December, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Casino games: Poker recognition. Part three.

The first considerable victory was marked in Austria. In 1993 an entrepreneur and a great fun of poker Peter Zanoni opened in Vienna a poker club “Concord Card Casino”. The club positioned itself as the place where they play only poker as a skill game not a gambling game. Substantially immediately the club became interesting for the gambling business which saw a competitor therein. At the suggestion of the gambling business the press began attacking the club, the managers of the club were accused in organization of illegal gambling games, contacts with criminals etc.

Very soon gambling lobby provoked the state to bring a charge in organization of illegal gambles against the managers of the club. The court took place the resolution of which shocked many people. The advocates of the club tried to prove that poker is not a gamble but a competition of skills, know-how. The court applied for consultation of the experts, they carried out an independent mathematical expertise of poker rules the results of which expressly showed that skills dominated over a chance in this game. Poker was brought into the line with chess. The court accepted the results of the expertise and took the resolution in favor of the poker club. For today the “Concord Card Casino” is one of the greatest poker clubs of Europe. The founder of the club Peter Zanoni inspired with his victory, he is now successfully working on popularization of poker and its recognition as a kind of sport in Europe. For this purpose he founded first Austrian association of poker sport and in 2006 he founded European association of poker sport.

A similar court session took place in Great Britain in January 2007. Derek Kelly faced trial, he is an owner of a poker club “Gutshot Club” in London downtown. Unfortunately for Derek and all English poker fans British law turned to be less liberal than Austrian one. Having recognized a skill compound in poker games it gave preference to a chance in the game. But British people should not be upset the attitude to skill sports in their country is still complicated, for instance, chess was officially recognized a sport only some years ago. Derek Kelly’s case had provoked in society a live discussion which was taken up by politicians. Very soon British media suggest that poker, bridge should be put together with chess.

In the end of July 2007 good news for poker fans came from Denmark. Court proceedings as to Frederic Hostrup, a chairman of Danish poker association finished in favor of Frederic and poker. As in Austria Hostrup was accused in organization of illegal gambling games. The advocate Henrick Hoffman proved to the court that poker is not a gamble but a skill game. The winners have already declared that now they will fight for the rights of their favourite game on the territory of all Europe.

Poker smoothly fitted well into the society of the 20th century and a number of their fans grow in geometrical progression. In the modern world not to know how to play poker becomes a mauvais ton. In such conditions the authorities cannot but take into account the people’s opinion which is the part of it. The authorities should go away from prejudices and be guided by common sense and the opinion of majority.

$600,000 Guaranteed Rainbow 6 Jackpot, $23,107 Super Hi-5 Carryover Await Gulfstream Players On Wednesday

There will be a $600,000 guaranteed pool in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and a Super Hi-5 carryover of $23,107.89 when racing resumes Wednesday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

First race post time is 12:35 p.m.

Multiple winning tickets in Sunday's Rainbow 6 returned $23,888.54.

The jackpot pool is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

Wednesday's Rainbow 6 begins with the fifth race, a $35,000 claiming event for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/8 miles on the turf course. The race is scheduled to go off at 2:28 p.m. and will be the first of four turf races in the sequence.

Trainer Mary Eppler has entered Strong Headed and Reliability, while Mike Maker will send out All Good.

The sixth race is a maiden special weight event for fillies and mares at 6 ½ furlongs. George Weaver sends out a first-time starter Into Candy for owner Martin Schwartz. A daughter of into Mischief, Into Candy fetched $210,000 at auction. Whispering Pines enters off a third-place finish in the slop at Churchill Downs for Brian Lynch. Trainer Todd Pletcher will saddle Shadwell Stable's Aqaareb.

The seventh race, a mile turf event for juvenile fillies with a $35,000 claiming tag, drew field of 10 including Pharoah's Gold, a daughter of American Pharoah who broke her maiden at Keeneland in October, Mike Maker's Serenade a Kitten and trainer Brittany Russell's Coffee Buzz Buzz.

A $20,000 claimer for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/8 miles on the turf brings together a competitive field of nine in Gulfstream's eighth race followed by a starter optional claimer at a mile on the main track. The Rainbow 6 ends with a maiden special weight event for 2-year-old fillies at 7 ½ furlongs on the turf. The field of 12 has horses from the stables of Mark Casse, Pletcher, Maker, George Arnold, Wesley Ward, Bill Mott, Saffie Joseph Jr., Graham Motion, Eddie Kenneally and Steve Dwoskin.

WHO'S HOT: Jockey Edgard Zayas rode three winners Sunday. Zayas won the early double with Seize the Hay ($4) in the first and Sidarth ($9.60) in the second, and Dr Harlan ($14.80) in the ninth.

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Gulfstream Park: Will New Year Reverse Bad Luck For Imprimis In Janus Stakes?

Breeze Easy LLC's Imprimis will seek to put the bad luck of 2020 behind him and start off the New Year with a return to the Gulfstream Park winner's circle following Friday's $75,000 Janus Stakes at the Hallandale Beach, Fla., track.

The Janus, a five-furlong turf dash for 4-year-olds and up, will be featured on Friday's New Year's Day program that will also include the $75,000 Abundantia, a five-furlong sprint on turf for older fillies and mares, and the $75,000 Cash Run, a mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies. (First-race post time is set for 12:35 p.m.)

