Games for Money

The Hambletonian goes off in just a matter of minutes as I write this.
Normally I don’t go for harness racing - I don’t understand it the way I understand thoroughbred racing.
What’s particularly interesting this year are the two favorites. The current favorite is a horse named “Classic Photo”, going off at 6-5. The [...]

Poker has become so popular that there are actually tournaments offering college scholarships to those who play. There is actually a College Poker Championship.
I really don’t think people under 21 need any more encouragement to play than the heavily edited displays of people winning millions of dollars in highstakes poker on TV.
What I find [...]

I cant believe a week slips by and I don’t write anything about Afleet Alex. I did have Alex picked to win, but it’s easy for me to say 2 days after the race has run. Trust me, though, I did.
In case you missed a picture of Scrappy T nearly crushing Afleet [...]

No, I hadn’t picked Giacomo to win, nor did I pick the other horse to come in second. a 50-1 and a 72-1 coming in 1-2 just doesn’t happen in ways you can predict, as the $9,800 exacta showed. To my knowledge and 15+ years of going to the track that’s the largest [...]

The 131st Kentucky Oaks runs on Friday, and the 130th Kentucky Derby goes off this Saturday.
Naturally, Bellamy Road is the favorite at the Derby, what with a blistering Beyer number of 120 in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct last April. Nick Zito is the trainer and of course he’s no slouch. Bandini is [...]