I think that some don't realize that this may be a benefit going forward. The next time one of these pools gets huge and gets close to a mandatory payout day there will probably be a few whales like the winner or groups that are going to dump a play like this into the day before the payout thinking they can do the same thing. Maybe even a few others will do it two days before or three days before, all of whom are much more likely to either miss or cancel each other out by not being the unique ticket holder.
People should not forget that there were five other horses in the race that would have carried the pot to Monday, two of whom almost beat this wager on the wire. The bet and that $15K would not have looked so great if one of those other two won the bob.
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