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Old 04-18-2007, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
NY does not break to ten cents above $10 I don't believe.

I'm too weary of this to argue anything else. I may spend a few hours up at DRF going through past data....if not this week then soon.
Interesting about NY. Didn't realize that.

If you do get into the past data, I'll be very interested in how it comes out.

Also...

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Originally Posted by Dunbar
The average place payoff was about $15. The average breakage on a $2 bet is 10 cents except in NY where it is 5c. 10 cents out of $15 is 0.67%. 5 cents out of $15 is 0.33% So the takeout climbs to 16.67% in Kentucky and 15.33% at AQ.
I should have written "the average loss to breakage...", not "the average breakage...". But the percentages are correct, except that the NY cost should be the same as the KY/CA tracks for place payoffs above $10.

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