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One of the greatest in history just wrapped up at Presque Isle. It went on for two months.

They would give you a ticket for two spins of a prize wheel everytime you hit either a trifecta or superfecta.

The prize wheel had 30 plackards - half of which were for "slot play" between $5 and $50 - the other 15 had mostly food prizes such as a $25 gift certificate to the dining room upstairs or a bunch of different free buffets or conncession stand food.

The beauty about the free slot play is that they have a video roulette machine .. and you just go over and bet an equal amount of almost half your combined money on red and almost half on black - and cover the 0's. That way you were sure to turn 95% of your slot play into cash - and be done with it after a single roll.

At first, they counted dime supers ... you could just crush them in those 5 horse fields at Golden Gate and mismatches that result from races being taken off the turf.

It became a thing where if you went to the track on a Wed-through-Sun and didn't make at least $300 a day and a whole bunch of free food - you felt like a monumental idiot. Losing any single day was almost impossible.

It wasn't long before they decided to exclude dime supers - and only $1 tri's or supers counted.

I'm pretty sure I'm now in the guinness book of world records for most $1 tri's cashed in 3 weeks. It even got to the point where I was betting $25 trifectas in extremely chalky harness races with small fields .. though obviously $1 one's 25 times.

Last Saturday I bet $1 trifectas all day - ended up like $24 ahead for the day on them. Came in Sunday morning to spin the wheel - and made 2k on the spins, plus more free food than I'll ever be able to use.

I'm like that Morgan Spurlock guy from Supersize Me - I've put on 15 pounds in no time.

But anyway, the amusing part is that they give you a voucher after each wheel spin. The voucher is for a $7,500 giveaway drawing they had yesterday night. These vouchers are very thin and slick and tend to stick together.

So .. I get there a few hours early and have like thousands of these vouchers scattered all across a table upstairs - I, one-by-one, grab them and massage and crinkle each of them to make them much easier to grab. People are coming over telling me how sick I am and how they broke the mold with me.

So anyway, drawing starts, the guy dips his hand in ... first name drawn? Mine! I do the old lady celebration like Penny Tweety after the Belmont as I walk to the desk to identify myself.

By the way ... in order for slots players to get a single spin .. I think they needed to hit a jackpot of $1,200! :) Glorious win for the horse bettors.

Redboarder.............:D

Toby McGuire will be starring as DrugS in The Legend of Presque Isle opening Christmas 2010.

You hit the 7500 giveaway?

I was the first winner they pulled. They didn't pay $7,500 to one person - it was a pull one every half hour during the evening deal. They almost didn't give it to me because I only had a drivers license on me and not a social card. They had my social on file from before though - and the people knew me.

congrats ..every track needs a chicken man

You really are so special. Do you have a spread sheet on dollars earned and food comps? When was the last time you paid for food? Are the food comps transferable perhaps you can hawk the 25 dollar vouchers for 75% cash

Of all of your indomitable actions.....executing this strategy may be the indomitablist.
Nice work.

I've pulled off some clever masterpieces before ... but this was more just a case of a track not understanding how easy it is to hit a trifecta if you wait for extremely favorable conditions and attack.

If they did the promo in a different area - they might have got totally clobbered by more than 1.5 people

How many people other the the RAINMAN of giveaways could have did what you did?

I've been kicking around the idea of draging the homeless into the track and feeding them on the last day.

I hate when I'd land on the hot dog when I'd spin - but my dog loves it. He gets those.

That would be very nice to feed folks who could use a good meal.. I nice touch to this ridiculous story

You could feed me, Im always hungry.

You are the 1.

Dude...the last thing you are supposed to feed a dog are hotdogs.
You will kill it.

Link?

It depends on the brand of hot dog, I suppose.

you are joking right?

My dog has definatly lived after eating hot dogs.

I was thinking Ashton Kucar in really tight jeans.

Jew Dog's (Hebrew National's) are the best.

That is what my Vet friend says.

High in fat and sodium... too much could lead to problems... one here or there wont hurt!

or turn his dog into a cannibal.

The best are the cheap dogs that are so full of red dye that the water turns a bright red as soon as you drop the dogs into it.

I ate my first Brat at Kee this October (they are not that popular here in the south)...WOW...I have been missing out.

I guess I will start giving them out to the guys who try and mooch money everyday.

There's a guy that's always asking for 40 cents or 60 cents .. I can just see him standing by the concession line trying to sell a free hot dog voucher for 80 cents.

I'm having this romantic vision of homeless men leaving with slabs of prime rib in their pockets and shoving cookies in their socks.

Seriously do the right thing.. You dont need the vouchers, you will mfg. more soon enough, if someone is hungry feed them.

One Christmas Eve, when I lived in Boston, I got out of work and was feeling sort of depressed because I was going to be spending the Holiday alone. On my way to the subway station I saw a homeless father, his daughter and their cat and dog huddled outside of the station cooking themselves dinner. I stopped into the corner mart and bought a bunch of food, including dog and cat food and brought it back to the family and wished them a Merry Christmas.

Sometimes we really don't realize how lucky we really are to have the very basic of things and how little efforts can mean so much to someone without them.

:tro:

(Nice story, Sightseek).

Yes - even Republicans have hearts once in a while.

I'm probably much less of a Republican than you realize.

I'm more of a Jew than I get credit for.

A gay jew

Why?

Just because I love The 4 Non Blondes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnex...&v=k0l4TofljsU

keep in mind the Republicans ended slavery.. all the southerners were strong Dems.
Now all the Blacks are dems....go figure.

this is what I meant to qoute...not Sightseek.

That's amazing.

I'm hungry

Really, the most amazing thing about it is that it was never cancelled.

Though, the casino is making a friggin fortune - so getting creamed by a small number of local horse bettors for tens of thousands of dollars is really nothing more than a squirt of piss in a very huge bucket.

The only time they changed the rules was after an off-the-turf race at TuP on a Tuesday. That's when they eliminated dime supers from winning spins.

The race had a five horse field ... 3 of the horses were consistant types who always ran 70 or 80 Beyers. The other two horses in the race consisted of a halfway ok turf horse who would run 0 Beyers everytime he tried dirt - and a complete hopeless slug who probably couldn't outrun King Kong Bundy.

http://www.drf.com/drfPDFChartRacesI...=20100119&RN=5

You basically didn't need to be very smart to see that the way to play the race was to go 10 cent supers: 1-5-7/1-5-7/1-5-7/ALL

It costs a total of $1.20 per ticket. Thankfully, the heavy favorite was beaten and it paid $1.46 per winning ticket. So, you even profited on the bet itself.

If you play 40 tickets at $1.20 a pop - it costs just $48. But with the 40 winning tickets you win 80 spins. 80 spins on avg gets me close to $800 in cash - plus $75 in gift certificates to the resteraunt upstairs - a couple free Prime Rib and Crab Leg buffets, a couple free dinner buffets, breakfest buffets, lunch buffets, concession stuff etc.

I think the only reason the light bulb went on and they saw how badly they got killed on that race was because it was on a Tuesday and almost no tracks were running. A couple of us got a little too greedy with that one .. but thankfully, they only opted to eliminate dime supers - which made it harder - but you still couldn't possibly lose.

DrugS, did you ever win anything on the slot machine free rolls?