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LLoonin's avatar

I appreciate your commentary on the upcoming stakes and of course, identify with your bitch about the late changing odds after the horses have been loaded and before the gates are sprung open. But horseplayers will not boycott and old-timers such as me, won't be going to other gambling venues, though wagering with much less enthusiasm. But youthful players have begun to realize that even given a thousand bucks to start them off gambling on sporting events, they have lost triple that amount after the first two weeks. At least that is what my friend's nephew told him after wagering on baseball. The House rakes in the money no matter the gambling proposition and I'm guessing the new sports books will gain more losing customers before it all settles down and the next opportunity to rake it in comes along. But the least the racetrack managers can do is to create a situation where those betting into their pools are again excited after making a wager and not pissed that they were robbed even after winning.

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Scott Simcox's avatar

We now need to act together to take additional steps. Another incident is a daily occurrence. What is the next step to provoke changes?

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