Bridge Jumpers get nailed at Aqueduct

[whodey17]

Race 1 Payoffs

1st 3-Fancy Runner $16.40 $9.90 $20.40
2nd 5-Fit Faze - $17.40 $45.20
3rd 2-High Stakes Holdem - - $32.80

The entry was 2/5 and took a boatload in the place and show pools. The place pool was $43,034 and $28,263 was wagered on the 1. The show pool was $78,338 and $70,244 was wagered on the 1.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by whodey17

Race 1 Payoffs

1st 3-Fancy Runner $16.40 $9.90 $20.40
2nd 5-Fit Faze - $17.40 $45.20
3rd 2-High Stakes Holdem - - $32.80

The entry was 2/5 and took a boatload in the place and show pools. The place pool was $43,034 and $28,263 was wagered on the 1. The show pool was $78,338 and $70,244 was wagered on the 1.

It never gets old -- I love it every time.

[whodey17]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

It never gets old -- I love it every time.

You are so right....it never gets old. It is like that one joke that always make you laugh no matter how many times you have heard it and no matter how old it is.

[fpsoxfan]

Wow...That's awesome! The Bridge Jumpers are flying!!!
And you are right..it never gets old.

[sumitas]

Good catch. This is always a mind bender, lol.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Not often you see "jumpers" in a "cheaper" race like that...kudos to the winning trainer/jockey combo...which was the same!

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

How about that Grand Slam payout too!

[Indian Charlie]

you guys love it when someone loses multiple tens of thousands of dollars?

y'all would probably make good prison guards.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

you guys love it when someone loses multiple tens of thousands of dollars?

y'all would probably make good prison guards.

On a sucker bet? You better believe it.

I'd laugh just as hard if someone took 10000-1 odds for $100,000 that a nuclear holocaust would terminate the world by Friday.

I have no shame in enjoying watching a cop-out sucker bet make someone lose money.

Does that make me mean?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

On a sucker bet? You better believe it.

I'd laugh just as hard if someone took 10000-1 odds for $100,000 that a nuclear holocaust would terminate the world by Friday.

I have no shame in enjoying watching a cop-out sucker bet make someone lose money.

Does that make me mean?

that would be like laughing at someone who lost 100k in the stock market.
pathetic? yes it is
sad? yep
playing the stock market a suckers game? gosh darned it, yes! (can i use the word hell here?)

a source of amusement? i dont know about that one.

did you hear the one about the lil ol granny who got run over by an earth mover while crossing the street?

now that was funny!

[Fuofa]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

did you hear the one about the lil ol granny who got run over by an earth mover while crossing the street?

now that was funny!

Do you have any photos?

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

that would be like laughing at someone who lost 100k in the stock market.
pathetic? yes it is
sad? yep
playing the stock market a suckers game? gosh darned it, yes! (can i use the word hell here?)

a source of amusement? i dont know about that one.

did you hear the one about the lil ol granny who got run over by an earth mover while crossing the street?

now that was funny!

I guess I just don't see the comparison between losing 50K on a sucker show bet and an old woman dying.

They aren't really in the same universe as far as bad analogies go.

[SentToStud]

Thankfully it happened in New York. At least the poor schnook gets to choose from a lot of bridges. Anyone who chases $2.10 deserves whatever they get.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

Thankfully it happened in New York. At least the poor schnook gets to choose from a lot of bridges. Anyone who chases $2.10 deserves whatever they get.

We had the same thread on here a month ago and i got bashed for calling it a chickenshit bet. Glad to know someone is laughing with me.

[Danzig]

i would think if someone dropped 50k on a bet, they could afford to lose it. hell, maybe one day they'll look back and laugh too.

or maybe not

[jman5581]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i would think if someone dropped 50k on a bet, they could afford to lose it. hell, maybe one day they'll look back and laugh too.

or maybe not

just maybe... probably the donald using his phone a bet account.

[Indian Charlie]

while it's human nature to laugh at the misfortune of others, i think it's useful to draw a line somewhere.

the reason, spenser, that the analogy isnt a bad one was that it was meant to show how ridiculous you are, laughing at a rather severe misfortune somebody just went through.

maybe losing 50k isnt a big deal to people on this board, but i wouldnt assume that for the person who did lose it.

oh, maybe this is an analogy you'll understand better. do you laugh at people, who out of some messed up desperation in their life, spend $100's a week on the lottery that they really cannot afford? No? Why not? It's the ultimate sucker bet and is really much worse than any bet you can make in horse racing.


why even the need to laugh at someone that loses, period? you are probably one of those people that when their horse is obviously going to lose, will route against his friends horse from winning.

