2006-12-21 16:19:58 · 6 answers · asked by 13baseball31 1 in Sports ➔ Horse Racing
Great point on the tax benefit guys. I enjoy playing the dimes because of the limited budget I am usually on. I understand some people don't like it because there are fewer big tickets but with it being so cheap to play it makes multiple hits easier. The best I ever hit was at a local dog track I hit a dime four times that paid just over $300 each ticket. The best I have ever had on horses was a single hit for $250.
2006-12-22 03:20:28 · update #1
I dabble with the dime superfectas, and I have to say that I don't like them at all because they water down the pools, and you don't usually get as much if you were to play $1 keys or boxes in the same races as the tracks with the dime supers.
Truthfully, there's no real way to test this theory, as I don't know when each track individually instituted the dime bets, but in 9 times out of 10, I'm sure the bettors will say why did they waste their time to win a superfecta for $9.54 or something like that.
I am hoping that these dime tracks realize what a waste of time these bets are and remove them from their betting options.
2006-12-21 18:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by joey_blue_eyez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I enjoy playing them from time to time. It gives you the opportunity to play several combinations for a small investment. The smallest one I've ever hit was $2.80, the largest was $132. It also provides a great tax benefit, earlier this year I won a $1 superfecta at Keeneland for $1485 for which I'll have to pay taxes on. The bet I made that day was a $1 superfecta key that had cost $6, if I had bet the 10 cent superfecta 10 times I would have had 10 winning tickets at $148.50 each and would be exempt from having to pay the tax .
Additional Comment: For those that think the 10 cent superfecta doesn't really pay that much, the one in last night's 9th race at Turfway Park paid $16,907.94.
2006-12-22 02:40:01 · answer #2 · answered by thecoochieman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, I like them a lot. I'm usually gambling on a pretty small margin, so they give you a lot of bet for not much money. I hit one at Hollywood Park this fall for over $100, I had the first two horses boxed and I just took the rest of the field to show and come in 4th. Cost about $5.40 or so; if I'd have been wagering at a dollar, I'd have had to jetison some of the horses in the bottom 2 positions and probably would've missed the 45-1 bomb in 3rd. I also boxed 4 in the last race on a night when I kept just missing in the middle races after winning early--I figured the $2.40 I stood to lose was a drop in the bucket after all I'd lost, and the $43 I made on that rsimple bet turned the evening into a mildly profitable one rather than a loser.
2006-12-22 03:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by Edward K 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love them. My friends at the track call me "King of the 10 cent supers." In the past year I've hit at least 3 that payed over $1000.00 for a dime and another that was $800.00 and change. The downside is that I've been nosed out of 4th on several that payed even bigger. The payoffs can be weird. I won one with a 40-1 on the top and only got $200.00 while another that went 5-1 to 18-1 to 3/5 favorite to 50-1 came back $1100.00. All of the big ones I've hit were on harness races. Thoroughbreds are much harder to hit(at least the big ones).
2006-12-22 08:18:59 · answer #4 · answered by k_silver67 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are great way to learn how to play them.
2006-12-23 04:54:09 · answer #5 · answered by simplydelicious 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2006-12-21 16:21:41 · answer #6 · answered by Fled Nanders 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