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Originally Posted by Seattleallstar
(Post 796399)
I guess your right hahaha, all I would do with more money is gamble bigger haha. I dont have a material want or need, but I do need to start thinking of getting married and having kids. Im one of the fortunate people who doesnt have to worry about a mortgage, bills, or food. Most of my salary I can do what I please with it.
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Living at home with the parents will allow that. :)
No, seriously, I've had so many life changing scores that I barely missed or missed in ironic fashion that I have become somewhat numb to it. It really is part of this game. The pain cuts deep which means the victories are that much sweeter.
I will say this, in looking back, I had my best chance in 1994. There was a big pick 6 carry over at Arlington Park. I put in a $36 pick 6 ticket with a 6-1 single in the first leg. My single and the 2-1 favorite pulled away from the field and my 6-1 shot lost the head bob. I hit the next 5 races, including a 48-1 first timer (don't recall the other prices). When I got to the last race, I realized I had a shot at 5 of 6. When I hit it and got back $700, I was absolutely thrilled....until the realization set in that I actaully lost winning the entire $385,000 pick 6 pool by a head bob in the first leg. (I made the assumption that if no one had it with the favorite, they certainly wouldn't have had it with the 6-1 shot I had either). That, in no way, was the hardest I've ever had to take but it was the most costly. I guess losing the first leg rather than the last leg made it much easier to swallow.
I've hit a lot of signers but my biggest was last year ($21,000 pick 4 at Los Al). Over all the years, I've had lots of pick 6 chances for big money but never got one of the big ones. I don't play them much anymore as it is too expensive to give me a realistic chance at it. Bottom line....you have to realize that getting nipped out of big scores is a fabric woven into this game.
My buddy and I always talk about writing a book. Each chapter would focus on some aspect of gambling war stories. There was "chapter 1" which is the most difficult stories to digest, the "you can never be happy" chapter, which is when you win, there is always something that still disappoints you (for example, when I hit the $21k pick 4 at Los Al, I also had the runner up, who was beaten a head and that paid $42k). Anyway, it would be fun to tabulate these stories because at times they are impossible to believe.
I'll leave you with one last war story. The night that Hallowed Dreams was going for her 17th win in a row at EVD, my buddy and I were at our local track. Two hours before that race, we were sitting in the simulcast area and it was a lull in racing (transfer between day and night racing). I asked him what his best bet was....he told me and asked me. I told him my best bet was betting Malek $40 to place the day he ran in a 4 horse field when Gentleman was 1-9. Malek won and paid like $12.00 to win and $40 something to place. With that backdrop still in my mind and Hallowed Dreams running, we both realized there was a bridgejumper. My buddy bet $60 to place on (I believe) the 3. I bet a $40 exacta Hallowed Dreams over the #1. I kept talking the 1 up and down. Long story short, my buddy makes the right bet but has the wrong horse (his ran last). I have the right horse (#1 who ran 2nd) but make the wrong bet. My $40 exacta should have been $40 to place which would have gotten me back over $2k. My buddy was looking at over $3k if he had chosen the right horse. We told that story for years and I actually kept the tickets/result charts, etc. In the end, if taught me a lesson to always bet against bridgejumpers and I've cashed many times on it since then...but that was a tough lesson to learn that day.
