No sooner was Eric “Skeet” Boyd crowned 2024 HorseTourneys Tour champion then the 2025 edition of the HT Tour got underway. Again, it will be a year-long competition concluding on December 31st. Here’s how it works:
Our Friday, Saturday and Sunday featured, multi-track cash tourneys (with entry fees ranging from $190 to $350) will again be designated as Tour events. So will other tentpole HT events, including the Flo-Cal Faceoff, the Players Championship, the Spa & Surf Showdown and the Pick & Pray® Classic.
Points will be awarded to the top 10 finishers of each of these tourneys, with the winner getting 10 points, the runner up earning 9 and so on down to the 10th-place finisher, who receives 1 point.
Those top 10 finishers—and only those top 10 finishers—will also receive fractional bonus points designed to reflect the entry fee of a given tourney plus the number of entrants in it. For example, a 5th-place finisher in a $190 Friday feature that attracts 215 entries would pick up 6 points for the 5th-place finish, plus an extra .190 points (reflecting the entry fee) plus .215 points (reflecting the number of entries) for a total of 6.405 HT Tour points earned that day.
Note that a player’s year-end points total will consist of only his or her 10 best scores throughout the Tour year.
In the upcoming HT Tour, there are again three different ways to win:
1. Finish in the top 5 of the cumulative HT Tour points standings at the end of the year (12/31/2025).
Compared to 2024, additional seats in the prize pool will be sweetening the pot in 2025.
The standings leader gets $20,000 in cash, earns the title of “2025 HorseTourneys Player of the Year” and receives a paid entry into each of the events that will make up the 2026 HorseTourneys Champions Series.
The runner-up receives $10,000 in cash and receives a paid entry into any three 2026 HorseTourneys Champions Series events of the player’s choosing.
The 3rd-place finisher earns $5,000 in cash and an entry into any two 2026 HorseTourneys Champions Series event of the player’s choosing.
The 4th-place finisher earns $2,500 in cash and an entry into any one 2026 HorseTourneys Champions Series event of the player’s choosing.
The person who comes in 5th picks up $1,000 in cash and an entry into any one 2026 HorseTourneys Champions Series event of the player’s choosing.
2. Finish in the top three of the mid-year standings (ending June 30, 2025).
The mid-year HT Tour leader gets $5,000 in cash. The runner-up as of June 30th pockets $2,500. The person in third-place collects $1,000.
3. Win multiple Friday/Saturday/Sunday HT Tour events.
Players who win more than one Friday, Saturday or Sunday HT Tour event (victories must be on the same day of the week…for example, Friday-Friday, Saturday-Saturday, Sunday-Sunday) will receive the following cash bonuses:
Second victory: $500 bonus
Third or more such victory: $1,000 cash bonus.
(Example: A player who wins exactly one Friday, one Saturday and one Sunday HT Tour event during the calendar year would earn no bonuses. However, a player who wins three Friday HT Tour events would earn a total of $1,500 in bonuses — $500 for the second Friday triumph and $1,000 for the third.)
Once again in 2025, you needn’t do anything to make yourself “Tour eligible.” There are no membership fees to pay nor secret handshakes to learn. It’s just a pure bonus offered up as a “thank you” to those who play our top cash games on a regular basis.
Just enter any of our Friday, Saturday or Sunday featured cash tourneys (the ones designated with the “HT Tour” mark on our homepage), and you will automatically be registered for the Tour.
If you have any questions, our HT “Tour guides” are as perky as ever and will be happy to answer them. Just email us at support@horsetourneys.com. In the meantime, good luck in your quest to succeed Eric Boyd as the next HorseTourneys Tour champion.
