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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
I think what's really happening is that most people are losing around the track take plus breakage (maybe a little more because they avoid heavy favorites that outperform the track take) and there are a handful of very good and excellent players being subsidized by the truly awful players that bet hopeless horses (usually longshots at 20-1 and higher) that should be a LOT higher.
Those are the only people getting totally killed. If you stay away from the truly dead horses you aren't going to lose too much more than the take plus breakage even if you are throwing darts at the remainder.
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IMO...the majority of the regular horseplayers have gotten destroyed in this game, to the point where they've cut down drastically on their participation...if they haven't stopped playing altogether. Our tracks and OTBs are virtual ghost-towns...and that ain't because the folks are betting from home. If the majority of the horseplayers were only losing the takeout...then there would still be some signs of life at our brick-and-mortar betting outlets. It takes considerable competence in order to lose just the takeout in this game...IMO.
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Last edited by thaskalos; 05-21-2018 at 03:27 PM.
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