Field size and a good opinion can do wonders to the payouts.
Even with smart-money and teams and whales,
the payouts for these vertical-exotics (.50TRI, .10SU, .10HI-5)
still are very much 'pyramid shaped'.
Another way to say the same thing; The winner and the exacta have a lot of weight into the payout.
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So, if you plan on playing
123 on top, and/or keying the
, you had better be a 'surgeon' or a 'sniper'. The bigger payouts start with the
1(the fav, and also a public 'single' on top and a public 'key'), out of at least the exacta (if not the whole thing), and then a mid-price-longshot within the exacta, and/or a very long shot (9th, 10th choice for this example if 10 horse field) Third.
