10-cent superfectas

**MadTiger** · 08-04-09, 02:39 PM

They are nice. Well, they can be nice. Don't try to buy up the super when it won't pay well.

If you have a race where your top selections are going off at odds of 3-1 or more, than playing a ten-cent superfecta partial wheel can be profitable.

Attached are some example wheels I downloaded for reference:

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**odtw524** · 08-04-09, 11:45 PM

i agree with mad tiger if the odds are anymore favorable then that its not even worth your time to bet a a 10 cent super to win 10 to 15 dollars

**floridagolfer** · 08-05-09, 06:26 AM

No, you're right, that kind of return doesn't make it worthwhile. But in the opening week at Saratoga there were three supers (out of seven) that paid more than $3,000 in eight-horse fields. What I'm trying to figure out is whether I can put together tickets of 100 combinations (a $10 wager) or even 200 ($20) to make it more financially viable.

**Richkas** · 08-05-09, 09:00 PM

I had a buddy who bet .80 cents and hit one that paid $80,000 for $2 at Keeneland last year in 08. He actually handicapped it. He got back $4,000 and gave everybody at the table $100.

**madmaxx** · 08-08-09, 10:12 AM

Lots of old, broken down people at the track trying to cap the super for 20 cents. There are 2 ways to go about playing the 10 cent super. First way is take the favorite and the second favorite then fill the 3rd/4th spots with 20-1 or better...if you have a favorite on top and a semi short price run 2nd, you need about 50-1 combined in the last 2 legs to make it somewhat significant (20-1 and 30-1 or 10-1 and 40-1, etc).

If I have an extra 80 cents on the voucher I will just put random #'s with longshots on top and put the favorite 4th or completely out of it, which is the only way the super will pay out nicely.

**MadTiger** · 08-08-09, 12:03 PM

Originally posted by floridagolfer

No, you're right, that kind of return doesn't make it worthwhile. But in the opening week at Saratoga there were three supers (out of seven) that paid more than $3,000 in eight-horse fields. What I'm trying to figure out is whether I can put together tickets of 100 combinations (a $10 wager) or even 200 ($20) to make it more financially viable.

If you are putting any more than like $5 or more on it, do it like MadMaxx is talking about, and only bet combinations with some value. Playing 10-cent supers for $10 and $20 will see you rewarded(?!) with $8.69 payouts, and sometimes, even less.

I hit a few over the last couple weeks. One paid $41 and change. I invested 80 cents in that one. So I got about 50 to 1 on that. Another, I got about $21 and change by investing about $1.20. That is less than 20 to 1 payout. The others were in the 10-1 range, and they were the ones that made me remember to only bother with them if I am seeing that some decent-priced horses are high in my rankings.

**madmaxx** · 08-08-09, 07:02 PM

looks like the 12th at arlington was the time to play this...30-1 over 60-1 over 6-1 over 20-1 = 67k super (6k for the dime super)

**floridagolfer** · 08-09-09, 06:07 AM

Last-race super at Saratoga on Saturday returned a snappy $87,726.

Here's my point in all of this.

So far at Saratoga, the average super in a seven-horse field pays the 10-cent price of just under $60. If I can get 100 combinations for $10, is that return a decent investment?

In a nine-horse field, the average 10-cent payout averages a bit more than $250, so for 300 combinations and a $30 investment . . .

**jon101** · 08-09-09, 05:40 PM

Anyone ever considered taking all the winning dime super combinations and put them in a pick 4 database and then play .10 cent tickets at all tracks on an otb, and that way the layout is small and the actual payout is much larger.
for example 100 .10 cent tickets is $10
Playing the most likely numbers what would that pay?