Comments on: CAN SLOTS PLAYERS BE ATTRACTED TO PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING? http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/can-slots-players-be-attracted-to-pari-mutuel-wagering-1980.htm William Shanklin Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alejo http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/can-slots-players-be-attracted-to-pari-mutuel-wagering-1980.htm/comment-page-1#comment-251 Alejo Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:57:43 +0000 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/?p=1980#comment-251 I reiterate...NEVER. As one of the young people who this sport supposedly is dying to attract, I know this would never work. Die hard fans are drawn to the "sporting aspects", the beauty of the horse, the tradition, and the challenge of picking a winner. These are exactly what the sport needs to do a better job of promoting...not slots. For example, going to a track and being able to interact with horses, historical information, and listening to legends of the game. All of this will lead to betting on the races. That little machine might be of casual curiousity and tried out by the curious....for a while. I reiterate…NEVER. As one of the young people who this sport supposedly is dying to attract, I know this would never work. Die hard fans are drawn to the “sporting aspects”, the beauty of the horse, the tradition, and the challenge of picking a winner. These are exactly what the sport needs to do a better job of promoting…not slots. For example, going to a track and being able to interact with horses, historical information, and listening to legends of the game.
All of this will lead to betting on the races. That little machine might be of casual curiousity and tried out by the curious….for a while.

]]> By: Horatio http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/can-slots-players-be-attracted-to-pari-mutuel-wagering-1980.htm/comment-page-1#comment-250 Horatio Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:39:10 +0000 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/?p=1980#comment-250 Well, Alejo, the "never" part is untrue. Racing need only present to slots players "live" runners in numeric format on which they can quench the desire to gamble without thinking. The typical lotto/slots player throws his money down consistently on a steady money-losing proposition, NEVER having any greater hope of winning on this bet than on the next bet. In racing, any establishment which offers him "live" horse numbers (consisting of horses carefully selected by would-be paid handicappers hired for exactly this purpose) to gamble on will ALWAYS outperform a computer selecting 'random' numbers from the same horse races. (with the advent of simulcast wagering, the door is wide open to this concept based on the fact that any random casino/simulcast establishment is only a small fraction of the nation-wide pools on the biggest tracks) In other words, racing controls its own fate that way, and it simply doesn't care to implement the obvious... Well, Alejo, the “never” part is untrue. Racing need only present to slots players “live” runners in numeric format on which they can quench the desire to gamble without thinking.

The typical lotto/slots player throws his money down consistently on a steady money-losing proposition, NEVER having any greater hope of winning on this bet than on the next bet.

In racing, any establishment which offers him “live” horse numbers (consisting of horses carefully selected by would-be paid handicappers hired for exactly this purpose) to gamble on will ALWAYS outperform a computer selecting ‘random’ numbers from the same horse races.

(with the advent of simulcast wagering, the door is wide open to this concept based on the fact that any random casino/simulcast establishment is only a small fraction of the nation-wide pools on the biggest tracks)

In other words, racing controls its own fate that way, and it simply doesn’t care to implement the obvious…

]]> By: Alejo http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/can-slots-players-be-attracted-to-pari-mutuel-wagering-1980.htm/comment-page-1#comment-249 Alejo Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:48:16 +0000 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/?p=1980#comment-249 Slots involve no thinking. Consistently picking a winner in horse racing involves a great deal of thinking....so the answer is NEVER. Horse racing needs to find different answers. Slots involve no thinking. Consistently picking a winner in horse racing involves a great deal of thinking….so the answer is NEVER. Horse racing needs to find different answers.

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