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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
The gist of multi-tickets is to allow yourself a good chance to hit the Pick-6 if you are " very " right in five races and wrong in the other race, or maybe even four races if you are spending a lot of money.
Imagine you play the Pick-6 and in the first leg you think two horses look very strong and if you were going to spend a little more money you see a third you would at least like to use. Well, as you prefer the first two horses, you would not be spending your money well if you used this third idea for the same total dollars you used the on your " main " two selections. Thus you construct multiple tickets where on perhaps one major ticket you use all three but on smaller tickets you only use the two " main " selctions.
It's obviously more complicated as you go through more races but we can certainly discuss that. The basic formula is you have three lists, A horses, B horses and C horses. Every race CAN, but does not have to, have horses in each category. The construction from there is a MAIN ticket which includes A and B horses from every race and backup tickets which includes the C horses from one race and only the A horses from every other race. If you have C horses in each race you will have six back-up tickets.
The above can be further complicated with double backups as well. But, for now, we will stick to the single back-up concept.
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Andy, it's probably beating an old issue, but can you elaborate on HOW this works a little bit more. It's one of the things that has confused the hell out of me for the past few year. No matter how many times I look at how someone structures a ticket in this way (multiple tickets), I guess I just haven't grasped the logic or the mechanics of it.
Maybe I still won't get it, but you're doing a generally good job explaining other things, so I thought I'd see if you could take a few minutes and try to lay out, say a pick-3 ticket using that formula just to try to knock it into my head.
Thanks.