I'm not so sure that the days of a single guys taking down a monster pool are over............
you're certainly right that Players' Pools and syndicates do become large fish in the pond, but consider at the same time that most of them bet rather inefficiently - - - they'll punch in a few HUGE tickets and cover the most obvious/likely combos too few times.
What happens in turn is that the mid-range horses ($10-$24 mutuel payouts, for this purpose) get "covered" but not in proportion to their actual likelihood of winning a single leg of the P6, and COLLECTIVELY they don't get covered nearly enough.
Consider the prices today at Saratoga - - - not a single horse over $25, and the payout was STILL $377K. It wouldn't be beyond belief to see that big of a pool scooped if a slightly longer shot wins say leg 2 or 3 of that sequence.
What prevents the single player from covering those combos is the limited bankroll, but its certainly conceivable that a single player, by himself, could string together the right 6 to scoop one of these pools soon.
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Last edited by positive4th; 09-01-2010 at 10:00 PM.
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