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View Poll Results: Did You Have a Winning Year in 2019?
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I had a winning year in 2019
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I came close to breaking even in 2019
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I had a losing year in 2019
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53.64% |
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I don't want to know how I did in 2019 / I don't keep records
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02-22-2020, 09:47 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
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Do you count money from my Go Fund Me page?
I started the year out going to the track in my $5,000 Hyundai.
By December, I was going in a $250,000 bus! 
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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02-23-2020, 12:35 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: East Texas
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I have only been handicapping seriously since 2014 (as a small bettor), and I've lost less each year.
Alas, that's just enough progress to encourage me to continue this madness.
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02-23-2020, 01:10 AM
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Location: Near Lexington, KY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom
Do you count money from my Go Fund Me page?
I started the year out going to the track in my $5,000 Hyundai.
By December, I was going in a $250,000 bus! |
 
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02-23-2020, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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I had a winning year last year but I had to use a $4000 piece of a rainbow to climb out of the hole.
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02-23-2020, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2017
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2019 was terrible for me --- the KY Derby pulled me out otherwise I'd be very behind because it was first year I really wagered at Saratoga. Won't be playing there anymore, not my track.
........but 2020 is looking killer good so far..but only playing oaklawn pretty exclusively.
Last edited by clicknow; 02-23-2020 at 06:54 PM.
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02-23-2020, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Missouri
Posts: 2,190
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2019 I was a winner thanks to a $30k+ day. Not good so far this year, playing Oaklawn 90% of the time. Keep missing the pick 5 and betting poorly, being in the wrong pools. Not betting enough to win while betting too much in high take pools like the trifecta
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02-25-2020, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Seattle
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2nd losing year in a row, but........actually rallied a little in the autumn and it has carried forward into the winter.
I went about 18 months up until Sept '19 where I just couldn't get out of my own way.
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02-26-2020, 09:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 3,601
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Lost(about 11k).
Couldn't finish off a proper ticket to save my life.
Nobody's fault but mine.......I spent next to zero time on the pp's.
Laziness does not payoff in handicapping..... 
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02-28-2020, 09:37 PM
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Buckle Up
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 10,614
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Looks like the stats in 2019 are almost a carbon copy of 2018, with 2015 as an outlier in the win hole:
View Poll Results: Did You Have a Winning Year in 2019
I had a winning 2019.................28 27.72%
I came close to even in 2019.......12 11.88%
I had a losing year in 2019..........52 51.49%
I don't want to know how I did.....9 8.91%
Voters: 101
Here are the poll results, at the same juncture, for the last 4 years:
View Poll Results: Did You Have a Winning Year in 2018
I had a winning 2018.................27 27.00%
I came close to even in 2018.......12 12.00%
I had a losing year in 2018..........53 53.00%
I don't want to know how I did.....8 8.00%
Voters: 100
No Poll in 2017- Absent
View Poll Results: Did You Have a Winning Year in 2016
I had a winning 2016.................33 29.46%
I came close to even in 2016.......12 10.71%
I had a losing year in 2016..........63 56.25%
I don't want to know how I did.....4 3.57%
Voters: 112
View Poll Results: Did You Have a Winning Year in 2015
I had a winning 2015.................32 32.32%
I came close to even in 2015.......11 11.11%
I had a losing year in 2015..........50 50.51%
I don't want to know how I did.....6 6.06%
Voters: 99
View Poll Results: How did you do in 2014 ?
I had a winning 2014 !!!.............29 27.36%
I was close to even in 2014.........10 9.43%
I had a losing year in 2014..........61 57.55%
I don't want to know how I did.....6 5.66%
Voters: 106.
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02-28-2020, 09:59 PM
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I neglected to vote in the poll. Add one more vote to the "I don't keep records because I don't want to know how I did" department.
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02-28-2020, 10:14 PM
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Buckle Up
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 10,614
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thaskalos
I neglected to vote in the poll. Add one more vote to the "I don't keep records because I don't want to know how I did" department.
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Poll is still open for another 3 weeks....Just showing a snapshot from other years at same juncture.
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02-29-2020, 09:27 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NJ
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I think if we administered some truth serum to the responders, the 27% would be those who think they won because they don't keep records and don't want to know how they actually did.
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03-02-2020, 05:14 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by castaway01
I think if we administered some truth serum to the responders, the 27% would be those who think they won because they don't keep records and don't want to know how they actually did.
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Lol. Betfair keeps accurate records of my exchange bets.
I know I won in 2019 because my betfair records tell me that I did.
Allan
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03-02-2020, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2019
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The difference between a winning year and breaking even was basically Country House in the derby. I really only play turf sprints if I'm not playing the horizontals, and bettors have gotten much better at them over the last decade. You used to be able to find some nice overlays in big fields, but they're not there anymore
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03-02-2020, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 28,569
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Quote:
Originally Posted by castaway01
I think if we administered some truth serum to the responders, the 27% would be those who think they won because they don't keep records and don't want to know how they actually did.
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No doubt! Too bad the truth serum -- and the "winners" -- are no-where to be found.
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Last edited by thaskalos; 03-02-2020 at 11:53 AM.
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