smart guys can scour the pools for inneficiencies.
Some very likely know how to see further into data such as coverage multi horse races (gives them an odds model of later races including which FTS are taking money, gives them an unfair advantage in wagers like the jackpot single ticket coverage)
we can easily do three races/placings, even though regular players are only given two races/placings.
criminal teams can use inside information to know things that others can not know. This includes which horses will not receive the undetectable performance enhancers that have flooded the game. They also create their own luck from things like having some influence over the top riders in a colony and occasionally knowing that a favorite/2ndChoice will not hit the exacta.
the rare occasions when I beat the game are an extreme ego boost.
I know exactly how the quant types think (not all... some are genuinely good people, and then some are schmucks but they understand that intelligent or simply masters of the craft exist in the world and could possibly cross their paths) when it comes to superiority in themselves and disbelief in myself (or a less interesting generic population of non-quants and non-insiders)(borr-ing if not personal... I got Jay Z blasting in the earphones let me get mad. Get mad you sonnofabitch get mad PUT THAT COF-FEE DOWNN).
"You can't do that"
They don't believe it.
sometimes the dickheads think you can't beat THEM sometimes those guys or regular losers think you can't beat THE GAME.
horse racing sucks most of the time with opportunities. Takeout needs to be reduced. And the same people (you and i) who whine about being thought of as a sucker, we want takeout reduced and the marketing improved.
but it sure is beautful on occasion.
speaking of the crappy marketing
I know twitter can be some faggots, but I expected a few people to like or laugh out loud or whatever to that good tweet.
makes me want to crush a few quants and fuck up a few normies on my sunday watch list horses
Then you have all kinds of suckers.
suckers who think they can beat this game who personally can't beat it.
suckers who think no one can beat it.
suckers who think the celebrity masters of the game in the game want to discuss the game with street-level masters of the game.
suckers who think the quants can't have better pool data to be able to see things like uncovered jackpot wager horses or pick 3(or further??) probables
suckers who think the quants wouldn't attempt to build it
suckers who don't believe star horses are being injected with undetectable forms of EPO and other drugs
suckers who think an 'overage' of a detectable race day medication is the PED, or that such overages are the barometer of cheating, or that a suspension for such overages indicates cheater
suckers that think that herd behavior by them is going to lead to success.
suckers who think the trainer who LARPS as a villain and has some overages probably cheats but that the genial old man who exudes class and trains for wealthy owners would never cheat
or perhaps a guy who specializes in the turf and is built up to a veritable cult of personality is just 'good' and classy and would never cheat like the villains.
or that supertrainers who use uncoupled entries and the top few jockeys of circuit, would never use that power as influence
or that they would never partner with teams
or that top jockeys would 'never risk it'
I don't know shit about most things aside from Horse Racing, Baseball, and Basketball. Learning about horse racing makes me wonder if the rest of the world is as wild as horseracing.
We have a ponzi scheme of cheating. It's not sustainable. There's a limit to how many cheaters we can find to support the top level cheaters. Most people would never cheat. I can't see it happening.