Growing Pains for Handicapping Tourney?

re: Growing Pains for Handicapping Tourney?

Stewart Winograd — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:30:11 GMT

Maybe the payouts need to be tweaked, but I understand the reason for the consolation tournament having a decent payout, likewise the daily bonus winners. The NHC has a roomful of 500 people, most of them aggressive bettors. They don't want the 450 who are out of contention on the final day to go home.

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Dan Kelliher — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:28:19 GMT

To suggest the NHC and tour shouldn't be a profit center for the NTRA is wrong and misguided. The reason why the Professional Poker events do well is because they generate revenue and profit for their rights holders. These profits can then be used for marketing, new prizes, new business development, etc. As our society's fixation on "it's all of the children" is misguided, doing things "only for the players" misses the bigger picture as well. There needs to be a balance of value to the Industry, the NTRA, the players for the events to prosper and grow. And for the events to continue to contribute positively to the future of our sport.

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JerseyTom — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:48:37 GMT

Thanks for the comments and support folks. Hopefully some good for the horseplayer will come out it.

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Old Old Cat — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:16:08 GMT

Keep writing, you had 3,000 reads. 3,000 people took in the info. hopefully it's stored in long-term memory and may be of some use some day, to someone.

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beefuspresley — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:49:57 GMT

tom hang in there...good article...have read what moon is investigating and visited that board...we need more stuff like this, looking out for the horseplayer...the nhc needs alot of help...i emailed chamblin about the payouts that you wrote about....how can the conso winner earn more than someone in the top 10 when they are pumping up the final table???? take a look at the payouts for the vegas tourney....they payout to the top 50...what i wrote to them about, is stop with these feel good handout payouts of $1,000 to the players for 21 to 50...take that money and give it to the guys who finished 2-10...then if you still want to give horseplayer welfare, payout 11-20...i don't get participation trophies....never have...if you made the final 10 you deserve a handsome reward....also, online tourneys like the nhc not being able to pay money to the winners is a lost cause....an example...i was thinking of playing in an online tourney last year because i thought the races being used was right up my alley....the fee was $400 and only the top 4 were guaranteed for vegas....i decided to just concentrate outside of the tourney and won over $10,000 for the day...granted, i didn't qualify for vegas, but making money is what's it all about.....the way to go is real money tournaments like the bcbc....have played that and it is in my opinion the one and only way to go..

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JerseyTom — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:31:38 GMT

OK. More than 3,000 reads and no one comments. So I will. I addressed this issue because I thought it was important, but apparently all the loud mouths don't think so. So the next time you say The Blood-Horse has no interest or credibility in handicapping issues, go away. I'm done wasting my time. Go comment on a chat room where you can remain anonymous.