Slots are in at Gulfstream

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

No, it wasn't a particularly " fast " race. The only race he ran in, that he finished, where he may have run worse was the Holy Bull, which was in the mud.

I'm sorry, which race do you think he ran that was so much worse? To me he was a better turf horse than dirt horse, and relatively speaking his 2YO turf races were more impressive than his Florida Derby win and, and feel free to disagree with this, I thought his Kentucky Derby was better than his Florida Derby. You know, he only ran a total of seven races.

Fair enough, btwind. I'll just say I'm skeptical of attempts to label a race as 'not trying' or 'toying with competition'. I realize you are not saying either of those. As far as "fast", I thought the BSF compared well with Barbaro's other races, but I could be remembering that wrong.

I actually started reading this thread because of the "slots are in at Gulfstream" title, before getting distracted by mention of one of my fav current horses, Sharp Humor.

The savvy folks at vpFREE (a Yahoo group focussed on video poker) have looked at the Gulfstream video poker offerings and pronounced them "terrible". The payoff tables are apparently extremely poor from the players' perspective. This isn't too surprising--it's what often happens when there is little competition. The average gambler will lose at a rate 2-4% faster than they would in many Las Vegas or Atlantic City casinos. That fig is for video poker, but I suspect the same holds true for the mindless slots, too.

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