Hmm no wonder I lose even on place. Pretty much every dog I chose has a great start then run off course because of another dog.

Mr J,
Online books will let you have any amount on the dogs BUT they only pay tote odds (normally Home State).
You could have $5000 on a dog with IAS but you can be sure that IAS will lay off on the tote ensuring that the dog will pay $1.05 at best.
When I first started betting with online books, I got caught out on a quinella. I liked two dogs at Angle Park and took a quinella for $200. the dogs duly ran 1st and 2nd. The winner paid $7.20, the second dog was showing $6.00 for the win so you would expect the quinella to pay a bit more than $2.70!!! No doubt the book backed the quinella back on the relevant tote.
Practically, you can only bet small with online books otherwise the above will happen. I normally spread the action over the three totes and the three online books.

How small, $500???

If I just used a couple of online accounts, what I be giving up much in the way of odds?

Mr J, you're up late. :wink:

I'm just curious, how many bets will you make today? I know it's a random question but I'm interested (after hearing you make thousands of bets annually).

I'm always up :wink: well not from around 4-5am till noon.

Around 7-8 today. A few of those are NFL bets though. October is pretty quiet.