ROI Results 3/15 @ Colonial

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by Real Quiet

Hi JB. It's better to get it right. Even after I read your post it took me a while to really "get it". I'll change your scoring and update your winnings. All and all that was a nice wager you made with limited combinations available, Virginia Derby excluded. Nicely played. PS..................scoring "Grand Slams" are even worse and one thing is for sure, I'm not afraid to ask for help!

Thanks for making the change. The tracks have a great advantage - their computers are programmed to calculate payoffs like those; doing it by hand is no fun.

In a way it is fortunate that I didn't hit the Virginia Derby as well - there would have been a boatload of consos on that ticket. It took me a long time to recognize that any time you hit a pick 6 using multiple horses on your ticket, you will also have a large number of combinations in which you have hit 5 out of 6. One can see this more clearly if instead of 1 ticket with 96 possible combinations (2 x 2 x 3 x 2 x 2 x 2) you can visualize 96 different tickets, each of which has one attempt at a pick 6. Of those 96 tickets, one will have all 6 correct and a large number will have 5 out of 6. I don't recommend that anyone actually try this on paper.