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Originally Posted by jms62
Is it written anywhere that the Guarantee is based upon full fields? And what defines a "full field" ? What about the player that put in his ticket before the card started and then took the family out to dinner? They should have cancelled the card.
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I doubt it's written anywhere but it should be. It's not so much about what defines a full field it's about the expectation going into the days card that the races would be run on the scheduled surface and in two of the races the fields were cut in half. It's not like they waited until 10 minutes to post time to withdraw the guarantee. It was an abberation that occured.
My issue isn't that they withdrew the guarantee but that the guarantee itself is somewhat deceptive to unknowledgeable players who may believe added money will increase the payout. Takeout reduction increases the payout not these phony guarantees.
The guy who took his family to dinner would have a legitimate complaint if he wagered prior to the scratches, cashed the p-4 and the pool only reached 500 k.Using yesterday's results and assuming for a moment there was only 500k wagered he would be entitled to the difference between the actual payoff and ($76,000/number of winning tickets), in this case roughly $39 above the actual payoff of $259. A 10% reduction in takeout would have increased the payoff by $34.