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Originally Posted by AndyC
If you have the balls to bet $7,500 on a 49-1 shot then you deserve everything that you get. If you had 9 partners betting $7,500 on 49-1 chances you would most likely go bust 80% or more of the time.
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Gabbay bet $10k on the 5-11 exacta Gunrunner/ Collected to win the competition...It paid about 15-1. Not saying you have to bet that much at any one time...
https://blog.horsetourneys.com/2017/...ing-challenge/
There is obviously something up with this story regarding collusion ("multiple irregularities") otherwise the organizers wouldn't be holding out the payoffs..
This "all or nothing" strategy does seem to work as demonstrated in the past. How the organizers digest the closeness of the relations between Gabbay, Moomey, MacFarland and Hellmar as suggested by press articles remains to be seen...by the way, what agency is doing the "investigation"...?
“We thought we were going to put the money on Gun Runner, but we saw that putting the money to win wouldn’t guarantee victory,” said Gabay. “So we shifted strategy, took a little more risk in order to go for the win, and the horse we really didn’t like in the race was Arrogate….so we bet big exactas with Collected in second, West Coast in second and Gunnevara in second. Luckily Gun Runner dug in, and he held off Collected at the end.”
"Gabbay, who said he is saving his winnings to
buy a house in Solana Beach, is no stranger to the handicapping leader board. He and his Del Mar horseplayer buddies,
Kevin McFarland and
Christian Hellmers, have long been known as the “Pick Six Boys.” They earned that nickname when all three chose five of six winning horses on a “Pick Six” bet on a live TV broadcast."
"In addition, executives with experience in running tournaments said that it is widely known that many players coordinate with other players or run the picks for other entries that are not in their name, and that singling out one or a handful of players for collusive behavior would open up a hornet’s nest of accusations among regular tournament participants, some of whom have contentious relationships with other competitors." DRF
Just passing along media bites...I know nothing, nor claim to...
