Boscar Obarra Wrote:
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> I'll add that screwy underlaid payoffs are more
> common than is generally believed, it's just that
> they seldom win and are invisible to all but a few
> of us tote watching degenerates.


Paolo Wrote:
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> Yep, including the pick-4 ending with the Haskell.
> From memory, with less than 10 minutes to post,
> Untapable was even money in the win pool but the
> P4 will-pay was about $1400. Social Inclusion was
> at 12-1 to win, but he was the clear 2nd choice in
> the P4 pool at about $2000. Late money on SI to
> win brought his final odds down to $6.8-1, and
> Untapable went up to $1.4-1; but that is still
> well out of whack with the P4 where his payoff was
> only about 1.5 times that of the chalk.


Wait.

Do the win odds correlate *more often* with the exotics?
Or less?

I still think some of you guys took shows like The X-Files
too seriously; weird payoffs happen. There's nothing "out there".