There was an interesting article recently in DRF which had Steven Crist taking on the question of whether a player should focus on multi-race gimmicks (DD, P3, P4) or single race gimmicks (Ex, Tri, Super). His conclusion was basically that it depends on your style of play, which I'm sure is true enough. However, in thinking about this a bit more, it strikes me that many serious players I know concentrate on the multi-race gimmicks, while whenever I look around the track or notice what people are betting next to me the more amateur-type players seem to be playing only the single-race gimmicks. Think about it, is the casual player going to go through the trouble of handicapping 3 or 4 races at a time, getting changes, structuring a bet, etc...? Personally I love the pick 3's and pick 4's, but for the reasons above it seems to me there is more of an edge available in the exacta, tri and super. Curious as to how other TG users feel about this dilemma.

marc