Imprimis concluded his 2020 campaign with a nightmare journey in the Nov. 7 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) at Keeneland, where he was “stymied” and “steadied” in the 5 ½-furlong dash, according to the Equibase chart caller. The veteran star turf sprinter was shut off while making a move between horses, forcing jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. to sharply steady his mount during the stretch run.

“He got shut off for no reason. He was up in there and going. The horse was just starting to run,” trainer Joe Orseno said. “It was tough. It takes a lot to get him to where he is and peak like that and keep him like that. It wasn't like I had three or four in that day. I had one in and that was my best shot. He was the best horse but unfortunately the best horse didn't win. It was just a shame for all the connections. It was like a kick in the gut.”

Imprimis' 2020 season started off with some bad luck as well. The 6-year-old gelding came off a long layoff to prevail by 2 ¼ lengths in the Sept. 6 Troy (G3) at Saratoga, only to be disqualified through a controversial ruling by the stewards.

The son of Broken Vow came right back to tune up for the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint with a late-running victory in the $700,000 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint (G3).

Imprimis has had nothing but good luck at Gulfstream, where he has been victorious in all four starts, including three victories in a row to launch his career. He came back the following year to capture the Silks Run.

“We were talking about waiting until the Gulfstream Turf Sprint Feb. 12, but he's doing so well,” Orseno said.

Ortiz has the return call on the Florida-bred gelding.

DARRS Inc.'s Extravagant Kid, who finished fourth while avoiding trouble in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, is scheduled to defend his title in the Janus. The Brendan Walsh-trained 8-year-old gelding, who fell just a length short at Keeneland last start, defeated two next-out winners in last year's Janus and followed that score up with a victory in the Sunshine Millions Turf Sprint at Gulfstream.

Tyler Gaffalione, who was aboard for both victories, has the mount aboard the Florida-bred son of Kiss the Kid.

Blind Ambition, Fully Loaded, Harry's Ontheloose, Sayyaaf and The Critical Way round out the main body of the field. Edgemont Road and Frosted Grace are main-track-only entrants.

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Lenzi’s Lucky Lady Takes To The Turf for Abundantia At Gulfstream Park

David Bernsen LLC and Jeffrey Lambert's Lenzi's Lucky Lady will take to the turf at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., for Friday's $75,000 Abundantia after really showing her affinity for the surface in her most recent start.

A stakes winner on dirt, the 4-year-old daughter of With Distinction debuted on turf in a Dec. 13 optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream Park with a front-running victory at the five-furlong distance of the Abundantia.

“It looks like she found a new home on turf,” trainer Bob Hess said.

Formerly trained by Kathleen O'Connell, Lenzi's Lucky Lady won two stakes during her juvenile season, including the $100,000 Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen. She returned from an 11-month layoff to finish second in a six-furlong optional claiming allowance on dirt Aug. 22, when she was claimed by her current connections for $75,000. The Florida-bred filly was forwardly placed before fading to ninth in the Charles Town Oaks (G3) Aug. 28 in her first start for Hess.

“Dave Bernsen is the principle owner and he picked her out. Kathleen is a friend and a top-notch horsewoman, so I really had no illusions of moving the horse up at all,” Hess said. “She ran great the day we claimed her. We had a fiasco up at Charles Town and I brought her to Del Mar trying for the 'Ship & Win.' I worked her on the turf and she worked great, but the race didn't fill and we brought her back to Gulfstream.”

Emisael Jaramillo has the call aboard Lenzi's Lucky Lady.

Three Diamond Farm's Jakarta will seek her third victory over the Gulfstream Park turf in as many starts Friday. The Michael Maker-trained 6-year-old mare is coming off a 2 ¼-length victory in the Claiming Crown Distaff Dash at five furlongs.

The daughter of Bustin Stones has also shown versatility, having won the off-the-turf Powder Break at a mile over a sloppy Gulfstream track last May.

Luis Saez has the return mount aboard Jakarta.

David Melin, Leon Ellman and Laurie Plesa's Miss Auramet, who has also enjoyed success on dirt and turf, is scheduled to seek her fourth straight victory Friday. The Eddie Plesa Jr.-trained 5-year-old mare won back-to-back off-the-turf races at Delaware Park and Laurel Park before returning to South Florida to win an optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream Park West Oct. 18.

Paco Lopez has the call aboard the daughter of Uncaptured.

Team Valor International's Victory Kingdom, who finished a close second in Ontario Fashion Stakes (G3) over Woodbine's synthetic surface two starts back, returns to turf for the Abundantia. Group stakes-placed in Europe, the 6-year-old daughter of Animal Kingdom has made three starts in the U.S. for trainer Rodolphe Brisset, including a fourth-place finish in the Smart N Fancy stakes on turf at Saratoga last August.

Julien Leparoux is scheduled to ride Victory Kingdom for the first time Friday.

Cara Oliver's Hear My Prayer will seek her third victory in five starts over the Gulfstream Park turf course, where she captured the five-furlong Melody of Colors in March.

Irad Ortiz Jr. is scheduled to ride the daughter of The Big Beast for the first time.

Kenwood Racing LLC's Tracy Ann's Legacy will seek her fourth victory on the Gulfstream turf course, over which the 5-year-old daughter of Shackleford has finished in the money in all seven starts.

Edgard Zayas has the call aboard the Kelly Breen trainee.

Compensate, Disieincandyland, Miss Deplorable and Spun Glass round out the field,.

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