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Inspired by Punter's Trixie thread (to be found here)...
http://www.betnod.com/threads/the-trixie-bet.2483/
...I'm going to do a few horse racing trixie bets, the first of which will be at Carlisle tomorrow. I hadn't planned it this way but all three are around the 5/2 mark. The annoying thing is that three different bookies currently have the best price on each of them and so I'm forced to leave my bets until tomorrow to put them on.
It actually gives me a good excuse to enlighten those who have never thought about this before but, rather than put a trixie on with one bookie, it would, more often than not, (if you have the time and inclination and if the races aren't too close together time-wise) pay to place the bets separately and take advantage of whichever bookie had the best price at the time.
The methodology is pretty obvious but I'll use tomorrow's "trixie" bet as a live example.
A trixie bet is three doubles and a treble to the same stakes, so you would make three selections and the stakes would be as follows:
£5 on the double, selection A and selection B
£5 double A and C
£5 double B and C
£5 treble A B and C
Now, personally, I've never understood why anyone would want to put the same stake on the treble as they have on the doubles, given that there is obviously less chance of it winning and, if it does, you already have a decent profit with your three doubles anyway. I'd much rather split my stakes into 3 x £6 doubles and a £2 treble in the knowledge that a steady supply of doubles will bring in a steady profit rather than relying on hitting the treble (but that's just me).
Anyway, supposing we were putting on the level stake £5 trixie, and race A is off at 2pm, B at 3pm and C at 4pm, the initial bets would have to be placed as follows.
Race A
£5 on the treble
£5 on double A and B
£5 on double A and C
So a total of £15 needs to be staked on horse A, plus £5 on horse B (or a £5 double if one individual bookie happens to be offering the best odds available on both).
If horse A fails, then it's just a matter of piling any winnings from horse B onto the third horse in the 4 oclock race but the other advantage of doing your bet this way is that you could choose to take some of your money back if horse A or B happened to win.
If horse A wins, a third of your returns go onto horse C and two thirds go onto horse B (1/3 for the double and 1/3 for the treble). Providing you don't want to withdraw a little bit first of course.
If horse B wins, you've dragged your double and you put the other half of your winnings onto horse C.
Simples (I hope - I've been watching the footy so I hope that makes sense)
http://www.betnod.com/threads/the-trixie-bet.2483/
...I'm going to do a few horse racing trixie bets, the first of which will be at Carlisle tomorrow. I hadn't planned it this way but all three are around the 5/2 mark. The annoying thing is that three different bookies currently have the best price on each of them and so I'm forced to leave my bets until tomorrow to put them on.
It actually gives me a good excuse to enlighten those who have never thought about this before but, rather than put a trixie on with one bookie, it would, more often than not, (if you have the time and inclination and if the races aren't too close together time-wise) pay to place the bets separately and take advantage of whichever bookie had the best price at the time.
The methodology is pretty obvious but I'll use tomorrow's "trixie" bet as a live example.
A trixie bet is three doubles and a treble to the same stakes, so you would make three selections and the stakes would be as follows:
£5 on the double, selection A and selection B
£5 double A and C
£5 double B and C
£5 treble A B and C
Now, personally, I've never understood why anyone would want to put the same stake on the treble as they have on the doubles, given that there is obviously less chance of it winning and, if it does, you already have a decent profit with your three doubles anyway. I'd much rather split my stakes into 3 x £6 doubles and a £2 treble in the knowledge that a steady supply of doubles will bring in a steady profit rather than relying on hitting the treble (but that's just me).
Anyway, supposing we were putting on the level stake £5 trixie, and race A is off at 2pm, B at 3pm and C at 4pm, the initial bets would have to be placed as follows.
Race A
£5 on the treble
£5 on double A and B
£5 on double A and C
So a total of £15 needs to be staked on horse A, plus £5 on horse B (or a £5 double if one individual bookie happens to be offering the best odds available on both).
If horse A fails, then it's just a matter of piling any winnings from horse B onto the third horse in the 4 oclock race but the other advantage of doing your bet this way is that you could choose to take some of your money back if horse A or B happened to win.
If horse A wins, a third of your returns go onto horse C and two thirds go onto horse B (1/3 for the double and 1/3 for the treble). Providing you don't want to withdraw a little bit first of course.
If horse B wins, you've dragged your double and you put the other half of your winnings onto horse C.
Simples (I hope - I've been watching the footy so I hope that makes sense)
Do you keep a tally of what the singles returns would be from your winners compared to theirs? Surely anyone would be able to see the logic in that. Focusing on trying to pick winners at any price encourages people to just go for favourites in my experience.
and watching "Sharp" on youtube. I've tried my best to explain forum life to them but this is beyond their computer literacy skills . This is what I'm working with but we do make a profit , have some good banter on Fridays and Sundays. 
. C'est la vie.
