Ever make a $7000 mistake?

Long story short...

I wanted to bet the 11 High Fly yesterday in the Derby. Also saw a few others I liked at a couple other tracks. I had some business, so I made up a list and gave it, and the cash to an older guy who lives near me who goes to the track/otb religiously.

About 3:30 he calls me and ask me how I knew that horse was gonna win. I thought Baily had won (I didn't see the race) So I am like how much did he pay...20 bux? He is like, no he paid a hundred bux. Obviously I know that can't be right.

I say the 11 paid a hundred bux to win? He said no, the 10 did, that is the number you had written down.

So come to find out I wrote down 10 in the 10th rather than 11 in the 10th. One of those numerical slip ups. Obviously I would have been pissed had Baily won considering I had made such a "foolish" mistake. And thank God the guy didn't call me asking me if I really wanted the 10 in that race, after looking at the odds. But I am no chalk eater so he figured I must have some hunch or something. But obviously I would have changed it to the 11, whom I really wanted, if he HAD called.

So 100WP was quite a nice hit on that thing 7400 and change. Plus I had a couple other winners at Hollywood (correctly written) so it was a pretty nice day. The old man liked his tip I can tell you. I basically recouped everything he lost yesterday and a little bit for gas. Tough to do something like that and have the guy hand you a knot of money and not feel bad hearing how he got his ass kicked. BUt he is as honest as they come, and he will put bets in for me whenever I want. But it is usually when I have a tip on something so the tip is usually the payment he gets on betting the horse.

Just thought this covered the gammet. Especially after Shrink's question yesterday about holding a bet or playing. In this case I never would have been the wiser, but knowing this guy he would have told me. But also knowing this guy, he always puts the plays in regardless of how crazy they sound. And that is what you need from someone running bets for you.

Also as a side note... that super paid about 850K. There were 7 winning tickets who had that combination. My question is how the hell could anyone put those rats toegther like that? They weren't even all even numbers, which one might expect from guys playing huge tickets. But they were all DD numbers so that might explain one or two tickets. But 7?

Yes, when I got divorced.

On some days, I'm making more than 20 different bets. Mistakes inevitably happen, so.. I track those (as well as every other category of bets I make). A mistake could be betting the wrong side, or a data entry problem which makes a model pick the wrong side. For whatever reason, if I have a bet I shouldn't have had, it gets stuck in the "mistake bin".

The funny thing is... except for props, "mistakes" have the highest hold of any category! (a 30k winning mistake helps those numbers)

Wantitall4moi..

Usually you hear a story like that ,it's always that the guy had the winner and wrote a losing bet down
The old man must of been very happy that he got his losses back also.
Nice to hear...Congrats.

What a bonanza! Somebody must be looking after you boy.

"Ever make a $7000 mistake?"

Yeah, one ugly NFL Sunday afternoon :finger:

wantitall4moi said:

Also as a side note... that super paid about 850K. There were 7 winning tickets who had that combination. My question is how the hell could anyone put those rats toegther like that? They weren't even all even numbers, which one might expect from guys playing huge tickets. But they were all DD numbers so that might explain one or two tickets. But 7?

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The superfecta paid 1.7 million. Those 7 people had $1 box tickets. What they do is throw out most of the favs and hope to hit the lottery. They did.

Chuck, I think Afllet Alex was 9/2, that was second choice I think. So maybe someone wheeled him 1,2,3,4, in the super. That would explain one tick, then a couple guys boxing the DD PP numbers might get a couple more. And maybe the owner of Gaicomo wheeling his horse 1,2,3,4. That still leaves 3 other winners out there. Maybe someone betting their kids ages. But 7 tickets for that combination are hard to figure out. especially when you start considering hw much boxing and wheeling that many horses costs. Most degeenrate and even the fly by nighters are not going to be laying out 5 figure tickets on huge longshots or numbers like that.

Also as far as payout and amounts. Since most tracks have gone to the $1 amount for exotics, I simply call it as I see it. In the "old" days then ya $1.7 was the payout. But IMO tracks, writers, players use the higher number for hyperbole and hype to make it seem like any sap can win bug at the track. Since most players do no bet $2 exotic anymore, especially when they are using huge tickets, then I like to say it paid what it paid. But ya in true definition it paid $1.7 mil.