIG One on Saturday and Sunday; Last-Chance Qualifier Friday: Prize Pool Up to $186,000 plus 15 NHC/BCBC/Pegasus/HPWS Seats; Seven Buy-ins Available to Round Out Maximum Field of 57

One of the biggest weekends on the HorseTourneys calendar is coming up with The BIG One taking place this Saturday and Sunday. A field of no more than 57 will compete for 10 seats to either the NHC, the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge or the Pegasus World Cup (player’s choice) plus another five entries are […]

Ken Jordan Takes Lucrative Cash Games on Back-to-Back Days; Evan Trommer & Craig Hom Stay Hot; Three Wins for Pete Acocella; Two—and a Half—for Brett Wiener (Weekly Recap September 9-13)

When you have as many as 28 featured tourneys in a five-day period, one of the fun by-products of that is that the door is opened wider for some interesting, out-of-the-ordinary results. We seemed to have more than our usual share of that last week.

Last Weekend to Qualify for The BIG One Among the Many Reasons to Study the Schedule of 24 Featured Tourneys this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Only five online spots remain for The BIG One next Saturday and Sunday. With 10 seats up for grabs to the NHC, the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge or the Pegasus World Cup (winners get to choose!) plus another five entries on the line for the Horse Player World Series (or $1,500 in cash in the […]

Sheldon Usprech the First to Qualify for January’s Flo-Cal Faceoff; Sean Nolan, Josh Thorpe and Paul Cush Each Score Two Victories; Evan Trommer & Craig Hom Win Yet Again (Weekly Recap September 2-7)

Tracking all of the featured tourneys during Labor Day week was pretty…labor intensive…with 29 such events taking place from Wednesday through Monday. For many of our players, however, handicapping was a labor of love last week—and a rewarding one at that.