DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship

[Segwin]

Do we have any members participating?

[Ted Craven]

Do we have any members participating?

Brian ('winning') and his dad: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpost.php?p=95050&postcount=18

Ted

[Ted Craven]

There's an online play-along tournament Saturday - same 8 mandatory races at at the NHC. $50 each for up to 2 entries. I'm in!

www.nhcqualify.com (http://www.nhcqualify.com)

Note: for those who are playing in the PAIHL Team Contest at PaceAdvantage: you're already working half the NHC mandatory races!

Ted

http://www.nhcqualify.com/images/NHCQualify-header_01.jpg
Dear NHCQualify.com Registrant:

The $1.5 million Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship begins this Friday. NHCQualify, the ‘Official Online Qualifying Site for the NHC’ will send 136 qualifiers to compete in Las Vegas. We hope that everyone has a great time and wish each and every one of them much success.

The Daily Racing Form and the NTRA are pleased to announce a special ‘Play Along with the NHC’ event for Saturday, January 25th. This event will give you a chance to join in the festivities and to earn site credits for 2014. An estimated $13,500 will be awarded on Saturday (based on 300 entries)!

The contest will be comprised of the eight (8) mandatory races on Saturday that make up the NHC action in Las Vegas. It will follow the NHC format of a mythical $2 win and place wager on one horse in each race. The entry fee for the ‘Play Along with the NHC’ is only $50. Here is the estimated prize pool payout of $13,500 (based on 300 entries):

1st place = $ 4,500 (30%) 2nd place = $ 3,000 (20%) 3rd place = $ 1,800 (12%) 4th place = $ 1,200 (8%)
5th place = $ 900 (6%) 6th – 10th places = $ 330 (2%) 2014 NHC Tour membership (4%)
(The prize pool will be paid based on total number of entries with the above percentages applied and a 90% payback. A guaranteed prize payout of $2,000 for 1st; $1,000 for 2nd and $500 for 3rd will apply, along with ten 2014 NHC Tour memberships.)

· The contest is open for all players.

· Entries are limited a total of 500.

· Five (5) official NHC Samsung Tablets will be awarded based on a random draw amongst all non-NHC qualified entries.

· A 2014 NHC Tour membership is not required for this event.

· The prize pool will be awarded as site credits to be applied to either NHCQualify.com or BCQualify.com.

· The credits can also be transferred to a DRFBets account (where applicable).
Entries for Saturday’s ‘Play Along with the NHC’ contest are now open at www.nhcqualify.com (http://www.nhcqualify.com). Races will be posted by noon on Friday, January 24th, along with free Daily Racing Form Classic past performances. Contest selections will open on Friday night. Players may purchase up to two entries each.

[Mr.Pagine]

Thanks for this TED. I am in, and ready to WIN!!

[Ted Craven]

Thanks for this TED. I am in, and ready to WIN!!

Good luck Jon!

[Mr.Pagine]

Ted - thanks for this - a ton of fun.

Far to much handicapping on my end - keep it simple.

Happy Punting!!!!

[JimG]

28th place in the online contest for me. So close, yet so far away.

Jim

[Mr.Pagine]

The magical question..... how the heck did you get WeeWinnin?

Happy Punting!!!!

[Ted Craven]

Congratulations guys - you beat more players than I did!

The Holy Bull ended up more profitable than I expected, and represented my only real payout of the day.

A lot of favourites today ... (OK, excluding Susan's Express, $132.40 and WeeWinnin $44.80 :eek::eek:)

Ted

[Segwin]

28th place in the online contest for me. So close, yet so far away.

Jim

Congrats Jim!

[dirty moose]

Do any of you guys do tournaments on a regular basis? I didn't know tournaments were such a big part of the game.

Reminds me a lot of poker. And I love me a poker tournament ;)

[atkinsrr]

yea DRF Bris and probably others have tournaments almost every week to qualify for Vegas tourneys....personally, I've tried a few in the past but I'm not a good tournament bettor because of all the cheap races they have where you can't get pace lines on a lot of horses..but the money is big...for sure

[winning]

I play in horse race tournaments at my home track, and online, From 2011, when my track started to do betting tournaments, I won 3 betting tournament, 2 second place, and one third place finished. My dad won one 2 betting tournaments this year. He came in 20th place in 2010 in the NTRA tournament at the Red Rock in Las Vegas. This year he didn't do well, but that was my fault, I like 2 horses that were over 20-1, and I pick the wrong one, but that is horse racing. My experience in $2 win and place you have more 2 and half times your bank roll. So you cannot take anything less than 5-1, you can at the beginning, but you need to string together long shots above 8-1. In betting contests, I will go all in if I like a horse. I did that 2 times to win the EMD winter series first tournament. There is good book The Winning Contest Player by Peter Thomas Fornatale. At Treasure Island in Las Vegas where the tournament was held. A lot of players used HTR software to get their winners. I used every Sartin program I got to give me an edge. Its hard to win, but with hard work and determination, and positive attitude, I believe anyone can be successful in any tournaments, and need some luck too. There is a lot of better handicappers on this website that is a lot better than I'am. I'm still learning and like Sartin instructor Sam Wada said, I will never have this is game master, but I still can some money, best to everyone on this website.