Nice Pick-4 payoffs with the 4% takeout at Ellis

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Seriously though, with 4% takeout they should really be able to get this thing up to $100,000 on weekends. You have to be crazy to not be putting your money into this pool. The results have hardly been unpredictable either.

I agree with this emphatically. Yet today's pool was an embarrassing $25,000. I say "embarrassing", because I find it embarrassing that the best bet in horseracing can only attract $25,053 worth of bets. Hell, my bet was 1/70th of the entire pool! Aren't there at least a couple hundred horseplayers in the entire country willing to pump some money into this pool?

Is any track going to think about lowering take when Ellis draws a whopping 25,000 with it's 4%?

btw, today's payoff on a 50c ticket was $6,012. Not bad for $23.80, $6.20, $14, $18.40. A 50c parlay would have paid $1188. The Pick-4 paid more than 5 times as much as the parlay.

--Dunbar