A Pick 3 Lesson for me

Hit another pick 3 tonight, so thats 2 for 2, and it paid a whopping 48 dollars with about the same priced horses as the night before that paid 180 dollars. Hit a double tonight that paid 78...

Damn lottery, these pik bets honest to God. Im not complaining cause Im winning and the takeout at Retama is 13 % but honest to God its a crap shoot trying to have some idea how much you have coming to you based on win odds of individual races... and absolute crap shoot.

[jpops757]

Im no pk3 expert but I will tend to narrow my picks in large fields and widen them in what sometimes appears to be sure winner in short fields. I am uncanny in hitting the all button and an odds on will win.

[zippyneedsawin]

Originally Posted by jpops757

Im no pk3 expert but I will tend to narrow my picks in large fields and widen them in what sometimes appears to be sure winner in short fields. I am uncanny in hitting the all button and an odds on will win.

LOL.. no worse feeling in gambling than going deep in a leg of a pick 3 or 4 and seeing the big favorite jog home a winner in that leg. I know that pain all too well!

Never used the ALL. But I understand the utility.

The fields that have been going at Retama have been large, this button will not get much use.
What is interesting for those of you who use the machines... take a look at the screen from the side so the light reflects off it so you can see the wear on the plastic or glass. People wear the TRI and Super button out at Retama. Along with the / (with) button. Of course the return balance and the print ticket buttons of the machine screens are about to break they have been worn so thin on the old machines.

Observations of screen wear and possible relationship to betting patterns.

I think I will write a paper and submit it to...

[ceejay]

I try to avoid a pick 3 with 2 favs, or one with an odds-on leg A. These tend to be underlays.