Pick 6 - Good or Bad for racing?

[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...