Re: Illinois Racing (463 Views)
Posted by:
PapaChach (IP Logged)
Date: July 08, 2015 11:15AM
Similar experience w/my brother back in the day. He was having good success betting football, mostly the college game, but seeing me occasionally turn small-ish bets into good payouts while he was grinding it out laying 110 to win 100 enticed him into giving racing a try.
Alas, the combo of the learning curve and the rake turned him off to racing. He told me that while even the worst football bettors he knew at least had the positive reinforcement of hitting games with relative frequency, a racing newbie can go forever and a day without so much as cashing a ticket. In fact, I had a friend in college who came up for Saratoga one Friday during the meet and proceeded take the collar on the 27 races he bet that weekend. Not surprisingly, he never developed a big interest in the game after that....