2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 13 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

It’s the worst week we have had all year…and we finish right on .500 out only the $240 vig…leaving the virtual bankroll at $5,380…Hunter is streaking late as he goes 3-0 for the 3rd week in a row…Miller bounces back from last week with his own 3-0  weekend and moves back into 2nd place…Burgess continues his remarkable run of no losing weekends…After 13 Weeks he is the only player still on single digit losses (Yes, ties count as ½ losses so Miller has 10)…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 12 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Not our best weekend…but 13-9-2 is still in the Black for the 4th week in a row…adding +$160 to the Virtual Piggybank which now sits at $5,620…Hunter’s NCAA picks are the only ones that go a perfect 3-0 for the second week in a row…Good enough to bring him back into the Black on the season with a 58.33% win rate…Shannon falls a Push behind perfection with a Lossless 2-0-1 and pulls a ½ game ahead of Miller for 2nd place behind Burgess…who continues his streak of 12 consecutive winning weeks…Shawn suffers a ½ and a 1½ pt loss on his OVER plays to go 0-3 and falls as the sole player in the Red Zone

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 12 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!  Falcons as a PickEm, Packers as a Road Dog, and Patriots by a Touchdown are the most popular choices with three wagers each…Only Shannon, Kevin, and Burgess take any actual Turkey Day action…all going against the home teams…Hunter lays it on the table with The Ohio State University challenge…but Riley did not accept this year and sticks with NFL action…Good Luck everybody…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 11 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

All or nothing pays off again…barely…Shawn got his sole win on a 1pt margin from the Saints/Raiders Over…and the 5 people who took the Packers to cover won by a ½pt margin when Crosby kicked a Field Goal with :19 seconds left to play…But a ½pt win is worth the same as a runaway cover in our books…16-5-3 is good for +$860 to the Virtual Bankroll which now sits at $5,460…Burgess keeps his streak alive with no losing weeks on the year…and he is 9-0 over the last 3 weeks…Miller took a push from the Ravens this week to fall back ½ a game and is 8-0-1 over that span…Riley runs 3-0 again and sits 8-1-0 over the last 3 weeks…Hunter runs 3-0 on his NCAA picks and is just $30 into the red…Will they both be facing off with the Michigan/THE OSU outcome?…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 11 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

“And we would all…go down…together”
–Billy Joel…Goodnight Saigon…Nylon Houses (1982)

Hunter sticks with his NCAA guns…Everyone else has action on the Green Bay outcome…5 straight Packers picks and 3 more on The Over…4 plays on the Saints…3 on the Buccaneers…then a scatter shot of other plays…Burgess remains the only player with no losing weeks…He and Miller have the hottest streaks over the last 3 Weeks both running 8-1-0…Shannon, Riley, and Kevin sit just behind at 7-2-0…Good Luck everyone…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 10 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

16-8-0 in Week 10…Good enough to add another $560 to our Virtual Bankroll after the vig…bringing us to a total of $4,600 on the season…Burgess continues his streak of 10 winning weeks with a back-2-back 3-0 outing to maintain his grip on 1st place…Miller matches the effort to stay a ½ game back in 2nd moving ahead of Shannon by the ½ game…All three of them are over 73% winners after 10 weeks…Hunter’s NCAA picks go 1-2 bringing him back down to .500 and out the $300 in vig on the year…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 10 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

After our dominating 21-3 Week 9 performance…we are all over the road in Week 10…Denver is the most popular single play with 4 wagers…7 plays being made on OVERs including 3 on the Falcons/Saints match up…Pairs on Indy and Dallas…then a bunch of one-offs…Burgess has still yet to have a week under 2-1…Shannon and Riley are the hot hands over the last 3 weeks both managing 8-1-0 records…Good Luck everybody.

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 9 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Best. Week. Ev—[Wait for it]—er. Giants…Raiders…Redskins…That’s all we missed on…21-3 is the best week we have ever posted in the Chris Thomas Five Star contest as a group adding $1,560 in Week 9 to our Virtual Piggybank…now sitting at $4,040 on the season…Shannon, Gasper, and Shawn each took one of the hits to go 2-1…Everyone else was perfect…all 8 players landing in the Black…Burgess catches back up to Shannon for the overall lead with both players hitting a 74.1% win rate…Miller is a ½ game back at 72.2%…The perfect weekend brings Hunter back on the right side of .500 but he is still the only player in the Red Zone after the vig…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 9 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

After a week where 9 of our 13 wins came on Road Dogs…We go the complete opposite direction in Week 9 with the only Road Hound being found in Hunter’s NCAA picks…A full third of our wagers will fall on two games with multiple plays on Chicago and Baltimore…another third goes to four two-packs on Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, and Seattle…Shannon and Riley are the hot hands over the last 3 Weeks both riding 8-1-0 records…followed by Miller at 7-2-0…then Burgess and Kevin who are both 6-3-0…Burgess has yet to have a week under 2-1 on the season…Good Luck everybody…

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