What would it take to change this rule....

[Payson Dave]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I could argue both sides and it's surely more complicated than some people are suggesting. What about dead heats in earlier races? What about multiple dead heats?

The arguement, especially in Pick-6s, is that it's a bet about winning races and not exactly selecting winners. Three tickets survived the six races....thus it is split three ways.

Look, I'm not saying I completely agree or disagree, just trying to point out that it's a larger discussion.

however many deadheats (involving however many horses) results in a certain distinct number of unique winning combos....split the pool after takeout into the appropriate pots and make the different payoffs based upon the number of winning tickets associated with the individual pots...
why does not that make sense.....for instance 3 dh's each involving two horses should result in 8 different winning combos...if there is only one live ticket for one of these combos then that ticket gets one eighth of the pool (after takeout of course)....where is the hole in my thinking???