Originally Posted by VigorsTheGrey
I have never been in a contest and know nothing about what goes on in them, so please take everything I say with a large grain of salt. I can only offer some observations that are no doubt already well known and a surprise to virtually no one: They are just new to me because of my sudden interest in these contests and the controversy around this one in particular.
Now regarding the statement above (in bold): It is not so much the players whose ending balance is zero that interests me so much, as many players no doubt arrive there by dwindling down wagering on many wagers on all of the (required) races. What interest me are the players whose ending balance was minus 13,000 or minus 10,000.
Now (correct me if I am wrong) how they arrive at these extreme minus balances is by avoiding the required bets on Day 1 and Day 2 in some combination (likely avoiding all bets on Day 1) and thus incurring the stated penalties after also going bust in their wagering.
377 Chris Savage ($8,000.00) 377 McKay Smith ($8,000.00) 377 John Allunario ($8,000.00) 377 Michael Doheny ($8,000.00) 377 John Manni ($8,000.00) 377 Duke Matties (NHC) ($8,000.00) 377 Eric Israel (NHC) ($8,000.00) 377 Frank Story ($8,000.00) 377 David Wilkenfeld ($8,000.00) 377 Garett Skiba (NHC) ($8,000.00) 387 John DeMartino ($8,198.60) 388 Richard Meister ($8,541.00) 389 Joe Applebaum ($9,000.00) 389 Jonathon Kinchen ($9,000.00) 391 Nick Cosato ($9,825.00) 392 Evan Trommer ($9,970.00) 393 Jeremy Dresch ($9,991.75) 394 Bruce Soulsby ($9,999.40) 395 Stephen Thompson (Bonus) ($9,999.60) 396 Sam Aguiar ($9,999.70) 397 George Chute ($9,999.75) 398 Chris Savage ($9,999.90) 398 Jim Atwell ($9,999.90) 400 David Weaver ($10,000.00) 400 Tim Darnell ($10,000.00) 400 Louis Constan ($10,000.00) 400 Tom Maloof ($10,000.00) 400 James House ($10,000.00) 400 James Henry (NHC) ($10,000.00) 400 Christian Hellmers (NHC) ($10,000.00) 400 Christian Hellmers (Bonus/NHC) ($10,000.00) 400 Anthony Robb ($10,000.00) 400 Faron McCubbins (Bonus) ($10,000.00) 400 Matthew Miller ($10,000.00) 400 Ed Spaunhurst ($10,000.00) 400 Robert Traynor ($10,000.00) 400 Tony Zhou (NHC) ($10,000.00) 400 Jonathan Zukowski ($10,000.00) 400 Tony Trezza ($10,000.00) 400 Son Nguyen ($10,000.00) 400 Dan Real ($10,000.00) 400 David Frohardtlane ($10,000.00) 400 Nick Yerton ($10,000.00) 400 Rich Averill ($10,000.00) 400 Paul Scott ($10,000.00) 422 Rick Shanley ($10,187.50) 423 Billy Koch ($10,988.00) 424 Bobby Flay ($11,000.00) 424 Thomas Coleman ($11,000.00) 424 Marshall Gramm ($11,000.00) 424 David Ingordo ($11,000.00) 424 Steven Wells ($11,000.00) 429 Roger Ball ($12,000.00) 429 James Tunick (NHC) ($12,000.00) 429 James Tunick (NHC) ($12,000.00) 429 Eric Moomey (Bonus/NHC) ($12,000.00) 429 Thomas Coleman ($12,000.00) 429 Roger Ball ($12,000.00) 435 Joe Applebaum ($13,000.00) 435 Nick Mariani ($13,000.00) 435 Tommy Massis ($13,000.00) 435 George Chute ($13,000.00)
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