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Old 11-05-2009, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Kasept
You were on the right track until 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.
I agree completely Steve. Crist is right since that is how the place and show pools are computed in the first place, so the precedent and logic is there.
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