As an example of what I mean by finding better value by switching
pools of venues let me relate my experience last night.
I was at Miami and having some success, now I like Dania, but
I find the distribution of talent at Dania to be a bit more evenly
weighted and therefore more difficult to handicap, particularly
for the trifecta, than Miami is. Since finding this board a few
days back I've noticed some posts by a fellow poster, Steve, who
was picking a couple of teams and then going rather big into the
Dania quinella and exacta pool. About the 10th game at Dania,
I noticed a team I liked in the 2 post, Ochoa and Iru, but found
the rest of the game to be fairly evenly weighted, so I took a
stab at the type of play I've seen Steve post on here, with a
nice return in the quinella. I noticed Cuvet had played very well
in the 10th but missed to board thanks to some incompetent play
by Lertuxndi and ran Cuvet back in the Quinella and Exacta pool
in the 11th game singles, again with nice returns (although I
cut down on my profit margin by covering a few quinella comibinations
with Urkidi from the 1 as I find that a strong 1 post in singles
is too dangerous to leave uncovered.) Now had I been betting trifectas
in the 10th game, I'd have likely missed altogether, and while
I would have hit in the 11th, Id have seen a much smaller profit
margin as the 4-2-5 combination came back unusually short. The
one night success of betting this way may have been a good sign
of a smart system, or it may have just been good luck, I dont
know. So I'm wondering if any of the posters have an opinion where
the best value pools are particularly as it concerns Dania and
Miami. I for one wept at the passing of Milford as the 3 dollar
trifecta base there made for a great trifecta value pool.
