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trigger
10-10-2008, 09:42 AM
"Charles Town shorts winning players on superfecta"
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/national-news/2008/October/09/Charles-Town-shorts-winning-players-on-superfecta-wager.aspx
DJofSD
10-10-2008, 09:53 AM
The track acknowledges the payout was incorrect. Charles Town General Manager Dickie Moore said the placing judges at the track gave the tote employee the correct superfecta horses, listing the top five places. Moore said the tote employee did not know to base the superfecta payout on the fifth-place horse because the entry finished third and fourth. Instead he assigned the incorrect “all” designation.

This is the kind of thing that drives me up the wall. Computers will process this correctly. Why do they leave it to people to remember and to communicate details like this? As far as I'm concerned, this is just yet another example of the good ol' boys not adapting appropriate technology.
DanG
10-10-2008, 10:03 AM
That article was not good for a player’s blood pressure. :mad:
takeout
10-10-2008, 10:22 AM
This happened TWO MONTHS ago. If this guy hadn't bet the thing off track it would’ve stayed hushed up. Makes me wonder how many times something like this has happened at tracks all over the country and we never hear about it.
takeout
10-10-2008, 10:53 AM
That article was not good for a player’s blood pressure. :mad:
So true!

The track could’ve gotten out in front of this and made it right and probably even turned it into some positive publicity thereby gaining some street cred with their customers. But no. Heck, the whole super pool before take was only $10,550. What were they thinking!?? Probably trying to keep someone from losing their job, I suspect. ???
trigger
10-11-2008, 11:11 AM
This happened TWO MONTHS ago. If this guy hadn't bet the thing off track it would’ve stayed hushed up. Makes me wonder how many times something like this has happened at tracks all over the country and we never hear about it.

Another example of mismanagement of the horse racing wagering systems by a track and their tote company. Apparently, there is no accountability on the track's part for these kind of preventable screw-ups....so they keep happening.
If a major casino book ever short changed bettors like this, the state regulators would be all over them and the casino would probably do everything feasible to make it right to the bettors. But, in horse racing, no gives a ratsass except the bettors.
I say sue'em all!!!
Tom Barrister
10-11-2008, 06:13 PM
You're assuming that the casino gives a darn about the race track. They tolerate the track only because it's it's in the agreement that they have to. If they could get rid of the track and keep the casino, without any repercussions, the track end of it would be gone tomorrow.

The world will come to an end the day a casino (especially Penn National Gaming) takes the initiative and pays off their mistake. Paying out, perhaps, $5,000 more to the winning ticket holders would cost the casino----WOW!---about 20 minutes of gaming revenue. That wouldn't be acceptable.
trigger
10-11-2008, 06:31 PM
You're assuming that the casino gives a darn about the race track. They tolerate the track only because it's it's in the agreement that they have to. If they could get rid of the track and keep the casino, without any repercussions, the track end of it would be gone tomorrow.

The world will come to an end the day a casino (especially Penn National Gaming) takes the initiative and pays off their mistake. Paying out, perhaps, $5,000 more to the winning ticket holders would cost the casino----WOW!---about 20 minutes of gaming revenue. That wouldn't be acceptable.

I was referring more to a stand alone casino like in Vegas not a racino.