For the Degenerates

[BillMill71]

Giving Meadowlands a LIGHT play. WPS

RACE 2 #5
RACE 3 #3
RACE 4 #6
RACE 5 #3
RACE 6 #3
RACE 7 #8

[TheRook]

Race 6 only has 3 horses available...the rest have been scratched.

Would it not be profitable to just bet a unit on each horse to win?

[kbsooner21]

Race 6 only has 3 horses available...the rest have been scratched.

Would it not be profitable to just bet a unit on each horse to win?

Correct me if I'm wrong, which I probably am and I know I'll hear about it from Bill , but I think the racetracks pool off the money that is bet on the horses after taking a house fee. With those other horses scratched, it takes away the percentage of money being bet on the other horses since obviously the other horses aren't running, and lower the odds of the horses that are running and the percentage you would win. Don't know if it makes much sense but hell I'm just learning

[TheRook]

Correct me if I'm wrong, which I probably am and I know I'll hear about it from Bill , but I think the racetracks pool off the money that is bet on the horses after taking a house fee. With those other horses scratched, it takes away the percentage of money being bet on the other horses since obviously the other horses aren't running, and lower the odds of the horses that are running and the percentage you would win. Don't know if it makes much sense but hell I'm just learning

i'm just wondering if it's like hedgeing so to speak...it might not be the big payout...but I would think that you'd profit something.

Really dont know myself....

[kbsooner21]

i'm just wondering if it's like hedgeing so to speak...it might not be the big payout...but I would think that you'd profit something.

Really dont know myself....

I'm thinking if all 3 horses were bet the same they would all be 3-1 favorites :

[longnex]

good luck Bill

[BillMill71]

Well sorry for the performance here, don't know much about this track, but will try to learn. As far as hedging and equal odds on three horse races, this is not exactly the case, but having only win wagers the odds on the three will be very close, thus a hedge really wouldn't work. If you bet $2 on each horse you will return less then $6 so the best bet missed by me would have been to take the coupled entry of 1/1A.

[TheRook]

Well sorry for the performance here, don't know much about this track, but will try to learn. As far as hedging and equal odds on three horse races, this is not exactly the case, but having only win wagers the odds on the three will be very close, thus a hedge really wouldn't work. If you bet $2 on each horse you will return less then $6 so the best bet missed by me would have been to take the coupled entry of 1/1A.

LOL...I ended up losing $1 off the $10 bet on each horse!

I hope you can make that up for me today!!!

[kbsooner21]

Well sorry for the performance here, don't know much about this track, but will try to learn. As far as hedging and equal odds on three horse races, this is not exactly the case, but having only win wagers the odds on the three will be very close, thus a hedge really wouldn't work. If you bet $2 on each horse you will return less then $6 so the best bet missed by me would have been to take the coupled entry of 1/1A.

So was my thinking along the right track?

[BillMill71]

So was my thinking along the right track?

Your thinking was on about the pools, but they would not all be 3-1, but close.

[peave]

Bill anything today the 9th. Thinking about heading to Fairmount and playing a little. Waiting on scratches.