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Old 11-05-2009, 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Kasept
You were on the right track until the blowing the final turn... Splitting the pool with one payoff is indeed unfair. Steven Crist has broached this many times. The pool should be split 50-50 and THEN portioned out based on the number of tickets for each dead heat horse.

If the pool is $10,000 (2 pots of $5,000), and 5 have the longer shot and 20 the shorter price, the 5 tickets should get back $1,000 while the 20 tix should get $250 each. But making the 5 people with a clever opinion get the one-price-fits-all payoff of $400 (25 tix into $10,000) is indeed not right.

This comes up often.. reminds me of Turf War and Z Humor in the Dela JP. Now THAT was robbery!!
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