Bookmaker WTF??????

sharpcat · 04-26-10, 10:05 AM

Well I contacted Bookmaker and let them know about the scratch lets see if they take the line down

I would suspect that this was just an error that went unnoticed being that bookmaker is a solid A+ book.

KingKolzig · 04-26-10, 10:36 AM

take the other top favs before you contact them

my other theory is horse futures are such a bad value it doesnt matter that eskenereya was scratched cause some punk horse from nowhere will swoop in and win

KingKolzig · 04-26-10, 10:37 AM

i took 5 of the top 7 horses and i expect to lose anyways

sharpcat · 04-26-10, 11:12 AM

I won't touch them for this reason, if your horse gets scratched you lose not to mention 2-1 on Eskendereya is no different than the odds you would get at post time. I can't remember a Kentucky derby where the track fav has gone off anything less than 2-1, its actually likely that people will realize the value in the other horses in this crap shoot bet them and he will close at 7/2.

sharpcat · 04-26-10, 05:52 PM

8 hours later and they are still taking "if horse starts or not" bets on a horse who is a definite to not race.

Bookmaker loses some major points in my book here, this is shady

pokernut9999 · 04-26-10, 05:57 PM

The Derby is the hardest race to pick a winner period.

sharpcat · 04-26-10, 06:01 PM

Especially when Bookmaker is offering you a bet that you have 0% chance of winning

sharpcat · 04-26-10, 06:03 PM

It is hard for your horse to win when he was scratched from the race a week before the race started

This is messed up on Bookmakers part accepting bets that are guaranteed to lose.

pokernut9999 · 04-26-10, 06:09 PM

And the bad part is people will bet it