Why must the P6 be a $2 wager?

[Thunder Gulch]

Go smoke yourself you bitter sob and let me worry about the handicapping

[SniperSB23]

It makes sense on normal days to create carryover situations. On big racing days with no carryovers and a big minimum guaranteed pool they should offer it for 50 cents or a dollar. Pimlico did this on Preakness Day.

[ShadowRoll]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

It makes sense on normal days to create carryover situations. On big racing days with no carryovers and a big minimum guaranteed pool they should offer it for 50 cents or a dollar. Pimlico did this on Preakness Day.

Good point, and makes a lot of sense. But this presumes that track management actually gives two sh*ts about what the average bettor wants.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by ShadowRoll

Good point, and makes a lot of sense. But this presumes that track management actually gives two sh*ts about what the average bettor wants.

Ultimately if they get some smaller players playing them for 50 cents on big days they will get more comfortable with the bets and suddenly find themselves playing for 2 dollars on normal days. It isn't like there is going to be a carryover on Traver's Day or JCGC day the majority of the time regardless of the minimum.

[Travis Stone]

The big question is: If the P6 dropped down to a $1 minimum, would handle go up? And if so, would the pools of the other wagers suffer?

[jwkniska]

Personally, if they lowered the bet to $1 or 50 cents, I know I'd play it more often and it would be additional to what I normally play.

I absolutely love playing the pick 4's at Keeneland since they lowered to 50 cents... and with the polytrack, they still pay good too.

[unassailable08]

What the hell is a sob.

thank u for whoever got that.

Steven Crist in his book Exotic Betting made a good point that it deserves to have a 2 dollar minimum b/c of the carryovers make the track more money than there would if there were a 50 cent minimum.