statuette Wrote:
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> Reminds me of nyc otb

NYC OTB was way way way way better than NYRA and NYRA Bets are. Not even a close call.

I just put in my self-exclusion at NYRA Bets and I also plan to skip playing horizontal bets at NYRA tracks. I was fortunate enough to be able to cancel my bet today, but it really was dodging a bullet.

How can you make horizontal bets when they can make an announcement with no warning 90 seconds before the pool closes with major impact on your bet? How can you wager when they have the ability to change the rules after the bet has started? If I were to bet with them again and got stung by something like this happening, I would have nobody to blame but myself.

PUBLIC SERVICE WARNING - you are putting yourself at extreme danger if you bet horizontally at NYRA. Once you put your money in their pool, you are at extreme risk of banana republic shenanigans going on and you may not be able to react in time to cancel your bet.

BTW, the people who suffered the worst beat here are the guys who put in two sets of bets (on turf and off turf) and on hearing the announcement that they were off turf cancelled their on turf bets. If you did that, you played it perfectly right and then when the changed the rules to make the off the turf races ALL WIN you got totally and completely screwed. I was not in that group, but those guys got totally burned.