The track is a pool and it depends upon the size of the pool and the number of winning tickets...but you must know this. Consequently you cannot estimate the payout. Obviously it will be greater for less likely results but in a situation where the number of winning tickets averages, say 20, a chance reduction of winners to 10 would double what could already be a very large payout.
The answer is to play at a book that pays exactly the same as the track.
The answer is to play at a book that pays exactly the same as the track.
its always funny trying to describe horse racing bets and payoffs to people who dont understand it. They think you can win any amount of money on any given race. Like the earlier post says, there is a pool of money that was bet into that race, you can only win what money is in that pool. That being said, you will get a bigger payoff playing at a big track that gets lots of action.....like...belmont, santa anita, churchill...etc. So a trifecta with the same odds on the horses will pay much different at a bigger track than at a dump like Great Lakes Downs.
