Pick 6 - Good or Bad for racing?

[jballscalls]

the other thing i do like about the pick 6 is that when people cap the pick 6 hard they dont just play the pick 6, but they play the vertical bets as well during those races. If a guy busts out in the first leg, he's still likely to stay around and play the other legs in pick 3's, 4's exactas and trifectas.

[NoChanceToDance]

They may be hard to hit, but the possibility of a huge pay out for a small sum is too much for many, including many of us. Deep down we know we won't hit a pick six but we play them anyway.

The pick six brings the big and small bettors together.

We have known what is called a jackpot and scoop six (which is the same bet as the pick six over here), and regularly they roll over to becomes £ million pools.

I'm with you, jim..... surely these bets can do no harm to racing. It brings in excitement and possibly brings in people who would not usually bet before. Small stakes for possible huge returns.

[ArlJim78]

speaking of pick6's, I think Hollywood is trying their hardest to get a doublecarry going into the holiday weekend.

todays field sizes for the pick six are, 6 x 14 x 7 x 11 x 11 x 13.
and that is after scratches! and there are no easy singles, or "free squares" as some call them.

i'm sitting out this one, and just playing vertical today.

[sumitas]

Any exotics imo are sucker bets. The pick 6 being the highest form of a suckers bet. Approach it as a lottery, keep the ticket under $10 and you may get lucky. That's my personal opinion. Is it good or bad ? Probably good if people are betting it.

[pmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Any exotics imo are sucker bets. The pick 6 being the highest form of a suckers bet. Approach it as a lottery, keep the ticket under $10 and you may get lucky. That's my personal opinion. Is it good or bad ? Probably good if people are betting it.

How is a wager with basically no takeout (courtesy of Carry) a sucker bet?

I would say the small ticket approach could be considered somewhat of a sucker play because the deck is quite stacked against you.

[sumitas]

Never bet more than you can afford to lose. I'll leave it at that.

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Never bet more than you can afford to lose. I'll leave it at that.

What does that have to do with the pk6 being a "sucker bet"?

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Any exotics imo are sucker bets. The pick 6 being the highest form of a suckers bet. Approach it as a lottery, keep the ticket under $10 and you may get lucky. That's my personal opinion. Is it good or bad ? Probably good if people are betting it.

That's a new one..

[ALostTexan]

Originally Posted by jballscalls

the other thing i do like about the pick 6 is that when people cap the pick 6 hard they dont just play the pick 6, but they play the vertical bets as well during those races. If a guy busts out in the first leg, he's still likely to stay around and play the other legs in pick 3's, 4's exactas and trifectas.

I agree with this. If there is a big P6 pool, I am attracted to that track. Now, I know that unless you have a very big bankroll, which I never do, there is a very, very slim chance of hitting the P6. But I wind up playing alot of other races on the card, and will make my "lottery style" P6 ticket based on the handicapping, which means to keep the ticket under $8. I know that the odds of hitting the P6 on an $8 ticket are extremely, extremely low, but not much higher on a ~$100 ticket, so I just have fun with it and play those other races that I have handicapped.

I sort of wish more tracks had a bet like the Fortune 6 that Beulah has. I guess that probably wouldn't work at the hugh tracks like SoCal, but I could see it working at the NYRA tracks, getting their P6-type players more into it...