October
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The conceptual degradation of the spirit of racing (and the assessed intellect of punters) continues apace with a new TAB bet-type (Odds vs Evens) allowing punters to be on whether the TAB numbers of the first two horses home in a given race will be both odd, both even or split.
It’s a similar concept to two-up, where punters bet on heads, tails or odds, with probabilities of 25, 25 and 50 per cent respectively.
In the case of Odds vs Evens, the probabilities will be affected by each horse’s odds, as well as whether there is an odd or even number of horses in the field.
For many punters wanting a flutter among friends over a beer at the club, the question becomes an intelligence test — leave the table to place a taxed bet or just convert the idea to a game of visual two-up (and take away any “zero” on the wheel with a simple agreement to let dead-heated bets stand for the next race).
With any luck the idea of keeping the money on the table will catch on, even though the takeout for the new bet type is just seven per cent — less than half that for any other racing bet type.
One might also wonder what is happening in Racing NSW’s Druitt Street bunker if the admins think this new bet type will deliver more money for racing.
Windang (NSW)