Wacky, tough bet to launch with PIM opening: The Slider

[Cannon Shell]

Wont this bet take like an hour to call out at the window?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

DrugS-Fair.com will gladly book all action on this wager - and give you a 10% rebate.

[randallscott35]

This will surely help PIM.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Wont this bet take like an hour to call out at the window?

I would assume that it's going to be along the lines of a twin tri or tri-super where you have exchanges based on how many times you hit the prior leg.

If I'm right, then say you have 20 to win on the winner of the first leg. You now have 40 exchanges to play the exacta. If you choose to play just one combination then you have 40 exchanges to play the trifecta. So on and so forth.

The obvious impediments are that not every tote system (specifically the non-AmTote systems) are going to be able to handle this and I know from working as a mutuel clerk that the average one has no idea how to handle a wager like this.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I didn't get that impression.

To me - it sounded like a wager you'd call out:

50 cent Slider:

3
With
4-2
With
8-3-1
With
5-6-1-4

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I didn't get that impression.

To me - it sounded like a wager you'd call out:

50 cent Slider:

3
With
4-2
With
8-3-1
With
5-6-1-4

Yeah, I think you're right. That's painfully stupid.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I didn't get that impression.

To me - it sounded like a wager you'd call out:

50 cent Slider:

3
With
4-2
With
8-3-1
With
5-6-1-4

Yeah then:
3
with
2-4
with
8-3-1
with
5-6-1-4

then
3
with
2-4
with
3-8-1
with 5-6-1-4

then.....

[eajinabi]

I think the superfecta in the last leg is a bit too much. 3 legs with the winner, exacta, tri is reasonable.

[richard]

Originally Posted by eajinabi

I think the superfecta in the last leg is a bit too much. 3 legs with the winner, exacta, tri is reasonable.

Piece a cake.

[PatCummings]

I think we're missing the point...

With 252 million combos on a sequence involving 8 horses in each race...you might as well play the lottery. Surely, some combos will be more bet than others, but if my odds at 252,000,000-1, just on pure chance, then how much do I really trim those odds when there is some intellect going behind them?

The odds of hitting Powerball = 192,000,000-1 or so, and the base payout is $5 million. Yeah, sign me up to have a guaranteed pool of $100,000.

If the number of horses in a selected sequence were 8,9,10,10 then the number of combinations...wait for it...




2,090,188,800

Yes, that's 2 billion combinations. Give me 20 powerball quickpicks and five punches to the gut and I'll be on my way.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Yeah then:
3
with
2-4
with
8-3-1
with
5-6-1-4

then
3
with
2-4
with
3-8-1
with 5-6-1-4

then.....

You're assuming someone will be taking the bet halfway seriously - that probably won't happen until one of two things occur.

1.) There is about a million dollar carryover and the sequence doesn't look brutal .... or

2.) it's a mandatory payout on the last day of the meet - and you're trying to swipe shares of the pool by getting past the exacta in the 2nd leg.