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Originally Posted by 2MinsToPost
Of the money in the pools, lets say WPS, Exactas and Tris, is from people who strictly gamble the odds and numbers; in other words, they don't ever look at a racing form?
I'll tell ya, I see a good number of action junkies doing that every time I am at the track - simulcast facilities.
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from my experience, they are also usually the ones who are screaming "THEY WANT ME TO HAVE THAT FOUR HOSS! THEY WANT ME TO HAVE THAT FOUR HOSS" as the 2/5 shot comes thundering down the stretch in a 5-horse claimer at calder and then jump up and down and boast about how THEY "KNEW IT!"
Their losing tickets slammed on the table next to you are usually $2 win tickets on the chalk -- so I would imagine that they make up a small percentage of the actual totals.
Though in a place like Portland, OR when I was hanging out at Portland Meadows -- a couple of action junkies with $5 win wagers can at times early in the card mean the difference between 7-1 and 5-2 on your horse
so it's all relative haha