The Twinspires players pool

[Pensacola Pete]

Have people finally gotten wise to how bad their handicappers are? They've failed to fill the last two. My friend plays $100 into every one of them and said they've busted out of more than half of them. Yes, they can play $50k into the p6, no horse wins at over 7-1, and they don't even have a consolation.

[rrpic6]

I posted this ticket earlier in a different thread, but it disappeared? Its a $4320 punch. I might play the last sequence in the pick4 for $180 tho.

:5:,:8:
:1:,:2:,:5:
:2:,:4:,:7:
:1:,:3:,:4:,:5:,:9:,:10:
:1:,:3:,:7:,:8:,:9:
:3:,:5:,:8:,:9:

Good Luck
RR

[PaceAdvantage]

I posted this ticket earlier in a different thread, but it disappeared? Its a $4320 punch. I might play the last sequence in the pick4 for $180 tho.

:5:,:8:
:1:,:2:,:5:
:2:,:4:,:7:
:1:,:3:,:4:,:5:,:9:,:10:
:1:,:3:,:7:,:8:,:9:
:3:,:5:,:8:,:9:

Good Luck
RRYeah, because it was in a thread soliciting for a Pick 6 syndicate...which is a no no here...

[rrpic6]

Gotcha. Way to catch that boss!

RR

[detective]

I posted a few times on this in the past. They just spend way to much on tickets. Do you know if they hit this one? After taxes you would have made 5 dollars I think if they hit. They hit last breeders cup but the profit for your 10 dollars was 7 dollars. The one I think is cool is that they get to turn in any loosing tickets and get the tax refund returned to them. I bet they have made over 100,000 dollars on that gag. They don't send your share of the tax refund to you.

[Pensacola Pete]

Do you know if they hit this one?

Not close. According to my friend, they had 8 consolations. They got about $1,700 for their $36,000. Some of their tickets had as few as 2 winners. No big bombs either.

[Hoofless_Wonder]

For some reason the tickets and selections have yet to be graded out on Twinspires.

With 8 consolation tickets, the return for $37,485 would have been $6424, as 5 of 6 paid $803. This seems to agree with my account balance, as my $10 got turned into $1.75 or so.

Personally, I like seeing the construction of the tickets and their selections with some of the player's pools, as it can help out with double, P3 and P4 and other tickets. I don't participate in all of them, but some (like today's at Belmont) can be useful.

As for losing tickets, I suppose Twinspires gets to use those to write them off, but I suspect I'll have a new IRS form in my account based on the results today, so had there been withholdings (or if there is), then I'll be able to claim that come tax time....

[Stillriledup]

Not close. According to my friend, they had 8 consolations. They got about $1,700 for their $36,000. Some of their tickets had as few as 2 winners. No big bombs either.

How is it possible they spent 36k and missed?

[Hoofless_Wonder]

How is it possible they spent 36k and missed?

Horses that won the last two legs were:

:8: , paying $13.80, morning line of 8-1
:2: , paying $24.60, morning line of 20-1

With only about 10,000 combos covered on their tickets, they missed a couple of longer odds ponies that were bet down a bit from their morning lines.

On one ticket, the leg they missed (9th), their selection ran 2nd - had that horse got up, they would have cashed one winning ticket for around $125-150K.

[Pensacola Pete]

It gives the little guy something to sweat for his $10. Even if they hit for $150k, they get $20k eaten from that for withholding. So $35 gets $120, or about 7/2 on the money. And that's a good day for them. Most of the time it's consolations or a bust out.

That's the point. Even if they hit a loner for... oh ... a million, it's 800k after taxes. For $50k if the pool fills that's 15-1 on the money. That's a good return, but it's also very rare. In fact, I don't know if they ever did hit a ticket close to that big. I'll have to ask my friend. The only one I know of is for about $75k (for $50k).

[Phantombridgejumpe]

I thought they had a good approach and a decent profit on the final day of the Rainbow 6 at gulfstream in the Spring

[shouldacoulda]

I thought they had a good approach and a decent profit on the final day of the Rainbow 6 at gulfstream in the Spring
:lol:
Not even close. I fell for this gag 2 years ago and when I saw the tickets I said you gotta be kidding. They had one winning ticket. The payoff was, if memory serves me correctly $3.36. There were multiple winners on the last day. I swore never again. They singled a horse in the 5th leg and it was chalk. It almost seemed like they wanted to lose. You can't find another horse to throw in against the chalk? With all those ticket combos? The last leg I believe was the clincher with a lone play with a horse that figured. I thought it was a pathetic display of handicapping execution. After that I swore never again.