Rich Eng

[pointman]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Truthfully playing live versus playing in a contest is apples and oranges.

You got to it before me. You have no idea where he was in the contest, how much he needed to move up, to where, etc. We often play a horse in a contest that is not our first, second, third or even fourth pick depending on circumstances.

People will gripe here about anything. It is mind boggling to me.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by pointman

You got to it before me. You have no idea where he was in the contest, how much he needed to move up, to where, etc. We often play a horse in a contest that is not our first, second, third or even fourth pick depending on circumstances.

People will gripe here about anything. It is mind boggling to me.

or 5th or 6th for that matter...

[Aly-Sheba]

Originally Posted by pointman

You got to it before me. You have no idea where he was in the contest, how much he needed to move up, to where, etc. We often play a horse in a contest that is not our first, second, third or even fourth pick depending on circumstances.

People will gripe here about anything. It is mind boggling to me.

Point, I understand that it was for a contest, that's why I indicated it was for Pick and Pray. I could have left that out. However IMO if you are going on Steve Byk's show to handicap a sequence for the show, then should be up front in your picks or excuse yourself from giving other opinions for the same race. That's all. Also I enjoy following you guys on the weekends with your play-alongs and you have a tendency to gripe a little about jocks, but I get a kick out of some your comments!!

[Kasept]

Definitely get the complaint.. Agree with the contest aspect about gravitating to a better price than Rich's published picks, but also agree that there's no need to talk about it publicly. Rich is a big time NHC/HPWS/BCBC contest player though and likely feels like his audience recognizes what he's doing in that circumstance..

[JBJake]

For what it is worth, met him at Mohegan Sun back in May and he seemed like a really good guy. Talked about some of his tweets and how he likes to tweet about all of his bad beats. He said he thinks people find that more interesting than sending out tweets about winnings. This was probably a circumstance of the contest. Certainly doesn't seem to be that kind of guy.