Good luck at NHC to the 4 Derby Trailers!

[NTamm1215]

Good luck to our DTers!

The NHC is a truly special event. Some malign the format, the exclusivity, or other aspects. However, the feeling of the entire crowd of hardened horseplayers going nuts as the field turns for home in a mandatory race was awesome.

For you first timers, don't be a one-hit wonder like me who hasn't been back since 2009.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Good luck to our DTers!

The NHC is a truly special event. Some malign the format, the exclusivity, or other aspects. However, the feeling of the entire crowd of hardened horseplayers going nuts as the field turns for home in a mandatory race was awesome.

For you first timers, don't be a one-hit wonder like me who hasn't been back since 2009.

They are polling people to see if they want the opportunity to buy into the contest next year, 25k to get into the big dance

[Rudeboyelvis]

Bring it home, Boys!

[Linny]

Good luck to fellow DTer's. Maybe the DT site can make up the TRI?

[Arletta]

Just finished looking over the P.P's. Pretty brutal


Best of Luck you guys!

[pointman]

Tremendous accomplishment. Good luck guys!

[Danzig]

best of luck to you!

[Alan07]

best of luck.

[booner]

Originally Posted by Scav

They are polling people to see if they want the opportunity to buy into the contest next year, 25k to get into the big dance

Seriously? I mean, 25k to enter this for I'm sure a prize pool TBD. But only 10k to enter the Main Event @ the WSOP for upwards of, what, $8-11 million?

[jms62]

Best of luck to DTers.

[Bogey]

Knock 'em Dead and Good Racing Luck!!!

[Kasept]

Very little movement on the Leaderboard really with prices few and far between today..

Paul sitting 36th about $70 off the leaders: http://www.ntra.com/business_develop...%20summary.pdf

[PatCummings]

It's amazing that there can't be a live leaderboard for people to follow. I'm guessing there is one in the ballroom, but knowing a few people in it, I'd love to see what is happening race by race.

[OldDog]

How cool!

Best of luck to you guys.

[Sightseek]

Good luck!

[Immanuel Kant]

I'm also at the NHC.....my 3rd trip

Different vibe this time in a ballroom

[lemoncrush]

Originally Posted by Scav

They are polling people to see if they want the opportunity to buy into the contest next year, 25k to get into the big dance

As someone who rarely plays tournaments, I'm curious how much money on average do most qualifiers spend during a year in their attempts to qualify?

$25K is ridiculous, but do most people spend $2 or $3K in contest fees to attempt to get in?

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

congrats and good luck..

[asudevil]

Good luck everyone...I will be there supporting a good friend and roaming around as well.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by lemoncrush

As someone who rarely plays tournaments, I'm curious how much money on average do most qualifiers spend during a year in their attempts to qualify?

$25K is ridiculous, but do most people spend $2 or $3K in contest fees to attempt to get in?

That's a difficult question to answer because of the multitude of contest structures and also the weighted entry fees based on the number of seats seeded.
Personally I think the best road is through the Horse Players Qualify - Player's Challenge. Last year there were only 38 finalists, and 26 of them had already qualified so there were 6 NHC seats to be divided between 12 finalists - literally every other person got a seat.

This year they are running it earlier to get more finalists, tripling the prize money, but reducing the seats to 3, which still will be an amazing ratio.

135.00 to enter a qualifier and usually the top 2,3, or 4 win entry to the Player's Challenge (depending on the # of entries, 1 per 50 entrants, capped @ 200 entrants)

More info here -

www.horseplayersqualify.com