I dont get bridgejumping

[porchy44]

July 25th, 2nd race, Thistledowns.

#2 and #1 both pay 55 dollars to show.

C'mon, bridgejumping on cheap inconsistent 4,000 claimers.

I guess I always thought people who bet that kind of money were not such fools.

[VeryOldMan]

July 25th, 2nd race, Thistledowns.

#2 and #1 both pay 55 dollars to show.

C'mon, bridgejumping on cheap inconsistent 4,000 claimers.

I guess I always thought people who bet that kind of money were not such fools.

Total WPS pool of 13K. Tiny in the grand scheme. How much was the show pool bridge jump?

I don't get it either, but play the WV tracks enough to see some big bridge jumps chasing the 2.20 min show return. Makes some sense on short field high level state bred races, but I share you wonder about it for 4-5K claimers.

[Stillriledup]

What don't you get about free money?
:D

[dilanesp]

Hollywood Park Casino used to do a promotion in their poker games where they would dump a rack of chips ($100 or $200, depending on whether they used blue or green chips) into a randomly-drawn table's next pot. The result was that the hand with the gigantic pot played out crazy-- the big pot caused everyone to have big pot odds, which resulted in everyone staying in the hand and betting and raising, building the pot even bigger.

That's what a minus pool is. It's additional, free money, poured into the pot by the house. Which bettors then chase. So it's totally understandable why people would bridgejump.

Frankly, though, I really don't understand why we still have a limit at 5 or 10 cents on the dollar. In the computer age, where we have the dime super, it should be possible to pay at 1 cent on the dollar. Doing that would eliminate almost every minus pool.

In the rare event that you couldn't pay at 1 cent on the dollar without a minus pool, what they should do at that point is reduce takeout for that particular race if the heavily favored horse runs in, to the point where it is possible to pay out at 1 cent on the dollar. Then you would never have a minus pool.

Bridgejumping is really a vestige of 1930's totalisators which didn't calculate below 10 cents on the dollar. It's silly.

[tanner12oz]

There is literally no reason to not pay to penny other then tracks, states scooping free money from rounding numbers

[HuggingTheRail]

Someone is jumping after the 8th at Prairie Meadows....

[Si2see]

watch out below !!!! Can not believe the horse had 150k to show as bad as he looked on the race track

[therussmeister]

Total WPS pool of 13K. Tiny in the grand scheme. How much was the show pool bridge jump?

I don't get it either, but play the WV tracks enough to see some big bridge jumps chasing the 2.20 min show return. Makes some sense on short field high level state bred races, but I share you wonder about it for 4-5K claimers.
I believe the bridge jump was $4000-$5000. The unusual thing was it was a seven horse field. Usually bridge-jumpers don't bet into more than a six horse field.

[classhandicapper]

There used to be situations where if you bet every horse to show in the correct proportions you could guarantee yourself a small profit because of the huge minus pool. I think it had to be a 5 horse. I'm not even sure if it can be done anymore with net pool pricing. It would certainly be harder to calculate the appropriate amount to bet on each horse with net pool ricing.

[acorn54]

i have seen my share of problem gamblers at the otb shops and have heard stories from folks in gambler's anonymous that makes it complete sense that situations arise where logic just fails to explain away the motivations of people and their money.

[thaskalos]

i have seen my share of problem gamblers at the otb shops and have heard stories from folks in gambler's anonymous that makes it complete sense that situations arise where logic just fails to explain away the motivations of people and their money.
Problem gamblers don't bridgejump. You gotta have MONEY to bridgejump.

[acorn54]

Problem gamblers don't bridgejump. You gotta have MONEY to bridgejump.

some of the stories i have heard have people taking equity out of their houses, believe it or not.

[thaskalos]

some of the stories i have heard have people taking equity out of their houses, believe it or not.
I have spent a lifetime around problem gamblers...and have even been one for longer than I care to admit. Problem gamblers will bet $2,000 to win, or a $1,000 on a cold exacta...but they will not bridgejump. They want their profits in big chunks.

That's a big part of their "problem"...