Need Another Reason to Hate "Single Ticket" Jackpot Bets?

[NoLuvForPletch]

It’s not in a Pick 3. It is is a Pick 4/5/6 from what I recall. I only know this because I had the Pick 4 the year Golden Ticket and Alpha Dead Heated in the Travers. I had Golden Ticket at like 30-1 and when the payouts were posted I went nuts. After reading the rules of NYRA, I drank a lot of beer and moved on.

[herkhorse]

Originally Posted by NoLuvForPletch

It’s not in a Pick 3. It is is a Pick 4/5/6 from what I recall. I only know this because I had the Pick 4 the year Golden Ticket and Alpha Dead Heated in the Travers. I had Golden Ticket at like 30-1 and when the payouts were posted I went nuts. After reading the rules of NYRA, I drank a lot of beer and moved on.

Pick 3's paid the same in yesterdays dead heat at Fonner.

[NTamm1215]

I'm really surprised anyone thinks the track did the right thing in this situation. So a guy makes ONE ticket which contains every winner, including in a race where there was a dead heat, and he should not receive the jackpot because there are technically two winners of one leg? That just doesn't work in my opinion.

There need to be provisions in these bets where you still get the jackpot in this scenario, as well as when you have a scratch that forces you into the favorite who you already had, thus giving you two winners in a leg. Obviously those rules only apply when there are no other winning tickets amongst the bettors in the pool, just as was the case here.

It seems pretty clear to me Remington is willing to do whatever necessary to keep their pool growing, knowing there's a chance during a time where competition is minimal (or non-existent some evenings) that they can see a nice handle boost on payout night.

[herkhorse]

If there were no jackpot involved, the guy would be bragging that he hit it twice.