if you're serious you should prolly try to get familiar just playing in vegas to get familiar with travel arrangements, set-ups etc. so you dont have to think about all the extraneous once you're there for the big dance - at the Orleans there's a Labor Day qualifier (9/1 SAR closing day) $100 entry fee, limit 2 entries, win/place format, no partners, top 5 win a qualifying spot in the 2009 Horseplayers World Series, they're offering rooms at $45 and there are cheap flights out there - then there's the Fall Classic on October 9th-11th, entry fee is $500, top 50 finishers will qualify - phone number is 1-888-566-7223, can ask them to email you a brochure.. oh, they also feed you, very well in fact lol.. GOOD LUCK !
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Originally Posted by joeydb
Do any of you guys know about the official contests in Vegas, and how one would get involved?
I have heard of the the National Handicapping Championship associated with DRF, and I have also heard of the the "World Series of Handicapping". I'd like to (eventually) try to enter one, and I don't know how to actually get started.
One key question: Do these contests allow the individual to take a laptop computer with him, and do they have internet connectivity? I have tried to automate some of the calculations I do and I do not see me trying to "pen and paper" my way through such an undertaking.
Any info much appreciated...
Joe
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