The Guy That Was Always Right

Quote: FleaStiff

The best are the ones at the race track who always have a winning ticket but who only bet two dollars so that this oft-feared "they" will not notice his technique for consistently picking winners. Then one day he needs a huge amount of cash for an operation and offers to sell you his system.


Of course he simply has a ticket for each horse in the race and that is how he can always produce a winning ticket.

Often you notice the times that craps-talker is winning and don't really notice when he happens to be wrong. He only needs a few times to be right in quick succession and all around him are convinced.

I thought I was the targeted victim of this scam about a month ago. My buddy and I stopped at a OTB just for a second, and we were next to a fairly normal looking young man. We just wanted to see one race at Charles Town. When it ended with the 60-1 longshot winning, the guy was like "I think I just won!" I rolled my eyes, thinking, "Okay, here we go..." He says: "I just liked the name so I put 50 bucks on #10 to win...I've never been here before!" Sure enough, I glance down at the ticket, and it's CTown, the right date, the right race, the right horse, and $50 to win. I think the win payoff was something like $127 so he won over $3000. I told him how much he won, and he had no comprehension. He didn't even know the odds when he bet on the horse. I asked him why he bet so much, and he said he just saw this one horse's name and wanted to make a bet. Now he was pretty nervous and I told him to make sure he had his Driver's License and Tax information...

Quote: RaleighCraps

... I don't think you have said " par - lay" yet? Your bet was parlayed, but not of your doings....... ;-)

That was indeed the case. My hardway bets are almost always $1, or occasionally $2 -- that's about what I'm willing to risk on a throw-away. There have, I assure you, been a number of times when I have parlayed a hardway, and (naturally) a much smaller number of times when the intentional parlay has hit. More recently, I have taken to pressing some of the successful $1 or $2 hardways to $5, then to $10 if they hit a second time. I feel I ought to take just a little of the winnings if an irrational bet comes in. ;-)