18th June 2006, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by crash
Average it out at the end of the week and it is a bit of a con job for the smallish punter [they are 99% of the customers]. The $ difference is pathetic and absolute peanuts when considering an overall small weekly profit or loss % of turnover for a 12mth. period.
Some on-line agencies pay best of 3 totes on Saturdays [only] for very good reasons and they are because Saturday is the only day of the week where big[ish] differences over 3 totes is a very rare thing indeed. It's amazing how even most prices over the 3 totes are on Sat. compared to during the rest of the week. That is simply because the larger the pools, the smaller the tote differences and the biggest pools are of course on Sat. :-))Cheers.
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Each to their own I suppose Crash, but what you've stated is not absolutely correct. I backed two winners for small amounts yesterday with a well known 'best tote' corporate bookie & got $25 about a horse whose best fluc was $17 - a lone leader method of mine that throws up some good priced winners - Jaunty Lad in Perth - & Dawson's Road in the jumper's flat @ Sandown which paid $8.30 when the best fluc was $7.00.
There are heaps of similar pay-outs week in, week out & I read somewhere that overall the punter, even those betting for small amounts, are better off by about 5% long-term using the 'best tote' option. That can add up to a considerable amount over a year. depending on the number of bets of course.
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