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12-20-2006, 11:31 PM
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I'm not sure, but my innate BS detector is reading there is validity in BellsBendBoy's claims...... And for myself, I remember the days of the ESPN board where people would joke about the foolishness of someone playing "*ALL" somewhere on their Tri or Super bets. I never admitted it then, but now I will.....I'm a big player of two horses with the "a bunch" in super and tri plays. I only bet at the OTB about 30 times a year. Probably about half those times I see a race I really like from my casual following of the west coast tracks, and I go in with one fixed bet in mind. Usually a heavy win, with some back up Exactas. About 10 times I'll go in with a "lose" budget of $200 to $500 and play "picked on the spot" WIN and PLACE, and if I get a little of the track's money loosen up (with the help of some Bud Light) and buy some "lotto type" tri's and supers. It's a rare year that I do not have signers. On a good day I'll win $300 to $500, and on a great day I'll win $900 to $3000. Probaby 1/3 of the time I end up between -$200 and +$200. I NEVER lose more than $300 to $500 on my bad days, so my losses are controlled. It works for me, and I have a helluva good time. And when I get the nice win, I always celebrate and do something concrete with the $$ besides putting it back in the track. Nice dinner for the wife, or a good bottle of wine. Or some nice electronics or something. That said, I've been in less lettuce before in my life, and had an equally heckuva good time playing 9 races of $5 win/place bets. I just love horse racing. 
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12-21-2006, 12:19 AM
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I bet on horse races for the same reason Steve Fossett flies balloons around the world - I want to conquer something... I like to compete and win but I'm getting too old to play sports anymore and I've found that people don't like to play games with me because I'm an obnoxious winner and a piss-poor loser - bad combination for social events  So, instead, I go to a track, or stay at home, and watch the horses run, and yell at them and pound my fist - and if I win - great... and if I lose - well, g*d-d*amn it! It just feels good to compete.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche on Handicapping
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12-21-2006, 12:58 AM
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DerbyCat,
Competing is great. Winning is even greater! (years ago I gave up on finding people to play "Trivial Pursuit" with me......it was said I took the game "too seriously!".........:-).......)
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12-21-2006, 08:37 PM
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I opened my Youbet account a month before the Kentucky Derby with $650 and I have played $100 to $500 most weekends and I still have $296 left with a weekend left. I have hit some good P3 and DDs and yes I have also ate alot of dirt.
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12-21-2006, 10:30 PM
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I know there is something here in my home I could sell at the pawn shop tomorrow so I can put together a pick 3 - lets see - no, I sold it all to the pawn shop with nothing to show but some clothes that smell like Beulah Park
 (this was all in humor)I ventured into the Pick 3 and 4 land this year, smartest thing I ever did. I hit a nice Pick 4 this Spring, another one this summer, and some nice Pick 3's all thru the year. I lost money this year gambling no question, but did not keep track of how much. I don't care to be honest, I have a nice place, some food in the fridge and freezer and my bills are paid, some of them 
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12-22-2006, 02:51 AM
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I came out dead even. I refuse to gamble on horse racing where horses are drugged infinitely...cheating is rampant etc. I would lose everything if I bet as I am not a very good handicapper. I just pretend I know a lot!!
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12-22-2006, 04:38 AM
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12-22-2006, 09:00 AM
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