My last bet at prairie meadows

[porchy44]

Tonights 5th Race at Prairie meadows. #4 palm breeze was 6/1 ML .
( My line had him 9/5). He goes off AT 1/5 PAYS 2.40.

Large bettors at tracks like these are just betting against themselves.

[Dave Schwartz]

Care to see the win pool in that race?


WIN POOL:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
68 68 416 3244 146 314 440 79

WIN ODDS (decimal)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
50.00 50.00 8.00 0.20 25.00 11.00 8.00 45.00


It appears that this was a potential bridge jumper's race except that there was no need to jump.


Dave

[JohnGalt1]

Prairie Meadows is a casino-first, race track-second.

This reminds me of the time I was in Las Vegas and a fellow next to me saw a horse he liked at Penn National that was 7-2. He came back after making his bet and looked at the board as they were loading. His horse was 8-5.

He said he wouldn't have bet it if he knew the odds would be so low. I asked him how much he bet on it.

He said $250 to win and place.

I told him he was was the one that lowered the odds.

[cj]

I studied a lot about the effect of bets on pool size these last few months. Any serious player should.

[The Judge]

Bacj in the 90's was betting $20 win bets had to stop that in a hurry. One exacta no one had so paid 1st to the 3rd horse. First time I had ever heard of that.

[SaratogaSteve]

I studied a lot about the effect of bets on pool size these last few months. Any serious player should.
Is there a model you can download? I've always been interested to study this as well, just never had the time to build something in excel.

[Topcat]

CJ,

I'd be very interested in that study. Specifically, which tracks have the smallest win pools-as defined by a $200 bet declining odds.