Old School Betting

Posted on February 20, 2013 at 09:57:49 PM by gananja

I'm 40, so even when I was going to Dania as a kid with my folks, they had the machine betting totes there. Just curious if anyone knows how the betting was handled in the previous generation (punch slips?). I'm sure that computers were in play even in the 60's and 70's to calculate the betting pools and payouts, but how was this handled back in the 30's and 40's? Seems like Miami would need more than 8 minutes between posts to manually tabulate all of the bets... Any insight would be helpful!

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My rule was ... - By Tiger February 21, 2013 at 10:14:00 AM
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Re(3): My rule was ... - By ctshermaneos February 21, 2013 at 03:13:45 PM
Re(1): Old School Betting - By yezik18 February 21, 2013 at 09:58:07 AM
Re(1): Old School Betting - By Jim February 21, 2013 at 01:34:29 AM
Re(1): Old School Betting - By TR February 20, 2013 at 11:01:39 PM
Re(2): Old School Betting - By Doug373 February 20, 2013 at 11:45:27 PM
Re(3): Old School Betting - By BornInMiami February 21, 2013 at 04:12:18 AM
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