No Dime Supers at NYRA on Fri. and Sat.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

When there are 100,000 people at any track it is a cluster****. Keeneland seems not to have a problem despite a crowded grandstand every Fri, Sat, and Sunday. Novices just box 3 or 4 numbers anyway. Does it take longer to say 1 dollar trifecta box 3/4/7 than it takes to say .10 super box 2/4/7/9 ? Your logic assumes that these people who dont know how to bet are going to be constructing elaborate tickets when most of the tourists will be betting 2 bucks across the board. It doesnt take any longer to call out ten cent supers as it does 1 dollar supers. Plus arent all you guys betting at the high dollar windows anyway?

it takes a very long time for the old lady and her purse that is arguing while digging for a dime.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

That simply doesnt happen.

How do you know? You're hobnobbing it with the croissant crowd anyway.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

How do you know? You're hobnobbing it with the croissant crowd anyway.

oh no you did not go there......

and for dime supers ..good..spend a few bucks cheap asses....

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

How do you know? You're hobnobbing it with the croissant crowd anyway.

I am a man of the people...

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

When there are 100,000 people at any track it is a cluster****. Keeneland seems not to have a problem despite a crowded grandstand every Fri, Sat, and Sunday. Novices just box 3 or 4 numbers anyway. Does it take longer to say 1 dollar trifecta box 3/4/7 than it takes to say .10 super box 2/4/7/9 ? Your logic assumes that these people who dont know how to bet are going to be constructing elaborate tickets when most of the tourists will be betting 2 bucks across the board. It doesnt take any longer to call out ten cent supers as it does 1 dollar supers. Plus arent all you guys betting at the high dollar windows anyway?

I was only at Keeneland one weekend but I actually found it the slowest track to place a wager at of any track I have been at outside of Derby Day. Oaks Day, Travers Day, Belmont Day, Preakness Day I've never had problems. Maybe they've added more machines in the past few years but they had a huge shortage of them when I was there that made for long lines at the tellers.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I've noticed it's not really the novices betting multiple 10 cent combos, the kind that could hold up a line. Rather, it's the everyday guys who are just broke. At least the last time I got real brave and went to OTB it was like that.

I once tied up a self serve machine for about 6 or 7 minutes playing them in a baby race at CD last year...and I got shut out finally.

It's obviously not going to be the people who never bet who can tie up a line with these things. Like Cannon said - they will box.

It's the bigger bettors who love a longshot, hate a favorite or two, and want to try and hit a big super 45 times for a dime and avoid signing.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I once tied up a self serve machine for about 6 or 7 minutes playing them in a baby race at CD last year...and I got shut out finally.

It's obviously not going to be the people who never bet who can tie up a line with these things. Like Cannon said - they will box.

It's the bigger bettors who love a longshot, hate a favorite or two, and want to try and hit a big super 45 times for a dime and avoid signing.

That is exactly what I do, I have stood at machines for 10 minutes before punching $1 P3's that I am playing 50 times. I can care less about the people behind me, they don't care about me.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Scav

That is exactly what I do, I have stood at machines for 10 minutes before punching $1 P3's that I am playing 50 times. I can care less about the people behind me, they don't care about me.

I probably screamed at you a few times in line before we met

[Scav]

Originally Posted by GBBob

I probably screamed at you a few times in line before we met

If someone is making bets while at the machine in a fluid manner, I have no problem with that, it was my fault for picking the wrong line, but if someone is handicapping while at the machine, well then is when I have some fun with the guy

And for the record, the new machines that Arlington has, have a serious response time when it comes to repeating tickets, alot better then the old version where you had to hit "Repeat Ticket" and then "Print Ticket", now you just hit Repeat Ticket and it keeps on going.....

[parsixfarms]

Will there be simulcasting at Belmont on Saturday? The NYRA website lists several tracks as "simulcast" tracks on June 7, but I don't recall simulcasting on prior Belmont Days when a Triple Crown was on the line.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Scav

That is exactly what I do, I have stood at machines for 10 minutes before punching $1 P3's that I am playing 50 times. I can care less about the people behind me, they don't care about me.

1995 at Keeneland, I was betting $1 tri key part wheels in a maiden race at a window. I was betting a lot, and after a few minutes the clerk said to me " Are you done yet? " I, of course ignored him, and kept firing away. A couple minutes later the guy says to me " you're done now. " That I didn't ignore. I kindly explained to him if he didn't keep punching my tickets the only one who was going to be " done now " was him. He kept punching.

As an aside....the winner of that race? Smart Strike.

My horse was fourth.

[justindew]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

1995 at Keeneland, I was betting $1 tri key part wheels in a maiden race at a window. I was betting a lot, and after a few minutes the clerk said to me " Are you done yet? " I, of course ignored him, and kept firing away. A couple minutes later the guy says to me " you're done now. " That I didn't ignore. I kindly explained to him if he didn't keep punching my tickets the only one who was going to be " done now " was him. He kept punching.

As an aside....the winner of that race? Smart Strike.

My horse was fourth.

I was a clerk at Keeneland in 1995.

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by Scav

And for the record, the new machines that Arlington has, have a serious response time when it comes to repeating tickets, alot better then the old version where you had to hit "Repeat Ticket" and then "Print Ticket", now you just hit Repeat Ticket and it keeps on going.....

I just discovered the "repeat ticket" button on the machines I use . . . crucial.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by justindew

I was a clerk at Keeneland in 1995.

The guy was a bit older than you.

I usually bet with the four women tellers on the second floor near the end of the grandstand in the last enclosed area.

[justindew]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

The guy was a bit older than you.

I usually bet with the four women tellers on the second floor near the end of the grandstand in the last enclosed area.

I know them. They all had a huge crush on you.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by justindew

I know them. They all had a huge crush on you.

Actually they did. They were great. I saw one of them in the suites a few years ago.

[justindew]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Actually they did. They were great. I saw one of them in the suites a few years ago.

The best part of being a clerk is that you don't need to bring money to the track to bet. And since I was in college at the time, money was scarce.

In the Fall 1996 meet at Keeneland, I bet $100 to win on Boston Harbor in whatever that BC Juvy prep was called back then. Of course I had no money to cover the bet if he lost, but after getting passed in mid-stretch by a horse whose name I don't remember, he re-rallied and won....at odds-on I think.

I almost had a heart attack.

Hey, I was 19. And I'm a child of divorce. I'm a victim.

[dylbert]

Heck, if dime supers are so evil. Let's get rid of reason I never use live seller. SHOW BETTORS! I miss days of old when show bettors had their own long lines and didn't clog cashier windows.