I want your opinion on this...

Originally Posted by pgardn

The beauty of the tote board. So many people think win odds are always indicative of other pools and they are not. So many people play exactas, you gotta keep up with the payoffs. Some exacta combinations are way overbet compared to what the win pool. Its also why so many other type of bets where one has no idea what the size of the pool can be pleasantly suprising, or absolutely dissappointing.

You are so correct. Plus you have no idea how many tickets there with the combination you have in relation to the pool. When I bet an exacta, I typically wait to last possible moment to make sure the exactas will pays make sense. I will never forget a time at Keeneland when Julie Krone was on a 5/2 shot and Willie Martinez was on a 2-1 shot in a 10 horse field and I looked at the exacta will pays and the Krone/Martinez combo paid $33 and the Martinez/Krone combo paid $20. I was like--HUH!!!!! Krone's horse was bet down from 6-1 so I went ahead and boxed them multiple times--the race came Krone/Martinez. I will never forget that.