misery loves company is alive and well.

as to the person who wanted me to complete the old lady joke...

this lady was crossing the street from her old age home. she got all dolled up in her best moth ball smelling dress from the 40's. she had her requisite 2 gallons of old lady perfume on, and she even had her dentures polished for this rare outing.

anyways, she got to the point where she was about halfway across the road, but because her walker wasnt motorized, it took her several hours to cross the street. finally, some half drunk NASCAR fan who was driving the earth mover vehicle had had enough.

so, he put out his marlboro, put some garth brooks (I hope i've not offended anyone by invoking garth's name) tune on, put a piece of straw in his mouth, and decided to punch the gas with a loud yee haw yell!!

the punchline? she was crossing the street to pick up her social security check!!!! talk about a sucker!!!

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

while it's human nature to laugh at the misfortune of others, i think it's useful to draw a line somewhere.

the reason, spenser, that the analogy isnt a bad one was that it was meant to show how ridiculous you are, laughing at a rather severe misfortune somebody just went through.

maybe losing 50k isnt a big deal to people on this board, but i wouldnt assume that for the person who did lose it.

oh, maybe this is an analogy you'll understand better. do you laugh at people, who out of some messed up desperation in their life, spend $100's a week on the lottery that they really cannot afford? No? Why not? It's the ultimate sucker bet and is really much worse than any bet you can make in horse racing.


why even the need to laugh at someone that loses, period? you are probably one of those people that when their horse is obviously going to lose, will route against his friends horse from winning.

misery loves company is alive and well.

as to the person who wanted me to complete the old lady joke...

this lady was crossing the street from her old age home. she got all dolled up in her best moth ball smelling dress from the 40's. she had her requisite 2 gallons of old lady perfume on, and she even had her dentures polished for this rare outing.

anyways, she got to the point where she was about halfway across the road, but because her walker wasnt motorized, it took her several hours to cross the street. finally, some half drunk NASCAR fan who was driving the earth mover vehicle had had enough.

so, he put out his marlboro, put some garth brooks (I hope i've not offended anyone by invoking garth's name) tune on, put a piece of straw in his mouth, and decided to punch the gas with a loud yee haw yell!!

the punchline? she was crossing the street to pick up her social security check!!!! talk about a sucker!!!

well that was a good one for character judgments: "you are probably one of those people that when their horse is obviously going to lose, will route against his friends horse from winning."

I'm sure personal judgments are your forté, as illustrated here, but you're way way off. Of course, the fact that you're totally wrong means nothing when you just want to take a jab, so I'll give you that one.

Why is it severe misfortune, if someone was willing to pony up 50K or so on a bet that relied on an animal, that even if successful paid five cents on the dollar? That has nothing to do with me being a bad person for laughing at misfortune, that has to do with people making shitty sucker bets and losing. They get what they deserve. Someone bridge jumping has to win in the vicinity of 19 out of 20 of their ridiculous wagers in order to just break even. Please find me one bet on an animal that is a good bet at 1-20 odds to come through 19 out of 20 times. Really, please do, since I'm sure it would go a long way in proving your point that I'm a worthless human being who is only out to goad others for their misfortune.

Nope, you're pretty much without a case here, other than trying to prove your point that you don't like me. Well done there, bucko.

And your analogy still sucks, fyi. Misfortune that one brings on themself (wagering thousands of dollars on a 1-20 proposition involving an animal) vs. one they don't bring on themself (getting hit by a car) are in two totally different ballparks on two totally different planets and still, several posts later, have nothing to do with one another.

But all the same -- thinking a bridge-jumper gets what they deserve = I'm a bad person.

You got it. You can have that one if you want to.

Now I know what that one poster said about how he mentioned it several weeks ago and got chided for it. A sucker bet is a sucker bet, no matter how much it gets projected onto the person calling it out. Still a bunch of ho-hum nonsense IC.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

We had the same thread on here a month ago and i got bashed for calling it a chickenshit bet. Glad to know someone is laughing with me.

I'm well on my way. Proud to be on the team.

[jman5581]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Someone bridge jumping has to win in the vicinity of 19 out of 20 of their ridiculous wagers in order to just break even.

You guys should pay attention to my show parlay thread

Look at some of the show payouts on favorites from today... Basically, 6 consecutive show picks on small fields over the past couple days has resulted in over 250% return. I know, I know, you can just bet a 5/2 to win....

Would we laugh at the guy if he bet to show on 5 horse fields 6 consecutive times and tripled his money?

How do you know he's not a horseplayer who just won the powerball and decided to make a "bridge jumper" bet just for the hell of it?