Re: Math Question on Pick 4 at Oaklawn (556 Views)

BitPlayer Wrote:
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> By my math, there were only $2.50 in winning
> tickets. A single ticket scooping the pool would
> only have gotten $105,077.

the 50 cent parlay would have been $44,442 -- so getting the whole pool or splitting it amongst two winning tickets would have still paid better than the parlay. I guess that is the thing -- when you are talking about was it 2,3,4,or 5 tickets that hit -- that is such a small difference with a huge impact and that is the variance that explains the wide discrepancies.