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Old 06-14-2008, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by jcs11204
this might be a stupid question.... and im sure ppl will say something dumb, but how do you come up with the parlay ? what they paid to win, all multiplied by each other ?
Take the win mutual ($6 on the 2-1 in first leg) as played into a win bet on the next winner ($7.40). $6 is 3 $2 win tix x the $7.40 = $22.20. Now you play the $22 into the next winner which would be 11 $2 win tix x the $10.00 = $110.00. Now you have 55 $2 win tix to play on the next winner ($4.00) which is $220.00 or 110 $2 win on the $14.00 winner = $1540.00 or 770 $2 win tix to the last winner ($10.80) = $8,316.00.

So if you were to have played a $2 win parlay on the sextet, you'ld have brought back $8,300. But the P6 paid $19,000 or nearly 2.5X the parlay.
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