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Originally Posted by hi_im_god
i'm not sure i understand the problem. on a dead heat you have 2 winners of 1 race. all multi-race tickets with either of those winners is alive to split whatever the pool is.
it doesn't matter if one was 4-5 and the other 30-1. those are win pool odds. they have nothing at all to do with how a multi-race pool is paid. 2 different animals.
on yesterdays deadheat at aqueduct, two pick 6 tickets were alive to yield bogey and one to blues street. everyone alive at the end had their payout reduced by the deadheat. instead of getting 1/2 the pool, the yield bogey bettors got 1/3. instead of all the pool the blues street bettor got 1/3.
that seems like the only fair result. i know if i had a live pick 6 ticket to yield bogey and they tried to pay me less than the 1/3 i had earned by giving more to someone else based on win pool odds, i'd be seeing a lawyer.
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A better example is Saturday at CD. Let's say you used Demarcation in the pick 4 at 35-1 and he dead-heated for the win in the River City with 3rd choice Karelian (who was 5-1.) Guess what, instead of a blockbuster payoff in the pick 4 in the $20k range (so 1/2 the pool allocated to you would have been $10k), you got the same $1500 that those that used Karelian got. How exactly is that fair? It should work the same way as a dead heat for win, half the pool goes to each of the winners, as the pick 3 payoffs are allocated in this situation (for reference, the pick 3 payoffs were $697 and $138, so obviously a huge difference and probably even more so in the pick 4 pools)