As I was trying to figure out how many of the 192 wagers on my ticket had 4 out of 5 winners and was therefore eligible for the consolation payout, I realized how fortunate players at the track or OTB or on an advanced wagering platform played from home and hit such a wager are to be able to simply have the machine spit out a voucher with all of the winnings computed.
I ended up with 10 conso payoffs in addition to the actual pick 5 on a 2x2x3x4x4 ticket. And thank goodness for them also, since without them I would have bet $96 and gotten an embarrassingly small payoff of $97.50 on a winning pick 5. And that was with the second choice winning the final leg. If the favorite had won the payoff would have been even smaller.
Indian Hemp had a very interesting approach to the late pick 5 and almost carried the day. He structured a 1x2xALLxAllx1 ticket and had winners in each of the first 4 legs. I think that if his pick had won the final leg he would have had 17 consolation payoffs in addition to the pick 5 winnings. That would have been a real doozey to compute by hand.
Congrats on your win RQ, and I'm sorry to have put you to such travail with by eccentric wagers. But, I've long maintained that the ROI is a superb way to experiment and learn about various wagering techniques.
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