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Mohegan Sun - Alive For 5 Strategy
Hi all,
Hoping I can get some ideas from everyone regarding how to play this type of tournament. Hopefully I can explain it well enough to make sense.
The way this works in you buy a “ticket,” which you then fill out. Essentially, in the first race of the tournament, you pick 5 horses. If one of those wins, you make it to the second race where you pick 4 horses. If one of those wins, you make it to race three where you pick 3 horses, and so on. The last race, you must pick the winner.
I’ve done this tournament three times now, and each time I’ve made it to race 4, and yesterday, I made it to race 5. I buy 5 “tickets.” I think the strategy for the first three races is pretty simple. Your “main ticket” has your top horses, while “tickets” 2 through 5 has your top horses except for the last pick in each race, and you work your way down picking the horses below. So for example, in race three, “ticket” one has horses 1,2 3. “Ticket” 2 has horses 1,2,4. “ Ticket 3 has horses 1,2,5.
So I guess my question is how would you play race 5? In theory, if you are lucky enough to have all 5 “tickets” alive going into that last race, you could pick your top 5 horses. But what if your last ticket is the only one alive? Then you’d have your 5th choice going into that race. I mean, obviously that’s the point right? It isn’t supposed to be easy to win. (Only one winner yesterday out of 103 “tickets”.) But I am just wondering if anyone has opinions about a more optimal way to play?
I appreciate any thoughts anyone may have.
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