Xpressbet’s Fun in the Sun Saturday tournament ended in an exciting three-way photo finish and the Brownie snapshot couldn’t separate the trio in a rare triple dead heat!
Steven Jones, Sean O’Malley and Mati Raz shared a final total of $308 in competition earnings to collect one third of the weekly pot each—or $1,551.67 in American currency. They also earn seats to the $10,000-added Fun in the Sun Final Table on September 4. Wayne Tam and Enrique Teran checked in just behind the top three with $305 and $303.50, respectively. They also earn seats at the Final Table.
Jones, who finished fifth in Fun in the Sun Week 1 action, earns his second Final Table Seat in as many weeks of competition. That’s an impressive performance. It will be interesting to see if Jones, who’s reached the maximum allowable number of Final Table seats, is successful in the coming weeks adding additional prize money to his bounty.
The hard luck story of the week (in tournament play there’s always at least one) belongs to Eugene Kroska, sixth and just $1.50 short of a Final Table seat. Still, Kroska may be consoled by the fact that, even though short of a Final Table ticket or a weekly cash prize, he was able to collect $301 from competition wagers—a profit of $176 for the afternoon’s entertainment.
Fun in the Sun action began with a bang as Sifting Sands scored in Saratoga’s seventh race at a $58 mutuel. Rastafara claimed the next Spa heat at $7.10. Any Fun in the Sun player correctly tabbing those winners could have taken the rest of the afternoon off and still emerged as an eased-up Week 2 winner with competition earnings of $325.50, based on $10 Win wagers on the first two home. It’s not like bagging that double was impossible as both winners were trained by Chad Brown, four-time Eclipse Award-winner and current number one in Thoroughbred Racing Commentary Global Trainer Rankings!
Hindsight is 20/20, right? Don’t you just detest anyone who mentions hindsight’s remarkable vision? I know do.
Caramel Swirl at $4.30 and Caravel at $4 completed a quiet double in the next two races before Mike’s Girl provided fireworks at $19 in the Spa finale. Thankfully, the 5-year-old mare wasn’t trained by Chad Brown. Charles Frock saddled the Delaware shipper.
Norma Jean B. initiated Del Mar Fun in the Sun competition with a modest $6.40 tally in the first race. Outlaw returned $15.40 in the second before free bingo square Sea Dreamer took the third at $2.80. Players hoping to make up ground on leaders in the final two events had chances as Dicey Mo Chara at $14.40 and Salah at $19.60 came home first at solid mutuels.
Fun in the Sun play resumes Saturday and requires a $25 registration fee and live $10 Win wagers on one horse in each of 10 competition races—last 5 at Saratoga and first 5 at Del Mar. The top 3 finishers each week share in a cash prize pool and the top 5 players qualify for seats at the $10,000-added Final Table on Saturday, Sept. 4.
See you Saturday!
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