Twin Spires

[senortout]

you pointed out that the bookie took care of you!

Actually, for the most part......and for most folks

You took better care of him.

Originally Posted by mikejlb

They sent a pdf file showing the the time the race went off but that is really irrelevant because the time is in military time 17:06:34 or 5:06 pm. The 5th FGX on Feb 22 went off at 7:06 pm. I don't think the problem is about past post at all because I had my bet down 2 hours early. I think someone screwed up and they did a lousy job of making excuses.

The advice about saying "live & learn" is the best advice. I learned something about Twinspires and withdrew my money. I'm a small bettor and they won't miss me and that's ok too because I don't care.

Some of these places could learn a lot about business from the old books that we used before internet. When you hit the bookie with a good week he didn't whine or try to cheat you, instead he bought you a drink and felt good for you. That is called good will. In the meantime there's a lot of places to bet and we really don't have to tolerate someone insulting our intelligence.

[mikejlb]

No doubt that people took care of the bookmakers. When the pain was felt most was on bets that went way over the maximum. One race I won a $5 exacta that paid $1800+ at DMR but I got $255 because the max was 50/1. I later negotiated 100/1 but that would have still fell far short. They had a big advantage.

[horses4courses]

TwinSpires was to hold a $5K freeroll contest on Sunday March 3rd.
Got an e-mail yesterday saying it's postponed, likely due to system problems.

[Robert Goren]

Reminiscent of the early days of online poker. When they up grade their servers, the system went down. I would not be shocked that Twinspires went through a resent upgrade.