Oak Tree Early Pick 4

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by eajinabi

The early pick 4 today pays $51.60 based on a dead heat in the last leg. If 4 wins the payoff is $314 and if 6 wins the payoff is $61. I had the 4 and not the 6 but since it was a dead heater, the pick 4 pool is combined and gives me a watered down payoff. That is a stupid rule!!! Oak tree should give the actual payoff for both pick 4s and should eat some of it instead of punishing the players.

You were on the right track until blowing the final turn... Splitting the pool with one payoff is indeed unfair. Steven Crist has broached this many times. The pool should be split 50-50 and THEN portioned out based on the number of tickets for each dead heat horse.

If the pool is $10,000 (2 pots of $5,000), and 5 have the longer shot and 20 the shorter price, the 5 tickets should get back $1,000 while the 20 tix should get $250 each. But making the 5 people with a clever opinion get the one-price-fits-all payoff of $400 (25 tix into $10,000) is indeed not right.