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Originally Posted by Hambletonian
When the racing industry decided new fans were more trouble then they were worth, they killed the smart recreational handicapper. Dumb money was virtually eliminated. In NY, we lost all those OTB guys playing the Apple-Boy Daily Double, betting right off the entry sheet. Back in the day, if you read the Form you were a prince among men. Now all that is left is the whales who get giant rebates, the guys putting in a million bets at the bell through direct computer access to the pools, and the serious recreational guys who are being eaten alive by the first two.
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100% agree.
I knew a guy at NYCOTB that used to bet 2K a pop into small pools and complain to me that all the horses he was betting were opening up the favorite.
The pools used to be full of players that were just tossing money around in the same way people buy scratch off lottery tickets. A ton of that money is gone forever. At the same time, premium information and discussion with top players is available all over the place. What took me 10-20 years of trial and error to learn on my own you can probably learn in a couple of years now. I feel like I am learning at an accelerated rate now too, but I'm in a hamster wheel.
