DAY 1 - Pick The Ponies - Las Vegas Hilton – November 2-4, 2011

Chalk Rules !!! 

Day One is in the books (or trash depending on your perspective!!!)

Today's tracks of CD, DEL, HAW, LRL were the chalkiest of all tracks that I have seen in my 10+ years at Pick the Ponies.  The longest pay I saw was 21.00 to win.

Stats for day 1 were:

1st   $ 4,820

2nd  $ 4,440

3rd  $  4.060

To provide some context, the 14 contest that I have entered over the past 10 years and have stats for the AVG day 1 #s were:

1st  $ 8,407

2nd $ 7,273

3rd  $ 7,040

So nearly 50% of the normal totals of day 1.  Remember that Pick the Ponies is a $100 WPS contest, so every contestant wagered  $3,000 in the 10 races they bet.

Congrats to the daily prize winners contest #s of 49, 5, 148 who won $2,500, 1,500 and 1,000 respectively.

Good Luck to the other 165 contestants who have a chance in Days 2 & 3.  (Even the 25 entries who were shut out on Day 1)

BTW - HRT411 had less than $500 in day one but is ready for day 2 !!! Longshot systems do not always work :-(

BTW 2 - Rule 3 in Prep - Mindset - had a great time with Magic and Mona tonight !!!