[Five Star Derek]

Originally Posted by point given

I think you have to be comfortable with the races in question. by that I mean that sometimes you are just playing a p3 or 4 without strong feelings about them. To me this is a mistake. It all depends on the races at hand in the sequence and how you see them, I like these races and have strong opinions on them or I like a couple of them and don't have a clue in one of them etc. To just structure bets according to a set idea is restricting and forcing a conclusion. A friend told me of his buddy who just bets p3's and only in a set way of 3,3,1 $9 bet and bets 10 of these a day between 2 tracks, limiting his losses, but he hits a lot of big ones. This is your formula of making a p3 a p2. To me it is too limiting, I may in fact end up doing one ofthese plays , but only when it fits what i am seeing in the races at hand, but it works for him. Try different ways and see what is successful and what you feel comfortable with.

I'm far from a bet structure expert but I do something similar to this. I play pick threes and pick a single in each race. My one criteria is that only one of these singles in the pick 3 can be potential chaulk.

Example-
Ticket 1

A - A,B,C - A,B,C

Ticket 2

A,B,C - A - A,B,C

Ticket 3

A,B,C - A,B,C - A
Total=$27

I'll go deeper sometimes if the race seems wide open. This gives me the potential to possibly hit 3 times if my singles finish first. I won't play the P-3 if my handicapping suggests that it's going to be chaulky.